Athena Van der PerreKU Leuven | ku leuven · Research unit for Archaeology, Art History & Musicology
Athena Van der Perre
PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Egyptology
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Brain-be Project: SURA - Unlocking the Photographic Archives of the Pioneering Years of Egyptology at the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels
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Before the Cinquantenaire Museum (the current Art & History Museum) was introduced as “One of Belgium’s Best Kept Secrets”, it was known all over the world, and Brussels was even occasionally introduced as the capital of Egyptology. Renowned Egyptologists would spend their holidays in Brussels, just to get a guided tour in the museum with the Belgi...
In het begin van de 20e eeuw ondernamen de Belgische egyptoloog Jean Capart en zijn medewerkers verschillende reizen naar Egypte. Met een passie voor fotografie documenteerden zij het land aan de Nijl in al zijn facetten. De egyptologische bibliotheek van de Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis in Brussel herbergt deze belangrijke collectie...
In the early 20th century, Belgian Egyptologist Jean Capart and his collaborators undertook several voyages to Egypt. With a keen eye for photography, they documented the land on the Nile in all its facets. The Egyptological library of the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels houses this important collection of about 14,000 photographic gla...
Au début du XX ème siècle, l'égyptologue belge Jean Capart et ses collaborateurs ont entrepris plusieurs voyages en Égypte. Avec un sens aigu de la photographie, ils ont documenté cette terre sur les rives du Nil sous toutes ses facettes. La bibliothèque égyptologique des Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Bruxelles abrite cette importante collec...
The Egyptian collection of the Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH, Brussels) comprises about one hundred execration figurines made of unfired clay, bearing curses written in hieratic and dating to the late Middle Kingdom. These figurines represent captured (foreign) enemies and were buried ritually in order to symbolically neutralise foreign an...
Interactive Pixel Based file formats have been produced over the course of the last two decades by many stakeholders active in the Heritage sector. It is a global story. Its use has facilitated research and dissemination strategies for vast numbers of artefacts, conservation interactions and scientific studies. The technology has been explored and...
La bibliothèque des Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire (MRAH) de Bruxelles abrite une collection inédite de plus de 7000 photographies anciennes qui retracent les débuts de l’égyptologie belge dans le contexte plus large des grandes découvertes qui marquèrent l’archéologie de l’Égypte au cours de la première moitié du 20e siècle. Le projet SURA vise...
Among the most famous images of ancient Egypt we find the colorful bust of Nefertiti, “the beautiful one has come,” discovered in the workshop of the sculptor Thutmoses at Amarna and currently on display at the Neues Museum, Berlin. It is safe to say that the image of Nefertiti has come a long way. For a long time, the beauty of her images influenc...
Multi-light, single-camera imaging techniques like Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI, including PTM, HSH, and PCA-RBF) and the Portable Light Dome (PLD) have been used by cultural heritage scholars and collection curators extensively because of the extra interactive visual information that can be revealed on artefacts when compared to standar...
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Hiëratische inscripties op verwensingsbeeldjes (late Middenrijk) van de Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis in Brussel zijn amper leesbaar. Voor hun ontcijfering zet ten egyptologen innovat ieve beeldvormingstechnieken van de KU Leuven in.
The Egyptian collection of the RMAH comprises about one hundred figurines made of unbaked clay, bearing curses written in hieratic script. They represent captured enemies and were buried ritually in order to symbolically neutralise foreign and domestic enemies and general threats. The red and black pigments used to inscribe these four millennia old...
A collection of Prime Cultural Heritage artefacts consisting of Egyptian late Middle Kingdom figurines (c. 1850–1700 BCE), made of unfired clay and covered in inscriptions, is kept at the Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH) in Brussels, Belgium. Several of these hieratic inscriptions curse enemies of the Egyptian state, including Canaanite, Nub...
Single-Camera Multi-Light scanning methods like Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and Portable Light Dome (PLD) are being widely used in the cultural heritage sector. Both technologies followed a long development track in collaboration with cultural heritage partners, resulting in matured technologies. In this short paper, we highlight recen...
In recent years more advanced imaging techniques have been introduced to study, document, curate and preserve our heritage. Pixel+ focuses on two of them: Reflectance Transformation Imaging/Polynomial Texture Mapping and the Portable Light Dome.
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The Egyptian collection of the RMAH comprises about one hundred execration figurines made of unbaked clay, bearing curses written in hieratic script (a cursive writing system related to hieroglyphs) and dating to the Middle Kingdom (c. 1850 BC). These represent captured (foreign) en...
The Egyptian Execration Statuettes (EES) project creates multispectral 3D images of a series of fragile Egyptian objects of the Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels) in order to avoid future handling and facilitate their detailed study. The texture/colour values on these 2D+ and 3D models are interactive data based on a recording process usin...
A multispectral, multidirectional, portable and dome-shaped acquisition system is developed within the framework of the research projects RICH (KU Leuven) and EES (RMAH, Brussels) in collaboration with the ESAT-VISICS research group (KU Leuven). The Multispectral Portable Light Dome (MS PLD) consists of a hemispherical structure, an overhead camera...
When heritage objects are being transformed into digital representations, the loss of information is inevitable. The challenge lies in developing integrated systems able to minimize this loss and bring together as many different kinds of recordable characteristics as possible of one and the same object. This contribution presents an approach that c...
Report of the Egyptian Execration Statuettes (EES) Project of the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels
The execration figurines at the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels were discovered in Saqqara in the 1920s. The collection comprises over a hundred figurines and three small rectangular coffins, all made of unfired clay and dating to the late Middle Kingdom. The figurines are covered with execration texts: hieratic inscriptions in red or...
A multispectral, multidirectional, portable and dome-shaped acquisition system is developed within the framework of the research projects RICH (KU Leuven) and EES (RMAH, Brussels) in collaboration with the ESAT-VISICS research group (KU Leuven). The Multispectral Portable Light Dome (MS PLD) consists of a hemispherical structure, an overhead camera...
Multispectral Imaging, photometric stereo, conservation, mobile documentation, non-invasive techniques, art-technical studies
The Dayr al-Barshā Project (KU Leuven, Belgium) revealed that the quarry area of Amarna is noticeably larger than was expected. One of the largest quarry sites of the Amarna period is located at Dayr Abū Ḥinnis, ca. 15 km north of Amarna. The main exploitation phase can be dated in the Amarna Period, while quarrying continued on a smaller scale in...
Although the study of stone quarries is gaining increasing importance in Egyptian archaeology, quarry
logistics, particularly as concerns transport facilities, has hitherto hardly been investigated. In the case of
the quarry roads in the greater Dayr al-Barsh�a region (Middle Egypt), distinguishing between roads
related to quarry exploitation from...
A building inscription in a limestone quarry at Dayr Abū Ḥinnis dated to Year 16 of Akhenaten proves that Akhenaten and Nefertiti were still the royal couple near the end of his reign. It is the highest known date of Queen Nefertiti and the latest dated inscription which can be certainly attributed to Akhenaten himself. The second part of the artic...
