Dinsdag 4 mei

Dr. Mary Ann Marazzi
Ished tree scenes in ancient Egypt

Evidence for ished tree scenes date from the reigns of Thutmosis I through that of the Roman ruler Hadrian. They appeared in both texts and images on temple walls and other monuments including obelisks, stelae, and statuary, but until recently they were not understood that well and were not collected and analysed as a unit. This presentation gives an overview of what an ished tree scene is and the function it had in ancient Egypt including a possible sequence of events for the ritual of the ished tree as well as who could see the images and read the texts.

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4-6 mei

The Egyptological Conference in Copenhagen 2021

The theme of this year’s conference is trade and administration in Ancient Egypt, however, the presentations will cover a variety of topics within the field of Egyptology and archaeology.

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Zaterdag 8 mei

Rosalind Janssen, Janet Johnstone & Elizabeth Clancy
Early Fashion and Textiles by the Nile, Euphrates and Tigris: Conversations

This panel brings together scholars and practitioners who will introduce their studies of and encounters with ancient textiles, clothes, and fashion. Exploring practical textile and dress making techniques of the cultures along the Nile, Euphrates and Tigris rivers during the 3rd millennium BCE, they ask: How was fashion used to express cultural, societal, and personal identities? Find out how ancient fashion and clothes making techniques can influence the way we make, design, and wear textiles today.

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Zaterdag 8 mei

Kelsey Museum
Animals in the Ancient World

Animals abound in the art and artifacts of the ancient Near East, Greece, Egypt, and Rome. On this guided tour, learn more about different aspects of animals in antiquity. We’ll take a look at animal-themed artifacts in the Kelsey and ask: Was that animal food? A laborer? A pet? A sacrificial victim? We’ll also discuss what kinds of animals were symbols of power and strength, and the meanings different animals had in the ancient world.

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Zondag 9 mei

Dr. Daniel Soliman
Topstukkenlezing over de tempel van Taffeh

De tempel van Taffeh, die in de grote entreehal van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden staat, werd in de 1ste eeuw na Chr. gebouwd in Taphis, een stad in het diepe zuiden van Egypte. Twee millennia later schonk de Egyptische overheid de tempel aan het Nederlandse volk. Deze lezing gaat over de lange geschiedenis van de tempel en de verschillende manieren waarop het gebouw door de eeuwen heen een bijzondere plek is geweest. Daniel Solimans verhaal neemt u mee op een reis door de tijd: van de Romeinse periode, via de laatantieke periode, de middeleeuwen, en de tweede helft van de vorige eeuw, naar de dag van vandaag.

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Zondag 9 mei

Dr. Mariam Ayad
The God’s Wives of Amun

Kosten: £4

Since its inception at the beginning of the 18th dynasty, the office of the God’s Wife of Amun was closely associated with the priesthood. By the time the office reached its zenith in the 23-26th dynasty, that association became immortalized in the iconography of the God’s Wife’s small Osirian chapels at Karnak. This illustrated lecture focuses on the priestly duties of the God’s Wife and what might those scenes tell us about her status and role more broadly.

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Dinsdag 11 mei

Manon Schutz
Sleeping on the goddess’ back. The meaning of beds in ancient Egypt

Kosten: gratis voor donateurs en studenten, €5 voor niet-donateurs
Voertaal: Engels

In deze lezing vertelt Manon Schutz ons in detail over de functie van bedden in het oude Egypte. Na een algemene inleiding en een definitie van het concept ‘bed’, worden het gebruik en de religieuze betekenis van dit meubelstuk besproken voor verschillende stadia van zijn lange geschiedenis. De nadruk zal vooral liggen op de funeraire sfeer, aangezien de meeste overgeleverde bedden afkomstig zijn uit graven. Daarnaast zal ook het gebruik van bedden in de dagelijkse praktijk worden besproken.

