Guasch, Maria Rosa

Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Young Egyptologists: Commerce and Economy in Ancient Egypt, Budapest (Hungary), September 25-27 2009. Edited by: A. Hudecz and M. Petrik.

British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International Series 2131 (2010): 57-63. Oxford: Archaeopress (ISBN 9781407306728).

ABSTRACT: This paper presents an investigation aiming to determine the importance of the data inscribed on the wine-jars bearing on the source, quality and prestige of wines in ancient Egypt. The inscriptions on the wine-jars will be compared with the labels of modern wines to determine common characteristics.

Guasch i Jané, Maria Rosa

Tesi doctoral. Universitat de Barcelona 2005 (21/09/05). ISBN 8469002848.

RESUM: La documentació més antiga i extensa sobre la viticultura i l'elaboració del vi prové d'Egipte, on des de fa sis mil anys la vinya ja es cultivava al Delta del Nil. Malgrat això, el seu estudi històric i arqueològic encara presenta aspectes desconeguts. Amb el desenvolupament de les tècniques analítiques, tenim les eines per intentar conèixer les llacunes d'una part de la cultura de la civilització mediterrània més antiga: la cultura del vi a l'antic Egipte.

Guasch Jané, Maria Rosa

British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International Series 1851 (2008). 72 pp. Oxford: Archaeopress (ISBN 9781407303383).

Book, Doctoral thesis (PhD) Dissertation.

ABSTRACT: Wine is a beverage that belongs to the Mediterranean culture. A study of the origins of wine shows how deep vineyards are rooted in this area from West to East and since antiquity. The oldest and most extensive documentation about viticulture and winemaking comes from Egypt. Vineyards have been grown in the Nile Delta for five thousand years.

Guasch-Jané, Maria Rosa ‘Wine’: 548-551, The Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia, 2015. 

Entry on wine in The Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia. First reference work on the study of food and foodways through archaeology. 

Editors: Karen Metheny, Mary C. Beaudry, Archaeology Department, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University (US).

The bibliographic research of the scenes of viticulture and winemaking in the ancient Egyptian private tombs resulted in the identification of some unpublished scenes. Furthermore, some of the scenes of viticulture and winemaking were not available for publication, because of copyrights or because they were never drawn or photographed.

Therefore, and under permission of the Permanent Committee of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) of Egypt, the project team planned a photographic survey for the private tombs with viticulture and winemaking scenes all over Egypt in 2013.

The photographic mission has allowed us to complete the analysis of the scenes and their associated texts.

The photographic mission was successfully accomplished between June and December 2013 in 21 archaeological sites in Upper Egypt: Aswan, Luxor and Sohag; Middle Egypt: in Asiut, Miniya and Beni Sueif; and Lower Egypt: Giza.

− Fonseca, S, Ibrahim, M., 2013, Estudio de la iconografía del vino en las tumbas privadas del antiguo Egipto : de la investigación en los archivos a la pesentación de los resultados en una web interactiva, in Actas JIA 2013 (accepted 2013) Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona.

− Guasch-Jané, M.R., Fonseca, S., Ibrahim, M., 2012, “The ‘Irep en Kemet’ Project: documenting the corpus of wine in Ancient Egypt”, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference (Euromed 2012) on Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries, Amathus (Cyprus), October 29th- November 3rd 2012, International Journal of Heritage in the Digital Area 1, 1 (2012): 181-186. Cyprus University of Technology, Unesco and EU: Essex (UK) and Cyprus. View online 

− Fonseca, S., Guasch-Jané M.R., Ibrahim, M., (2012), “O vinho no Antigo Egito: uma história mediterrânea”, Revista Mundo Antigo, Ano I, Volume I, Número I: 131- 146.

− Fonseca, S, Ibrahim, M., 2012. Documentation of viticulture and winemaking in the Egyptian tombs, in Actas JIA 2011, 1: 17-22. Faro, Universidade do Algarve. −Trindade Lopes, H., Fonseca, S., 2012. O Palácio de Apriés, Mênfis/ Kôm Tumân, Actas IV Congresso Ibérico de Egiptologia, Lisboa (Portugal), Sept 13-17 2012: 555-65.

- Trindade Lopes, H., Fonseca, S., (2011). “The Apries Palace, Memphis/ Kôm Tumân: The first Portuguese Mission in Egypt”, JARCE 47 (2011): 247-58.

− Gil, E., Fonseca, S., Ould Abdi, M., 2008. “Le cas du Projet Walata. La protection du patrimoine dans le cadre d’un programme de coopération pour le développement”, in Actas del Colloque International Les perspectives de l’Archéologie Préventive en Afrique de l’Ouest, Nouakchott (Mauritanie), 1-3 fev 2007.

− Fonseca, S, Ibrahim, M., 2013. Estudio de la iconografía del vino en las tumbas privadas del antiguo Egipto : de la investigación en los archivos a la pesentación de los resultados en una web interactiva, in Actas JIA 2013 (accepted 2013) Barcelona, Universidad de Barcelona.

− Guasch-Jané, M.R., Fonseca, S., 2012. Ibrahim, M. “The ‘Irep en Kemet’ Project: documenting the corpus of wine in Ancient Egypt”, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference (Euromed 2012) on Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries, Amathus (Cyprus), October 29th- November 3rd 2012, International Journal of Heritage in the Digital Area 1, 1 (2012): 181-186. Cyprus University of Technology, Unesco and EU: Essex (UK) and Cyprus. View online

− Fonseca, S., Guasch-Jané M.R., Ibrahim, M., (2012), “O vinho no Antigo Egito: uma história mediterrânea”, Revista Mundo Antigo, Ano I, Volume I, Número I: 131- 146.

− Fonseca, S, Ibrahim, M., 2012. Documentation of viticulture and winemaking in the Egyptian tombs, in Actas JIA 2011, 1 (2012): 17-22. Faro, Universidade do Algarve.

Mahmoud Ibrahim obtained his Bachelor's degree in Egyptology (1998) at Cairo University, Egypt, and his Master’s degree in Egyptology and Linguistics (2006) at Basel University, Switzerland. Currently, he is pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Arabic Language and Literature (2012-2015) from the Faculty of Dar El-Ulum, Cairo University. He holds a career certificate in Translation (2010) from the American University in Cairo (AUC), and is a member of the International Association for Professional Translators and Interpreters (IAPTI).

Sofia Fonseca obtained a BA in Archaeology (1997) at Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, and a Masters’ Degree in Egyptology (2001) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain. She was responsible for fieldwork (2001-2010) of the Apries Palace Archaeological project in Mit-Rahina (Memphis), Egypt, directed by Dr. Maria Helena Trindade Lopes at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH/NOVA), Portugal. She was Assistant of the Director (2008-2010) assuming coordination, logistic and bureaucratic aspects related with the mission in Egypt.

 • Guasch-Jané, M.R. “Three wines for Tutankhamun’s transfiguration”, Ancient Egypt April/May vol. 13, no. 5, issue 77 (2013) 2013: 26-31.

 • Fonseca, S., Guasch, M.R. and Ibrahim, M. “O vinho no Antigo Egito: uma história mediterrânea”, Revista Mundo Antigo 1, 1 (2012): 131-46.

 • Guasch-Jané, M.R. “Ancient Egyptian wine”, Ancient Egypt June/July vol. 6, no. 6, issue 36 (2006): 17-21.