#description of egypt

[illustratus]

Frontispiece to The Description of Egypt 2nd ed.

The full title of the work is Description de l'Égypte, ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française (Description of Egypt, or the collection of observations and researches which were made in Egypt during the expedition of the French Army)

[sarroora]

For those curious about what’s going on right now with Rafah’s crossing between Egypt and Palestine, this video does a decent job explaining.

[empirearchives]

Roustam’s first impression and description of Napoleon:

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Digitization of Brazil-Egypt trade advances

After a meeting with authorities from the Arab country, the president of the Arab-Brazilian Chamber said the technical processes for implementing digital customs clearance in Brazil-Egypt trade are now complete.

Negotiations for the use of digital customs clearance in trade operations between Brazil and Egypt are progressing. After meeting with the head of the Egyptian Customs Authority, Shahat Gathory, the president of the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC), Osmar Chohfi, said the technical processes have been resolved, and now only administrative details on the Egyptian side remain to be adjusted.

The negotiations concern Egypt’s adoption of Easy Trade, a system that integrates with the Ellos Platform, developed by the ABCC to digitize the export process to Arab countries. Jordan has already implemented this innovation. Easy Trade eliminates the need for paper documentation, issues the document on the same day for shipments processed by 4 p.m., and reduces costs.

“We felt a positive initiative from the authorities we met with, as the Ellos platform is a tool for facilitating and expediting trade between countries,” said Chohfi about the meeting held on Wednesday (30). This week, Chohfi and the secretary-general and vice president of international relations of the ABCC, Mohamad Mourad, are holding various meetings with Egyptian authorities. They are accompanied on their visits by the head of the institutions office in Cairo, Micheal Gamal.

On Thursday (31), Chohfi, Mourad and Gamal met with the chairman of the Suez Canal Economic Zone Authority (SCZone), Waleid Gamaleldien, and discussed the possibility of SCZone allocating one of its areas for the establishment of Brazilian industries, which, if the project materializes, could produce from this location.

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[rudjedet]

Spent the last day of 2022 and the first day of 2023 fixing this painting because I'm a twat incapable of ever letting things remain done.

So anyway here's an asshole and a cunt being an asshole and a cunt together and making a lot of things worse for everyone.

[chaos-has-theories]

When I say that Tamsyn Muir is somewhere out there, laughing at me personally, this is the kind of thing I mean:

I've noticed the first one a while ago, but the second one just now glared out at me when searching for information on Cyrus.

Yes, I'm back on my Egypt bullshit. Yes, this is because I see Cyrus as Osiris.

[ava-of-shenanigans]

It is done!

A lot of our knowledge of ancient Egyptian gods comes from spells, which sometimes record narratives or pieces of narratives as historiolas, but a lot of the time just give us lists of gods that it’s kinda hard to infer a personality from. Which is why I thought it would be fun to go through some collections of spells and track how many times certain gods are invoked alongside another certain gods, and to see if those patterns could say anything about that god’s relationships to other gods from. Because my autism compels me to make bar graphs, and it especially compels me to make bar graphs that I can use to make headcanons about my blorbos.

What counts as gods being invoked or referenced together is kinda subjective sometimes, but it’s the general patterns that are important with this so not counting some things that maybe should have been counted is probably fine. I thought I’d do Set first for this, because I think his position in the pantheon is really interesting and also really seemingly contradictory at times.

What we’ve learned from these charts is that most of Set’s social life is just him muttering evilly in front of a brainstorming board that has “ways to murder Osiris Horus” written on it. (/joke)

For some gods I thought it would be interesting to track how many of the references implied a negative relationship between them and Set, so I kept track of how many references specifically implied a negative relationship (things like saying that god and Set acted in opposition to each other, or that Set wronged them in some way, or just that they don’t like each other) as well as just the total number of references. On my graph this reflected by having the number of those references be coloured red, and all the other references that were just neutral and didn’t imply anything (or sometimes very occasionally implied a positive relationship) are blue. The gods I did this with are Nephthys (because she’s his wife but it doesn’t seem like their marriage is that happy), Nut (because she’s his mother and the epithet “son of Nut” is used for him a lot), and Horus and Osiris (because I read somewhere that Horus is sometimes portrayed as working with Set, but that Osiris and Set are always portrayed as enemies, and I wanted to see if that was true or not). In the Greek Magical Papyri this also includes Helios because he was sometimes synchronized with Horus. So when gods other than those gods don’t have red parts on their bars, that doesn’t mean the text didn’t imply they don’t like Set, it just means I wasn’t counting it, but if a deity like Nephthys has an entirely blue bar that means there weren’t any negative references.

My copy of the Calendar of Lucky and Unlucky days is weird, in that a lot of the mentions of Set sound a lot more like they should be about Apophis. I can’t tell if that’s some weirdness with the text, since it’s supposed to be from the New Kingdom which I’m pretty sure is before a lot of Apophis’s traits started carrying over to Set, or if it’s some weirdness with this translation and they translated everything about Apophis as being about Set for some reason, or if it isn’t actually weird at all and I’m just thinking of this wrong. Like, there’s a part in it where it calls Set the son of Nun, and I can’t tell if that’s a misprint of Nut’s name, or if Set actually was sometimes called the son of Nun and I just don’t know that, or if that’s actually not Set at all and just Apophis committing identity theft.

