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SUMMARY:Recent Work at Memphis and the Fayum: An Overview of Methodologies and Results
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a Zoom lecture by Raghda (Didi) El-Behaedi\, University of Chicago: \n“Recent Work at Memphis and the Fayum: An Overview of Methodologies and Results” \nSunday\, January 21\, 2024\, 3 PM Pacific Time \nZoom Lecture. This meeting will not be recorded. A registration link will be automatically sent to ARCE-NC members. Non-members may request a registration link by sending email with your name and email address to arcencZoom@gmail.com. Non-members\, please send any registration requests no later than Friday\, January 19. Registrations are limited to 100\, so the sooner you register\, the better. \nAbout the Lecture: \nThis lecture will present an overview of two cases studies\, Memphis and the Fayum\, to illustrate different methodologies of site exploration in Egypt. Memphis\, the first capital of unified Egypt and one of the ancient world’s most recognizable cities\, continues to be an enigma in the present day. Located at the confluence of Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt\, Memphis’ strategic placement evoked the symbolic and geographic union of a once fragmented country. Despite its profound historical significance over more than 3\,000 years\, very little is known about the city itself. This is especially true for the area of Kom el-Fakhry\, which houses the oldest in-situ remains found at Memphis so far. A preview of the results from the 2023 excavation season conducted at Kom el-Fakhry will be presented. \nThe Fayum\, a natural depression located 100 km southwest of Cairo\, is bounded by the Sahara Desert except for in the east\, where a branch of the Nile River once fed its massive freshwater lake\, Lake Moeris. For thousands of years\, anthropic activity in the form of settlements\, religious centers\, harbors\, and quarry sites continued in the Fayum\, along the very shores of Lake Moeris. However\, starting in the Holocene epoch\, changing environmental and climatic conditions caused fluctuations of floodwaters from the Nile\, which in turn caused drastic instabilities in the lake’s water level. The present work attempts to understand how the ancient Egyptians adapted to the shrinking lake from the Neolithic to Ptolemaic period\, using cutting-edge satellite remote sensing\, GIS\, and geophysical techniques. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDidi El-Behaedi is an Egyptian Archaeology PhD candidate at the University of Chicago and a National Geographic Explorer. Her research interests include understanding ancient Egyptian settlement patterns and ancient landscapes through the lens of remote sensing\, GIS\, and 3D modeling. Didi is the co-director of the Memphis-Kom el-Fakhry Archaeological Project (MKAP) and has conducted archaeological fieldwork at several other sites in Egypt\, including Tell Edfu\, Deir el-Bahri\, Asasif\, and Hermopolis. She has also previously served as a research consultant at NASA Langley Research Center and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, http://www.arce-nc.org\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/recent-work-at-memphis-and-the-fayum-an-overview-of-methodologies-and-results/
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SUMMARY:Contexts and Circumstances in Designing the Divine in Ancient Egypt
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Jennifer Miyuki Babcock\, Pratt Institute: \n“Contexts and Circumstances in Designing the Divine in Ancient Egypt” \nSunday\, December 10\, 2023\, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time\nRoom 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\, UC Berkeley \nThis lecture will be recorded. \nAbout the Lecture: \nHow do we decide what a god looks like? Some ancient Egyptian texts describe the gods generally\, and others are more precise. Yet a divinity’s true\, underlying form is unknown. Nonetheless\, depictions of deities on monumental and small-scale artworks are seen throughout ancient Egyptian history. \nIn this talk\, we will look at some basic\, common forms that ancient Egyptian gods adopt\, and uncover the reasons behind these design choices. We will not only consider how the images illustrate a god’s specific divine power\, but also how their representation may be determined by the context and placement of the god’s image. \nAbout the Lecturer: \nDr. Jennifer Miyuki Babcock is Assistant Professor and Coordinator for the History of Art and Design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture\, Education\, and Human Development\, and at the Fashion Institute of Technology\, SUNY. Before teaching\, Dr. Babcock was a Postdoctoral Curatorial Associate at The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU\, and has held research and fellowship positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston\, and the Brooklyn Museum. She earned her Ph.D. at the Institute of Fine Arts\, NYU. \nAmong Dr. Babock’s extensive list of publications is the book Animal Fables in Ancient Egypt: Tree Climbing Hippos and Ennobled Mice (Brill 2022)\, which examines how drawings of anthropomorphized animals are linked to oral folklore and the religious environment of New Kingdom Thebes.  Her interests include the cross-cultural and temporal transmission of artistic iconography in the ancient world\, and studying cultural parallels between ancient and modern and contemporary lives. \n————— \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://arce-nc.org\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or http://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up. See less
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LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building\, University of California\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Qeheq Papyrus: A Bridge Between Egyptology and Berberology
