Papers by Martin Fitzenreiter
Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur (SAK), 2021
The Dendera-inscription describing ceremonies during the Choiak-festival mentions several times a... more The Dendera-inscription describing ceremonies during the Choiak-festival mentions several times a certain QrH.t Sps. The article explores the Wortfeld of QrH.t and of Sps as well. QrH.t describes raw materials coming out of the earth, including ceramics and thus also vessels made out of clay; in a metaphorical way also primordial creatures and vessels of creation as the egg or the womb. Sps indicates potency; a power to be emerging. In the Choiak-inscription QrH.t Sps is used to designate the material out of which a special figurine next to the better-known ‘corn mummies’ is created, as Maarten Raven has observed, but the same time it points to its function as a vessel or carrier for a number of ingredients out of which the Sps-ability of the figurine emerges, as stressed by Émile Chassinat.
Heinrich Balz, Afrika und Ägypten. Zwischen Cheik Anta Diop und Jan Assmann – Die Schwierigkeiten einer Begegnung, 2022
Martin Fitzenreiter tologie, wie sie sich im 19. Jahrhundert an westlichen Universitäten etablier... more Martin Fitzenreiter tologie, wie sie sich im 19. Jahrhundert an westlichen Universitäten etablierte, hat dieses Epistem maßgeblich geformt. Ihre Forschung erhebt Befunde und leitet sie einer Erzählung zu, in der diese als Fakten zu einer Geschichte zusammenführt sind. Während die Befunde mehr oder weniger Konstanten sind, sind sie es als Fakten schon nicht mehr. Aus Fakten formen sich interpretative Stränge; solche, die sich gelegentlich zu einer Meisterzählung verbinden, oder solche, die parallel nebenherlaufen, um sich eventuell in der Unendlichkeit doch zu schneiden.
Richard Bussmann, Ingelore Hafemann, Robert Schiestl, Daniel A. Werning (Hg.), Spuren der altägyptischen Gesellschaft. Festschrift für Stephan J. Seidlmayer, 2022
Traditionally štꜣ and its causative s.štꜣ are translated as “secret”, “hidden” and “mysterious”. ... more Traditionally štꜣ and its causative s.štꜣ are translated as “secret”, “hidden” and “mysterious”. Using the immense corpus of the TLA and DZA as reference, the article argues, that the core meaning of štꜣ is to describe a “state of ambiguity” and of s.štꜣ to designate the act of “transformation / disambiguation”.
in: Joachim Friedrich Quack und Daniela C. Luft (Hg.), Schrift und Material. Praktische Verwendung religiöser Text- und Bildträger als Artefakte im Alten Ägypten, ORA 41, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021
Alexandra Verbovsek, Dina Serova, Burkhard Backes u. Matthieu W. Götz (Hg.), (Un)Sterblichkeit: Schrift – Körper – Kult, Beiträge des neunten Berliner Arbeitskreises Junge Aegyptologie (BAJA) 30.11.-2.12.2018, GOF IV. 67, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 9-27, 2020
A purported focus on immortality is one of the major projections linked to Pharaonic culture. Thi... more A purported focus on immortality is one of the major projections linked to Pharaonic culture. This paper argues that underneath this projection rests a latent concept of western modernity that focuses on the pertinence of individual death. Contrary to that concept, Pharaonic funerary culture is not dominated by an overwhelming presence of death but by an overwhelming presence of the dead. Peculiar means of presenting this presence in the media of funerary culture shaped the etic perspective on Pharaonic culture as allegedly being obsessed with immortality.
Göttinger Miszellen, 2019
Vincent Verschoor, Arnold Jan Stuart u. Cocky Demarée (Hg.), Imaging and Imagining the memphite Necropolis. Liber amicorum René van Walsem, Egyptologische Uitgaven 30, Leiden: Peeters, 177-199, 2017
Anke Ilona Blöbaum, Marianne Eaton-Krauss u. Annik Wüthrich (Hg.), Pérégrinations avec Erhard Graefe. Festschrift zu seinem 75. Geburtstag, ÄAT 87, 2018
Ka and Heka are words which are primarily attested in religious contexts. Nonetheless, some attes... more Ka and Heka are words which are primarily attested in religious contexts. Nonetheless, some attestations occur in texts relating to artistic abilities. Two such attestations are discussed: the formula jn kA n from the colophon in the Teachings of Cheti (Satire on Trades) and the mentioning of HkA on the stela of Irtisen (Louvre C 14). It is proposed that in pharaonic aesthetics Ka could be translated as genius and Heka as talent.
Arianna Ferrari, Klaus Petrus (Hg.), Lexikon der Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen, Bielefeld: transcript, 2015
Martin Fitzenreiter, Christian E. Loeben, Dietrich Raue und Uta Wallenstein (Hg.), Gegossene Götter – Metallhandwerk und Massenproduktion im Alten Ägypten, 2014
Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur (SAK), 2015
The fact, that sexual identity and the division of sexualities into two mutually exclusive catego... more The fact, that sexual identity and the division of sexualities into two mutually exclusive categories is a modern construct, challenges research with the problem of how to reasonably deal with ancient Egyptian sources on intimacy between men. Looking at two case studies from the Old Kingdom, the depictions in the tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep and spell P233+x/1036 of the Pyramid Texts, and their previous scientific treatment, it becomes apparent that the construction and discussion of rigid and exclusive concepts and interpretations has proved itself to be hardly productive. It is more promising however to consider the sources as parts of a cultural discourse treating the topic of ‘closeness’ among men. In the tomb's festival icon both sources come together in a reference to a song about the 'divine brothers' Horus and Seth. Festival icon and song as media of cultural discourse per se (e.g. the Harper's songs of the New Kingdom) make it possible to explore a ‘sn-relationship’ in all its facettes and all its intentional ambiguity far from the modern urge for definition and limitation.
