More than a harpist's song: a musical scene in the tomb of Tatia at Saqqara

This lecture is in person at Spring Lodge, Witham, it will not be recorded or live streamed

During the 2009 excavation season, a modest tomb was unearthed at Saqqara by a joint expedition of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden and Leiden University. The tomb belonged to a man named Tatia, who worked as a priest of the front of Ptah and chief of goldsmiths. The south wall of his decorated tomb-chapel shows a musical scene of a harpist, a flute player and three seated figures. The scene is accompanied by a hieroglyphic inscription in seventeen framed columns above their heads. It was assumed that this inscription represented the text of a harpist's song. Recent research by the speaker, however, has led to the discovery that the scene in question is more than just a harpist's song........

Vincent Oeters studied Egyptology, Archaeology and Arabic at Leiden University. He has excavated in the Fayum, Wadi Natrun and at Saqqara. For his Master in Egyptology he wrote his thesis on the tomb of Tatia, which was found in 2009.