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SUMMARY:Archaeology and the Kingdom of David and Solomon
DESCRIPTION:Archaeology of Ancient Israel Lecture Series\nThe United Monarchy –  the famed kingdom of David and Solomon – is at the center of a heated debate. While until 25 years ago there was a consensus that David and Solomon were historical figures who ruled over fairly large territories\, it is now questioned by many who believe either that these kings were either petty chiefs controlling a limited territory around Jerusalem or that they did not even exist. Given these doubts\, the archaeological evidence has come to the center of discussion stage. A broad examination of the nature of the Iron I-II transition\, however\, reveals major changes in practically every aspect of life\, from settlement patterns to various aspects of material culture\, including pottery form and decoration\, and architectural developments. While each change could\, in theory\, be a result of a number of causes\, a broad analysis of all the processes and transformations\, and especially their sequencing in time and space\, greatly narrows down the possible options. It is therefore the aim of the present lecture to briefly present the sweeping changes that accompanied the Iron I-II transition\, to reconstruct (temporally and spatially) the processes of growing social complexity that they reflect\, and subsequently to examine the implications of this analysis on the debate over the historicity of the so-called United Monarchy. \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \nAvraham Faust (Bar-Ilan University) \nModerated by:\nDr. Aaron Burke (NELC) \nSponsored by:\nKershaw Chair for Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies \nCo-Sponsored by:\nDepartment of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Cotson Institute of Archaeology\nAlan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”138″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/archaeology-and-the-kingdom-of-david-and-solomon/
LOCATION:Mathematical Sciences 4000A
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Hebrew & Jewish,Israel Studies,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190926T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190926T133000
DTSTAMP:20190823T222126Z
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SUMMARY:Applying for Jobs and Life After the Dissertation
DESCRIPTION:Join NELC faculty Dr. Cate Bonesho\, Dr. Kara Cooney\, and Dr. Bill Schniedewind for a workshop and discussion of applying for jobs and life after the dissertation. \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”137″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/life-after-the-dissertation/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 365
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic,Arabic & Islamic Studies,Armenian,Assyriology,Bilingual Lecture Series,Egyptology,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Iranian,Israel Studies,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,Levantine,Levantine Studies,Middle Eastern Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC,Pourdavoud Center,Semitics,Turkic,Turkic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T133000
DTSTAMP:20190515T212727Z
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SUMMARY:Multilingualism in Early Islamic Egypt: The View from Papyri
DESCRIPTION:After Arab armies conquered Egypt in the mid-seventh century\, the country’s linguistic landscape changed only gradually. Greek\, preeminent for centuries as a language of high culture and governance\, faded as Arabic advanced to fill these niches. Coptic\, which until then had functioned largely as a vernacular\, became in its turn a language of culture and administration. This talk traces the three languages’ variable coexistence in a time of political and social change through the papyri and literary sources. \nSponsored By: \nDean’s Discretionary Fund \nCenter for Near Eastern Studies \nDr. Naïm Vanthieghem is a Research Scholar at the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT)\, a division of the Centre National de la Recherche\nScientifique in Paris. A papyrologist and historian of Egypt who works with Arabic\,\nCoptic\, and Greek documents\, he earned a PhD from the Free University of Brussels in 2015. He held post-doctoral fellowships from the European Research Council and Princeton University before joining the IRHT in 2017. He is the author of numerous articles in his areas of interest\, which include multilingualism\, law\, scribal practice\, early Islam\, and governmental administration. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”115″ title=”false” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/multilingualism-in-early-islamic-the-view-from-papyri/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic,Arabic & Islamic Studies,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T160000
DTSTAMP:20181029T163337Z
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SUMMARY:Israel and the Samaria Highlands: A Nomad Settlement Wave or Urban Expansion during the Early Iron Age?
