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A Few Words of Introduction
Young Egyptologists from Central Europe met in Warsaw for the second time in 2001. The
list of participants shows that the notion of the “Centre” is progressively widening westwards. If
we had a scholar from Holland among our distinguished guests this year, it is not because
“Bolandi” and “Holandi” are almost the same, at least phonetically, from a modem Egyptian
perspective, and the two words would possibly have been subject to graphic jokes of ancient
Egyptian scribes, if they could live in our times. We would like to welcome colleagues from all
over the world, including the more and more numerous students of Egyptology in the east,
those in the south who are naturally closer to Mediterranean civilisations, not to forget the
north, with an already glorious tradition in this field as well.
Our second meeting coincided with an anniversary that is particularly full of meaning to
Polish Egyptologists. A hundred years ago, on December 14th 1901, Professor Kazimierz
MICHALOWSKI, the creator of the Polish Center for Mediterranean Archaeology of the War-
saw University in Cairo, was bom. He passed away twenty years ago, in 1981. But his birthday is
definitely the more important of the two dates, because the work of the late Professor is not only
being continued, but also enlarged. The number of his scholarly “grandchildren”, among whom
are the organisers of this very Symposium, proves that MICHALOWSKI’s Ka does not sleep,
and that we, ourselves, being his “children”, may optimistically look to the future, far beyond
the “mirror of Hathor” that our Master had the honour to receive posthumously from the Egyp-
tian Government during the 8th International Congress of Egyptologists in Cairo in 2000.
We do not stop thinking about future “centrifugal” Egyptological meetings in Central Europe.
Karol Mysliwiec
Young Egyptologists from Central Europe met in Warsaw for the second time in 2001. The
list of participants shows that the notion of the “Centre” is progressively widening westwards. If
we had a scholar from Holland among our distinguished guests this year, it is not because
“Bolandi” and “Holandi” are almost the same, at least phonetically, from a modem Egyptian
perspective, and the two words would possibly have been subject to graphic jokes of ancient
Egyptian scribes, if they could live in our times. We would like to welcome colleagues from all
over the world, including the more and more numerous students of Egyptology in the east,
those in the south who are naturally closer to Mediterranean civilisations, not to forget the
north, with an already glorious tradition in this field as well.
Our second meeting coincided with an anniversary that is particularly full of meaning to
Polish Egyptologists. A hundred years ago, on December 14th 1901, Professor Kazimierz
MICHALOWSKI, the creator of the Polish Center for Mediterranean Archaeology of the War-
saw University in Cairo, was bom. He passed away twenty years ago, in 1981. But his birthday is
definitely the more important of the two dates, because the work of the late Professor is not only
being continued, but also enlarged. The number of his scholarly “grandchildren”, among whom
are the organisers of this very Symposium, proves that MICHALOWSKI’s Ka does not sleep,
and that we, ourselves, being his “children”, may optimistically look to the future, far beyond
the “mirror of Hathor” that our Master had the honour to receive posthumously from the Egyp-
tian Government during the 8th International Congress of Egyptologists in Cairo in 2000.
We do not stop thinking about future “centrifugal” Egyptological meetings in Central Europe.
Karol Mysliwiec