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Jason Silvestri\, UC Berkeley: \n“The Qeheq Papyrus: A Bridge Between Egyptology and Berberology” \nSunday\, November 5\, 2023\, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time\nNote: Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 AM\nRoom 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nAbout the Lecture: \nAmong the ancient documents in the collection of the Museo Egizio in Turin\, there is a papyrus\, thought to be from Deir el-Medina\, which records a set of magical spells for the protection against snakes written in an Egyptian script but in the hitherto unidentified language of the Qeheq people. The Qeheq are an infrequently attested North African ethnic group of the late 2nd millennium BCE\, often associated with other\, more well-known ancient “Libyan” groups like the Libu and the Meshwesh. The language recorded on the papyrus exhibits strong similarities to proto-Berber as reconstructed by linguists using data from the modern Amazigh (or Berber) languages\, indigenous to North Africa and still spoken today by an estimated 30-to-40 million people from the Atlantic in the west to the Siwa Oasis in Egypt in the east\, from the Mediterranean in the north to the Niger River in the south. As the papyrus records what is likely to be the earliest textually-attested Amazigh language\, and does so using the Egyptian hieratic script\, it stands as a unique document\, serving as a bridge between two related but often separated academic fields–Egyptology and Berberology/Amazigh Studies. When held in light of other Egyptian textual and onomastic material attesting so-called “Libyan” groups from the 1st millennium BCE\, the language of the Qeheq can contribute toward a clearer understanding of the geographic and temporal extent of ancient Amazigh languages and their speakers’ interactions with neighboring cultural groups\, like the Egyptians. \nAbout the Lecturer: \nJason Silvestri is a PhD candidate in the field of Egyptian Archaeology in the department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. His dissertation research focuses on the social and administrative history of the Libyan Period in Egypt (Dynasties 21 through 24) and examines numerous social phenomena that are particularly emblematic of that period\, such as the formation and use of diaspora identities and ethnic code-switching\, political identity formation\, factional conflict\, regional identity politicization\, personal piety\, and archaism. Through his interest in Ancient Libyan cultural and linguistic identities\, Jason began studying the modern Amazigh (or Berber) languages\, the indigenous languages of North Africa\, west of the Nile. He founded and coordinated an online language education program through the Center for Language and Culture in Marrakesh\, Morocco\, which operated for several semesters from 2020 through 2022 dedicated to the teaching of Tashelhiyt\, an Amazigh language spoken in Southern Morocco. In addition to his philological work on Egyptian and Amazigh material\, Jason also is a trained archaeologist and has worked on several projects across the Mediterranean\, including in Egypt\, Greece\, and Italy; he is currently starting a project that aims to address a large and mostly unpublished corpus of Third Intermediate Period and Saite Period Egyptian objects excavated from Iron Age indigenous contexts in Southern Italy. \n————————— \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://arce-nc.org\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or http://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-qeheq-papyrus-a-bridge-between-egyptology-and-berberology/
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SUMMARY:Preparing for Eternity: Funerary Models & Wall Scenes from the Old and Middle Kingdoms
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Georgia Barker\, Macquarie University/CSU San Bernardino: \nPreparing for Eternity: Funerary Models & Wall Scenes from the Old and Middle Kingdoms \nSunday\, September 10\, 2023\, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time\nRoom 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nAbout the Lecture: \nDuring the late Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom\, there were two principal types of artistic representation in the ancient Egyptian elite tomb: funerary models and wall scenes. The two media exhibit several similarities in design\, with both depicting people and animals engaged in activities of everyday life. This has caused scholars to regularly label funerary models duplicates or substitutes of wall scenes\, implying that they served the same purpose in the tomb. However\, there are several notable differences yet to be acknowledged. This lecture presents the results of a detailed comparative analysis of the two artistic media\, focusing on representations from the sites of Meir\, Deir el-Bersha and Beni Hassan in Middle Egypt. It will highlight the distinguishing characteristics of each medium and propose that funerary models should be understood as a distinct type of representation that was specifically conceived to provision the deceased for eternity. \nAbout the Lecturer: \nDr. Georgia Barker is the W. Benson Harer Egyptology Scholar in Residence at California State University\, San Bernardino\, for Fall 2023. Before joining CSUSB\, she completed a Doctor of Philosophy and a postdoctoral research fellowship at Macquarie University in Sydney\, Australia. Her research investigates the purpose and historical significance of funerary art from the Old and Middle Kingdom periods. She has worked extensively with museum collections\, including the Macquarie University History Museum and Sydney Living Museums in Australia as well as being a member of the British Museum’s Circulating Artefacts Project and an intern at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is also a member of the Australian Centre for Egyptology’s expeditions at Meir and Beni Hassan. \n————– \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://arce-nc.org/\, https://www.youtube.com/channel/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/preparing-for-eternity-funerary-models-wall-scenes-from-the-old-and-middle-kingdoms/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building\, University of California\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ancient Egypt Pottery Practicum
