Carina Van Den Hoven
Carina van den Hoven is Egyptologist at The Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden University and Collaborateur Scientifique at the Research Unit UMR 8546 AOrOc « Archéologie et philologie d’Orient et d’Occident » of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE/PSL) / École Normale Supérieure (ENS) / Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
Since 2017 she is Director of the Leiden University Mission to the Theban Necropolis, which undertakes a fieldwork project in Theban Tomb 45 in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the West Bank of Luxor (see www.StichtingAEL.nl).
Her current research project "Recycling the past: mechanisms and motives behind tomb reuse in New Kingdom Thebes" focuses on the phenomenon of tomb reuse, and combines theory and methodology from Memory Studies, Landscape Archaeology, and Geomatics (3D/4D-technology) in order to present a new understanding of this understudied phenomenon.
Van den Hoven’s expertise and research interests in Egyptology are in the function and materiality of Ancient Egyptian temple decoration and tomb decoration, and the practices and rituals they reflect. Her research focuses not only on Pharaonic Egypt, but extends into the Graeco-Roman Period, and addresses in particular the topics of textual and iconographic transmission processes, uses and reuses of the past, cultural memory, and cultural identity in Ancient Egypt. Van den Hoven's research interests also include cultural heritage management and the field of Digital Humanities and its applications to Egyptology, and in particular the use of photogrammetry, digital epigraphy, and digital imaging techniques in the documentation and material analysis of ancient wall paintings.
Address: The Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Witte Singel 25, 2311 BG Leiden, The Netherlands
Since 2017 she is Director of the Leiden University Mission to the Theban Necropolis, which undertakes a fieldwork project in Theban Tomb 45 in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the West Bank of Luxor (see www.StichtingAEL.nl).
Her current research project "Recycling the past: mechanisms and motives behind tomb reuse in New Kingdom Thebes" focuses on the phenomenon of tomb reuse, and combines theory and methodology from Memory Studies, Landscape Archaeology, and Geomatics (3D/4D-technology) in order to present a new understanding of this understudied phenomenon.
Van den Hoven’s expertise and research interests in Egyptology are in the function and materiality of Ancient Egyptian temple decoration and tomb decoration, and the practices and rituals they reflect. Her research focuses not only on Pharaonic Egypt, but extends into the Graeco-Roman Period, and addresses in particular the topics of textual and iconographic transmission processes, uses and reuses of the past, cultural memory, and cultural identity in Ancient Egypt. Van den Hoven's research interests also include cultural heritage management and the field of Digital Humanities and its applications to Egyptology, and in particular the use of photogrammetry, digital epigraphy, and digital imaging techniques in the documentation and material analysis of ancient wall paintings.
Address: The Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Witte Singel 25, 2311 BG Leiden, The Netherlands
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Theban Tomb 45 is a fascinating case of tomb reuse. The monument was built and partly decorated in the 18th dynasty, around 1400 BCE. In the Ramesside period the tomb was reused, but instead of vandalising the tomb and replacing the original decoration with his own, the second owner added his own decoration and partially retouched the original paintings in order to update them to contemporary style.
The article outlines the aims and objectives of the project and it describes how innovative technologies from the field of Digital Humanities will be used in the conservation, documentation, publication, art historical analysis, and heritage preservation of the monument under study. The article also illustrates how this fieldwork project forms the starting point for a larger research project on the mechanisms and motives behind tomb reuse in Ancient Egypt, which is carried out by the author at The Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden University.
a long list of divine witnesses which offers a precious example of a double 'interpretatio': this list was first written in Babylonian, the international language of the Ancient Near East, then it was translated into Egyptian in order to be displayed on the walls of the Ramesseum and the temple of Karnak. But translating divine concepts into a foreign language is not an easy task to perform and, unlike the Hittite scribes who were used to translating Hittite divine names into Babylonian, the Egyptian scribes encountered many difficulties in order to achieve their task, and their efforts were not always successful.
Theban Tomb 45 is a fascinating case of tomb reuse. The monument was built and partly decorated in the 18th dynasty, around 1400 BCE. In the Ramesside period the tomb was reused, but instead of vandalising the tomb and replacing the original decoration with his own, the second owner added his own decoration and partially retouched the original paintings in order to update them to contemporary style.
The article outlines the aims and objectives of the project and it describes how innovative technologies from the field of Digital Humanities will be used in the conservation, documentation, publication, art historical analysis, and heritage preservation of the monument under study. The article also illustrates how this fieldwork project forms the starting point for a larger research project on the mechanisms and motives behind tomb reuse in Ancient Egypt, which is carried out by the author at The Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden University.
a long list of divine witnesses which offers a precious example of a double 'interpretatio': this list was first written in Babylonian, the international language of the Ancient Near East, then it was translated into Egyptian in order to be displayed on the walls of the Ramesseum and the temple of Karnak. But translating divine concepts into a foreign language is not an easy task to perform and, unlike the Hittite scribes who were used to translating Hittite divine names into Babylonian, the Egyptian scribes encountered many difficulties in order to achieve their task, and their efforts were not always successful.
Theme issue on a century of Assyriology in Leiden.
Theme issue on the States Translation of the Bible and the Ancient Near East. The States Translation was the first translation of the Bible from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek languages into Dutch, ordered by the Synod of Dordrecht in 1618 and financed by the Protestant Dutch Republic.
Theme issue on hunting.
Theban Tomb 45 in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna is a fascinating case of tomb reuse, in which the original painted decoration (18th dynasty) was altered by the second tomb owner (Ramesside period) in order to conform to contemporary style.
The Leiden University Mission to the Theban Necropolis started work in this tomb in 2018 under the direction of Dr. Carina van den Hoven, in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, and with the support of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (Leiden University), and the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo. The main aims of the fieldwork project in TT45 are to carry out conservation, documentation, publication, art historical analysis, heritage preservation and site management activities.
This paper reports on the results of the first three seasons of fieldwork carried out in 2018-2019. It will demonstrate how the TT45 Project uses the most recent tools and developments in non-invasive imaging techniques and digital site documentation, such as photogrammetry and digital imaging technology.
The fieldwork in Theban Tomb 45 is the starting point for a new research project on the practice of tomb reuse. This paper briefly presents the initial results of this project and addresses the use of methodologies from Landscape Archaeology and Memory Studies in investigating the various ways in which the Ancient Egyptians used and interacted with the mortuary landscape and its monuments.