CHRONOLOGIES AND CONTEXTS OF THE FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 7-10 April 2021 IFAO (Cairo) & Online ORGANIZER Andrea PILLON Scientific member, IFAO PROGRAM Wednesday 7 April 10:00 Andreas STAUDER PROFESSOR, ÉCOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES ETUDES – PSL UNIVERSITY (PARIS) First Intermediate Period and Middle Egyptian Literature OPENING & KEYNOTE LECTURE 1 18:30 Thomas SCHNEIDER PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (VANCOUVER) The Rise and Demise of “First Intermediate Period” as a term of 10:30 COFFEE BREAK 10:45 Aurore CIAVATTI POST-DOC RESEARCHER, ‘MERYT’ PROJECT, ANR-IFAO (CAIRO) Time-reckoning and dating the Old Kingdom and their impact on the First Intermediate Period chronology periodization FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION 11:15 Anita QUILES DIRECTOR OF THE ARCHAEOMETRY DEPARTMENT, IFAO (CAIRO) Thursday 8 April Using radiocarbon dating for modeling an absolute chronology of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period: projects and perspectives WELCOMING REMARKS & INTRODUCTION 08:45 Laurent COULON 11:45 COFFEE BREAK DIRECTOR OF THE IFAO (CAIRO) 09:00 Andrea PILLON SCIENTIFIC MEMBER, IFAO (CAIRO) PROSOPOGRAPHY & SOCIETY Chair: Andrea PILLON SCIENTIFIC MEMBER, IFAO (CAIRO) How to define the First Intermediate Period: cultural pertinences and historiographical criteria 12:00 PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF BONN HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ISSUES: FROM ANNALS TO ABSOLUTE CHRONOLOGY Chair: Miroslav BÁRTA PROFESSOR, CHARLES UNIVERSITY (PRAGUE) Ludwig MORENZ Toxic masculinity? Reflecting on Ankhtifi's tjay-ness 12:30 Alejandro JIMÉNEZ-SERRANO PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF JAEN 09:30 From governor to god: Heqaib’s deification process Kim RYHOLT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGUE The Heracleopolitan Dynasty in the Turin King-List 13:00 LUNCH 14:00 Friday 9 April M. Carmen PEREZ-DIE CURATOR OF THE EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF MADRID DEPARTMENT, NATIONAL Names and titles of Heracleopolitans buried in the necropolis of the First Intermediate Period/early Middle Kingdom necropolis FROM EPIGRAPHY TO CHRONOLOGY Chair: Hassan SELIM 14:30 ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS & NEW EVIDENCE Chair: 09:00 Miroslav BÁRTA PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF AIN SHAMS PROFESSOR, CHARLES UNIVERSITY (PRAGUE) Jochem KAHL The end of the Old Kingdom as reflected through the residential cemetery of Abusir PROFESSOR, FREE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN 09:30 God’s words in Asyut Martin BOMMAS PROFESSOR, MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY (SYDNEY) 15:00 Zoltán FÁBIÁN How low is low? The impact of Nile levels on food supply and nutrition ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, KÁROLI GÁSPÁR UNIVERSITY (BUDAPEST) in Aswan during the First Intermediate Period Dating Seni (TT 185) 10:00 15:30 Clara JEUTHE ARCHAEOLOGIST, DAI (CAIRO) COFFEE BREAK Balat – Insights into problems of stratigraphy and dating 15:45 Lilian POSTEL PROFESSOR, LUMIERE-LYON 2 UNIVERSITY / HISOMA (LYON) 10:30 COFFEE BREAK 10:45 Matthew J. ADAMS Épigraphie en contexte : le temple de Tôd et la chronologie du règne de Montouhotep II 16:15 DIRECTOR OF (JERUSALEM) Edward BROVARSKI CO-DIRECTOR OF THE CAIRO UNIVERSITY – BROWN UNIVERSITY EXPEDITION ABU BAKR CEMETERY, GIZA 19:30 DINNER W.F. ALBRIGHT INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH The Old Kingdom – First Intermediate Period transition at Mendes AT Naga ed-Deir in the First Intermediate Period: chronological landmarks in epigraphy and iconography THE 11:15 Marleen DE MEYER & Harco WILLEMS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, NETHERLANDS-FLEMISH INSTITUTE IN CAIRO / PROFESSOR, KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN The First Intermediate Period cemetery in the central