Meketre: An Online Repository For Essence Kingdom Scenes

[First posted inwards AWOL 26 July 2014, updated 25 Jan 2019]

Meketre: an online repository for pump kingdom scenes

Introduction

The Middle Kingdom (11th to 13th Dynasty, ca. 2030 – 1640 B.C.) constitutes i of Ancient Egypt’s outstanding epochs. Art, architecture too literature flourished too reached a peak hardly surpassed inwards afterward periods. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 large expose of rock-cut tombs, free-standing tombs (mastabas) too other funerary structures show to the high character of craftsmanship at that time. The overall concept of the tomb amongst its symbolic allusions to self-representation had a decisive influence on the scenes, the scene content too the distribution of representations of the tomb owner. Middle Kingdom tomb decorations offering a broad diversity of complex too multi-layered information that is inwards the focus of our research.

About From Object to Icon (2013 – )

Visual Reflections on too the Designations of Material Culture inwards the Reliefs too Paintings of Middle Kingdom Tombs
From Object to Icon is an interdisciplinary enquiry project, conducted at the Institute of Egyptology inwards cooperation amongst the research grouping Multimedia Information Systems at the University of Vienna. It is based on the enquiry that was initiated amongst the projection MeKeTRE (see below). The projection is funded yesteryear the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, projection expose P 25958).
The decorative programme of Middle Kingdom tombs offers a wealth of themes too scenes all featuring numerous objects – artefacts – made or given shape yesteryear humans too shown/used inwards diverse contexts. The projection deals amongst the assessment too written report of these objects – their three-dimensional “existence” compared to too contrasted amongst their two-dimensional rendering inwards art. It seeks to response the questions what form of objects were depicted to choose the pregnant of sure enough processes or actions, too most importantly how these objects were transformed into images (icons). This enquiry volition endure supplemented yesteryear a amount investigation of captions too object designations. The project’s tertiary business office covers the extension of the MEKETREpository (developed inwards the course of written report of the MeKeTRE project) yesteryear utilising crowd sourcing technologies that volition let scholars inwards the Egyptological domain to access efficiently pre-processed information such every bit images too annotations.
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