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Zwei Alttestamentler reisten in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren unabhängig voneinander durch das Heilige Land. Beide brachten von diesen Reisen Objekte mit nach Hause. Hans Joachim Stoebe, von 1961 bis 1979 Professor für Altes Testament in... more
Zwei Alttestamentler reisten in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren unabhängig voneinander durch das Heilige Land. Beide brachten von diesen Reisen Objekte mit nach Hause. Hans Joachim Stoebe, von 1961 bis 1979 Professor für Altes Testament in Basel, interessierte sich etwas mehr für Keramik. Ernst Jenni, in Basel Professor für Altes Testament und Semitische Sprachwissenschaft von 1958 bis 1997, interessierte sich etwas mehr für Münzen. Beide brachten von ihren Reisen auch zahlreiche Objekte anderer Gattungen mit. Nun sind diese beiden kleinen Sammlungen in der «Archäologischen Sammlung der Theologischen Fakultät Basel» vereint und werden in Zukunft im Rahmen der universitären Lehre als Studiensammlung zur Verfügung stehen.
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The International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) is the most prestigious event of this kind for Near Eastern archaeologists. The 9th ICAANE was held from June 9 to 13, 2014, and organized as a co-operation... more
The International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) is the most prestigious event of this kind for Near Eastern archaeologists. The 9th ICAANE was held from June 9 to 13, 2014, and organized as a co-operation of the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Science, and the Faculty of Theology of the University of Basel, Switzerland. The congress had more than 700 participants. International specialists from leading institutions presented over 400 papers in 7 sections and 14 workshops. The research countries ranged from Egypt to Afghanistan, from the Arabian Peninsula to Central Asia, in periods from the Epipalaeolithic to the Islamic, thus giving a good overview of current activities, excavations, and research topics in Near Eastern archaeology. The three-volume Proceedings contain numerous of the presented papers.
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The ancient Egyptians were surrounded by various manifestations of their many gods. Though their gods usually lived in heaven or in the netherworlds, they were permanently represented on earth by monuments, statues, symbols, animals, and... more
The ancient Egyptians were surrounded by various manifestations of their many gods. Though their gods usually lived in heaven or in the netherworlds, they were permanently represented on earth by monuments, statues, symbols, animals, and plants, as well as by social concepts. The Egyptians described their gods by various names and images, always aware that in the end their true personalities and characters remained elusive.The ancient Egyptian universe comprised heaven, earth, and netherworld, all part of creation and surrounded by eternal darkness. Though separate areas, they were permeable for the gods and the dead. The universe ran smoothly as long as there was respect and cooperation between them and the living. This formed an ideological, social, and economic cohesion.The gods were powerful but benevolent, and approachable in many ways. The divine king was the hub between the world of the gods and the human sphere. He was the main entity responsible for organizing the supply an...
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The section Travelling Images – Transfer and Transformation of Visual Ideas of the 9th ICAANE in Basel explored the phenomenology of iconographic transformation in intercultural contact, the adoption, adaptation, and translation of... more
The section Travelling Images – Transfer and Transformation of Visual Ideas of the 9th ICAANE in Basel explored the phenomenology of iconographic transformation in intercultural contact, the adoption, adaptation, and translation of images, the changes of meaning in their transmission into new contexts, as well as the reasons for their refusal. As an introduction to this section, this article analyses these mechanisms based on images transferred from Egypt to Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BC.