The gold appliqués from the tomb of Tutankhamun - Studies on the cultural communication between Egypt and the Ancient Near East.

该项目的目的是对公元前世纪图坦卡蒙墓中88件带有象征性装饰的金片贴花进行修复、考古、技术和考古测量调查以及比较图像学和艺术史研究。这项研究是考古学的一个重要问题，因为它是图坦卡蒙墓中唯一的一组物品，尚未得到令人满意的研究。由于金片上经常出现近东图案，该项目由DAI Kairo与图宾根大学近东考古学合作组织。这使得在公元前第二个千年埃及和近东之间的图案和文化交流的交流研究。由于大量必要的修复工作和材料科学分析的实用性，RGZM美因茨已被指定为第三个项目合作伙伴。该项目的重点是对这些物品进行图像和功能表征，并对黄金成分、金片背衬的类型和材料以及生产技术进行科学调查。就图像学而言，在金页上的描绘中可以观察到埃及和“国际”图案，有时彼此相连。不同的学者认为这表明这些物品属于近东、东地中海和埃及青铜时代晚期的所谓国际风格。在本项目中，将对这一假设进行重大修订。由于在该项目的第一阶段（2014-2016年）发现，存在的金片物体的数量远远超过预期，因此本申请要求将该项目延长一年，直至2017年12月。

The project aims at the restoration, the archaeological, technical and archaeometrical investigation and the comparative iconographic and art historical study of 88 gold sheet appliqués with figurative decoration from the tomb of Tutankhamun dating to the 14th century BC. This research is an important issue of Egyptology, because it is the only group of objects from Tutankhamuns tomb, which has not yet been studied in a satisfactory way. Because of the frequent presence of Near Eastern motifs on the gold sheets the project is organized by the DAI Kairo in collaboration with Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Tübingen. This enables a study of the exchange of motifs and cultural communication between Egypt and the Near East in the second millennium BC. Due to the high amount of necessary restoration work and the utility of scientific analysis of the material, the RGZM Mainz has been appointed as third project partner. The focus of the project is directed towards an iconographic and functional characterization of the objects and the scientific investigation of gold composition, of the type and material of the backings of the gold sheets and the production techniques. With regard to iconography, both Egyptian and 'international' motifs, sometimes connected to each other, can be observed in the depictions on the gold sheets. This has been regarded by different scholars as an indication that these objects belong the the so-called International Style of the Late Bronze Age in the Near East, the Eastern Mediterranean and Egypt. This assumption will be critically revised in this project. As it was detected during the first phase of the project (2014-2016) that far more pieces of golds sheet objects are present than expected, an extension of the project for one year, until December 2017, is sought for in this application.