Papers by Patrizia Piacentini
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Objective: Despite the existing literature, the use of surgery to treat medical diseases in Ancie... more Objective: Despite the existing literature, the use of surgery to treat medical diseases in Ancient Egypt remains controversial. Regarding amputations, such procedures were performed in Egypt for therapeutic reasons, although they were never described in medical papyri. Here, we present the radiographic study of a possible lower limb amputation found in a recently discovered tomb in Aswan, Egypt. Methods: The necropolis is located on the west bank of the Nile, around the Mausoleum of the Aga Khan III. Around 45 mummies were found in the tomb, along with more than 400 mixed bones of adults and subadults. Radiographic analyses were carried out directly on-site in the proximity of the tomb using a digital portable device. Among the mixed bones, we found a mature right femur with evidence of mid-diaphyseal bone interruption and exuberant reparative callus at the broken stump with woven periosteal new bone, indicating a recent and active healing process at the time of death. The X-ray st...
A History of World Egyptology
First Neapolitan Congress of Egyptology, 2010
Patrizia PIACENTINI Les scribes dans la société égyptienne de l'Ancien Empire Vol. I Les première... more Patrizia PIACENTINI Les scribes dans la société égyptienne de l'Ancien Empire Vol. I Les premières dynasties Les nécropoles memphites CYBELE Paris 2002 Ouvrage publié avec le concours du Centro Nazionale delle Ricerche italien La loi du 11 mars 1957 n'autorisant, aux termes des alinéas 2 et 3 de l'article 41, d'une part que les « copies ou reproductions strictement réservées à l'usage privé du copiste et non destinées à une utilisation collective » et, d'autre part, que les analyses et les courtes citations, dans un but d'exemple et d'illustration, « toute représentation ou reproduction intégrale ou partielle faite sans le consentement de l'auteur ou de ses ayants droits ou ayants cause, est illicite » (alinéa 1 er de l'article 40). Cette représentation ou reproduction, par quelque procédé que ce soit, constituerait donc une contrefaçon sanctionnée par les articles 425 et suivants du Code Pénal.
Pubblicazione dei primi risultati della Egyptian Italian Mission at West Aswan (EIMAWA), gennaio/... more Pubblicazione dei primi risultati della Egyptian Italian Mission at West Aswan (EIMAWA), gennaio/febbraio 2019, diretta dall'Universit\ue0 degli Studi di Milano (Patrizia Piacentini) e dal Ministero delle Antichit\ue0 egiziano.Publication of the first results of the Egyptian Italian Mission at West Aswan (EIMAWA), January/February 2019, led by the Universit\ue0 degli Studi di Milano (Patrizia Piacentini) and the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities
Ricerche Di Storia Dell Arte, 2010
Notes on the intellectual basis for the spread of the interest for ancient Egypt, and the formati... more Notes on the intellectual basis for the spread of the interest for ancient Egypt, and the formation of Egyptological collections in Egypt and Italy
Acme Annali Della Facolta Di Lettere E Filosofia Dell Universita Degli Studi Di Milano, 1999
... the scribe's tools dis-covered in Tutankhamun's tomb, since objects from his tomb a... more ... the scribe's tools dis-covered in Tutankhamun's tomb, since objects from his tomb are usually included in special volumes published by the Griffith Institue. ... Piacen ti ni A fragment of another alabaster model palette (JE 88081), found by Weill at Dara in 1947, 27 and dating to the ...
Aegyptus Rivista Italiana Di Egittologia E Di Papirologiat, 1987
Acme Annali Della Facolta Di Lettere E Filosofia Dell Universita Degli Studi Di Milano, 2003
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Papers by Patrizia Piacentini
The papers focus mainly on Ancient Egypt, the Theban necropolis, with a dashing of miscellaneous subjects.
A special section portrays graphic artwork from colleagues of the excavation team of the Hungarian Archaeological Mission in Thebes, in TT 184 and the south slope of el-Khokha; as well as other friends working in Thebes.
Published by L'Harmattan, Budapest, 2017/2019.
ISBN 978-2-343-13743-8