Edfu project

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Statue of Hor-Behdeti in front of the temple of Edfu

The Edfu project was a long-term Egyptological project founded by Dieter Kurth in 1986 with the aim of creating a reliable overall translation of the ancient Egyptian inscriptions of the Temple of Edfu in Upper Egypt . Until 2002 the project was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Later it was located at the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . The project was based in Hamburg . The project manager was Dieter Kurth, the job manager was Wolfgang Waitkus, the scientific staff were Andreas Effland, Jan-Peter Graeff, Susanne Martinssen-von Falck, Ruth Brech, André Block.

The funding of the project by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences ended in 2017. Funding at the Academy of Sciences came from the federal and state academies program . Since then, the translations have been carried out by Dieter Kurth alone.

A project started in Würzburg in 2018 for the comparative investigation of wall reliefs in the temple is in no way related to the Edfu project.

literature

  • Dieter Kurth with the collaboration of A. Behrmann, D. Budde, A. Effland, H. Felber, E. Pardey, S. Rüter, W. Waitkus, S. Woodhouse: Die insschriften des Tempels von Edfu. Volume 1: Edfou VIII . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 978-3-447-03862-1 .
(This volume contains the translation of all the texts on the large pylon.)
  • Dieter Kurth with the collaboration of A. Behrmann, D. Budde, A. Effland, H. Felber, J.-P. Graeff, S. Koepke, S. Martinssen von Falck, E. Pardey, S. Rüter and W. Waitkus: The inscriptions of the Temple of Edfu. Volume 2: Edfou VII (= The inscriptions of the temple of Edfu. Section I). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 978-3-447-05016-6 .
(This volume includes the translation of all of the texts on the outside of the temple wall.)
  • Dieter Kurth with the collaboration of A. Behrmann, A. Block, R. Brech, D. Budde, A. Effland, M. von Falck, H. Felber, J.-P. Graeff, S. Koepke, S. Martinssen-von Falck, E. Pardey, St. Rüter, W. Waitkus and S. Woodhouse: The inscriptions of the Temple of Edfu. Department I Translations; Volume 3: Edfou VII. PeWe-Verlag, 2014.
(This volume contains the translation of all texts on the inside of the surrounding wall.)
  • Dieter Kurth (ed.): The inscriptions of the temple of Edfu. Leaflets. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1991 ff., ISSN  0937-8413 .
  • Dieter Kurth: Edfu. An Egyptian temple seen through the eyes of the ancient Egyptians. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1994, ISBN 978-3-534-12092-5 .
  • Dieter Kurth: meeting point of the gods. Inscriptions from the Temple of Horus at Edfu. Artemis, Zurich / Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3-7608-1097-3 ; Improved new edition, Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 1998, ISBN 978-3-7608-1203-8 .
  • Dieter Kurth: The Temple of Edfu: A Guide by an Ancient Egyptian Priest. American University in Cairo Press, Cairo / New York 2004, ISBN 978-977-424-764-4 .

Web links

Commons : إدفو  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ see entry of the project "The complete philological processing of the inscriptions of the Temple of Edfu" in the Gepris system of the DFG , accessed May 10, 2020
  2. ↑ The inscriptions of the Ptolemaic Temple of Edfu. This project ended in 2017.
  3. ↑ Würzburg Egyptology: Horus Temple of Edfu

Coordinates: 24 ° 59 '  N , 32 ° 52'  E