This talk will be held at the Library in Chesterfield as well as via Zoom. Tickets bought will be for the online Zoom event. You will receive Zoom details the day before the event (and again an hour before the event).
Talk
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…
