Incordino Ilaria - Flora Trade Between Egypt and Africa in Antiquity

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Names: Incordino, Ilaria, editor. | Creasman, Pearce Paul, 1981- ditor.

Title: Flora trade between Egypt and Africa in antiquity : proceedings of a conference held in Naples, Italy, 13 April 2015 / edited by Ilaria Incordino and Pearce Paul Creasman.

Description: Oxford [United Kingdom] ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017. | In English; one contribution in Italian. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017013355 (print) | LCCN 2017020086 (ebook) | ISBN 9781785706370 (epub) | ISBN 9781785706387 (mobi) | ISBN 9781785706394 (pdf) | ISBN 9781785706363 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: EgyptCivilizationTo 332 B.C.Congresses. | EgyptCommerceAfrica, EasternCongresses. | Africa, EasternCommerceEgyptCongresses. | Punt RegionCommerceCongresses. | Aromatic plantsSocial aspectsEgyptCongresses. | Aromatic plantsMythologyEgyptCongresses. | Aromatic plantsAfrica, EasternCongresses.

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Front cover: Portion of the Punt reliefs from Hatshepsuts temple at Deir el Bahri (photograph by Noreen Doyle).

Pearce Paul Creasman

Sydney H. Aufrre

Franco Crevatin

Andrs Diego Espinel

Ilaria Incordino

Dieter Kurth

Andrea Manzo

S YDNEY H. A UFRRE is Director of Research in Egyptology and archaeology at the Paul-Albert Fvrier Center for texts and documents of the antique and medieval Mediterranean, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS Aix-en-Provence, France).

P EARCE P AUL C REASMAN is Associate Professor of Dendrochronology and Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Arizona (USA).

F RANCO C REVATIN is Professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of Trieste (Italy).

A NDRS D IEGO E SPINEL is a Scientist (Cientifico Titular de OPIS) at the Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and Middle East, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC Madrid, Spain).

I LARIA I NCORDINO is a Research Fellow in the Department of Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean at the University of Naples LOrientale (Italy).

D IETER K URTH is Professor of Egyptology at Hamburg University (Germany).

A NDREA M ANZO is Associate Professor of Nubian and Ethiopian Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Naples LOrientale (Italy).

Conference scope, participants and papers delivered

Flora trade between Egypt and Africa in Antiquity

13 April 2015
Held at the Palazzo du Mesnil, Naples, Italy

Scope

The seminar was planned within the framework of the FIRB (Future in Research, call of 2012) project Linguistic and Cultural Zones of Transition in Africa (ATrA), funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR). The projects activities and events can be found at www.africantransitions.it. The working team is composed of ethnolinguists and anthropologists, archaeologists and researchers from several Italian universities (Trieste, Torino, Napoli LOrientale) who have, as a priority, the idea to form the international debate on those issues of language, cognition, culture and identity which are characteristic of unstable, fragile and unpredictable contexts of transition, especially in Africa. The collaboration of experts of the different disciplines of the social and behavioral sciences can provide for a meaningful interdisciplinary approach, which should lead to a more complete interpretation of complex and interconnected facts. The seminar about the ancient Aromata trade between Egypt and Africa aimed, specifically, to share the results of the most recent studies about commercial networks and cultural contacts in the area, towards a better understanding of the identity of different cultures in comparison to the foreign world and the ideological value of its products.

Program as presented

Sydney H. Aufrre (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Aix en Provence)

Egyptian myths and trade of perfumes and spices from Pount and Africa

Giorgio Banti (University of Naples LOrientale)

On some linguistic evidence of trade links between ancient Egypt and the Horn of Africa

Marilina Betr (University of Pisa)

Incense and aromata Egyptian lexicon in the 1 millennium B.C: new trade routes?

Franco Crevatin (University of Trieste)

It rains on Punt

Andrs Diego Espinel (Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas CSIC [Madrid])

The scents of Punt (and elsewhere): Trade and functions of snr and ntw during the Old Kingdom

Ilaria Incordino (University of Naples LOrientale)

African aromata in Egypt. The ti-shepes trade: a case study

Dieter Kurth (Hamburg University)

Uresh-nefers image of the world

Christian Leitz (Tubingen University)

Punt and its products in the temple of Athribis

Andrea Manzo (University of Naples LOrientale)

Bi3w Pwnt in the archaeological record

Rosanna Pirelli (University of Naples LOrientale)

Sahures and Hatshepsuts Punt reliefs in comparison

Paula Veiga (Munich University)

Green Osiris. A divine intervention in ancient Egypt. An example: wine

Program announcement

Acknowledgments

The editors are grateful for the effort and expertise that its many authors and reviewers have brought to this work. Thanks are also due to Noreen Doyle for her assistance in organizing and reviewing content, as well as designing the cover.

This publication has been supported by ATrA project (www.africantransitions.it) Linguistic and cultural Areas of transition in Africa , funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) in the framework of its FIRB (Future in Research), call 2012.

We are equally grateful for the support provided by University of Naples LOrientale for the organization of the Flora Trade Seminar, held at Palazzo du Mesnil (Deans Office) in Naples, April 2015.

The Editors

Foreword