From: owner-ane@ (ANE Digest) To: ane-digest Subject: ANE Digest V2000 #249 Reply-To: Sender: owner-ane@ Errors-To: owner-ane@ Precedence: bulk ANE Digest Friday, September 1 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 249 ane Royal Game of Ur ane Papyrus & Lotus in Ancient Egyptian Diet Re: ane Royal Game of Ur ane Ancient Egyptian childhood mortality ane Ancient Egyptian childhood mortality Re: ane Royal Game of Ur Re: ane Royal Game of Ur Re: ane Royal Game of Ur ane Ancient Egypt Exhibitions September 2000 ane Sea Peoples ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:10:06 +0100 From: "Gordon Whittaker" Subject: ane Royal Game of Ur Earlier this year I saw a nice version of the Sumerian game known popularly as the 'Royal Game of Ur'. The British Museum produced this solid 3D reproduction and used to sell it until recently, apparently. Now they've scrapped it and seem to be concentrating on the more en vogue Egyptian and Egyptoid stuff. My attempts to track this down via Amazon z-shops, etc. have failed. Can anyone give me a tip where it might be (even better: is) still available?? In a museum shop somewhere? I know about the PC shareware game, and am not interested in buying it ( -- not just because of its idiotic Gulf War-inspired opening screen). I also know about the sleek German black-and-white board (sold under an Egyptian name!), which lacks the details and exact playing pieces of the original. Thanks in advance for any tips. Gordon Whittaker Prof., Institut fuer Ethnologie Universitaet Goettingen Theaterplatz 15 37073 Goettingen, Germany ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:05:52 -0400 From: "Kenneth J. Stein" Subject: ane Papyrus & Lotus in Ancient Egyptian Diet Greetings All: I'm looking for a reference that discusses how widespread the use of lotus and papyrus was in the Ancient Egyptian diet. Further, if these were as commonly used as wheat and barley. Thanks, Ken Stein kstein@vt.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:16:56 +0300 (IDT) From: avigdor horovitz Subject: Re: ane Royal Game of Ur I seem to remember seeing the Ur game at the University Museum gift shop at Penn in Philadelphia, but that was several years ago. Maybe they still have one in stock. Your best bet, IMHO would be to contact museum shops. Many of them serve as outlets for products of other museums. Victor On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Gordon Whittaker wrote: > Earlier this year I saw a nice version of the Sumerian game known popularly > as the 'Royal Game of Ur'. The British Museum produced this solid 3D > reproduction and used to sell it until recently, apparently. Now they've > scrapped it and seem to be concentrating on the more en vogue Egyptian and > Egyptoid stuff. My attempts to track this down via Amazon z-shops, etc. have > failed. Can anyone give me a tip where it might be (even better: is) still > available?? In a museum shop somewhere? > > I know about the PC shareware game, and am not interested in buying it ( -- > not just because of its idiotic Gulf War-inspired opening screen). I also > know about the sleek German black-and-white board (sold under an Egyptian > name!), which lacks the details and exact playing pieces of the original. > > Thanks in advance for any tips. > > Gordon Whittaker > Prof., Institut fuer Ethnologie > Universitaet Goettingen > Theaterplatz 15 > 37073 Goettingen, Germany > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:51:46 +0930 From: "xanelta xanelta" Subject: ane Ancient Egyptian childhood mortality I am looking for any published material which discusses Ancient Egyptian childhood mortality, including anything to do with results from excavations. Recently I found a web page which stated 'A czechoslovak team looked at figures for infant mortality in the cemetery around the mastaba of Ptahshepses in Abusir (late to Ptolemaic periods)..' but I am unable to find the reference for this. In anyone could assist me, I would be most grateful. Thankyou, Rebecca Ashby. Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:51:42 +0930 From: "xanelta xanelta" Subject: ane Ancient Egyptian childhood mortality I am looking for any published material which discusses Ancient Egyptian childhood mortality, including anything to do with results from excavations. Recently I found a web page which stated 'A czechoslovak team looked at figures for infant mortality in the cemetery around the mastaba of Ptahshepses in Abusir (late to Ptolemaic periods)..' but I am unable to find the reference for this. In anyone could assist me, I would be most grateful. Thankyou, Rebecca Ashby. Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:22:27 -0700 From: preta@earthlink.net Subject: Re: ane Royal Game of Ur There is currently one up for bids on eBay including a picture; you might check there. Triszna Leszczyc > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Gordon Whittaker wrote: > > > Earlier this year I saw a nice version of the Sumerian game known popularly > > as the 'Royal Game of Ur'. The British Museum produced this solid 3D > > reproduction and used to sell it until recently, apparently. Now they've > > scrapped it and seem to be concentrating on the more en vogue Egyptian and > > Egyptoid stuff. My attempts to track this down via Amazon z-shops, etc. have > > failed. Can anyone give me a tip where it might be (even better: is) still > > available?? In a museum shop somewhere? > > > > I know about the PC shareware game, and am not interested in buying it ( -- > > not just because of its idiotic Gulf War-inspired opening screen). I also > > know about the sleek German black-and-white board (sold under an Egyptian > > name!), which lacks the details and exact playing pieces of the original. > > > > Thanks in advance for any tips. > > > > Gordon Whittaker > > Prof., Institut fuer Ethnologie > > Universitaet Goettingen > > Theaterplatz 15 > > 37073 Goettingen, Germany > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:17:13 -0400 From: Jim West Subject: Re: ane Royal Game of Ur At 01:10 PM 8/31/00 +0100, you wrote: >Earlier this year I saw a nice version of the Sumerian game known popularly >as the 'Royal Game of Ur'. The British Museum produced this solid 3D >reproduction and used to sell it until recently, apparently. Now they've >scrapped it and seem to be concentrating on the more en vogue Egyptian and >Egyptoid stuff. My attempts to track this down via Amazon z-shops, etc. have >failed. Can anyone give me a tip where it might be (even better: is) still >available?? In a museum shop somewhere? i got mine from the Met museum in NYC maybe they still have some. jim ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Do not ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" -Napoleon Jim West, ThD http://web.infoave.net/~jwest ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:22:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Malcolm Clark" Subject: Re: ane Royal Game of Ur It seems to me that the Biblical Archaeological Society (publisher of Bible Review, Bib.Arch. Review, and Odyssey) has had this in their catalog at some point. I may be wrong and in any case do not recall if it is in their current catalog of 'gift' items. Someone also mentioned museum stores. In addition to those in museums, there is a commercial (?) chain (Museum Store?) with stores at malls, a catalog, and presumably a web site that sells items from a number of museum stores. My wife got two sizes of hippopotamuses that I think are a long time item of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts at our local Museum Store. W. Malcolm Clark, Professor of Religion Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies JH 202D Butler University Indianapolis, IN 46208 E-mail: wclark@butler.edu phone: 317-940-9364 On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Gordon Whittaker wrote: > Earlier this year I saw a nice version of the Sumerian game known popularly > as the 'Royal Game of Ur'. The British Museum produced this solid 3D > reproduction and used to sell it until recently, apparently. Now they've > scrapped it and seem to be concentrating on the more en vogue Egyptian and > Egyptoid stuff. My attempts to track this down via Amazon z-shops, etc. have > failed. Can anyone give me a tip where it might be (even better: is) still > available?? In a museum shop somewhere? > > I know about the PC shareware game, and am not interested in buying it ( -- > not just because of its idiotic Gulf War-inspired opening screen). I also > know about the sleek German black-and-white board (sold under an Egyptian > name!), which lacks the details and exact playing pieces of the original. > > Thanks in advance for any tips. > > Gordon Whittaker > Prof., Institut fuer Ethnologie > Universitaet Goettingen > Theaterplatz 15 > 37073 Goettingen, Germany > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:44:21 +0200 From: "A.K. Eyma" Subject: ane Ancient Egypt Exhibitions September 2000 RUNNING EXHIBITIONS ON ANCIENT EGYPT (AE) ========================================= September 2000 issue - ----------------------- * = major exhibitions with well over 100 AE objects in an unique assemblage ! = new in this issue USA !