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Woensdag 12 mei

Two lectures by MA students at Swansea University
Wig Snatched: Unveiling the process behind wig-making and the wig industry in ancient Egypt / From rats to robber flies: active pest control in ancient Egypt

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Zaterdag 15 mei

Dr. Chris Naunton
The Amarna Blessed Dead

Kosten: £5

What happened after Akhenaten’s death? Where was he buried? Who succeeded him? We know that Tutankhamun’s reign saw the end of Akhenaten’s revolution and the restoration of the old ways, and the boy-king himself was the last of the family line. But it seems clear that there was at least one other pharaoh in between Akhenaten and Tutankhamun. Who were they? Could it have been Nefertiti? And who was Smenkhkare? Tantalising clues have been in tombs at Amarna and in the Valley of Kings. But how to make sense of them?

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Woensdag 19 mei

Daniela Rosenow & Matthieu Götz
Dahschur – Recent Research in the Old Kingdom Settlement

Dahshur is one of the most important royal pyramid cemeteries of Ancient Egypt. The first part of this lecture will highlight one of the most recent discoveries, a new settlement most likely inhabited by the people who planned the pyramids. The second part will explore the application of latest technologies, benefiting archaeology, conservation and site managenment.

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Woensdag 19 mei

Dr. Kucera (Qasr Dakhleh Project)
Archaeological investigations at al-Qasr and the Roman fort of Dakhleh Oasis

For several years after the discovery of Greek documents at Kellis (Ismant al-Kharab), which revealed the existence of a Roman military camp (castrum) in the 4th century CE in Dakhleh Oasis, the location of a fort remained elusive for researchers. Between 2006 and 2007, a possible location for the fort was realised when the remains of substantially large walls and unusual structural features were observed at the Islamic settlement al-Qasr. This talk presents the results of surveys and excavations that lead to the identification of the fort, further discoveries related to the occupation of the site, and a review of the findings in light of the Roman military presence in the Western Desert.

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Woensdag 19 mei

John C. Darnell (Yale University)
Setting a seal upon the desert: Protodynastic and Early Dynastyc augmentation and interpretation of Predynastic rock art in the Upper Egyptian desert

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Donderdag 20 mei

Cédric Gobeil (Museo Egizio, Turin)
In the footsteps of Ernesto Schiaparelli. The Museo Egizio’s current research at Deir El-Medina

Within the framework of the French Archaeological mission at Deir El-Medina carried by the IFAO, the Museo Egizio of Turin is conducting research on a few Ramesside tombs located in the Western necropolis. These tombs have been chosen based on the many artifacts that belonged to the owners of these tombs and are now kept in the museum. In addition to giving the opportunity to perform a study on these fragile structures using new technologies, this fieldwork is a unique chance to recontextualize many objects of the museum’s collection by shedding a new and fresh light on them. This talk will be the opportunity to get a first glimpse at this work in progress.

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Donderdag 20 mei

Prof. Dr. Jochem Kahl
Wo Myrrhe nicht mehr regnen und Weihrauch nicht mehr tropfen kann – Die verschollenen Tempel von Assiut

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Donderdag 20 mei

The Egypt Centre Curator’s Chats
Ancient Egyptian Textiles

Using items within the museum’s own collection as well as examples from elsewhere, we will discuss the importance of textiles in Ancient Egypt. We shall briefly explore textiles used for the preparation of death including a rare painted shroud dating back over 3000 years, and consider theories as to how the ancients were able to pleat their garments. We will also look at the “Coptic” textiles in the museum including some which are said to have been designed with the intent of tricking the evil eye.

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Vrijdag 21 mei

7th Annual Birmingham Egyptology Symposium
Biography in ancient Egypt

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Zaterdag 29 mei

Dr. Mennat-Allah El Dorry
Egyptian History and its Many Cuisines: An Exploration of Egyptian Food History

What is Egyptian cuisine? It is an amalgamation of thousands of years of culinary innovations, technological developments, and new crops and flavors. Egyptian cuisine(s) change(s) from one region to the next, and from one time period to another. This talk will explore the cuisines of each phase of Egyptian history, identifying some of the highlights or developments of each time period, starting with ancient Egypt and through to the 20th century. It will also investigate the transformations, and how these may or may not have had an impact on the face of today’s Egyptian food. The paper will also survey the different sources that scholars have available in order to study the history of Egyptian cuisine.

