Talk: More Than a Harpist’s Song: A Musical Scene in The Tomb of Tatia at Saqqara with Vincent Oeters
Date: Sunday 2 November, 15.00
Location: In person at Spring Lodge Community Centre, Powers Hall End, Witham, CM8 2HE
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Talk information
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…