International workshop: Textual Production and Textual Transmission in the Eighteenth-Dynasty Theban Necropolis

The decoration of the Theban tombs of the early and mid-Eighteenth-Dynasty elite bears witness to a strong social and intellectual rivalry between its members. This manifests in the interconnectedness of the decoration of their tombs and particularly in their textual program. The workshop on Textual Production and Textual Transmission in the Eighteenth-Dynasty Theban Necropolis seeks to explore how the inscriptions of these tombs were produced and transmitted. Since there is evidence that suggests that the inscriptional decoration of these monuments was—at least, in part—done by the same individuals as their figurative and ornamental decoration, the workshop brings together the expertise of philologists and art historians. With their joint efforts, it aims at arriving at a better understanding of the cultural processes that led to the intertextuality and intericonicity of the early- and mid-Eighteenth-Dynasty Theban tombs.