DESCRIPTION: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 the 12th century BCE. This lecture reconsiders the reasons behind this wave of settlement throughout the Samaria Highlands during the Iron I (1200-1000 BCE) in light of new understanding of the social and economic reality on the coastal plain\, the Jezreel\, Jordan\, and Hula Valleys\, and the regions surrounding the Samaria Highlands. \n  \nProf. Yuval Gadot is the head of the Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel-Aviv University. Since 2013 he is directing Tel-Aviv University excavations at the ‘City of David’ and Co-directing the ‘Lautenschläger Azekah Expedition’. His research in Jerusalem includes excavations of the ancient core together with interdisciplinary study of the rural landscape surrounding the city. Gadot obtained his PhD\, titled: “Continuity and change: the transition between the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age in Israel central coastal plain”\, in 2004 from Tel-Aviv University. The work included the first full publication of the excavations at Tel Aphek and a regional study of trends in the material culture as they understood in relation to historical events. Among Gadot’s publications are: Ramat Rahel III – Final Publication of Yohanan Aharoni’s Excavations at Ramat-Raḥel published in 2016\, The Bronze Age Cemetery at ‘Ara published in 2014\, and the recent co-editing of “Rethinking Israel”: an edited volume published in honor of Prof. Israel Finkelstein. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”89″ title=”false” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/archaeology-of-ancient-israel-fall-2018-lecture/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall A51 (Basement Level)\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Israel Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T140000
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SUMMARY:Between Egypt and the Near East: Current Research on the Amarna Letters
DESCRIPTION: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 from considerably different concepts of royal power and authority. The Amarna tablets are a collection of almost 400 cuneiform documents discovered in the later 1880’s in the ruins of ancient Akhetaten (modern-day Tell el-Amarna). More than 130 years after those were unearthed in Middle Egypt the tablets still represent a primary source for understanding the political\, economic\, and legal relations between Egypt and the client kingdoms of the Levant during the 14th century BC. In recent years several key-studies have been published attempting to analyze the corpus from various angles including the language of the texts\, Egyptian imperialism and policy towards the Levantine city-states as well as transmission\, acquisition\, and adoption of cuneiform in these peripheral regions. It is the aim of this presentation to offer some suggestions concerning the role of Egyptian administration in the Levant\, especially with respect to its cuneiform tradition\, as well as to highlight several aspects of the Egyptian-ANE relations and set those into a wider cultural and political context. \n  \n\nJana Mynářová is an Assyriologist and Egyptologist at the Czech Institute of Egyptology\, Faculty of Arts\, Charles University. She graduated in 2004 in Philology – Languages of Asia and Africa (Charles University\, Prague) and since 2015 she is Associate Professor of Egyptology. She specializes above all in the relations of Egypt and the Near East in the second half of the 2nd millennium BC\, Peripheral Akkadian\, scribal culture\, and political and cultural history of the Levant in the Late Bronze Age. She is currently working on two projects supported by the Czech Science Foundation – Amarna Cuneiform Palaeography and Economic Complexity in the Ancient Near East. Management of Resources and Taxation in the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BC. \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \n\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”95″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/between-egypt-and-the-near-east-current-research-on-the-amarna-letters/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 365
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Levantine Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T143000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Research Presentations and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:12:00 – 1:00pm \nOverspecializing the Specialist: Reevaluating the Role of Producers in the Study of Technological Interconnectivity\nNadia Ben-Marzouk (Archaeology) \nAccounting for Kingship: The Samaria Ostraca as Royal Performance Jason Price (Hebrew Bible) \nAn Image on the Stele or a Ghost in the Shell? A Cognitive Scientific Approach to the Material “Soul” in the Levant\nTimothy Hogue (Hebrew Bible) \n1:00 – 2:00pm \nQWS\, Edom\, and Identities: Exploring the Use of Theophoric Elements in Onomastica as Markers of Identity\nAndrew Danielson (Archaeology) \nThe Role of the Hyksos in Technological Transmission and Its Influence on New Kingdom Egypt\nDani Candelora (Egyptology) \nEarthly and Eternal: The Poetics of Violence in Ancient Egypt\nRose Campbell (Egyptology) \n2:00 – 2:30pm \nData Capture Strategies at Tel Shimron during the 2017 Season\nNicholas Schulte (Archaeology) \n‘In Honor or Memory of’ Whom? Exploring the Gendered Nature of Festschrifts and Memorial Volumes\nAmanda Bauer (Archaeology \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”91″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/graduate-student-research-presentations-and-qa/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 365
