060087 VO Kunst und Archäologie: The history and art of private tombs of the 18th Dynasty at Thebes. (2023S)

Week 1 - History of excavation + what is a tomb
Kampp, F, 2003, The Theban Necropolis: an overview of topography and tomb development from the Middle Kingdom to the Ramesside Period, in: Strudwick, N., Taylor, J.H., The Theban Necropolis: Past, Present and Future, The British Museum Press: London, p. 2-10.
OR:
Kampp, F., 1996, Die thebanische Necropole: Zum Wandel des Grabgedankens von der XVII. Bis zur XX. Dynastie, Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Mainz am Rhein, p. 7-10.
Ikram, S., Dodson, A., 2008, The Tomb in Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson: United Kingdom, p. 55-75. About the history of Egyptology & the study of the tomb.

Week 2 - Tomb owner
Hartwig, M., 2004, Tomb Painting and Identity in Ancient Thebes, 1419-1372 BCE, Brepols: Turnhout, p. 5-22, 35-37.
Dorman, P., ‘Family burial and commemoration in the Theban Necropolis’, in: Strudwick, N., Taylor, J.H., The Theban Necropolis: Past, Present and Future, The British Museum Press: London, p. 30-41.

Week 3 - Artists
Laboury, D., Tavier, H., ’In Search of Painters in the Theban Necropolis of the 18th Dynasty: Prolegomena to an analysis of pictorial practices in the tomb of Amenemope (TT 29)’, in: Angenot, V., Tiradritti, F., Artists and Colour in ancient Egypt, Proceedings of the colloquium held in Montepulciano, August 22nd – 24th, 2008, Studi Poliziani di Egittologia 1, Montepulciano: Missione Archeologica Italiana a Luxor, p. 57-77.

Recommended: Laboury, D.,Tradition and Creativity. Toward a Study of Intericonicity in Ancient Egyptian Art, in: T. Gillen (ed.), (Re)productive Traditions in Ancient Egypt, AegLeod 10 (Liège 2017), p. 229–258.

Week 4 - Audience
Den Doncker, A., 2012, ’Theban Tomb Graffiti during the New Kingdom. Research on the Reception of Ancient Egyptian Images by Ancient Egyptians’, in: Kóthay, K.A., Arts and Society: Ancient and Modern Contexts of Egyptian Art, Museum of Fine Arts: Budapest, p. 23-35.

Week 5 - Tomb decoration - Understanding Egyptian art
Robins, G, 1986, Egyptian Painting and Relief, Shire Publications: Aylesbury, p. 12-30 + 138-147.
Mekhitarian, A., 1978, Egyptian Painting, London: Macmillan London Ltd, p. 17-20.
Recommended:
Schäfer, H. Principles of Egyptian Art. Edited by Emma Brunner-Traut, translated and edited by John Baines with a foreword by E.H. Gombrich (Oxford 1974): pp. 93–137, 172–189.

Week 6 - Tomb decoration - Early 18th dynasty
Mekhitarian, A., 1978, Egyptian Painting, London: Macmillan London Ltd, p. 39-50.

Week 7 - Tomb decoration - Mid-18th dynasty
Mekhitarian, A., 1978, Egyptian Painting, London: Macmillan London Ltd, p. 53-72.
Recommended:
Theban Tomb Painting during the Reign of Amenhotep II (1427-1400 bc). Investigations into an Artistic Creation in its Historical and Sociocultural Context. in: Kóthay, K.A., Arts and Society: Ancient and Modern Contexts of Egyptian Art, Museum of Fine Arts: Budapest, p. 151-159.
Rogner, F., 2020, Prestige durch Bilder: Variationen und Entwicklungen des Motivs der Wüstenjagd in thebanischen Grabkapellen der 18. Dynastie, In (Un)Sterblichkeit: Schrift - Körper - Kult. Beiträge des neunten Berliner Arbeitskreises Junge Aegyptologie (BAJA 9), 30.11.-2.12.2018. Edited by A. Verbovsek, D. Serova, B. Backes, M. W. Götz. Göttinger Orientforschungen, 4. Reihe: Ägypten 67. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, Pp. 157-174.

Week 8 - tomb decoration - Late 18th dynasty
Mekhitarian, A., 1978, Egyptian Painting, London: Macmillan London Ltd, p. 72-113.
Recommended:
Kampp, F., Seyfried, K.-J., 1995, ’Eine Rückkehr nach Theben. Das Grab des Pa-ren-nefer, Hoherpriester des Amun zur Zeit Tutanchamuns’, in: Antike Welt 26,5, 325–342.
Pieke, G., 2021, ’Finding a New Balance: Non-Royal Tombs of the Post-Amarna Period in Western Thebes’, in: Coppens, F. (Ed.), Continuity, Discontinuity and Change, Prague: Charles University,