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a workshop presented by Dr. Carol Redmount\, UC Berkeley: \nAncient Egypt Pottery Practicum\nSunday\, August 13\, 2023\, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time\nBaer-Keller Library\, Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nLimited attendance (20); send registration requests ONLY to arcencZoom@gmail.com. This is an in-person event; it will neither be Zoomed nor recorded. \nAbout the Practicum:\nEver wonder why and how an archaeologist deals with ancient pottery? In this hands-on practicum we will look at these questions and review some of the issues relating to the basic study of ancient Egyptian pottery. \nAbout the Archaeologist:\nDr. Carol Redmount is a field archaeologist who teaches Egyptian archaeology at UC Berkeley. She has been excavating in Egypt for many years and also has archaeological experience in Tunisia\, Cyprus\, Jordan\, Israel\, and the U.S. \n—————–\nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ \nAbout ARCE-NC:\nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/ancient-egypt-pottery-practicum/
LOCATION:Baer-Keller Library\, Social Sciences Bldg. UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:New Perspectives on the African Empire of Kush: Excavation at Jebel Barkal
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Geoff Emberling\, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, Univ. of Michigan: \n“New Perspectives on the African Empire of Kush: Excavation at Jebel Barkal” \nSunday\, May 7\, 2023\, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time\nRoom 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nAbout the Lecture: \nKush was the dominant political power in the Middle Nile region of northern Sudan for over 2000 years (ca. 2000 BCE – 300 CE). Our understanding of this extensive ancient empire has long been constrained by the long legacy of focus on monumental remains (palaces\, temples\, pyramids) at the expense of investigation of settlements that would broaden our understanding of Kushite economy and social identities. \nA joint project of the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums of Sudan and the University of Michigan has begun work on a newly discovered area of settlement at Jebel Barkal (ancient Napata)\, one of the major cities of Kush (and a UNESCO World Heritage site). This talk will present the results of our first seasons of work on Meroitic levels of settlement at the site\, contemporary with the Roman occupation of Egypt (1st century BCE – 1st century CE). \nAbout the Lecturer: \nDr. Geoff Emberling is an archaeologist and museum curator who has worked extensively on ancient cultures of North Africa and the Middle East. His research has focused on identities\, urbanism and empires in Mesopotamia and in Nubia. He has directed projects in northern Sudan over the past 15 years and his team is just beginning its work at Jebel Barkal\, the “pure mountain” of the ancient Egyptians and capital city of ancient Kush. \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/new-perspectives-on-the-african-empire-of-kush-excavation-at-jebel-barkal/
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SUMMARY:The Hidden Treasures of Elephantine Island
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Prof. Dr. Verena Lepper\, National Museums\, Berlin: \n“The Hidden Treasures of Elephantine Island” \nSunday\, April 16\, 2023\, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time \nRoom 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nAbout the Lecture: \nElephantine was a militarily and strategically very important island on the river Nile at the southern border of Egypt. No other settlement in Egypt is so well attested through texts over such a long period of time\, 4000 years. Its inhabitants form a multi-ethnic\, multicultural and multi-religious community that left us vast amounts of written sources detailing their everyday lives from the Old Kingdom to beyond the Arab Conquest. Today\, several thousand papyri and other manuscripts from Elephantine are scattered in more than 60 institutions in 24 different countries across Europe and beyond. Their texts are written in ten different languages and scripts\, including Hieroglyphs\, Hieratic\, Demotic\, Aramaic\, Greek\, Coptic and Arabic. 80% of these manuscripts were unpublished or unstudied before. \nThus\, access was gained to these texts\, making them publicly available in an open access online research database. Links could be identified between papyrus fragments from different collections\, and an international ‘papyrus puzzle’ undertaken\, incorporating cutting-edge methods from digital humanities\, physics and mathematics (e.g. for the virtual unfolding of papyri). For the first time in the history of papyrology\, papyrus packages can now be read virtually\, without physically opening them. Using this database with medical\, religious\, legal\, administrative\, even literary texts\, the everyday life of the local and global (i.e. ‘glocal’) community of Elephantine can be studied. Elephantine can thus be used as a case study and a model for the past\, present and future. \nAbout the Lecturer: \nProf. Dr. Verena Lepper is the Curator of the Egyptian and Oriental Papyrus Collection of the Egyptian Museum\, National Museums Berlin (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) and Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University Berlin. She is in charge of a collection with around 30\,000 objects in ten different languages and scripts and has managed several exhibition and research projects in Germany and abroad (Abu Dhabi\, Berlin\, Bonn\, Doha\, Harvard) with a team of employees.