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Zondag 30 mei

Dr. Joanne Backhouse
Women of Deir el-Medina

Kosten: £5

Deir el-Medina housed the craftsmen who created the royal tombs during the New Kingdom. We often consider the lives of the workmen but less so the female residents. Examining predominantly figured and hieratic ostraca, female figurines, stela, and tomb scenes this talk attempts to shed light onto the daily lives of the female inhabitants. Their religious practices and afterlife expectations will also be considered.

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Dinsdag 13 april

Nicky van de Beek (PhD student JGU Mainz)
De wonderbaarlijke reizen van Alexine Tinne

Kosten: gratis voor donateurs van Huis van Horus, €5 voor niet-donateurs

Alexandrine Pieternella Françoise Tinne (1835-1869) was de dochter en erfgenaam van een vermogende handelaar, woonachtig in het deftige Den Haag. Naast haar passie voor fotografie hield ze er een voor die tijd ongebruikelijke reislust op na. Na de obligatoire winters in Italië en een hachelijke reis naar Scandinavië doet een griep in de Alpen haar uitwijken naar warmere oorden. Ze scheept in op een boot met bestemming Alexandrië, Egypte – een reis die de loop van haar leven zou bepalen.

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Zaterdag 17 april

Professor Rosalie David
Egyptian Mummies And Modern Science

Kosten: £6

This unique facility uses medical and scientific tools to examine Egyptian mummies and humans for the physical evidence of disease, diet, medical and pharmaceutical treatments and religious practices to gain a better understanding of what life was like in Ancient Egypt. This talk will also describe current fieldwork being undertaken by the KNH Centre Missions in Egypt.

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Zaterdag 17 april

Dr Joanne Backhouse (University of Liverpool)
Body Art: fashion statement or status indicator

Kosten: £5

Through this lecture Joanne will examine the manifestations of body art, both on physical remains and decorative works of art from the Predynastic to the Coptic period. The relationship between the two datasets (physical remains and decorative arts) will be analysed. The significance of the imagery will be considered to evaluate the meaning of the adornment. Until the discovery of markings on ‘Ginger’, all physical evidence from ancient Egypt was found on the female form. The only males depicted with body art in Pharonic Egypt are foreigners – Libyans.

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Dinsdag 20 april

Veerle van Kersen (KU Leuven)
Linnen onder de loep: een nieuwe interpretatie van textielproductie in het oude Egypte

Kosten: €4

Textiel was millennia lang één van de belangrijkste industrieën in Egypte, en vervulde zowel tijdens het leven als in de dood een essentiële functie. Door het arbeidsintensieve productieproces was het bovendien een kostbaar goed. Deze presentatie bespreekt de verschillende stappen in de Egyptische textielproductie aan de hand van wandschilderingen en grafmodellen. We vergelijken hoe deze scènes vroeger bekeken werden, en hoe we ze kunnen herinterpreteren in het licht van de nieuwe bevindingen. Vervolgens bekijken we de textielfragmenten in Brussel en Leiden en wat ze ons kunnen vertellen over de Egyptische linnenproductie.

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Maandag 26 april

Maria Nilsson & John Ward
Recent Discoveries at Gebel el-Silsila

Kosten: £5

Located some 60 km south of the grand Edfu Temple, and 65 km north of the stunning golden landscape of modern day Aswan, Gebel el-Silsila – “Kheny/Khenu” to the ancients – played an important role within the overall development of Dynastic Egypt. While the site was a vital strategic trading location, marking the boundary between Egypt and her southern neighbour Nubia, one of Egypt’s “nine bows” (chief enemies), it was first and foremost the source of a bountiful supply of prime Nubian sandstone for the building of pharaonic monuments throughout Egypt, particularly during the New Kingdom. In this lecture, Maria and John will reveal their latest New Kingdom discoveries, exploring the Temple of Sobek, the necropolis, Tutankhamun’s workers village and new finds from the quarries of Amenhotep and Ahkenaten.

