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Secret Knowledge and Doubtful Priests in Ancient Egyptian Literature

NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA

This lecture will discuss two themes of my ongoing book project “Cult Practice in Ancient Egyptian Literature”. First, Egyptian literary texts (narratives, wisdom texts and discourses) often make reference to “secret knowledge.” What does this mean? Second, doubt is an important motif in several of these texts, that is, doubts about the claims of certain...

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Tracing the Skill of Fresco Painting in Tell El-Dabca

NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA

Around 1500 B.C.E. a palatial district has been constructed at the site of Tell el-Dabca, directly above the Pelusiac branch of the Nile. There, below the ramps of the entrances of both main buildings about 20 000 fragments of wall paintings have been discovered since 1992. These paintings are rather unusual in context of the...

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Lucille Ball in Ancient Egypt? The Business Dealings of Lady Tsenhor in Persian Egypt

NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA

If Tsenhor were alive today, she would be wearing jeans, drive a pick-up and enjoy a beer with the boys. Instead she was born c. 2500 years ago, leaving behind an archive of Demotic papyri now kept in various European museums. These papyri allow us to reconstruct her life (in a way), showing that apart...

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Painters and Painting Practices in the Theban Necropolis During the 18th Dynasty

NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA

The lecture will outline some of the main results of a project funded by a Research Incentive Grant of the National Foundation for Scientific Research of Belgium (F.R.S. – FNRS) and devoted to the study of the painters responsible for the decoration of private tombs in the Theban Necropolis during the 18th dynasty, their techniques,...

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New Light on the Egyptian Origin of the Hebrew Alphabet

Young Research Library (YRL) Room 11360 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA

The publication of a new inscription from Theban Tomb 99 sheds new light on the early history of the Hebrew Alphabet.  This ostracon is a bilingual “abecedary” written in Egyptian Hieroglyphic and Semitic.  It gives further evidence for an Egyptian connection to the origins of the early Hebrew alphabet. Sponsored by the UCLA Near Eastern...

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New Light on Qubbet el-Hawa

NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA

Dr. Bommas will be giving two lectures. First lecture will be from 11:00A-11:50A. Second lecture will be from 12:15P-1:00P.       Dr. Martin Bommas Reader in Egyptology Getty Scholar 2016-2017 Curator of the Eton Myers Collection of Egyptian Arts at the University of Birmingham Director of the Qubbet el-Hawa Research Project Editor-in-chief of the...

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The Archaeological Adventure of Museo Egizio (1903-1920)

Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Ernesto Schiaparelli, director of Museo Egizio between 1894 and 1928 responded to the need for an enlarged Egyptian collection at Turin. In 1903 the Missione Archeologica Italiana (M.A.I.) was founded, promoting 12 archaeological expeditions at 11 sites in Egypt. With the important assistance of collaborators, Schiaparelli undertook this fieldwork to better document the history of...

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Egyptian Coffins and Sarcophagi in the San Diego Museum of Man: Some Technical Studies

NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA

    The San Diego museum of man has a collection of Saite and Ptolemaic coffins and mummies which were the subject of a technical study from 2007-2009.  Pigments, binding media, grounds, wood and degradation products were characterized by x ray diffraction analyses, x ray fluorescence spectroscopy, polarized light microscopy, wood anatomy, gas chromatography mass...

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Speed Dating (Artifacts) In Ancient Egypt

Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

  Workshop Ever wanted to know how to date an Egyptian statue? What makes an Amenhotep III face recognizable? How can you tell if a piece was recarved? What about the dating of Egyptian non-royal objects? This workshop will teach some of the tricks of the trade – using the shape of an eye, or...

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The unusual New Kingdom Tomb-Chapel of Isisnofret on a rocky outcropping at Northwest Saqqara

NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA

  Dr. Nozomu Kawai specializes in history, art and archaeology of the New Kingdom in Egypt, with a particular emphasis on the period from the late Eighteenth Dynasty to the Nineteenth Dynasty. She has been directing Japanese archaeological excavation at Northwest Saqqara / South Abusir since 2001. Her Ph.D. thesis was on the reign of...

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Senenmut Redivivus: The Interesting Life & Afterlife of an Ancient Egyptian Official

Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Senenmut was one of ancient Egypt’s most famous personalities: chief minister and possible lover of Queen Hatshepsut (c. 1473-1478), Egypt’s female pharaoh. More monuments are known for Senenmut than for any other official of the New Kingdom, implying his exceptional status during life. Recently, an unassuming stone fragment in the Manchester Museum, UK, proved the...

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Graduate Student Conference Talks and Q&A

Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Come and hear what the graduate students in NELC are working on! Graduate students presenting their research at academic conferences in the next month will be giving their talks for the NELC community, and would love feedback and questions! Speakers (in order): Andrew Danielson  Danielle Candelora Jacob Damm Jeremy Williams Timothy Hogue Marissa Stevens Event...

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From Pastoral Nomads to Policemen: Ethnicity and Identity of the Medjay in Ancient Egypt

Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Professor Kate Liszka will provide a lecture on the introduction of the diverse textual, artistic, and archaeological sources that help us identify how Medjay evolved from an ethnic group to Egypt’s most important police force. Come learn more about the Medjay people. Lunch will be provided.   Kate Liszka completed her degree in Egyptology at the...

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ARCE Practice Talks Round 2

161 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

The Compositional Design of Djedhor Cairo JE 46341 Michael Chen (Egyptology). This paper examines the layout of spells upon the statue surfaces of Djedhor to uncover the inherent planning behind the design of the statue. This strategic design reveals both a balanced spell arrangement and the inscribing order of the statue’s construction. The patterns observed in...

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In the Workshop of an Ancient Egyptian Sculptor

Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

In 1912, the excavation team of the Deutsch Orient-Gesellschaft under the direction of Ludwig Borchardt revealed the exceptional remains of the estate and workshop of an ancient Egyptian sculptor of the middle of the 15th century BCE, who worked for Pharaoh Akhenaten in the latter’s new royal residence of Akhet-Aten (modern Amarna), in Middle Egypt....

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A Romano-Egyptian Obelisk Beyond the Nile

Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Using a Romano-Egyptian obelisk from the collection of the Museo del Sannio in Benevento, Italy as a case study, this talk will overview the major themes of the current Getty exhibition “Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World.” This exhibition explores cross-cultural interactions between Egypt, Greece, and Rome from about 2000 BC until about...

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Reuse of New Kingdom Monuments and Visitors’ Graffiti in Late and Graeco-Roman Period Elkab

Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Since 2016, the Oxford Expedition to Elkab has extended its work of epigraphic recording and publication to the Late and Graeco-Roman Period monuments and inscriptions in the necropolis and the adjacent Wadi Hillal. Recording of the inscribed material, which mainly consists of unpublished graffiti and secondary inscriptions, is proceeding hand-in-hand with the re-documentation of the...

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The Relationship of Egyptian and Semitic

Kaplan Hall 348

  It has long been known that the ancient Egyptian language is related to the Semitic language family, but the details of this relationship are still not fully understood. In this lecture, we will look at the major similarities (and differences) of the two language groups, including topics in phonology, morphology, and the lexicon, with...

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