Website owner's profile

Name

Kento Zenihiro

Address

Tokyo

Born in

1982

Academic background

M.A. in Archaeology (Waseda University) 

Academic achievements

Book

• Zenihiro, K. (2009). The Complete Funerary Cones. Self-published in English. ISBN: 9784896302462.

Papers

Sakamoto, T. and Zenihiro, K.

• (2018). Seitaro Okajima and Egyptology in Japan. Oriento, (61(2)), 163-173. (In Japanese with English summary).

Zenihiro, K.

• (2003). The short history of publications on Egyptology in Japan: -Before World War II-. The Journal of Egyptian Studies, 11, 65-68. (In Japanese)

• (2006). Descent in Deir el-Medina: -considered from the inherited names-. The Journal of Egyptian Studies, 14, 77-81.(In Japanese)

• (2007). On the New Kingdom Egyptian titles. Sokō, 25, 59-71. (In Japanese)

• (2008). A study for the social status of the New Kingdom Egypt. Shikan, 158, 138-139. (In Japanese)

• (2009). Functions of Funerary Cones Reconsidered. Oriento, 52-2, 108-124. (in Japanese with English summary)

• (2012). Macadam's collection in The Sudan Library. Newsletter (of The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities), 2012-2, 1-3.

• (2017). The career of Nakhtmin (TT 87) as revealed by his funerary cones. In Rosati, Gloria and Maria Cristina Guidotti (eds), Proceedings of the XI International Congress of Egyptologists, Florence Egyptian Museum, Florence, 23-30 August 2015, 686-692. Oxford: Archeopress. 

• (2022). Norman de Garis Davies’s Manuscripts about Funerary Cones in the Sudan Library. In N. Kawai and B. G. Davies (Eds.), The Star Who Appears in Thebes: Studies in Honour of Jiro Kondo. (Pp. 543-552). Wallasey: Abercromby Press.

• (2023). Funerary cones as tools for dating Theban tombs. In O. El-aguizy and B. Kasparian (eds), ICE XII: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists, 3rd-8th November 2019, Cairo, Egypt, 687-695. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale and Ministry of tourism and antiquities. 

Lectures

• 19th Nov. 2009. 'Funerary Cones and the New Kingdom Hierarchy' at Het Nederlands-Vlaams Instituut in Cairo.

• 5th Dec. 2009. The same topic as above at the Mummification Museum in Luxor.

Conference presentations

• 11th Oct. 2009. 'Functions of funerary cones reconsidered -from the chronological perspectives-' delivered at the 51st Annual Conference of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, Doshisha University, Kyoto.

• 7th Nov. 2010. 'The comparison of the social status using funerary cones' delivered at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, Kokushikan University, Tokyo.

• 4th Nov. 2011. 'Macadam's Collection in the Sudan Library' delivered at the Scholars' Colloquium 2011 held by The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

• 20th Nov. 2011. 'Macadam's Collection in the Sudan Library' poster session presented at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, the Notre Dame Seishin University, Okayama.

• 27th Oct. 2013. 'The relationship between funerary cones and stamped bricks' delivered at the 55th Annual Conference of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Kyoto.

• 29th Aug. 2015. 'The career of Nakhtmin (TT 87) as revealed by his funerary cones' delivered at the International Congress of Egyptologists XI, Florence, Italy.

• 14th Oct. 2018. 'Seitaro Okajima, the first Japanese Egyptologist' poster session presented at the 60th Annual Conference of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, Kyoto University, Kyoto. (with Tsubasa Sakamoto)

• 4th Nov. 2019. 'Funerary Cones as a Tool for Dating Theban Tombs' delivered at the Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo, Egypt.

Poster presentation

• Zenihiro, K., and Sakamoto, T. (2019, Nov.). Reassessing the Dawn of Egyptology in Japan. The Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo, Egypt.

• Zenihiro, K. (2023, Aug.). Delineating Stamped Bricks and Funerary Cones. The Thirteenth International Congress of Egyptologists, Leiden, Netherlands.

Archaeological field work

• Aug. - Sep. 2006. Fifteenth Season of the Excavation for the Abusir-Saqqara Project, Egypt (Waseda University)

• Dec. 2006 - Jan 2007. Digital archive project at the tomb of Amenhotep III (KV22) (Waseda University)

Researches in the Museums and institutions

• Sep. 2007 The British Museum, London.

• Sep. 2007 The Griffith Institute, Oxford.

• Oct. 2007 The Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan, Tokyo.

• Dec. 2008 Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin.

• Dec. 2008 Göttingen University, Göttingen.

• Jan. 2009 Ancient Egyptian Museum, Tokyo.

• Apr. 2010 Hikaru Memorial Museum, Takayama.

• Sep. 2010 INAX TILE MUSEUM, Tokoname.

• Nov. 2010 The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Cairo.

• Apr.-May 2011 Sudan Library, Khartoum.

• Nov. 2011 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

• Nov. 2012 University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia.

• Nov. 2012 Brooklyn Museum, New York.

• Apr.-May 2015 The Griffith Institute, Oxford.

• Aug. 2022 Museum August Kestner, Hannover.

Awards

• Nov. 2011 Steven J. Larkman Travel Award, granted by the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities (SSEA). 

Others

[Book review]

• Zenihiro, K. (2017). "Rev. of Dra' Abu el-Naga I. Eindrücke, by Kruck, E.," Orient, (52), 61-65. 

[Magazine article]

• Nov. 2010 The Great Sphinx and the Last Samurai, Luxor Times, vol. 6.

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