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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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A Better Story Tyrian Resistance, Hasmonean Valor, and the Authority of Narrative

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

New archaeological discoveries from two sites in Israel’s Upper Galilee illuminate the territory and autonomy of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre from the early years of Achaemenid rule until c. 140 BCE – with implications for both the historicity of 1 Maccabees and the literary impetus of its author. The first site is Mizpe Yammim,...

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Settlement and Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant

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

Scholarship describes both the Early Bronze Age and the Middle Bronze Age in the southern Levant as “urban” eras, yet, beyond broad superficial similarities, the pattern of settlement and subsequent urban character of each period differs widely. Rather than assume that this precludes examining the two eras together, however, these differences instead raise questions about...

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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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Lesser Syrtis (Tunisia) in Antiquity

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

The Lesser Syrtis, or Mediterranean littoral of southeastern Tunisia, is a pivotal region in North African history and archaeology. With the Gulf of Gabes as a natural harbor complex opposite the island of Jerba (associated with Calypso of the Lotus-Eaters), ancient populations of the area found themselves in an enviable strategic position with access to...

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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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Sea Peoples and Neo-Hittites in the ‘Land of Palistin’: Recent Discoveries at Tayinat on the Orontes

UCLA Faculty Center 480 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA

Recent archaeological discoveries have begun to challenge the prevailing view of the Early Iron Age (ca. 1200-900 BCE) as an era of cultural devolution and ethnic strife, or a ‘Dark Age’, in the eastern Mediterranean, as depicted in the Homeric epics and the Hebrew Bible. This illustrated talk will highlight the exciting discoveries of the...

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Divine Priestesses: The Ptolemaic Queens in the Egyptian and Hellenistic Cults

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

The Ptolemaic kings and queens were not only venerated as synnaoi theoi (‘temple-sharing gods’) in the Egyptian temples and received various cults of their own (including the Hellenistic and Egyptian ruler cults), but they also served as priests and priestesses themselves. In the ancient Egyptian understanding, the king was per definitionem the high priest. This...

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Modelling Long-Distance Interaction in the Middle Bronze Age

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

The Old Assyrian trade network c. 1895-1865 BCE is by far the best documented example of how a long-distance commercial circuit was organized and run in the ancient world. But the Assyrian records show that the circuit to which they relate was not isolated. It formed part of a chain of comparable units and was...

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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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Graduate Student Research Presentations and Q&A

Humanities 365

12:00 – 1:00pm Overspecializing the Specialist: Reevaluating the Role of Producers in the Study of Technological Interconnectivity Nadia Ben-Marzouk (Archaeology) Accounting for Kingship: The Samaria Ostraca as Royal Performance Jason Price (Hebrew Bible) An Image on the Stele or a Ghost in the Shell? A Cognitive Scientific Approach to the Material “Soul” in the Levant Timothy...

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Between Egypt and the Near East: Current Research on the Amarna Letters

Humanities 365

Various aspects of the interaction between Egypt and other political and cultural centres of the Ancient Near East have always sparked the attention of scholars, trying to understand this multi-layered and complex issue — ranging from the interpretation of finds of Egyptian or Egyptianized objects at the ANE sites to a misapprehension in communication resulting...

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Archaeology of Ancient Israel Fall 2018 Lecture

Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

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Israel and the Samaria Highlands: A Nomad Settlement Wave or Urban Expansion during the Early Iron Age?

Humanities 365

The Iron I period witnessed a wave of settlements in the highlands of Israel, mostly in Samaria but also to some extent in the Upper Galilee and Judah. This wave is usually associated with the genesis of Ancient Israel and is interpreted in light of the collapse of Canaanite urban centers at the end of...

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