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Middle Eastern Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181015T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181015T160000
DTSTAMP:20181015T181604Z
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SUMMARY:The Relationship of Egyptian and Semitic
DESCRIPTION:  \nIt 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 an eye towards identifying inherited Afroasiatic features. We will also look at how Egyptian and some dialects of Northwest Semitic influenced one another as a consequence of sustained linguistic and cultural contact. \n\n\n\n\nAaron Rubin is Malvin and Lea Bank Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies\, Jewish Studies\, and Linguistics at Penn State University\, where he has taught since 2004. His main field of research is the Semitic family of languages\, in particular Hebrew\, Mehri\, and Jibbali. Recently\, he has also been exploring manuscripts in lesser known Jewish languages\, such as Judeo-Italian and Judeo-Urdu. He has authored seven monographs\, and co-edited four volumes. His most recent works are Omani Mehri: A New Grammar with Texts (2018) and Handbook of Jewish Languages (2016). \n\nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP\n[gravityform id=”88″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-relationship-of-egyptian-and-semitic/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,Humanities,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180828T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180828T140000
DTSTAMP:20180816T165104Z
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SUMMARY:Reuse of New Kingdom Monuments and Visitors’ Graffiti in Late and Graeco-Roman Period Elkab
DESCRIPTION: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 entirety of the monuments and architectural structures that host them (New Kingdom and later tomb chapels\, the Ramesside/Ptolemaic hemispeos\, and the temple of Amenhotep III)\, through digital techniques based on photogrammetry. This is in order to enable the study and presentation of both textual and architectural material in context\, with a holistic approach that is intended to reflect the original situation on site. Samples of the epigraphic material collected so far (both textual and figural in nature) and the techniques employed in its recording will be discussed in the course of this seminar. \n  \nLuigi Prada is British Academy Research Fellow in Egyptology at the University of Oxford and a Trustee of the Egypt Exploration Society\, London. Previously\, he was Visiting Associate Professor in Egyptology at the University of Copenhagen\, Junior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Egyptology and Coptic at the University of Oxford\, and Theodor Heuss Research Fellow for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Heidelberg. Luigi’s main research interests lie in ancient Egyptian textual studies—with special focus on texts from the later phases of ancient Egypt’s history\, in hieroglyphs\, hieratic\, and demotic—\, as well as in the study of Graeco-Egyptian bilingualism and ancient translations\, in connection with the development of Coptic. He is also active in the field\, both in Egypt (as Assistant Field Director of the Oxford Expedition to Elkab)\, and in Sudan (as an epigraphist at Jebel Dosha and the Dal Cataract). \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”85″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/reuse-of-new-kingdom-monuments-and-visitors-graffiti-in-late-and-graeco-roman-period-elkab/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T133000
DTSTAMP:20180524T152124Z
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SUMMARY:A Romano-Egyptian Obelisk Beyond the Nile
DESCRIPTION: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 AD 300. Part of a new Getty initiative called The Classical World in Context\, the exhibition kicks off a series that will highlight the Classical world’s relationships with other ancient cultures. The themes encapsulated in the obelisk – an Egyptian monument made during the reign of emperor Domitian and set up at a temple to Isis in Benevento – will be connected to other objects in the exhibition\, demonstrating that many of the underlying motivations for contact remained the same over the course of nearly 2500 years. \n  \nSara E. Cole is an Assistant Curator in the Antiquities Department at the Getty Villa. She received her PhD from Yale University in 2015. Her research focuses primarily on cross-cultural exchange in Graeco-Roman Egypt and she is a co-curator of the Getty exhibition “Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World.” Prior to joining the Getty\, she curated the exhibitions “Glass of the Ancient Mediterranean” (McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture\, Knoxville\, TN\, 2014) and “Drink That You May Live: Ancient Glass from the Yale University Art Gallery” (Yale University Art Gallery\, New Haven\, CT\, 2017). \n  \nEvent Flyer \n  \nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”82″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/a-romano-egyptian-obelisk-beyond-the-nile/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180423T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180423T170000