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Maandag 26 april

Meredith Brand
Life at a Middle Kingdom Amethyst Mine: Archaeology of Site 5, Wadi el-Hudi

Ancient Egyptian jewelry is renowned for its beauty, and the purple amethyst jewels from Middle Kingdom royal and elite burials are particularly stunning. As a luxury item, the pharaoh and his administration seemed to have exerted a state monopoly on semi-precious stones like amethyst, yet many questions remain as to how this monopoly was managed and the lives of the miners engaged in back-breaking labor.

In 2014 the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition, directed by Kate Liszka (California State University San Bernardino) and co-directed by Bryan Kraemer (Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art) and Meredith Brand (The American University of Cairo), began to address these questions through surveying and excavating the Middle Kingdom amethyst mining settlements at Wadi el-Hudi in the Eastern Desert.

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Maandag 26 april

Dr. Manuela Lehmann (The British Museum London)
Amara West – Lebenswelten im Nubien der Ramessidenzeit

Die seit 2009 stattfinden Ausgrabungen und Auswertungen des Amara West Projektes des Britischen Museums beschäftigen sich mit einer Siedlung und zwei zugehörigen Friedhöfen aus der Ramessidenzeit in Nubien. Die Siedlung bestand bis in die Dritte Zwischenzeit hinein und wurde dann aufgrund klimatischer Veränderungen aufgegeben.

Forschungsschwerpunkte sind unter anderem das tägliche Leben der Einwohner dieser Siedlung, die in einer Kolonie fern ab der ägyptischen Hauptstadt wohnen.

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Dinsdag 27 april

Mennat-Allah El Dorry (Ministry of Antiquities)
Archaeobotanical Research in Egypt: Much Wine and a Little Fava

Since the late 19th c., the study of Egypt’s ancient flora has steadily contributed towards a clearer understanding of ancient lives and societies. Plants, after all, have been used as food, fodder, fuel, furnishings, medication, building materials, and variety of funerary and living rituals throughout Egyptian history. The production and disposal of plant products has left us a range of evidence that can be employed to make inferences about ancient lives. This talk will focus on the study of historic plant remains – archaeobotany – with reference to Egypt: its history and development, methodologies, and will present some particular case studies.

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Donderdag 29 april, 18.00 uur

Peter der Manuelian (Boston)
George Reisner and the Giza Project at Harvard; studying the past with the tools of the future

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Donderdag 29 april, 18.15 uur

Prof. Dr. Stephan J. Seidlmayer
“Tausend Jahre sehen auf euch herab!” Das Alte Ägypten und seine Vergangenheit. Befunde aus dem Pyramidenfriedhof von Dahschur

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In maart zijn er weer genoeg online voordrachten te volgen. Deze lezingen worden aangeboden door externe partijen. Indien niet gratis dan worden de kosten vermeld.

Dinsdag 2 maart, 12.00 uur / donderdag 4 maart, 18.00 uur

Dr Okasha El Daly
Egyptology: The missing millennium. Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic writings

“The Egyptians didn’t care about their pre-Islamic heritage until the Europeans arrived.” Heard this before? In this talk, Dr Okasha El Daly will overturn this long-held misconception by uniting Egyptology and Islamic Studies.

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Dinsdag 2 maart, 20.00 uur

Lara Weiss (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden)
Nieuws uit Caïro

Voor zijn grootscheepse vernieuwingsplannen zocht het Egyptisch Museum in Caïro de afgelopen jaren samenwerking met vijf grote Europese musea met Egyptische collecties, waaronder het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. In deze online lezing vertelt RMO-conservator Lara Weiss over de achtergronden en resultaten van dit bijzondere samenwerkingsproject.

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Donderdag 4 maart, 18.00 uur

Rita Lucarelli (Berkeley)
Agents of Punishment and Protection. Assessing the Demonic in First Millennium BCE Egypt

Demonology is an integral, though often neglected aspect of ancient Egyptian religion. In this talk, while presenting a current book project, the role that ancient Egyptian demons played in relation to the main deities and to humankind will be outlined, by distinguishing categories of demons according to where they appear, namely demons of the netherworld and demons wandering on earth.