\nShe conducts research on topics such as Egyptian and Oriental papyri\, literary and cultural history\, and the history of science and art. To this end\, she has published numerous books and exhibition catalogues with international publishers.\nDr. Lepper studied Egyptology\, Semitic Philology\, Christian Orient Studies and Hebrew Bible at Bonn\, Cologne\, Tuebingen\, Oxford and Harvard University. She has received several awards for her scientific and curatorial work\, including the highly renowned ERC-Grant from the European Research Council for the project: “Elephantine”.\nTo promote Arab-German academic exchange\, she founded the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) in 2013. She is involved in numerous committees in the field of scientific and cultural policy and diplomacy. Visiting professorships and fellowships have also taken her to Harvard and Princeton University.\n——-\nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-hidden-treasures-of-elephantine-island/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building\, University of California\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Roman Egyptian Mummy Portraits and the Artistic Circle of the St. Louis Painter
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Branko van Oppen\, Tampa Museum of Art: \nRoman Egyptian Mummy Portraits and the Artistic Circle of the St. Louis Painter \nSunday\, March 12\, 2023\, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time\nRoom 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nDaylight Savings Time Begins March 12. \nAbout the Lecture: \nIn his publications Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum (1982)\, David L. Thompson attributed three Roman Egyptian funerary portraits to the same artist\, whom he named the St. Louis Painter on the basis of a portrait of an elderly woman in the St. Louis Art Museum (SLAM inv. no. 128:1951; Thompson 1982\, pp. 20–22\, figs. 35–37). Without further information\, Thompson acknowledged that “a number of other portraits are related to those by the St. Louis Painter and some to each other by these differences\,” and dated the activity of the artist’s workshop to around 300 CE. Before and since\, several other scholars have recognized the stylistic similarities between about a dozen funerary portraits from ancient Philadelphia (confusingly still called “Rubayat”) with estimated dates ranging between 165-350 CE. \nThis paper will re-examine the attribution of the portrait panels to the St. Louis Painter (also known as the Würzburg Painter)\, and suggest that some two dozen examples can be assigned to this anonymous painter\, workshop or circle. Stylistic elements by which these paintings can be grouped together include a distinctively graphic hatching style. The portraits generally lack a sense of depth and perspective\, though some foreshortening is often indicated on the left side of the face. The basic outline is usually drawn with a broader brush\, while the individual details are applied with a thinner brush. The outline tends to follow basic physiognomic proportions that are not only common with other Roman Egyptian portraits\, but with Roman portraits from contexts such as the wall paintings of Pompeii and Herculaneum. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter is the Richard E. Perry Curator of Greek & Roman Art at the Tampa Museum of Art. He received his PhD in ancient history from The City University of New York (’07)\, where he specialized in queenship during the period from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. Before coming to Tampa\, van Oppen worked for five years at the Allard Pierson Museum\, Amsterdam. His academic interests further include clay seal impressions\, animals in ancient material culture\, Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits\, as well as ancient religion and art history in general. \n———————- \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, https://khentiamentiu.org\, or https://arce-nc.org/. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/roman-egyptian-mummy-portraits-and-the-artistic-circle-of-the-st-louis-painter/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building\, University of California\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ramses II and the Hittite Empire: War & Peace in the Late Bronze Age
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Peter Brand\, University of Memphis: \nRamses II and the Hittite Empire: War & Peace in the Late Bronze Age \nSunday\, February 12\, 2023\, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time\nRoom 126 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nNo Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture. \nAbout the Lecture: \nRamesses II was both a great warrior and visionary statesman. For two decades\, he fought the mighty Hittite Empire for control of Syria including the famous Battle of Kadesh. His military campaigns were the culmination of over six decades of hostilities between these ancient superpowers. Yet Ramesses had the vision to make a lasting peace with Egypt’s bitter rival\, when he concluded a treaty in his twenty-first regnal year with his Hittite counterpart Hattusili III. A remarkable cache of diplomatic letters\, second only to the famous Amarna Letters\, offers a fascinating glimpse of the pharaoh’s boisterous and often tense diplomatic exchanges with Hattusili III and his formidable consort\, the Hititte Queen Puduhepa. Fifteen years later\, Ramesses negotiated with Puduhepa to marry a Hittite princess. His lively debates with the Hittite king and queen reveal a very different Ramesses II than the god-king and warrior pharaoh we see on his monuments. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Peter Brand is a Canadian Egyptologist from Toronto and a naturalized American citizen. He is a Professor of Ancient History in the Department of History at the University of Memphis. Since 2001 Dr. Brand has served as the Director of the Karnak Great Hypostyle Hall Project sponsored by the University of Memphis\, which aims to record and publish all the monumental inscriptions and reliefs from this huge building. \nDr. Brand studied at the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Memphis before completing his PhD in Ancient Egyptian Language and Literature at the University of Toronto in 1998. His dissertation\, The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic\, Historical and Art Historical Analysis\, was published by Brill in 2000. Dr. Brand’s area of focus in Egyptology is the history and culture of the New Kingdom\, particularly the late 18th Dynasty and the Ramesside Period. In his research and teaching he uses a multi-disciplinary approach that integrates history\, art history\, language and epigraphy.\n——— \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ \nAbout ARCE-NC:\nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, https://khentiamentiu.org\, or https://arce-nc.org/. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/ramses-ii-and-the-hittite-empire-war-peace-in-the-late-bronze-age/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures\, Room 126 Social Sciences Building\, Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg.\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:West Coast Tut Tour: An afternoon with Aidan Dodson in San Francisco\, Feb. 5\, de Young Museum
DESCRIPTION:To anyone in the SF Bay Area interested in Ancient Egypt\, \nI wanted to let you know about an exciting event that ARCE Northern California is hosting with the American Research Center in Egypt and the Ancient Art Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. On February 5 at 2pm\, the Tut Chapter Tour is coming to the de Young Museum\, and features a lecture by Dr. Aidan Dodson. For more information\, please go to https://www.arce.org/west-coast-tut-tour. Be advised that although the event is free\, registration is required. To go straight to registration\, click on this link: https://secure.everyaction.com/imoaeYmGY0WyV2Q0J-9qpQ2 . \nHashtags: #TutChapterTour #ARCE #AidanDodson #deYoung \nThere will be a discount on ARCE membership for people who sign up at the lecture. Hope you can join us! \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE Northern California Publicity Director
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/west-coast-tut-tour-an-afternoon-with-aidan-dodson-in-san-francisco-feb-5-de-young-museum/
LOCATION:de Young Museum\, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Gateway into the Desert: History\, Exploration\, and Cyclical Rediscovery of Wadi Tumilat
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Aleksandra Ksiezak\, University of Toronto\, CSU San Bernardino: \n“A Gateway into the Desert: History\, Exploration\, and Cyclical Rediscovery of Wadi Tumilat” \nSunday\, December 11\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time\nRoom 126 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nNo Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture. \nAbout the Lecture: \nOnce a distributary of the Nile\, Wadi Tumilat is a dry river valley in the Eastern Nile Delta. In antiquity\, the wadi was a major communication artery for trade between Egypt and her neighbours to the east\, and its importance was recognized by many great strategic minds of their day. Across Wadi Tumilat are numerous archaeological sites\, dating from the 3rd millennium BCE to the Late Roman Period. Accompanying them was a navigable canal—an impressive waterway that not only provided the arid valley with water but allowed transportation of goods and people in and out of Egypt. While the ancient canal and its surrounding ruins were a source of fascination for ancient geographers\, and historians\, and were recorded in their writings\, it took centuries for these antiquities to re-emerge in the letters\, reports\, and memoirs of early European travellers to Egypt. \nThis lecture aims to summarize the history of the discovery of Wadi Tumilat and our understanding of its place in Egyptian archaeology. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Aleksandra Ksiezak is a field archaeologist\, Egyptologist\, and ceramicist specializing in macro-and microscopic analyses of Egyptian and Nubian pottery. She obtained her Ph.D. in Egyptology at the University of Toronto (Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations) where she focused on the analysis of the ceramic material from the Second Intermediate Period Hyksos settlement at Tell el-Maskhuta excavated by the Wadi Tumilat Project (WTP) during the late 1970s/early 80s. She is currently involved in research on the identification and study of the Middle Bronze Age trade routes involving Wadi Tumilat through the identification of imported objects and their local imitations identified at Tell el-Maskhuta and the neighbouring sites. Both her past and present research deal with the broader question of migration and mobility in Egypt\, the Sinai Peninsula\, and the Levant during the Bronze Age. She currently holds the position of W. Benson Harer Egyptology Scholar in Residence at California State University\, San Bernardino. \n——————- \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://arce-nc.org/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/a-gateway-into-the-desert-history-exploration-and-cyclical-rediscovery-of-wadi-tumilat/
LOCATION:ARCE-NC Lectures\, Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg.\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Iron in the Sky: Words and Conceptions of Iron and Meteorites in Ancient Egypt
