Katharina Zinn
Biographic Data
| ID | 6911457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharina Zinn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharina |
| FAMILY NAME | Zinn |
| SIGNATURE | ZINN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wales Trinity Saint David |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9214-1286 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Material Culture, the Public, and the Extraordinary – “Unloved” Museums Objects as the Tool to Fascinate
Museum-excavations – discovering unprovenanced and forgotten objects in museums’ storerooms – open new opportunities for engagement and highlight the consequent necessity to (de-)contextualise the discovered artefacts. Despite being unprovenanced – or even because of that – it is important to make sense of these “ordinary” finds. Developing strategies of unmasking the EXTRAordinary within such objects – an approach which I presented in my work Na…
Libraries, Pharaonic Egypt
Despite previous doubts, a library system of a kind existed in ancient Egypt and included a variety of institutions that stored writings, along with their inherent knowledge, for various purposes. These are attested in more than three hundred textual and archaeological sources. Some can be classified as libraries, others as archives. These institutions and their responsibilities changed over time.
Magic, Pharaonic Egypt
In the modern mind, magic is often seen as opposite to religion or, at best, an early stage of religion.
Literacy, Pharaonic Egypt
Literacy, understood as the ability to read and write, was the trigger for and prerequisite of ancient Egyptians entering into a good profession, rank, and high social status, as stated in the “Instruction of Ani,” one of the Egyptian wisdom texts: “One will do all you say if you are versed in writings” (Lichtheim 1976: 140). This could happen regardless of social rank at birth, as to rise socially was possible for literate people.
Education, Pharaonic Egypt
Unlike modern societies, in ancient Egypt the child's world was not separated from that of the adult.
Cults
If “cult” in general can be defined as an expression of religious ideas and values, both in ritual actions and verbal expressions, then “divine cult” is the idea that every human activity is authorized by a divine order and aimed at contact with a particular celestial power.
Khepry
The Heliopolitan cult of the sun features the beetle deity Khepry, who represents the morning aspect of the sun god, as the solar disc rises in the eastern horizon.
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Libraries, Pharaonic Egypt
Despite previous doubts, a library system of a kind existed in ancient Egypt and included a variety of institutions that stored writings, along with their inherent knowledge, for various purposes. These are attested in more than three hundred textual and archaeological sources. Some can be classified as libraries, others as archives. These institutions and their responsibilities changed over time.
Magic, Pharaonic Egypt
In the modern mind, magic is often seen as opposite to religion or, at best, an early stage of religion.
Literacy, Pharaonic Egypt
Literacy, understood as the ability to read and write, was the trigger for and prerequisite of ancient Egyptians entering into a good profession, rank, and high social status, as stated in the “Instruction of Ani,” one of the Egyptian wisdom texts: “One will do all you say if you are versed in writings” (Lichtheim 1976: 140). This could happen regardless of social rank at birth, as to rise socially was possible for literate people.
Education, Pharaonic Egypt
Unlike modern societies, in ancient Egypt the child's world was not separated from that of the adult.
Cults
If “cult” in general can be defined as an expression of religious ideas and values, both in ritual actions and verbal expressions, then “divine cult” is the idea that every human activity is authorized by a divine order and aimed at contact with a particular celestial power.
Khepry
The Heliopolitan cult of the sun features the beetle deity Khepry, who represents the morning aspect of the sun god, as the solar disc rises in the eastern horizon.
Material Culture, the Public, and the Extraordinary – “Unloved” Museums Objects as the Tool to Fascinate
Museum-excavations – discovering unprovenanced and forgotten objects in museums’ storerooms – open new opportunities for engagement and highlight the consequent necessity to (de-)contextualise the discovered artefacts. Despite being unprovenanced – or even because of that – it is important to make sense of these “ordinary” finds. Developing strategies of unmasking the EXTRAordinary within such objects – an approach which I presented in my work Na…
Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ancient egypt (2 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (2 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)