Fun individual things I found while doing this: In the Pyramid Texts there’s a spell that implies Set drank Osiris’s blood, a spell in the Greek Magical Papyri has Nephthys show up riding a donkey, which I think is really cool, and a spell that’s in the Coffin Texts and the Book of the Dead says Horus and Set kissed on New Year’s Day one time. Also there’s a Coffin Texts spell that says Horus gained Set’s strength and used it even more than his own, which is the only reference I’ve seen to the events of the Kahun fragment so far outside of the actual Kahun fragment.

The Greek Magical Papyri has a lot of references to elements of Christian or Jewish religious elements alongside Ancient Greek and Egyptian religious elements, and it brings me great sadness they never showed up with Set because it would have been absolutely hilarious to get to put “Gabriel (the angel)” or “Jewish/Christian G-d” on my Set chart.

Doing this was really fun so I think I might do another god soon. Probably Anubis because he almost never shows up in any myths and I’ve heard a thousand different versions of who his parents are supposed to be.

[panchibust]

Miramir: My child , I have nothing I can give

But this chance that you may live

I pray we'll meet again if He ( luke) will

Deliver us🎶😢

[ineffable-inspirations]

Alabaster Cat

The cat first appears in painting and relief at the end of the Old Kingdom, and this cosmetic jar is the earliest-known three-dimensional representation of the animal in Egyptian art. The sculptor demonstrates a keen understanding of the creature's physical traits, giving the animal the alert, tense look of a hunter rather than the elegant aloofness seen in later representations. The rock-crystal eyes, lined with copper, enhance the impression of readiness.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Title: Cosmetic Vessel in the Shape of a Cat

Period: Middle Kingdom

Dynasty: Dynasty 12, early

Date: ca. 1990–1900 B.C.E.

Geography: From Egypt

Medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), copper, quartz crystal, paint

Dimensions: h. 14 (5 1/2 in.); l. 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in.); w. 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.)

[crazycatkatetrap]

EDIT: I FINALLY UPDATED THIS THING AFTER 2 MONTHS🤩!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm back b!tches🎉🥳!!!!!!!!!!!

And to celebrate, here's a ref for all the main characters in my Long Live The King AU (pardon the side facts, they're a bit outdated😅)

[thegodstheycall]

I'm in the process of working on some devotional projects and have been digging through The Met's archive looking for texture and motif inspiration, but I got thoroughly distracted by these scarabs. They have over a thousand in the collection, but here are some of my favourites:

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[im-a-broken-jar]

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There is no other explanation: this is hell."

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[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Brazil's Lula, On Egypt Visit, Discusses Gaza War

Lula, on his second trip to Egypt and his first during his current term, is due to join an Arab League meeting to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip, which has been devastated by more than four months of war.

The Brazilian leader is expected to give a speech at the gathering, according to a statement from the office of the pan-Arab bloc's secretary-general, Ahmed Aboul Gheit.

In November, Lula accused Israel of committing the "equivalent of terrorism" in Gaza by killing innocent women and children in its war on Hamas.

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[starlightshadowsworld]

The youngest Palestinian journalist is a 9 year old girl.

Her name Lama Jamous.

Lama has been reporting on tik tok what has been happening in Gaza. Her father is a journalist working for Al Jazeera and is trying to get her out of Rafah.

Link to the gofundme from the video

Please share her story.

Edited to include video description provided by @a-captions-blog

[Video description: TikTok by @ZerlinaSchmerlina, whose face is edited over a photo of a Palestinian child holding a phone camera up to the sea. This was posted by lama_jamous9. Zerlina says: This is Lama. She is a nine-year-old Afro-Palestinian journalist who lives in Gaza, and her father is trying really hard to get her evacuated into Egypt. There is a GoFundMe link in my bio where people have raised well over $48,000. I think It's like $52,000 right now to help get her and her family into Egypt. But what is really really important that we can do is please make videos, and please share and repost videos really raising awareness about the urgency of getting her into safety, her and her family to safety. I have tagged Al Jazeera English in this caption, but you can also tag them in your own videos that you make, in the comment section on Instagram etc. Please help raise awareness. [The background photo changes to show Lama holding a pink flower up to the camera.] Constant effort and pressure for a ceasefire can sometimes feel hopeless when our governments are not listening to us, but if there’s something we can do to help one, two, three children, let’s please do it. Please make a video and help raise awareness, and help put the pressure on to bring her and her family into safety. \End description]

[stil-lindigo]

Ahmed Saad or @/90-ghost's brother in law is currently doing his best to organise the evacuation of his family from Gaza. This family suffers from a combination of ailments that all require medical attention. This is the description on their GFM page:

Hello, I hope you all are doing well!

My name is Mohamed Monir Ahmad Mahmoud, I’m a hemophilia patient from Gaza. I decided to start this campaign with all the hope that you could support me in evacuating Gaza to do surgery for me and my daughter and start a fresh life with my 5 kids out of the ongoing genocide in Gaza [...] I was supposed to go out at the end of 2023 to have surgery on my knees but since 7 October, I had no chance due to the procedures on Rafah crossing, the gate of Gazans to the world. Now, my knees and elbows are bleeding with no access to any type of care and if things stand as they are in Gaza, I won’t be able to walk or make any effort because of the bleeding (currently I am barely able to set up a small fire in front of the tent to prepare food for my kids).

What I ask is 60,000, for travel costs because each one would need to pay 5,000-8,000$ to be allowed to leave Gaza through Rafah crossing and we need around 3000$ more in Egypt for our stay and to obtain visas. We will be heading to Brazil where my brother Diaa lives and there is a huge chance to do the surgeries and access health care as the health care for Hemophilia patients in Brazil is one of the most advanced in the world.

please give generously!!

[proserpine-in-phases]

Idk why but the end of this episode had me all worked up