village square of Dayr al-Barsha 11:45 COFFEE BREAK 16:00 12:00 Laure PANTALACCI 16:15 12:30 Emanuele Marcello CIAMPINI PROFESSOR EMERITA, LUMIERE-LYON 2 UNIVERSITY / HISOMA (LYON) PROFESSOR, CA’ FOSCARI UNIVERSITY (VENICE) Seals from the palace, seals from houses: marks of a changing society in Balat A unique collection of funerary literature from Dendera: the slabs from Glenn GODENHO SENIOR LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL Questions and directions in archaeological work at Ankhtifi’s tomb complex 13:00 COFFEE BREAK the tomb of Bebi in Cairo Museum 16:45 Ramadan HUSSEIN RESEARCH ASSOCIATE OF THE IANES, UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN The texts on the coffin of Pepy-ima from Naga Ed-Der: its date and place among the early examples of Coffin Texts LUNCH KEYNOTE LECTURE 2 PHILOLOGY & FUNERARY LITERATURE Chair: Ilona REGULSKI CURATOR OF EGYPTIAN WRITTEN CULTURE - ASSISTANT KEEPER, BRITISH MUSEUM 18h30 Irene FORSTNER-MÜLLER DIRECTOR OF THE ÖSTERREICHISCHES ARCHÄOLOGISCHES INSTITUT IN CAIRO Kom Ombo in the First Intermediate Period 14:30 Elsa ORÉAL SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, CNRS Historical linguistics and Old Kingdom-First Intermediate Period documentation: two case studies 15:00 Carlo GRACIA ZAMACONA PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÀ (MADRID) Variability in the earlier Egyptian mortuary texts: possible issues in diachrony 15:30 Christelle ALVAREZ POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, BROWN UNIVERSITY (PROVIDENCE) At the threshold of the First Intermediate Period: architectural and philological features in the pyramid of Ibi FOLLOWED BY A DINNER IN THE GARDEN OF THE IFAO Saturday 10 April CERAMIC CONTEXTS & SEQUENCES Chair: 11:45 Andrea KILIAN SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, FREE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN Asyut during the First Intermediate Period as seen through pottery 12:15 Sylvie MARCHAND SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, IFAO (CAIRO) 09:00 La céramique de la Première Période intermédiaire : fouilles anciennes et récentes Valérie LE PROVOST FORMER SCIENTIFIC MEMBER, IFAO (CAIRO) Les séquences céramiques de Balat/Ayn Asil dans la période de transition 09:30 Uroš MATIC POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, ÖAI (CAIRO) The importance of settlement archaeology for First Intermediate Period pottery seriation and chronology: a view from Kom Ombo 10:00 Kylie CORTEBEECK DOCTORAL STUDENT, KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN 12:45 13:00 14:20 MATERIAL CULTURE & ART WORKSHOPS Chair: Laure PANTALACCI PROFESSOR EMERITA, LUMIERE-LYON 2 UNIVERSITY / HISOMA (LYON) 15:00 10:30 11:00 Rémi LEGROS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, LUMIERE-LYON 2 UNIVERSITY / HISOMA (LYON) Typical First Intermediate Period jars in early Middle Kingdom foundation deposits: an assessment of their chronological value to date the unfinished Theban “Seankhkare platform” DISCUSSION LUNCH VISIT TO THE IFAO PRESS MUSEUM (NOT ONLINE) Nouvelle sériation des tables d’offrandes de Saqqâra 15:30 Lisa SALADINO HANEY POSTDOCTORAL ASSISTANT CURATOR OF EGYPT ON THE NILE AT CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (PITTSBURGH) Christian KNOBLAUCH & Janet RICHARDS LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF SWANSEA / PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Assessing the stone statuary of the Eleventh Dynasty: problems and The ceramic chronology of the Abydos Middle Cemetery potential COFFEE BREAK 16:00 Gersande ESCHENBRENNER DIEMER POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, UNIVERSITY OF JAEN 11:15 The production of wooden funerary models in the First Intermediate Period: redrawing a little-known artistic landscape Bettina BADER PRIVATDOZENTIN, ÖAI (VIENNA) The archaeological sequence of ceramic finds at Herakleopolis Magna and Sedment 16:30 COFFEE BREAK 16:45 CONCLUDING DISCUSSION AND REMARKS