Lectures
A New Look at Old Bronzes: Some technological observations on bronze votive coffins for animal mummies – Johannes Auenmüller
Tuesday May 18th, 6 pm
Streaming on the Museum's Facebook page and Youtube channel
info@museitorino.it
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From Monday to Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
On Tuesday May 18th at 6pm the Museo Egizio will host the online conference "A New Look at Old Bronzes: Some technological observations on bronze votive coffins for animal mummies", held by the museum's curator Johannes Auenmüller.
Currently, an interdisciplinary project is running at the Museo Egizio that aims at studying all animal mummies and related objects in the care or the Turin museum to the fullest extent. In this context, also the bronze objects related with the animal mummy phenomenon came to the fore. In today’s presentation, the author will first provide an overview of the range of bronzes used as so-called ‘votive coffins’ for animal mummy remains based on the collection of the Museo Egizio. Secondly, a number of technological observations will be presented that shed light on the sophisticated manufacturing technique of these hollow-cast objects. In this regard, an ‘eel votive coffin’ that shows remarkable secondary repair work will be discussed in more detail and in view of other similar cases.
Johannes Auenmüller is curator at the Muse Egizio since January 2020. He holds a PhD in Egyptology from Free University Berlin. Johannes undertook research on bronze casting technology at Bonn University and about the social fabric of New Kingdom Nubia at LMU Munich. In addition, he held classes at the universities of Berlin, Leipzig, Bonn and Munich as well as in Münster, where he was research assistant before his engagement in Turin. He participated in archaeological excavations in Austria, Egypt (Dahshur and Elephantine) and the Sudan (Amara West). His main areas of interest include the sociology and regional prosopography of Pharaonic Egypt, the technology of metal production and bronze casting, and settlement archaeology and rock inscriptions in Nubia.
The event will be held in English and will be introduced by the curator Federico Poole.
It will be broadcast via streaming on the Museum's Facebook page and Youtube channel.
Currently, an interdisciplinary project is running at the Museo Egizio that aims at studying all animal mummies and related objects in the care or the Turin museum to the fullest extent. In this context, also the bronze objects related with the animal mummy phenomenon came to the fore. In today’s presentation, the author will first provide an overview of the range of bronzes used as so-called ‘votive coffins’ for animal mummy remains based on the collection of the Museo Egizio. Secondly, a number of technological observations will be presented that shed light on the sophisticated manufacturing technique of these hollow-cast objects. In this regard, an ‘eel votive coffin’ that shows remarkable secondary repair work will be discussed in more detail and in view of other similar cases.
Johannes Auenmüller is curator at the Muse Egizio since January 2020. He holds a PhD in Egyptology from Free University Berlin. Johannes undertook research on bronze casting technology at Bonn University and about the social fabric of New Kingdom Nubia at LMU Munich. In addition, he held classes at the universities of Berlin, Leipzig, Bonn and Munich as well as in Münster, where he was research assistant before his engagement in Turin. He participated in archaeological excavations in Austria, Egypt (Dahshur and Elephantine) and the Sudan (Amara West). His main areas of interest include the sociology and regional prosopography of Pharaonic Egypt, the technology of metal production and bronze casting, and settlement archaeology and rock inscriptions in Nubia.
The event will be held in English and will be introduced by the curator Federico Poole.
It will be broadcast via streaming on the Museum's Facebook page and Youtube channel.
Tuesday May 18th, 6 pm
Streaming on the Museum's Facebook page and Youtube channel
info@museitorino.it
011 44 06 903
From Monday to Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
