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Katja Lembke
Katja Lembke (born 1965) is a German classical archaeologist and Egyptologist and director of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover. Career Katja Lembke studied Classical Archeology, Egyptology and Latin from 1984 to 1992 at the Leibniz College (Studium generale) at the University of Tübingen, at the University of Munich, the Universities of La Sapienza and Gregoriana in Rome, and at the University of Heidelberg. In 1992, she received her doctorate in Heidelberg with Tonio Hölscher with the dissertation Das Iseum Campense in Rome. In 1992/93, she received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute. From 1994 to 1996, Lembke worked as an assistant at the Egyptian Museum Berlin. Then she headed a project to document the grave of Siamun in the Siwa oasis until 2000, followed by the research project "The sculptures from the spring shrine of Amrit / Western Syria" until 2003. In 2002, she also started coordinating the sub-project “Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Katja is a feminine given name. In Germany, the Netherlands, Flanders, and Scandinavia, it is a pet form of Katherine. Katja may refer to: Music *Katja Andy (1906–2013), German-American pianist * Katja Ebstein (born 1945), German singer *Katja Glieson, Australian recording artist * Katja Schuurman (born 1975), Dutch actress, singer and television personality Modelling * Katja Shchekina (born 1986), Russian supermodel Politics * Katja Adler (born 1974), German politician * Katja Boh (1929–2008), Slovenian sociologist, diplomat, politician * Katja Kipping (born 1978), German politician, chairwoman of the Left Party * Katja Husen (1976–2022), German politician * Katja Suding (born 1975), German politician Sports *Katja Demut (born 1983), German triple jumper * Katja Dieckow (born 1984), German diver *Katja Ebbinghaus (born 1948), German tennis player *Katja Gerber (born 1975), German judoka * Katja Haller (born 1981), Italian professional biathlete *Katja Keller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Saxony State Museum
The Lower Saxon State Museum Hanover (german: Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover, italics=unset, or simply ) is the state museum of Lower Saxony in Hanover, Germany. Situated adjacent to the New Town Hall, the museum comprises the state gallery (), featuring paintings and sculptures from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, and departments of archaeology, natural history and ethnology. The museum includes a vivarium with fish, amphibians, reptiles and arthropods. History Originally the Museum of Art and Science () inaugurated in 1856 in the presence of George V of Hanover based in the present-day Hanover Arthouse (), it was later renamed Museum of the Province of Hanover, or simply Provincial Museum. The museum soon ran out of space for its art collections, prompting the construction of the current building, designed by Hubert Stier in a Neo-Renaissance style, on the edge of the Maschpark in 1902. The building's relief frieze, titled "Key Moments in the Evolution of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany after Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen. Hanover's urban area comprises the towns of Garbsen, Langenhagen and Laatzen and has a population of about 791,000 (2018). The Hanover Region has approximately 1.16 million inhabitants (2019). The city lies at the confluence of the River Leine and its tributary the Ihme, in the south of the North German Plain, and is the largest city in the Hannover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region. It is the fifth-largest city in the Low German dialect area after Hamburg, Dortmund, Essen and Bremen. Before it became the capital of Lower Saxony in 1946, Hannover was the capital of the Principality of Calenberg (1636–1692), the Electorate of Hanover (1692–1814), the Kingdom of Hannover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonio Hölscher
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Tonio may refer to: * ''Tonio'' (film), a 2016 Dutch film *Tonio (software), a Vocaloid vocal *Tonio Kröger, a novella by Thomas Mann * ''Tonio Kröger'' (film), a film based on the novella *Tonio (app), an audio-decoding-app * Tonio (name), persons with this given name or nickname *Tonio Trussardi, a character in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Diamond is Unbreakable by Hirohiko Araki See also *Antonio Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siwa Oasis
The Siwa Oasis ( ar, واحة سيوة, ''Wāḥat Sīwah,'' ) is an urban oasis in Egypt; between the Qattara Depression and the Great Sand Sea in the Western Desert (Egypt), Western Desert, 50 km (30 mi) east of the Libyan Egypt–Libya border, border, and 560 km (348 mi) from the capital. Its fame primarily from its ancient role as the home to an oracle of Ammon, the ruins of which are a popular tourist attraction which gave the oasis its ancient name Oasis of Amun Ra, a List of Egyptian deities#Amun, major Egyptian deity. Geography The Siwa oasis is in a deep Depression (geology), depression that reaches below sea level, to about . To the west the Jaghbub, Libya, Jaghbub oasis rests in a similar depression and to the east , the large Qattara Depression is also below sea level. Name The Ancient Egyptian name of the oasis was ''sḫt jꜣmw'', meaning "Field of Trees". The native Libyan toponym may be preserved in the Egyptian ''t̠ꜣ(j) n d̠rw “tꜣ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Favissa
A ''favissa'' is a cultic storage place, usually a pit or an underground cellar, for sacred utensils and votive objects no longer in use. ''Favissae'' were located within the sacred temple precincts of the various ancient Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean civilizations. Archaeologists have found such pits in Ancient Egypt, the Culture of ancient Rome, Roman world and in the Phoenicia, Phoenician and Punic people, Punic world. Etymology The term is derived from the Etruscan language, Etruscan or related to the Latin ''fovea'' "pit". During the time of ancient Rome, the term ''favissa'' referred to a cylindrical underground storage space, specifically designed to house votive objects. These repositories were typically located outside the main sanctuary but within the sacred grounds known as ''temenos''. The Roman ''favissa'' served a similar purpose as the Treasury, Greek treasury, functioning as a dedicated space for storing valuable offerings and dedicatory items. Roman ''fav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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