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Zondag 7 maart, 19.00 uur

Dr. Ken Griffin (The Egypt Centre)
“All the rekhyt-people adore”

Kosten: £5

Egyptian society is often said to have been divided into social classes, with the pat-people representing the ‘elite’ and the rekhyt-people being the ‘commoners’. Yet an examination of the Egyptian texts reveal that the rekhyt-people are commonly described as performing actions, emotions, and gestures for the benefit of the divine pharaoh and the gods. This lecture will examine when and where these actions were performed, and for whom. Additionally, the use and function of the rekhyt rebus will be analysed in detail.

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Dinsdag 9 maart, 20.00 uur

Prof. dr. Jacques van der Vliet (Leiden/Nijmegen)
Leidse Papyrologielezing: Moedwil en misverstand op het Egyptische platteland

Het komt maar zelden voor dat papyri licht werpen op leven en werken van bekende historische persoonlijkheden. Zo’n uitzondering is Pisentius, bisschop van Koptos in het zuiden van Egypte. Pisentius wordt tot op de huidige dag als een heilige vereerd in de Koptisch Orthodoxe Kerk. Een rijke literatuur bewaart de herinnering aan de wonderen die hij bij zijn leven verrichtte. Daarnaast is op papyrus een deel van het archief van Pisentius teruggevonden uit de jaren rond 620.

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Woensdag 10 maart, 20.00 uur

Manfred Bietak (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
The 14th Dynasty in Avaris/Tell el-Dab‘a and the Looting of Egypt

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Donderdag 11 maart, 18.00 uur

Dr Roberta Mazza
Narratives of Discovery: The Finding of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri between Myth and Reality

This talk will consider how the British forefathers of papyrology have disseminated information about their discoveries in Egypt to the public in the late 19th century. It will be shown that when read in the light of more private letters and accounts, these official stories reveal patterns and tropes, while details that we find important today were left out. Were the Oxyrhynchus papyri really discovered by Grenfell and Hunt? This paper argues that they were already well known to the Egyptian inhabitants of the nearby town of el-Bahnasa.

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Zondag 14 maart, 16.00 uur

Inês Torres Ph.D.
Lassoing for Offerings or Lassoing for Visitors? Analyzing a Unique Lassoing Scene from the Mastaba of Akhmerutnisut at Giza (G 2184)

Kosten: gratis voor donateurs en studenten, €5 voor niet-donateurs
Voertaal: Engels

In Torres haar lezing neemt ze je mee naar de mastaba van Akhmerutnisut, hetgeen een monumentale afbeelding toont van de grafeigenaar die een touw vasthoudt, klaar om een ​​lasso te werpen. De actieve deelname van de grafeigenaar aan een lasso-scène is uniek in het iconografische programma van elitetombes uit de 5de Dynastie (ca. 2494-2345 v.Chr.). Daarbij analyseert ze Akhmerutnisuts lasso-scène vanuit het analytische kader van monumentaliteit, identiteit en keuzevrijheid (agency).

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Zondag 14 maart, 19.00 uur

Dr. Heidi Köpp-Junk
Music in ancient Egypt and its beginnings – Latest research in music archaeology
(lecture including live musical performance)

Kosten: £5

This lecture, showing the current research results of ancient Egyptian music archaeology, deals with the origins in Neolithic, Predynastic, and Early Dynastic Times that allowed the development of the complex system as attested in the Old kingdom. Heidi Köpp-Junk shows 5000 years of ancient Egyptian music history with over twenty-five instruments.

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Dinsdag 16 maart, 12.00 uur

Nozomu Kawai
Excavating the first Roman catacomb at Saqqara

The Japanese-Egyptian mission to North Saqqara has excavated at the eastern escarpment at the North Saqqara plateau since 2017. In August 2019, we discovered the first Roman catacomb ever found in Saqqara. The catacomb consists of a long vaulted mudbrick passage to the entrance to the rock-cut chamber and several side rooms. This lecture will present the latest result of the excavation at the Roman catacomb.