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro\, Brown University: \n“Iron in the Sky: Words and Conceptions of Iron and Meteorites in Ancient Egypt” \nSunday\, November 6\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time\nRoom 126 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nPlease note that no Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture. \nAbout the Lecture: \nThis lecture explores the cultural implications of an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic sign\, known as N41\, used in an apparently random constellation of words related to women\, water\, and metals. Based on a re-examination of the sign’s contexts of appearance in The Pyramid Texts and other religious sources\, it is determined that an ancient Egyptian cosmovision contemplated the sky as an iron container of water\, pieces of which fell to the earth in the shape of meteors and were used to produce ritual objects. The fact that the N41 sign’s iconicity encapsulated such complex interconnectedness suggests that the relation between birth\, afterlife\, and iron existed even before the earliest religious texts in Egypt. The knowledge of the extraterrestrial provenance of iron was lost at some point in modern times when meteorites were classified along with fossils as “thunderstones” as late as the 18th century. However\, the Egyptian knowledge\, consistent with contemporary science\, was most likely shared with other ancient civilizations that also connected iron and sky in texts. We will examine some examples of non-Egyptian iron-sky cultural parallels\, particularly from the Ancient Near East\, which can be explained as common analysis of natural observations\, rather than knowledge transmission. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro obtained her Ph.D. in Egyptology at Brown University in 2022. She is a Junior Research Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2022-2025) and specializes in the use of language and hieroglyphs’ iconicity to understand oral knowledge and ideology in Old Kingdom Egypt. Since 2019 she is a member of the AERA archaeological project in Giza\, and assistant director to the Royal Necropolis and Pyramids of Nuri Expedition since 2021. \n———— \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/About \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://arce-nc.org/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/iron-in-the-sky-words-and-conceptions-of-iron-and-meteorites-in-ancient-egypt/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures\, Room 126 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Funerary Papyri as Social Reflections of the Living and the Dead
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Marissa A. Stevens\, UCLA: \nFunerary Papyri as Social Reflections of the Living and the Dead \nSunday\, September 11\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time\nRoom 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nPlease note that no Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture. \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC Publicity Director \nAbout the Lecture: \nTwenty-first Dynasty funerary papyri – consisting of texts and images from the Book of the Dead\, the many Underworld Books\, and other cosmographic scenes – have always fascinated Egyptologists for what they reveal about Egyptian afterlife beliefs and their understanding and conceptualization of the underworld. But these documents are also social objects. The creation\, ownership\, and use of these papyri can shed much light about the deceased who reap the religious benefit of the texts and on the family of the deceased\, who also benefit from these objects in social and ideological ways. Studying these papyri as objects of social life\, we can learn about temple life\, titles and rank\, family structure\, inheritance\, and social status of the deceased and the families they left behind. Funerary papyri were therefore used as a form of social competition\, and reveal much about the mindset of the elite priests of 21st Dynasty Thebes. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Marissa Stevens is the Assistant Director of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World. Trained as an Egyptologist who studies the materiality\, social history\, and texts of the Third Intermediate Period and Late Period\, she completed her Ph.D. at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Combining art historical and linguistic approaches\, her research interests focus on how objects can solidify\, maintain\, and perpetuate social identity\, especially in times of crisis when more traditional means of self-identification are absent. \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://arce-nc.org/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up. \nParking for the event is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/funerary-papyri-as-social-reflections-of-the-living-and-the-dead/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building\, University of California\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Consumed in Raging Fire: Cremation Burial in Ptolemaic Alexandria
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a virtual lecture by Dr. Thomas Landvatter\, University of Michigan: \nConsumed in Raging Fire: Cremation Burial in Ptolemaic Alexandria \nSunday\, August 28\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time \nZoom Lecture. A registration link will be automatically sent to ARCE-NC members. Non-members may request a registration link by sending email with your name and email address to arcencZoom@gmail.com. Non-members\, please send any registration requests no later than Friday\, August 26. The number of registrations is limited\, so the sooner you register\, the better. \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC ePublicity \nAbout the Lecture: \nMummification is\, of course\, the burial practice most associated with ancient Egypt. It may come as a surprise\, then\, that for a period of time cremation – the very antithesis of mummification – is attested in Egypt. During the Ptolemaic period (305-30 BCE)\, when Egypt was ruled by a dynasty of Graeco-Maedonian origin\, it is clear that mummification remained the burial treatment of choice for many elite classes across Egypt. However\, a significant minority of burials in the capital of Alexandria and elsewhere were in fact cremations. In this talk\, I explore the cremation burials of Ptolemaic Alexandria\, who used cremation and why\, and what cremation reveals about the cultural and social environment of that city. I argue that these cremation burials and their meaning can only be understood in relation to Egyptian mummification and other cultural practices\, as well as the unique social and cultural environment of early Alexandria. