As one of the few fora where academic knowledge is mediated to the general public, museum exhibitions are often revealing windows into the contemporary stakes and concerns that underpin scholarship. The stunning exhibition on Elephantine currently hosted at the James-Simon-Galerie and the Neues Museum in Berlin is no exception. The visitor is expertly guided through a sumptuous display of objects discovered, beginning in the late nineteenth century, on the famous island lying in the middle of the Nile in Upper Egypt. ...But the review is not without its criticisms. Read on.
For more on the Elephantine exhibition at the Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, see here and here. Subsequent posts on the Elephantine papyri (etc.) are here, here, and here.
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