DTSTAMP:20180516T183230Z
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SUMMARY:In the Workshop of an Ancient Egyptian Sculptor
DESCRIPTION: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. Next to the world-famous bust of Nefertiti\, the German excavators unearthed a collection of plaster portrait studies that allow reconstructing the creation procedure of ancient Egyptian portraits as well as the technique used to ensure the consistency of royal portraiture in ancient Egypt. The presentation will address those issues from a hands-on perspective\, as well as the reason why this royal sculptor\, named Thutmose\, kept those plaster pieces in his estate. \n  \nDimitri Laboury is Research Director of the FNRS\, the National Foundation for Scientific Research of Belgium\, at the University of Liège\, where he teaches Ancient Egyptian Art History\, Archaeology\, History and History of Religion\, as Associate Professor. Trained as an Egyptologist and an Art Historian\, he specialized in the study of Ancient Egyptian thought and cultural history through the art of that civilization. His interests range from the study of royal statuary to the analysis of painterly practices in the decoration of Theban Tombs\, and from the history of western reception of Ancient Egyptian art to a theoretical approach to the functioning and meaning of Ancient Egyptian art. He is currently preparing the edition of an Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Paleography at Oxford University Press. \n  \nEvent Flyer \n[gravityform id=”77″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/workshop-ancient-egyptian-sculptor/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,Middle Eastern Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T170000
DTSTAMP:20180410T172350Z
CREATED:20180326T234701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T172350Z
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SUMMARY:Royal Succession in Ancient Egypt and Early Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:Royal Succession in Ancient Egypt\nNowhere are the legal terms of royal succession in ancient Egypt set out in explicit terms. The concept of hereditary monarchy manifests a wide range of modes of succession across time and place\, and today we will review these\, together with such evidence as survives from Egypt to discuss the way in which Egyptian pharaonic succession may have functioned\, in both theory and practice. We also consider the evidence for and existence of\, the institution of coregency. \nAidan Dodson is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology & Archaeology at the University of Bristol. His primary research interests concern ancient Egypt and funerary customs. His particular areas of specialization are Egyptian dynastic history and chronology\, tomb architecture\, coffin and sarcophagus design\, canopic equipment\, and the history of Egyptology\, particularly in Bristol. A prolific author and editor of nearly three hundred academic works\, he has worked to publish the coffins and related material from the tomb of Tutankhamun\, and his recent books include The Royal Tombs of Ancient Egypt. \n  \nEarly Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean\nThe talk will address the earliest trade from around the beginning of the Bronze Age. We will do our best to trace and follow its main lines\, engaging with both the historical and theoretical questions that arise treating precious materials\, textiles\, and so on in addition to dealing with prices\, values\, import substitution and product substitution as well as circulation. We will discuss grain in particular in order to provide a critical perspective on long term changes. There will be a prolonged period for questions and discussion of the range of issues raised by such a broad topic\, so audience input will be both vital and welcomed. \nDavid Warburton studies political science\, archaeology and Egyptology. He holds degrees from the American University of Beirut (BA\, MA)\, the University of Bern (D.phil)\, and the Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (HDR). Warburton has since taught in cities across the world – Bern\, Copenhagen\, Aarhus\, Lyon\, Berlin\, Cairo\, and Changchun. His excavations\, surveys & epigraphy have taken place in France\, Switzerland\, Syria\, Iraq\, Yemen\, and Egypt. He serves as the Resident Director for the American Institute for Yemeni Studies from 1993-1995. His publications include books on economics\, religion\, chronology\, stratigraphy; articles & chapters on economics\, religion\, chronology\, stratigraphy\, colour terminology\, history of science\, architecture\, excavation reports; and many reviews \n  \nEvent Flyer\nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”76″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/royal-succession-ancient-egypt-and-early-trade-in-the-eastern-mediterranean/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180411T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180411T170000
DTSTAMP:20180516T194627Z
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UID:9768-1523458800-1523466000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:ARCE Practice Talks Round 2