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Tom Landvatter (PhD\, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology\, University of Michigan)\, is Associate Professor of Greek\, Latin\, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities at Reed College in Portland\, Oregon. His teaching and research interests center on the history and archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic period (323-30 BCE)\, in particular Cyprus and Ptolemaic Egypt. He has excavated in Egypt at both Mendes and\, especially\, Abydos\, which has been an ongoing focus of his research and publications. Currently he co-directs an excavation at the Hellenistic fortification of Vigla\, near Larnaca\, Cyprus. \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://arce-nc.org/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/consumed-in-raging-fire-cremation-burial-in-ptolemaic-alexandria/
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SUMMARY:ARCE-NC Lecture May 1 by Aidan Dodson: The Resurrection of the First Pharaohs
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a virtual lecture by Dr. Aidan Dodson\, University of Bristol: \nThe Resurrection of the First Pharaohs \nSunday\, May 1\, 2022\, 2 PM Pacific Time (note the earlier time) \nZoom Lecture. A registration link will be automatically sent to ARCE-NC members. Non-members may request a registration link by sending email with your name and email address to arcencZoom@gmail.com. Non-members\, please send any registration requests no later than Friday\, April 29. The number of registrations is limited\, so the sooner you register\, the better. \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC ePublicity \nAbout the Lecture:\nEgypt was unified around 3000 BC\, beginning the history of pharaonic Egypt and setting the ground-rules for the nature and constitution of the state and kingship that would endure for three millennia. This afternoon we will explore the way in which the memories of the first pharaohs were maintained and used by their successors down to Roman times\, and how\, after millennia of oblivion\, they were rediscovered by modern scholarship. \nAbout the Speaker: \nProfessor Aidan Dodson\nhas taught at the University of Bristol since 1996\, where he has been honorary Professor of Egyptology since 2018. A graduate of Liverpool and Cambridge Universities\, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003\, and was Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo for spring 2013. He is the author of some 400 articles and reviews\, and 25 books; his latest is The First Pharaohs: Their Lives and Afterlives\, which was published by the American University in Cairo Press in October 2021.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/arce-nc-lecture-may-1-by-aidan-dodson-the-resurrection-of-the-first-pharaohs/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Making Millions of Pots: How the Cult in Ancient Egypt Met Its Demand for Pottery
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a virtual lecture by Dr. Meredith Brand\, California State University\, San Bernardino:\n“Making Millions of Pots: How the Cult in Ancient Egypt Met Its Demand for Pottery”\nSunday\, April 10\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time\nZoom Lecture. A registration link will be automatically sent to ARCE-NC members. Non-members may request a registration link by sending email with your name and email address to arcencZoom@gmail.com. Non-members\, please send any registration requests no later than Friday\, April 8. The number of registrations is limited\, so the sooner you register\, the better.\nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC ePublicity\nAbout the Lecture:\nRitual in ancient Egypt required vast amounts of goods. For instance\, Ramesses III’s Great Harris Papyrus lists donations of millions of material items\, food\, drink\, and even flowers to Egypt’s temples. At Medinet Habu temple alone Ramesses III offered more than 80\,000 beer jars per year to the cult. Indeed the abundant material culture excavated at temple sites supports the idea that ancient Egyptian ritual needed lots of things. This is particularly clear at Abydos\, the main cult site of the god of the underworld Osiris\, where the landscape is covered with pottery and other goods related to temple and cultic ritual. The number of artifacts can be quite staggering – the French archaeologist Amélineau estimated over 20 million pots were deposited at Umm el-Qa’ab\, the focal point of an annual festival for Osiris. More recently\, University of Toronto’s North Abydos Votive Zone project excavated over 100\,000 pieces of pottery from a few squares near the Osiris Temple Enclosure.\nThe sheer quantities of material culture used for private and temple ritual at Abydos raises many questions about who produced these goods\, how they organized such a scale of production\, and the relationships between craft workers and state institutions. It is important to examine such questions as they provide insight into an often ignored aspect of ritual – the potters\, brewers\, bakers\, weavers\, florists\, etc. whose work was vital for ritual practices in ancient Egypt. This talk examines the social and economic context of craft production for ritual with a case study on the production of pottery at Abydos for cultic use in the popular festival of Osiris at Umm el-Qa’ab and a chapel of Thutmose III in the North Abydos Votive Zone. The conclusions of this talk suggest how craft workers made their living and provide insight into both how temples functioned economically and how people got the material goods they needed for private cult.