The 16th Saqqara Newsletter (2018) is printed and sent to all our Friends! Did you donate to the Friends of Saqqara foundation in 2018? Then you will find the Newsletter in your mailbox within a few days.
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Annual Saqqara Pubquiz 2018
Winner of the Dutch “Enige Echte Egypte Pubquiz 2018” is team *Ramses shabti* (Nico Staring, Huw Twinston-Davies, Paul van Pelt, Jurgen van Oostenrijk and Tessa de Roo).
Congratulations!! It was a close call, between the first four teams there is only one point difference each.
Photographs of the evening will be put online tomorrow!
| Plaatsing | Teamnaam | Score |
| 1 | Ramses shabti | 76 |
| 2 | Hnqt irp | 75 |
| 3 | Fenedj Heb | 74 |
| 4 | Per-Pesdjeti | 73 |
| 5 | RA-vage | 68 |
| 6 | Ichemw-sk | 63 |
| 7 | Incognito | 61 |
| 8 | Nfr-Hr | 55 |
| 9 | Team Regret | 54 |
| 10 | Chaos | 49 |
| 11 | Malesh | 48 |
| 12 | Kemet | 39 |
| 13 | Haagse Hry | 38 |
| 14 | Arnold’s Angels | 28 |
| 15 | Gelderse Glorie | 24 |
| 16 | Peter | 8 |
Wednesday evening 14 November 2018: lustrum edition of the “Enige Echte Egypte Pubquiz”, organized by Friends of Saqqara at the National Museum of Antiquities, as part of their 200th anniversary celebrations.
Who will win the coveted title ‘best Ancient Egypt connoisseur in the Low Countries’? Our pub quiz will test the contestants’ knowledge of Ancient Egypt through questions on art, history, archaeology, religion, literature and language – but also on famous museum objects, Egyptomania and the Saqqara necropolis. New this year: a crowd source round, with questions sent in by our public.
A pub quiz is not a pub quiz without drinks and nibbles. The museum’s Taffeh Hall is our pub for the evening, with consumptions available from the bar.
The scholarly soundness of the questions and answers is ensured by our expert jury. At the end of the evening, they will decide who wins the title and the honour. The three best teams, as well as the team to come in last, will receive prizes.
Quiz questions wanted!
New in our Egypt Pubquiz is the crowd source round. Have you got a clever Egypt pub quiz question that only you know the answer to? Mail your question to friends@saqqara.nl ! When the Quizmaster comes to your question, you will have an immediate advantage over your competitors.
What to submit?
· A multiple choice question related to ancient Egypt (archaeology, monuments, texts etc.), to Egyptology, excavators, explorers, or to modern (popular) culture containing ancient Egyptian elements.
· A relevant illustration, or possibly a sound fragment (if you don’t have an original in your possession, a reference to an online image, video or sound fragment will do).
· The correct answer, and optionally one or more (misleading) incorrect answers.
The organizers of the Egypt Pubquiz reserve the right to rephrase questions and answers submitted and chosen for the quiz. We are very excited to learn which obscure trivia you can come up with!
Event details
Date: Wednesday 14 November 2018
Time: 19.00-22.00 hrs
Location: National Museum of Antiquities, Rapenburg 28, Leiden
Language: Dutch
Entrance fee: €10 p.p., including one drink
Registration: via friends@saqqara.nl
| 09:00-09.45u | Inschrijving en ontvangst met koffie/thee | |
| 09.45-10.00u | Opening 16e Saqqara-dag door de voorzitter van Friends of Saqqara | Vincent Oeters
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| 10.00-10.45u | The Saqqara Saite Tombs Project: Recent Discoveries (Engelstalig) | Ramadan Hussein |
| 10.45-11.15u | Pauze met koffie/thee | |
| 11.15-12.00u | Facebook voor het hiernamaals: Netwerken van elitegraven in het Oude Rijk | Nicky van de Beek |
| 12.00-14.00u | Lunchpauze (op eigen gelegenheid) | |
| 14.00-14.15u | Korte presentatie | Willem Hovestreydt |
| 14.15-14.30u | Opnieuw een kleine ibis-surpise | Rob Demarée |
| 14.30-14.45u | Een corpus van reliëfs uit Memphis: Nieuws uit het archief van Geoffrey T. Martin | Nico Staring |
| 14.45-15.15u | Pauze met koffie/thee | |
| 15.15-16.15u | Verslag van het opgravingsseizoen 2018 in Saqqara door de opgravingsleiders | Lara Weiss |
| 16.15-16.30u | Loterijtrekking | |
| 16.30-18.00u | Afsluitende borrel | |
| vanaf 18.00u | Diner in restaurant Verboden Toegang (optioneel) |
Donateurs gratis, studenten € 5, anderen € 10 entree (incl. koffie en thee, excl. lunch en diner).
Deelname aan het aansluitende diner in restaurant Verboden Toegang kost ca. € 25 à € 30 (à la carte).
Verdiep uw kennis van het oude Egypte, leer meer over de begraafplaats Saqqara, ontmoet de wetenschappers die er werkzaam zijn èn uw mede-geïnteresseerden, sla uw slag op de tweedehands boekenmarkt, doe mee met een spannende loterij en geniet samen met ons van een afsluitend diner. Mis het niet!
Aanmelden kan tot en met woensdag 13 juni.