(a)* - New York - "Selections from the Myers Museum" - Sept 28, 2000 till Jan 21, 2001 (b)* - Buffalo, NY - "The Cycle of Life in AE" - ends Sept 2003 (c)* - Davenport, Iowa - "Women of the Nile" - ends Nov 5, 2000 !(d)* - Green Bay, Wisconsin - "Mysteries of Egypt" - ends Oct 29, 2000 (g) - Atlanta, GA - "Rotating Previews" - ends April 2001 (g) - Atlanta, GA - "19th c. Photograps of Egypt" - ends Sept 24, 2000 (i)* - Atlanta, Georgia - "Egyptian Art from the RMO" - ends Sept 4, 2000 !(j) - Oklahoma City - "Tutankhamun" - ends Sept 15, 2000 !(k) - New York - "Submerged Alexandria" - ends Sept 8(?), 2000 (n) - Chicago - "Chicago in Egypt" - ends Sept 3, 2000 (o)* - Chicago - "Pharaohs of the Sun" - ends Sept 24, 2000 (q)* - Berkeley, CA - "Rescuing AE" - till June 30, 2001 (s) - Washington, D.C. - "Ancient Nubian City of Kerma" - indef. UK (d) - Oxford - "Afterlife in AE" - till mid 2000 (e) - Edinburgh - "Heaven and Hell" - ends Oct 22, 2000 THE NETHERLANDS (c) - Amsterdam - "Baboons in AE" - ends Oct 29, 2000 GERMANY (a) - Weiden - "Egyptian Ceramics" - indef. (b) - Berlin - "Hatshepsut", ends Nov 12, 2000 !(c) - Leipzig - "Caravan to Siwa", ends Oct 1, 2000 (d)* - Hildesheim - "Splendors of AE", ends Nov 12, 2000 (g) - Heidelberg - "Loans of the BM" - ends Nov 2000 (h) - Seefeld i. Obb - "Nubia" - ends Nov. 26, 2000 (h) - Seefeld i. Obb - "Plants in AE" - ends Nov 26, 2000 (j) - Munich - "Gold of Meroe" - ends Oct 1, 2000 (l) - Bad Koenigshofen - "Crafts in AE" - ends Sept 24, 2000 (m) - Berlin - "Birth of the Individual in AE" - ends Nov 5, 2000 !(o) - Hannover - "Among gods" - ends Sept 17, 2000 !(p) - Dortmund - "Animal portraits"- ends Nov 5, 2000 !(q) - Neu-Ulm - "Ancient rings", - ends Oct 8, 2000 ITALY (a) - Verona - "Art and Culture of AE" - ends Oct 30, 2000 FRANCE (a)* - Lyon - "Emperors of the Nile" - ends Sept 2000 (c) - Paris - "Coptic Art" - ends Sept 3, 2000 !(d)* - Paris - "Magic and magic arts in AE" - Sept 22, 2000 till Jan 8, 2001 !(h) - Agde - "Coptic Art" - Sept 30, 2000 till Jan 7, 2001 (i) - Nantes - new presentation - ends Oct 16, 2000 GREECE (b) - Iraklion, Crete - "Crete and Egypt" - ends Sept 2000 BELGIUM !(a) - Barvaux-sur-Ourthe - "Egypt of the Pharaohs" - ends Sept 24, 2000 SWITZERLAND (d) - Lausanne - "Roman propaganda in AE" - till Oct 2, 2000 POLAND (a) - Poznan - "Gods, Graves and Mummies" - indef.(?) JAPAN (a) - Nagoya - "Masterpieces of MFA Boston" - ends March 2004 !(c)* - Tokyo - "Great Civilisations: Egypt" - ends Oct 1, 2000 AUSTRIA (a) - Wien - "Agatha Christie and the ANE" - ends Sept 17, 2000 ================================================= NB: The label of each exhibition (a letter) refers to the website version of EEF NEWS, sections [II] and [X]; URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/4482/EEFNEWS.html If you see something of interest in the above calendar, for your country and area, and perhaps would like to visit, then you may find the full details (museum, description, web links, et.al.) on the EEF NEWS website. If no opening date is given, then that date was before the 1st of this issue's month. That is: the exhibition is open when you read this. NB: Only exhibitions running during the month of this issue are mentioned in the above Calendar; future exhibitions you may find in the NEWS. This Calendar will be updated and posted on the 1st of every month. New entries not in previous issues will be signalled with an '!'. Please send any contributions to: ayma@tip.nl (Aayko Eyma) EEF NEWS is a newsletter that also contains other Egyptological news bits, like lectures, conferences, web links, book releases, et.al. It is part of the moderated Egyptology discussion list EEF. Please do not copy this Calendar to other public forums without permission. Copyright (c) 2000 A.K. Eyma ================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 10:14:19 +0300 From: Eliezer Oren Subject: ane Sea Peoples Dear Chuck, Appreciate you help with posting this announcment. Thanks, Eliezer THE SEA PEOPLES AND THEIR WORLD: A REASSESSMENT edited by Eliezer D. Oren This volume presents the results of the 1995 international seminar on the history and archaeology of the Sea Peoples. 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