DESCRIPTION:The Compositional Design of Djedhor Cairo JE 46341 \nMichael 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 my analysis permit a greater intertextual study of magical healing spells and a better understanding of these spells’ relationships with materiality. \n  \n\nTemple Rank and 21st Dynasty Funerary Papyri: Documenting Status in Theban Society \n\nMarissa Stevens (Egyptology). This talk focuses on the funerary papyri of the Theban priesthood and the choices they made regarding the content of the papyri. These choices of content reflect the positions these priests held within the temple\, and oftentimes passed through the generations\, illustrating the inheritance of temple positions and the importance of hereditary positions in this religiously entrenched society \n  \nEvent Flyer\n[gravityform id=”74″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/arce-practice-talks-round-2/
LOCATION:161 Dodd Hall\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171020T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171020T130000
DTSTAMP:20171026T164823Z
CREATED:20171004T214128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171026T164823Z
UID:8473-1508497200-1508504400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Searching for Scribal Curriculum in Ancient Israel
DESCRIPTION:Professor William Schniedewind will present the outlines of his research in progress—a book on Scribal Education in Ancient Israel. The research proposes that outlines of scribal curriculum in early Israel can now be reconstructed based on his interpretation of the recently fully published inscriptions from Kuntillet Ajrud and using parallels with Mesopotamian scribal curriculum and its adaptations into other Levantine scribal settings. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”48″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]\n  \n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/searching-scribal-curriculum-ancient-israel/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Levantine,Levantine Studies,Middle Eastern Studies,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T153000
DTSTAMP:20170214T185323Z
CREATED:20170214T185200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170214T185323Z
UID:6806-1487259000-1487259000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Archaeological Adventure of Museo Egizio (1903-1920)
DESCRIPTION: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 Ancient Egypt. Significantly\, the anthropological interest in human remains of these expeditions was at that time innovative\, and gave the Museo Egizio an original multidisciplinary perspective. The rich photographic\, and documentary archive of the M.A.I.’s allows the reconstruction not only of their organisation and the discoveries they made\, but also the daily life of an expedition. Excavations ended in 1920 with the fourth archaeological campaign of the site in Gebelein\, though the last crates of artefacts arrived in Turin in 1923. The extraordinary corpus of objects found during the excavations required the opening of new rooms to visitors\, and increased and completed the documentation of historical periods already on display. From then until the present day\, Museo Egizio has been excavating at Saqqara in a collaborative project with the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. The excavation in Saqqara allows the archaeological exploration\, and study\, of one of the New Kingdom’s most important necropolis. \nChristian Greco\nCurator\, Dutch National Museum of Antiquities \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/archaeological-adventure-museo-egizio-1903-1920-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170210T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170210T130000
DTSTAMP:20170119T175627Z
CREATED:20170117T015424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T175627Z
UID:6449-1486724400-1486731600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:New Light on Qubbet el-Hawa
DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \n  \n  \nDr. Martin Bommas\nReader in Egyptology\nGetty Scholar 2016-2017\nCurator of the Eton Myers Collection of Egyptian Arts at the University of Birmingham\nDirector of the Qubbet el-Hawa Research Project\nEditor-in-chief of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology  \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/new-light-qubbet-el-hawa/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,NELC
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170124T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170124T190000
DTSTAMP:20170118T204107Z
CREATED:20170118T204107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170118T204107Z
UID:6480-1485273600-1485284400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:To Refer or Not to Refer: Tracking Intertextuality in the Hebrew Bible
DESCRIPTION:Professor Machinist will develop aspects of intertextuality through several examples involving well-known biblical texts\, including Psalm 29—a famous “Canaanite” hymn in the Psalter. This seminar will be held in conjunction with Professor Schniedewind’s Ugaritic seminar. Graduate students are encouraged to read Psalm 29 and Y. Avishur’s chapter on “Psalm 29” in Studies in Hebrew and Ugaritic Psalms. \n  \n  \nDr. Peter Machinist\nHarvard Divinity School \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/refer-not-refer-tracking-intertextuality-hebrew-bible/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,Levantine,Levantine Studies,NELC,Semitics