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Woensdag 17 maart, 20.00 uur

John Rogers (Swansea University)
Of Kings, Courtiers, and Commoners

Kosten: £3

For many, the image of ancient Egyptian rulership consists of an all-powerful king at the top, with only occasional difficulties when a certain king was weaker than his predecessors. But scratch the surface and the situation is far more complicated. In this talk we will look at the ancient Egyptian king in a local context: ultimately—if the king is not all-powerful—who ran the ancient Egyptian state?

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Donderdag 18 maart, 16.00 uur

Dogs in Ancient Egypt

In our last curator’s chat, a request was made for a discussion on ancient Egyptian pets, and with four beautiful greyhounds at home I thought a talk on dogs would be perfect. In this talk we will explore the relationship between humans and dogs in ancient Egypt: dogs as pets, dogs in hunting and dogs in religion. We will also ask the question, was Anubis a dog?

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Donderdag 18 maart, 18.00 uur

Sabrina Rampersad
Branding, Non-Literacy, and Bread in Ancient Egypt

As the material culture from the settlement of Tell Gabbara (eastern Delta) undergoes study, the present focus is on its enigmatic potmark corpus. Markings incised deeply onto the interior surfaces of bread moulds have been equated with ancient branding activity, since such marks imprinted the surfaces of bread loaves with single textual signs during the baking process. This presentation will draw from multiple disciplines such as marketing, clinical neuropsychology, and psycholinguistics to illustrate these salient features of potmark-brands in Early Dynastic Egypt.

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Zaterdag 20 maart, 15.00 uur

Dr Eleanor Dobson (University of Birmingham)
Whatever happened to Carter’s canary?: Facts, Fictions and Tutankhamun

Kosten: £5

The discovery of the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun in 1922 is one of the best-known archaeological narratives of our age. The uncovering of the pharaoh’s final resting place with its wealth of gilded artefacts was cause for much celebration both in Egypt and abroad. But within weeks of the king’s burial chamber being opened, the man who financed the dig, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, was dead. Around the world and fuelled by tales of vengeful spirits in the press, people asked: was Carnarvon the victim of the mummy’s curse?

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Dinsdag 23 maart, 18.30 uur

Francesco Tiradritti
The Cenotaph of Harwa: a Masterpiece of the Pharaonic Renaissance

The Italian Archaeological Mission to Luxor and in Sudan works in the Funerary Complex of Harwa (TT 37) and Akhamunru (TT 404) since 1996. With its 4000 square meters of extension the Cenotaph of the Great Majordomo of the God-Wife Harwa (end of the 8th Century BC) is one of the largest monuments ever built by an Egyptian official. The wonderful and fine decoration is inspired to an archaizing style with innovative tendencies that make the cenotaph a masterpiece of the cultural movement known as “25th Dynasty Renaissance”.

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Dinsdag 23 maart, 19.00 uur

Dr Anna Garnett
From the Nile Valley to Camden: A History of the Petrie Museum

The Petrie Museum, based in Malet Place and part of University College London, is home to over 80,000 objects from Egypt and Sudan, and many of these objects were excavated by Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie and his Egyptian workforces from sites across Egypt.

This illustrated talk by the museum’s curator, Dr Anna Garnett, will explore some of the lesser-known stories relating to the collection, particularly focusing on how and why the collection came to be in Camden, and some of the characters who contributed to the foundation and care of the Petrie Museum over the past century.

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Zondag 28 maart, 14.00 uur

Lara Weiss (conservator Egypte, RMO)
De kapel van Paätenemheb

Paätenemheb was koninklijk schenker aan het hof van Toetanchamon, rond 1300 v.Chr. Zijn grafkapel stond ooit bovenop zijn ondergrondse grafkamers in Sakkara (Egypte). Ingehuurde priesters, vrienden, collega’s en natuurlijk zijn familie hem konden hem hier offers brengen en hem herdenken. Deze online rondleiding biedt een unieke kans om samen met Lara Weiss naar de mooie details in de kapel van Paätenemheb te kijken: u ziet niet alleen de beroemde harpspeler, maar ook heel veel andere details. Wat staat er allemaal op de muren afgebeeld en waarom?

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Woensdag 31 maart, 20.00 uur

Nikos Lazaridis (California State University, Sacramento)
Crafting characters in ancient Egyptian storytelling

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