Catharina Blankenberg-van Delden (

Dutch East Indies The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...

, 23 March 1906 –

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, 1994) was a Dutch

Egyptologist Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious ...

Life and work

Catharina van Delden grew up in the Dutch East Indies; prior to the Japanese occupation during World War II she lived in

Yogyakarta Yogyakarta (; jv, ꦔꦪꦺꦴꦒꦾꦏꦂꦠ ; pey, Jogjakarta) is the capital city of Special Region of Yogyakarta in Indonesia, in the south-central part of the island of Java. As the only Indonesian royal city still ruled by a monarchy, ...

. In 1946 or 1947 she married Johan Willem Blankenberg (born 26 July 1907 in

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). In July 1947 she was repatriated from

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to the Netherlands on M.S. "Kota Baroe". Her husband was killed on 14 November 1949 in

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(

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) during an attack on his place of work. Blankenberg-Van Delden read Egyptology at

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with Adolf Klasens starting from 1963. In 1969 she published her groundbreaking study into the

commemorative scarabs of Amenhotep III During the reign of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III hundreds of so-called memorial scarabs were issued to commemorate the deeds of the pharaoh. Such scarabs were found in several archaeological sites of the Near East, from Syria to Suda ...

.Although Klasens reportedly urged her to pursue the subject, the publication was dedicated to the memory of Jozef M.A. Janssen, who suggested this investigation. The catalogue includes all copies known at the time, including photographs or line drawings, plus transcription and translation of the texts on the scarabs. Blankenberg-Van Delden's designation of commemorative scarabs has become standard in Egyptology: category (indicated by a letter) and a sequence number, allowing for continuous numbering of newly found scarabs. The categories are, based on the text inscribed on the "belly" of the scarab: :A. ''‘Marriage’ Scarabs'' (text about Queen

Tiye Tiye (c. 1398 BC – 1338 BC, also spelled Tye, Taia, Tiy and Tiyi) was the daughter of Yuya and Thuya. She became the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III. She was the mother of Akhenaten and grandmother of Tutankhamun. I ...

and her parents) :B. ''Wild Bull-Hunt Scarabs'' (account of a royal hunt, regnal year 2) :C. ''Lion-Hunt Scarabs'' (account of several royal hunts, regnal years 1-10) :D. ''Gilukhepa Scarabs'' (arrival of

Mitanni Mitanni (; Hittite cuneiform ; ''Mittani'' '), c. 1550–1260 BC, earlier called Ḫabigalbat in old Babylonian texts, c. 1600 BC; Hanigalbat or Hani-Rabbat (''Hanikalbat'', ''Khanigalbat'', cuneiform ') in Assyrian records, or ''Naharin'' in ...

princess

Gilukhipa Gilukhipa, or more probable ''Kilu-Hepa'' in Hurrian language, in the Egyptian language ''Kirgipa'' (fl. early 14th c. BCE), was the daughter of Shuttarna II, king of Mitanni. She was the sister of Tushratta (later King of Mitanni), Biria-Waza a ...

, regnal year 10) :E. ''Lake Scarabs'' (construction of an artificial lake for Queen Tiye, regnal year 11) :F. ''Forgeries'' :LS ''Lost Scarabs'' (scarabs that have been documented, but are now lost) In 1976 and 1977 Blankenberg-Van Delden published additional scarabs; she transferred her materials gathered thereafter to R.J. Demarée who published them in 2011.

Publications

* ‘Gedenkscarabeeën van Amenhotep III in het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden’. ''Oudheidkundige mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden'' 42 (1961), 7–12.
''The large commemorative scarabs of Amenhotep III''
Documenta et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui, Vol. 15. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1969. . * ‘De grote gedenkscarabeeën van Amenhotep III -1-’. ''De Ibis: ude serie' 1 (4) (1970), 77–81. * ‘De grote gedenkscarabeeën van Amenhotep III -2-’. ''De Ibis: ude serie' 1 (5) (1970), 109–114. * ‘De grote gedenkscarabeeën van Amenhotep III -3-’. ''De Ibis: ude serie' 1 (6) (1970), 124–127. * ‘More large commemorative scarabs of Amenophis III’. ''

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'' 62 (1976), 74–80, pls. XII-XIII. * ‘Once again some more commemorative scarabs of Amenophis III’. ''JEA'' 63 (1977), 83–87, pls. XIII-XIV. * ‘Ahmes Merytamon and Ahhotep I, consort of Senakhtenre Tao I?’ '' GM'' 47 (1981), 15–19. * ‘Additional remarks on Queen Ahhotep, consort of Senakhtenre Tao I?’ ''GM'' 49 (1981), 17–18. * ‘Some observations on Amarna themes’. ''Oudheidkundige mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden'' 62 (1981), 1–6. * ‘A genealogical reconstruction of the kings and queens of the late 17th and early 18th dynasties’. ''GM'' 54 (1982), 31–45. * ‘Kamosis’. ''GM'' 60 (1982), 7–8. * ‘Queen Ahmes Merytamon’. ''GM'' 61 (1983), 13–16. * ‘Ahmes Satamon’. ''GM'' 68 (1983), 37–41. * ‘Ahmes Satamon once again’. ''JEA'' 72 (1986), 192–193. * , ‘The Commemorative Scarabs of Amenophis III: An Update’, ''Jaarbericht Ex Oriente Lux'' 43 (2011), 25–34.

Sources

* ‘Blankenberg-van Delden, Catharina (1906-1994)’. In: (ed.), ''Who Was Who in Egyptology'' (5th Revised Edition). London:

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, 2019; p. 55. * , ‘De geschiedenis van de egyptologie aan Nederlandse universiteiten’. In: , (red.), ''Waar de geschiedenis begon''. Leiden: NINO, 2014; p. 57. * , ‘Chapter 5 - The Netherlands’. In: , , (eds.), ''A History of World Egyptology''. Cambridge University Press, 2021; p. 148.

References

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