Annette Kehnel u. Diamantis Panagiotopoulos (Hg.), Schriftträger – Textträger. Zur materialen Präsenz des Geschriebenen in frühen Gesellschaften, 2015
Many inscriptions and pictures from pharaonic times have been kept at inaccessible places or the ... more Many inscriptions and pictures from pharaonic times have been kept at inaccessible places or the encoded messages remained inaccessible to the recipient. The article discusses a number of examples of these practices from sacral and funerary contexts. Using the terms performance and emergence an approach to analize agency and message of such objects is proposed.
Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (MDAIK), 2012
BAND 68 2012 de gruYter Mitteilungen des deutschen Archäologischen instituts Kairo erscheint seit... more BAND 68 2012 de gruYter Mitteilungen des deutschen Archäologischen instituts Kairo erscheint seit 1930 MDAIK 68, 2012 · V, 257 Seiten mit 211 Abbildungen Die Abkürzungen der ägyptologischen Literatur folgen den Regeln des Lexikon der Ägyptologie und dem Abkürzungsverzeichnis des DAI Kairo in: MDAIK 56, 2000, S. 397 ff.
Angelika Lohwasser u. Pawel Wolf (Hg.), Eine Forscherleben zwischen den Welten. Zum 80. Geburtstag von Steffen Wenig, 2014
Publication of two fragments from a chapel built in the reign of Taharqo. They originate from the... more Publication of two fragments from a chapel built in the reign of Taharqo. They originate from the former collection of Bodo Schwalm in the municipal museum of Grevenbroich, now on loan in the Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Bonn. Both fragments are part of a door frame, naming Taharqo and a god with the epithet „ruler of the Djet“ on the left side; showing the king embraced by a god on the right side. Most probably the god is Osiris in his human and active form.
Neues vom Netscher, in: Mélanie C. Flossmann-Schütze, Maren Goecke-Bauer, Friedhelm Hoffmann, Andreas Hutter, Karin Schlüter, Alexander Schütze, Martina Ullmann (Hg.), Kleine Götter – Grosse Götter. Festschrift für Dieter Kessler zum 65. Geburtstag, Tuna el-Gebel 4, München: Brose, 2013, 131-143 Mélanie C. Flossmann-Schütze, Maren Goecke-Bauer, Friedhelm Hoffmann, Andreas Hutter, Karin Schlüter, Alexander Schütze, Martina Ullmann (Hg.), Kleine Götter – Grosse Götter. Festschrift für Dieter Kessler zum 65. Geburtstag, Tuna el-Gebel 4, 2013
Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verz... more Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.d-nb.de abrufbar.
Miroslav Bárta u. Hella Küllmer (Hg.), Diachronic Trends in Ancient Egyptian History. Studies dedicated to the memory of Eva Pardey, 2013
Regarding representations of ‘domains’ from the Old Kingdom, those of Ibi from his funerary chape... more Regarding representations of ‘domains’ from the Old Kingdom, those of Ibi from his funerary chapel at Deir el-Gebrawi are among of the latest attestations of this phenomenon. The essay examines the position of this representation within the decoration program of the chapel and its contents. It is interpreted as indication of the intensified exploitation of the provinces in the late Old Kingdom, a period, when – contrary to older concepts of political decline – an effective administration of provincial areas had just been installed.
Steffen Wenig u. Karola Zibelius-Chen (Hg.), Die Kulturen Nubiens – ein afrikanisches Vermächtnis, 2013
Die sogenannte Kleine Anlage ist eines der wenigen Gebäude des großen Tempelareals von Musawwarat... more Die sogenannte Kleine Anlage ist eines der wenigen Gebäude des großen Tempelareals von Musawwarat es Sufra, das eindeutig nichtsakralen Charakter besaß. Durch den relativ guten Erhaltungszustand lassen sich an der Kleinen Anlage einige Besonderheiten der kuschitischen Profanarchitektur im Detail studieren, die diese sowohl unter funktionalen als auch gestalterischen Aspekten als eigenständige kulturelle Tradition erkennbar werden lassen.
Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur (SAK), 2011
Caris-Beatrice Arnst u. Regine Schulz (Hg.), Typen, Motive, Stilmittel, Beiträge zur altägyptischen Kunst 1, 2021
Using representations of fat men as an example, the interplay of stilistics and motive in the art... more Using representations of fat men as an example, the interplay of stilistics and motive in the art of the Old Kingdom period is investigated. Contrary to the idea that all stilistic features of egyptian art are transporting a specific – so-to-say „hieroglyphic“ – meaning, the diacronic development of the motive of „fatness“ shows, that it has primary been a pictorial element to express individuality. Only later this stilistic feature became an semantically clear cut motive wich signalled „physical attendence“ in contrast to the idealised youthfull body with the index of „spiritual existance“.
Frank Feder, Ludwig D. Morenz, Günter Vittmann (Hg.), Von Theben nach Giza. Festmiszellen für Stefan Grundert zum 65. Geburtstag, 2011
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