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170120T130000
DTSTAMP:20170119T161725Z
CREATED:20170105T193537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T161725Z
UID:6397-1484913600-1484917200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Modelling Long-Distance Interaction in the Middle Bronze Age
DESCRIPTION: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 kept intentionally separate from competing entities. This talk will explore some of those other linked and competing commercial networks of the Middle Bronze Age in the Near East (2000-1500 BCE)\, both through the Assyrian trade records and the contemporary archaeological assemblage from Anatolia and beyond. \nLight lunch provided. \nGojko Barjamovic\nLecturer on Assyriology; Director of Undergraduate Studies \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/modelling-long-distance-interaction-middle-bronze-agethe-old/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Levantine,Levantine Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170119T130000
DTSTAMP:20170112T201949Z
CREATED:20170112T201932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170112T201949Z
UID:6441-1484827200-1484830800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Divine Priestesses: The Ptolemaic Queens in the Egyptian and Hellenistic Cults
DESCRIPTION: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 lecture will focus on the queens serving as priestesses\, both in the Hellenistic and the Egyptian contexts\, and analyse how these two worlds were possibly interlinked and based on existing traditions. \n\n \nLight lunch provided. \nDr. Martina Minas-Nerpel\nSwansea University\, United Kingdom \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/divine-priestesses-ptolemaic-queens-egyptian-hellenistic-cults/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170112T173000
DTSTAMP:20170109T181800Z
CREATED:20170109T181738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T181800Z
UID:6417-1484236800-1484242200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Sea Peoples and Neo-Hittites in the ‘Land of Palistin’: Recent Discoveries at Tayinat on the Orontes
DESCRIPTION: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 University of Toronto’s ongoing excavations at ancient Tayinat. \nTIMOTHY HARRISON\n(University of Toronto) \nCosponsored by the\nUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures\nUCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/sea-peoples-neo-hittites-land-palistin-recent-discoveries-tayinat-orontes/
LOCATION:Faculty Center
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,Levantine,Levantine Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161202T170000
DTSTAMP:20160929T021437Z
CREATED:20160927T225359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160929T021437Z
UID:5215-1480618800-1480698000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:New Light on the Egyptian Origin of the Hebrew Alphabet
DESCRIPTION: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. \nSponsored by the\nUCLA Near Eastern Languages & Cultures \nCosponsored by the\nUCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\nUCLA College of Humanities\nKershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies\nCotsen Institute \n  \nComplete Program Schedule\n  \n\n[gravityform id=”15″ title=”true” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/new-light-egyptian-origin-hebrew-alphabet/
LOCATION:Young Research Library (YRL) Room 11360\, 280 Charles E Young Dr N \, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Assyriology,Egyptology,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161006T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161006T193000
DTSTAMP:20161006T221429Z
CREATED:20160929T164606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161006T221429Z
UID:5273-1475778600-1475782200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:I Can Hear The Barbarians
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/can-hear-barbarians/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities \, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic,Arabic & Islamic Studies,Armenian,Assyriology,Egyptology,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Israel Studies,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,Levantine,Levantine Studies,Middle Eastern Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC,Semitics,Turkic,Turkic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160425T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160425T152000
DTSTAMP:20160708T185200Z
CREATED:20160708T170617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T185200Z
UID:2370-1461587400-1461597600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Kitāb al-Ḥayda and Early Ḥanbalī Creeds
