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Boat Miniatures from Kom Ombo S9/N: Everyday Practice and Predynastic Legacies in the Transition from the Early Dynastic to the Early Old Kingdom

ASEA Online-Lecture by Cristina Alù | Austrian Archaeological Institute, Cairo Branch

Tuesday 09.12.2025 05:12 pm
© OeAW-OeAI/Photo Astrid Hassler

Excavations in Area S9/N of the Old Kingdom settlement at Kom Ombo – conducted by the OeAI Cairo Branch since 2017 – have yielded four fragmentary clay boat miniatures. With the sole exception of recent finds from the early dynastic domestic context at Elkab, comparable objects overwhelmingly derive from funerary or cultic settings from Predynastic sites. The Kom Ombo assemblage therefore offers a rare glimpse into the use and meaning of such artefacts within an urban environment. Beyond enriching our understanding of the material culture of everyday life in a provincial town between the mid-Second and late Fourth Dynasty, these miniatures also underscore a broader cultural continuity with Predynastic traditions.

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Lecture Series

»Austrian Studies in Egyptian Archaeology«

Date

December 9, 2025, 5:00 p.m. CET | 6 p.m. EEST

Location
  • Zoom
    Meeting-ID: 655 7936 8263, Kenncode: 2kxLUA
Organiser

OeAW-OeAI

Contact

Xenia Milota

 

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