Posted on 09/04/2018 9:15:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
When Ariela Algaze signed up for a spring 2018 course on museums, she didn't expect to get wrapped up in the mystery of an ancient Egyptian mummy case that Jane Stanford herself purchased more than 100 years ago... Algaze's research led her to discover information that was not known by university scholars - including inscriptions on the coffin and the name of the mummified woman inside it... Algaze learned that the artifact contained writing after sifting through hundreds of its fragments, which have been stored in three boxes, unstudied for decades. The mummy case, which Jane Stanford purchased in 1901, was once display at the Stanford Museum. But the 1906 earthquake shattered the coffin made up of fragile cartonnage, a type of ancient Egyptian material of either linen or papyrus covered in plaster, into hundreds of pieces. The fragments went largely unexamined until Algaze took them out and studied each piece as part of Christina Hodge's course, Museum Cultures: Material Representation in the Past and Present. As part of the class, Algaze and other students picked an object from Stanford's collections to research and present in an exhibit at the Stanford Archaeology Center... Algaze's research into the coffin advanced when she discovered two inscribed fragments. To translate the text, Algaze consulted with Egyptologists Foy Scalf at the University of Chicago and Barbara Richter at the University of California, Berkeley, and other experts on demotic, the ancient Egyptian written language. Algaze found that the name of the buried woman was Senchalanthos... Hodge, academic curator and collections manager of the Stanford University Archaeology Collections... said it's possible that the inscriptions were mentioned somewhere, but those records did not survive the 1906 earthquake.
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It's remarkable (given what I've seen of the photos of the aftermath of the 1906 quake) that any of the cartonnage was saved..
Algaze found that the name of the buried woman was Senchalanthos. One part of the inscription translated to: ...
May her name rejuvenate every day.
One of the things that was part of Egyptian religion was the daily recitation of the name of the dead person (this is mentioned in another part of the text that has been translated thus far), but it's been a while since anyone in her family has done so, oddly. :^)
No not the case, the breast plate.
Stanford put out the cover story about the quake damage, but we're sure that Slick broke everything while trying to jump on her.
Thomas Young deciphered Demotic by 1819, sez here.
I tergiversated about quoting that part.
A Madonna bra. Senchalanthos was way ahead of her time.
All that and we still don't know if Algaze passed the course.
Its more fun to go out and dig stuff up —— and get your name in headlines.
Unfortunately it was written there by an ancient Starbucks employee so we still have no idea what her name was.
"BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE"
I think autocorrect kidnapped your keyboard. Lol.
So Shakespeare was a plagiarist?
(That was a joke as this was a google is my friend moment )
Indeed, but this was a college course regarding museums.
Museum Cultures: Material Representation in the Past and Present.
But, I agree. It would be so amazing and rewarding to discover artifacts in the ground. Perhaps that will be her next course or even job.
She has a great body for a 60 year old man.
;^) Her mummy's been propped in the corner of that Starbucks since 1906, but because of her white privilege, no one has asked her to leave -- other than the "activists" who come in every day and accuse her of cultural appropriation from all-black ancient Egypt.
Do you have any idea how many *years* I've waited to use tergiversate in a sentence?!? Rejuvenate, tergiversate, hell, I'm an egghead rapper now.
Of course the devastation of San Francisco gets the lions share of the attention, but this was a regional disaster; its just that the outlying areas were largely rural. Auburn is at 1300 feet in the Sierra Foothills 120 miles from the city.. Press reports at the time indicate people could see the glow in the West from SF burning, despite the fact that coast range is between the two places. The Stanford is 40 miles from SF and got major damages. Another 10 miles away, fatalities and major damage to buildings in Santa Clara and San Jose.
Lol!!
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