- Docente: Enrico Acquaro
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-OR/02
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Enrico Acquaro (Modulo 1) Manuel Martinez (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 1); In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in CULTURAL HERITAGE (cod. 0886)
Learning outcomes
The course intends to furnish the principal features and the essential critical tools for the knowledge of the Egyptian civilization. At the end of course the student has acquired an exhaustive knowledge of the history and the archaeology of ancient Egypt, with particular reference to the relationship among the Egyptian culture and the other interlocutors of the Mediterranean East among the Pharaonic period and that Hellenistic-Roman.
Course contents
The course ids divided into two parts. Part A (4cfu). dott. Manuel Martinez. 1. Introduction to the discipline in different aspects (historical, archaeological, cultural), 2. The Egyptian collections in Europe and in Italy, 3. The Egyptological culture in Sicily. Part B (2cfu). 1. The relationships between Egypt and the Phoenician and Punic world, 2. The Egyptianizing culture in Punic and Greek Sicily.
Readings/Bibliography
Part A. Notes of the course; M. Capasso, Che cos'è la papirologia, Carocci, Roma 2009, pp. 9-17, 35-62, 72-76; N. Grimal, Storia dell'antico Egitto, Laterza, Bari, capitoli III-IV, VI-XV (in qualunque edizione); M. Martinez, Monete “egizie” ad Erice. Per una storia delle ricerche antiquarie in Sicilia, in www.fenici.unibo.it; M. Martinez, L'Egitto negli studi siciliani del Seicento, in Byrsa, (2007-2009), pp. 61-72; S. Pernigotti, Introduzione all'egittologia, il Mulino, Bologna 2004, pp. 41-84; P. Piacentini, L'Antico Egitto di Napoleone, Mondadori, Milano 2000, pp. 9-21.Si consiglia, infine, la lettura di Plutarco, Iside e Osiride. Introduzione di Dario Del Corno, Adelphi Edizioni, Milano 1985. Part B. Notes of the course; E. Acquaro, I Fenici, Cartagine e l'Egitto, in Rivista di Studi fenici, 23 (1985), pp. 183-189; F. De Salvia, I Fenici nella visione degli antichi Egizi (2008), in www.fenici.unibo.it ; G. Hölbl, Iconografie egiziane e documenti archeologici dell'Italia punica, in E. Acquaro - G. Savio (edd.), Studi iconografici nel Mediterraneo antico iconologia e aspetti materici, Sarzana 2004, pp. 65-82; M. Martinez, Gli astucci porta-amuleti punici (=Biblioteca di Byrsa, 6), Lugano 2010.
NB: The students not attending the lessons will integrate the program with the chapters I, II and V of the manual of N. Grimal, Storia dell'antico Egitto.
Teaching methods
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Frontal lessons and seminars.
Assessment methods
Written examination in course of year and oral examination on notes of the lessons and bibliography. The students not attending the lessons must arrange an integrative program with the teacher.
Teaching tools
Visual, digital and photographic materials will be utilized during the lessons
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Enrico Acquaro
See the website of Manuel Martinez