DESCRIPTION:Among Islamic groups\, Sunnī traditionalists\, especially Ḥanbalīs\, were strongly opposed to kalām (dialectical theology). Their condemnation of kalām was such that it became an established article of their creeds. Notwithstanding this official condemnation\, there is evidence in their writings that they practiced kalām. For example\, Ḥanbalī practices of kalām have been examined in the work of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328)\, as have their influences on the disputational legal writings (jadal al-fiqh) of Ibn ʿAqīl (d. 513/1119). This talk investigates the role of kalām\, specifically apologetic kalām\, in fourth/tenth-century Ḥanbalī works through the lens of a pseudepigraphon. By examining the genesis of this pseudepigraphon — known in its later recensions under the title Kitāb al-Ḥayda (Book of evasion) — in al-Ibāna al-kubrā (The major creed) of Ibn Baṭṭa al-ʿUkbarī (d. 387/997)\, the presentation will highlight compelling textual evidence not only of the role of apologetic kalām but also of the transmission of pseudepigraphic narratives in the formation of Ḥanbalī creeds. \nRacha El Omari is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at University of California-Santa Barbara. Her research interests are in the areas of Islamic Theology\, Islamic Intellectual History\, and Arabic-Islamic Historiography. She received her PhD from Yale University (NELC). Her works include The Theology of Abū al-Qāsim al-Balkhī/al-Kaʿbī (d. 319/931) (Brill\, forthcoming)\, and “Accomodation and Resistance: Classical Muʿtazilites on Ḥadīth.” Published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/kitab-al-%e1%b8%a5ayda-early-%e1%b8%a5anbali-creeds/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic & Islamic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160419T133000
DTSTAMP:20160708T185047Z
CREATED:20160708T170240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T185047Z
UID:2369-1461067200-1461072600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Painters and Painting Practices in the Theban Necropolis During the 18th Dynasty
DESCRIPTION: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\, practices\, work organisation\, employability and relations to their patrons. It will start by addressing the often skirted issue of art and artists in Ancient Egypt\, before analysing the various Egyptological data as well as new methodological strategies that allow us to study and track down those artists in their social but also individual identities.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/painters-painting-practices-theban-necropolis-18th-dynasty/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160418T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160418T180000
DTSTAMP:20160708T184955Z
CREATED:20160708T170111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T184955Z
UID:2368-1460998800-1461002400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Lucille Ball in Ancient Egypt? The Business Dealings of Lady Tsenhor in Persian Egypt
DESCRIPTION: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 from being a housewife she worked as a funerary priest\, bought her own slaves\, owned land and did construction work with her second husband. A woman of many talents indeed. \n  \nKoen Donker van Heel is University Lecturer at the Papyrological Institute of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He is a specialist in abnormal hieratic and early Demotic documents (8th to 4th c. BCE.). His research deals with legal and socio-economic history of Egypt in the Nubian to Persian Periods.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/lucille-ball-ancient-egypt-business-dealings-lady-tsenhor-persian-egypt/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,Near Eastern Archaeology
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T203000
DTSTAMP:20160721T214659Z
CREATED:20160708T165051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160721T214659Z
UID:2365-1460662200-1460665800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Cities that Built the Bible
DESCRIPTION:The Cities That Built the Bible is a magnificent tour through fourteen cities: the cities of Tyre\, Sidon\, and Byblos\, Ugarit\, Nineveh\, Babylon\, Megiddo\, Athens\, Alexandria\, Jerusalem\, Qumran\, Bethlehem\, Nazareth\, and Rome. Along the way\, Cargill includes photos of artifacts\, dig sites\, ruins\, and relics\, taking readers on a far-reaching journey from the Grotto of the Nativity to the battlegrounds of Megiddo\, from the towering Acropolis of Athens to the caves in Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/cities-built-bible/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 314\, 340 Royce Dr b100\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160331T133000
DTSTAMP:20160721T214754Z
CREATED:20160708T163351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160721T214754Z
UID:2361-1459425600-1459431000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Lesser Syrtis (Tunisia) in Antiquity
