{"id":4027,"date":"2025-09-11T13:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/?page_id=4027"},"modified":"2025-11-16T14:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:38:06","slug":"more-than-a-harpists-song-a-musical-scene-in-the-tomb-of-tatia-at-saqqara","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/?page_id=4027","title":{"rendered":"More Than a Harpist\u2019s Song: A Musical Scene in The Tomb of Tatia at Saqqara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/202511-NOV.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/202511-NOV.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/202511-NOV.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/202511-NOV-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>This talk took place in person at the November 2025 meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Review2511_NOVEMBER.pdf\">Click here to read a meeting review >><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Talk information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;s song. Recent research by the speaker, however, has led to the discovery that the scene in question is more than just a harpist&#8217;s song&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This talk took place in person at the November 2025 meeting. Click here to read a meeting review >> 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4027","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4088,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4027\/revisions\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}