PHOTOGRAPHIC MISION TO THE PRIVATE TOMBS WITH VITICULTURE AND WINEMAKING SCENES IN MIDDLE EGYPT

The “Irep en Kemet” Project has accomplished, between the 24th and the 28th November 2013, the second phase of the photographic mission to record all the Egyptian private tombs with viticulture and winemaking scenes. This time Mahmoud Ibrahim, head of the mission, and Mr Ahmed Amin Abdel-Rahim, photograph of the Supreme Council of Antiquities working at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, went to Middle Egypt to Asiut, Miniya and Beni Sueif to photograph the tombs located there. A total of 12 tombs were photograph. This work is being done with the authorization of the Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities.

All photographs Copyright: Irep en Kemet Project

PHOTOGRAPHIC MISION TO THE PRIVATE TOMBS WITH VITICULTURE AND WINEMAKING SCENES IN LOWER EGYPT

In December 2013, Mahmoud Ibrahim and Mr Ahmed Amin Abdel-Rahim, photograph of the Supreme Council of Antiquities working at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, went to Lower Egypt (Giza Governorate), to accomplish the third photographic mission of the the “Irep en Kemet” Project.

El passat dia 13 de març de 2014, la Dra. Maria Rosa Guasch Jané, directora del projecte "Irep en Kemet, el vi de l'antic Egipte", va presentar una sessió del curs “El món del vi. Nutrició i tecnologia alimentària aplicades al vi i a la cuina”, dins del cicle Gaudir UB (Gaudir UB. El món del vi).

DATABASE FOR THE SCENES OF VITICULTURE AND WINEMAKING IN ANCIENT EGYPT

The “Irep en Kemet”, Wine of Ancient Egypt, research project aims to study the ancient Egyptian wine culture, including iconography, texts, artifacts and organic material.

After four years of work, our research group has developed the first complete database of the viticulture and winemaking scenes from the Ancient Egyptian private tombs.

The bibliographic and scenes databases of the ‘Irep en Kemet’ project will also be an on-line documentation archive contributing to the dissemination and protection of the Egyptian heritage.

The project’s website promotes visibility to the study of wine in ancient Egypt and the dissemination of archaeological knowledge regarding wine in Antiquity.

INSTITUTS AND LIBRARIES

Griffith Institute, Oxford University, Oxford (UK)

Egypt Exploration Society, London (UK)

Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, Cairo (Egypt)

Mondes Pharaoniques (UMR 8167 “Orient et Méditerranée), Université Paris-Sorbonne (Sorbonne Universités)

Institut d’Estudis del Pròxim Orient Antic (IEPOA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

TOMBS, OBJECTS AND MONUMENTS

Oxford Expedition to Egypt: Scene-Details Database 

Theban Mapping Project

Egyptian Monuments

Tutankhamun's list of objects

The Global Egyptian Museum

Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt

PROJECT PRESENTATION AT THE KNOWLEDGE FAIR 2014 AT BERGA, CATALONIA 

During the next two days (3rd and 4th of April 2014) the project “Study of the viticulture and oenology in Ancient Egypt” from Unitat d’Estudis i Recerca en Ciència i Cuina (UERCC), Campus de l'Alimentació/Food Campus of the Universitat de Barcelona will be displayed at the Knowledge Fair (Fira del Coneixement 2014), in a stand at the Swedish Pavilion.

THE PROJECT "IREP EN KEMET" AT THE KNOWLEDGE FAIR 2014 AT BERGA, CATALONIA

The project was presented at the Knowledge Fair 2014, at Berga, as part of the Unitat d’Estudis i Recerca en Ciència i Cuina (UERCC), Campus de l'Alimentació/Food Campus of the University of Barcelona (UB). During the 3rd and 4th of April we have presented our research to 800 students from all Catalonia visiting the fair.

With a conference entitled “Tutankhamun’s wines. The Project ‘Irep en Kemet’, Wine of Ancient Egypt”, Dr Maria Rosa Guasch Jané, the project director, was in Peralada to present the project and the research developed by the team.

With a conference entitled “Culture and symbolism of wine in ancient Egypt. The wines of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun”, Dr Maria Rosa Guasch Jané, was part of the 2014-2015 continuing education course of Paleopathology organized by the Catalan and Balearic association of paleopathologists.

On the 26th of August 2015, the ‘Irep en Kemet’, Wine of Ancient Egypt, research project director, Dr. Maria Rosa Guasch Jané, has presented the oral communication entitled “The complete corpus of viticulture and winemaking scenes from the ancient Egyptian private tombs” in the INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF EGYPTOLOGISTS XI, held in Florence (Italy) from the 23rd to the 30th of August 2015.

This lecture will be available on-line at our website soon.