\nAbout the Speaker:\nDr. Meredith Brand obtained her PhD from the Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations Department at the University of Toronto with her dissertation The Socio-Economic Organization of Votive Pottery Production at Abydos\, Egypt in the New Kingdom: A Metric Analysis Study. She is currently the W. Benson Harrer Egyptology Scholar and Residence at California State University San Bernardino and an instructor in the Rhetoric and Composition Department at the American University in Cairo. Dr. Brand’s research focuses on pottery analysis\, material culture\, archaeological science\, and the social history and economy of ancient Egypt. She is a co-Director and the ceramicist of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition that surveys and excavates mines and mining settlements in the Eastern Desert. She has been the ceramicist at University of Toronto’s North Abydos Votive Zone Project and the assistant ceramicist at other sites in Egypt\, and has conducted mineralogical analysis of pottery from sites in Egypt and Sudan.\nAbout ARCE-NC:\nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://arce-nc.org/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/making-millions-of-pots-how-the-cult-in-ancient-egypt-met-its-demand-for-pottery/
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SUMMARY:Visions of Ancient Egypt in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a virtual lecture by Dr. Carly Maris\, University of San Diego:\n“Visions of Ancient Egypt in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae” \nSunday\, March 13\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time \nZoom Lecture. A registration link will be automatically sent to ARCE-NC members. Non-members may request a registration link by sending email with your name and email address to arcencZoom@gmail.com. Non-members\, please send any registration requests no later than Friday\, March 11. Registrations are cut off at our attendance limit\, so the sooner you register\, the better. \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC ePublicity \nAbout the Lecture:\nThe Deipnosophistae is a late second- to early third-century CE dialogue written by grammarian Athenaeus of Naucratis. The text follows the style and themes of Plato’s Symposium\, presenting an imaginary conversation between philosophers that takes place during a Roman banquet. Scholars have found value in the Deipnosophistae for its inclusion of lengthy quotations from earlier Greek texts that have otherwise been lost. It provides key insight as to the historical resources and documents available to the educated classes during the height of the Roman Empire. Included in the Deipnosophistae are multiple historical accounts of Egypt–including descriptions of its geography and climate\, the history of Egyptian wine\, and stories about various rulers (including a description of a massive parade during the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus). My talk will focus on how Athenaeus viewed the ancient Egyptian past\, and will place this in context with broader visions of Ancient Egypt during the Roman Empire. \nAbout the Speaker:\nDr. Carly Maris is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of San Diego. Her research looks broadly at Western perceptions of the East\, and explores how Near Eastern culture influenced the Roman empire. She is currently working on a book titled Parades of Antiquity\, in which she explores the history of imperial parades in the Near East\, and how they impacted the spectacle of Roman triumphal parades up through the early Byzantine period.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/visions-of-ancient-egypt-in-athenaeus-deipnosophistae/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:The Human Remains from the First Dynasty Subsidiary Burials at Abydos
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a virtual lecture by Dr. Roselyn A. Campbell\, Getty Research Institute: \nThe Human Remains from the First Dynasty Subsidiary Burials at Abydos \nWhen: Sunday\, February 6\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time \nZoom Lecture. A registration link will be automatically sent to ARCE-NC members. Non-members may request a registration link by sending email with your name and email address to arcencZoom@gmail.com. Attendance is limited\, so non-members\, please send any registration requests no later than Friday\, February 4. \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC ePublicity \nAbout the Lecture: \nThe subsidiary burials surrounding the royal funerary complexes of the First Dynasty rulers at Abydos have piqued scholarly and public interest for well over a century. These subsidiary burials\, sometimes numbering in the hundreds\, contained the remains of men and women who seem to have been associated with the royal court. The quality of the grave goods within some of these graves\, as well as statements by early excavators that most of the individuals interred were relatively young and seemed healthy\, have sparked debate among scholars. Were the individuals in these subsidiary graves killed in a sacrificial ritual to accompany their deceased ruler into the afterlife\, or were they simply interred around the royal burial as they died naturally over time? This talk will explore new data gathered from a study of the human remains that have been preserved from some of these subsidiary burials\, shedding new light on the lives and deaths of these individuals at the birth of the Egyptian state. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Roselyn A. Campbell is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles\, California. She is a bioarchaeologist and Egyptologist\, and has worked at archaeological sites throughout Egypt as well as in Peru\, Ethiopia\, Spain\, and the western United States. Her research focuses on evidence for violence and trauma in the past\, as well as the history of cancer in antiquity\, and how these topics are relevant to the modern world.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-human-remains-from-the-first-dynasty-subsidiary-burials-at-abydos/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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