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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Zondag 7 februari, 15.00 uur

Prof. Salima Ikram (American University in Cairo)
Divine Protection: Ancient Egyptian Vernacular Shrines in the Eastern Sahara

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Maandag 8 februari, 18.00 uur

Matthew Cobb (University of Wales)
The port of Berenike and the Red Sea trade in Late Antiquity

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Dinsdag 9 februari, 12.00 uur / donderdag 11 februari, 18.00 uur

Dr Nora Shalaby (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
The Abydos Paper Archive: Exploring Egyptian Histories from Early Egyptology

The recent discovery of thousands of archival documents in a storeroom inside the Temple of Seti I in Abydos represents a significant and valuable dataset that can contribute to a more holistic history of the discipline that involves actors who have traditionally been sidelined.

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Dinsdag 9 februari, 18.00 uur

Antonio J.Morales (University of Alcalá)
Early Middle Kingdom elite officials and royal strategies at Thebes

In the last four years, the University of Alcalá Expedition and its Middle Kingdom Theban Project have set up a multidisciplinary and international team of experts that have been conducted archaeological excavation, epigraphic work, and conservation in several tombs in the area of Deir el-Bahari, with the major goal of improving our knowledge on the historical circumstances of the later part of the Eleventh Dynasty and the beginning of the so-called “Classical Period”.

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Dinsdag 9 februari, 18.00 uur

Dr. Pavel Onderka (Nationaal Museum Praag)
Bes in Nubia: The Typhonium at Wad Ben Naga

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Zaterdag 13 februari, 18.00 uur

Dr. Campbell Price (Manchester Museum)
Sex, Art, and Death in Greco-Roman Egypt

The exhibition Golden Mummies of Egypt explores multicultural expectations for the afterlife using more than 100 objects from the Manchester Museum’s world-renowned collection. This virtual lecture by Dr. Campbell Price interrogates the functions of the exhibition objects, assessing the impact of the expectations of modern viewers and evaluating the particular seductive attraction of painted portraits and gilded mummies.

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Woensdag 17 februari, 18.30 uur

Renée Friedman (Oxford)
Exploring the City of the Falcon: Egypt’s first capital at Hierakonpolis

Hierakonpolis has long been famous as the home of the palette of King Narmer, a potent icon for the birth of Egyptian civilization at ca. 3100 BC. However, ongoing work at the site is now extending back our view of its development by some 500 years. Explorations in the elite cemetery HK6 have revealed tombs of the local rulers, who expressed their power not only in the elaborate architecture and contents of their sizable graves, but also with the people and intriguing array of animals they took with them to the afterlife. Exotic animals, such as elephants, a leopard, troops of baboons and more, attest to a veritable royal menagerie, and give us a tantalizing glimpse at the complex rituals that must have surrounded their burials.

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Woensdag 17 februari, 20.00 uur

Dimitry Laboury (Université de Liège)
In the workshop of an Ancient Egyptian sculptor: The estate of the chief royal sculptor Thutmose at Akhet-Aten (Amarna)

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Woensdag 17 februari, 20.30 uur

Emmet Jackson, PhD Candidate (University of Exeter)
Irish Women in Egypt: Travels of Lady Harriet Kavanagh & Frances Power Cobbe

Kosten: £2.50 voor niet-leden

Lady Harriet Kavanagh and Frances Power Cobbe are two of the more notable Irish female travellers to Egypt in the 19th century. Drawing on published and unpublished diaries and their letters from Egypt this talk will introduce the travels and antiquarian collections of these two extraordinary Irish Women.

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Donderdag 18 februari, 18.00 uur

Ellie Jones (University of Oxford)
Terms of Gendered Representation: Reassessing the Role of Elite Women in early-mid 18th Dynasty Funerary Iconography from Thebes and El-Kab

Ancient Egyptian tomb iconography has been interpreted with two main functions: successful transition to the afterlife (rebirth) and self-presentation. The funerary portrayals of elite women have primarily been explained through the former function, focusing on how their sexuality and fertility assisted in the rebirth of the (male) tomb owner. This lecture, which summarises the speaker’s DPhil research, takes a wider perspective, exploring the potential meanings encoded in the depiction of female relatives in order to reassess this gendered dichotomy in the interpretation of ancient Egyptian tomb iconography.

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Donderdag 18 februari, 19.30 uur

Silvia Štubňová Nigrelli PhD
Life in Ramesside Deir el-Medina: in the footprints of the scribe Qenherkhepshef

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

Deir el-Medina is een bekende site gelegen op de Thebaanse westoever. Vroeger werd deze site bewoond door de werklieden en ambachtslieden die, tijdens het Nieuwe Rijk, de graven in de Vallei der Koningen en de Vallei der Koninginnen bouwden en versierden. Het dorp heeft Egyptologen voorzien van een unieke reeks materialen en gegevens over de oude bewoners. In deze lezing zullen we kijken hoe het was om in het dorp tijdens de Ramessidentijd te leven door in de voetsporen te treden van een van de bekendste schriftgeleerden van het dorp, Qenherkhepshef.

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Zaterdag 20 februari, 14.45 uur

Paul Whelan
The Symbiosis of King and Cult – Abydos in the Old Kingdom

Kosten: £3 voor SAES-leden, £6 for niet-leden

This lecture will look at the ancient cult centre of Abydos during the Old Kingdom, which was one of the most formative periods in its history. Looking primarily from a royal perspective, the available evidence reveals the evolving physical and spiritual landscape at Abydos from the 4th – 6th Dynasties and how the royal presence there changed over this time.

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Maandag 22 februari, 18.00 uur

Julien Cooper (UIC Zhuhai)
Desert Politics: State formation in the Egyptian Eastern Desert and the ‘Rise of the Blemmyes’

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Dinsdag 23 februari, 20.00 uur

Dr. René Preys (KUL/UNamur)
Epigrafie in Karnak: de tempel van Amon tijdens de Grieks-Romeinse periode

Kosten: €4 voor niet-leden

Tijdens de Grieks-Romeinse periode werd in de tempel van Amon in Karnak vooral gebouwd en gerestaureerd op de as van de tempel. De epigrapfische missies van de UNamur en de KULeuven bestuderen al 10 jaar lang de activiteiten van de Ptolemaeën in Karnak. In deze lezing wordt vooral het werk van de graveurs en de schilders bekeken. Hoe hebben ze de decoratie op de muren aangebracht? Met hoeveel waren ze aan het werk? Hoeveel tijd nam het om een monument te versieren? En hoe kan hun werk ons helpen de monumenten te dateren?

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Woensdag 24 februari, 20.00 uur

Aaron de Souza (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Vile Kush came: New thoughts on Egyptian-Nubian relations at the dawn of the 18th dynasty

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