DESCRIPTION: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 both the western Maghreb\, as well as the major cities of the eastern Mediterranean. The region was deemed important enough to be mentioned in the historical sources\, including Strabo\, and was considered a zone of emporia. Archaeological findings from survey and excavations over the past decades have highlighted the extent to which the region was a cultural crossroads\, with abundant Greek\, Roman\, Berber and Carthaginian material culture and inscriptions. Like the urban Tripoli to the east—with the “three cities” of Leptis Magna\, Oea and Sabratha—the Lesser Syrtis has its own urban triangle\, with the three centers of Gigthis\, Meninx and Zita. \nDr. Ali Drine is a Senior Archaeological Researcher and Director of Archaeological Mapping at the Institut National du Patrimoine in Tunisia\, where he oversees the excavations of the major archaeological sites in southern Tunisia. From 1997-2001 he co-directed the Jerba Project\, along with colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania. During this project\, he performed the archaeological survey of the island\, resulting in the publication of An Island Through Time: Jerba Studies\, Volume I\, The Punic and Roman Periods (2009)\, edited by Ali Drine\, Elizabeth Fentress and Renata Holod. Si Ali is currently co-directing the Zita Project\, together with scholars from UCLA and Brown University. He is a specialist of the Roman archaeology of Tunisia\, a topic on which he has published widely.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/lesser-syrtis-tunisia-antiquity/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Near Eastern Archaeology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160226T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160226T133000
DTSTAMP:20160721T215220Z
CREATED:20160708T162815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160721T215220Z
UID:2359-1456488000-1456493400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Tracing the Skill of Fresco Painting in Tell El-Dabca
DESCRIPTION: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 Egyptian material culture: they display a rather strangely appearing ‘minoanizing’ iconography\, they are painted on lime plaster instead of the more widespread gypsum plaster and also not the usual tempera-\, but the fresco technique is extensively used. The latter aspect if of particular importance when we want to better understand the kind of transmediterranean relations during this period. Hence the seminar will discuss the different techniques traceable at the site\, try to approach the different necessary skills for their execution and how these might be spread in the Eastern Mediterranean.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/tracing-skill-fresco-painting-tell-el-dabca/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,Near Eastern Archaeology
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160212T133000
DTSTAMP:20160708T183535Z
CREATED:20160708T162453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T183535Z
UID:2358-1455278400-1455283800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Settlement and Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant
DESCRIPTION: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 the variables and factors that influenced and affected settlement in the Bronze Age and the subsequent development of “urban” society in each era. Urban development affects all aspects of a society\, and is revealed through the organization\, size\, and distribution of settlement throughout a region; consequently\, the subsequent growth and sustainability of any urban society then hinges on the strength and stability of that settlement. Broad-scale and long-term examination of settlement patterns in the southern Levant reveals important differences between the Early and Middle Bronze Ages that have significant ramifications regarding the nature of urban society in each era. This paper will present data and analysis of settlement patterns in both the Early and Middle Bronze Age southern Levant and address how these patterns reflect the strength\, organization\, and stability of urban development in each era.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/settlement-urban-development-bronze-age-southern-levant/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Near Eastern Archaeology
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160204T020000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160204T150000
DTSTAMP:20160721T215324Z
CREATED:20160708T162257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160721T215324Z
UID:2357-1454551200-1454598000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Adoption of the "Adoption" Formula in Biblical Literature
DESCRIPTION:The metaphor of adoption saturates biblical literature\, yet there is no discrete adoption law in the Hebrew Bible. This metaphor did not draw upon one particular source or ancient Near Eastern legal tradition\, but had a wide range of associations rooted in familial and political life. The performative and ritual nature of adoption in the ancient Near East\, too\, is central to understanding the evolution of this metaphor and why it is so pervasive in biblical literature.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/adoption-adoption-formula-biblical-literaturet/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Hebrew Bible
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160125T133000
DTSTAMP:20160708T182941Z
CREATED:20160708T161612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T182941Z
UID:2353-1453723200-1453728600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:A Better Story Tyrian Resistance\, Hasmonean Valor\, and the Authority of Narrative
DESCRIPTION: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\, a Tyrian border shrine and watchtower. The second site is Tel Kedesh\, where c. 500 BCE the Tyrian royal house built a huge compound for the collection of agricultural goods; the compound was remodeled and used by the Ptolemies of Egypt and the Seleucids of Syria. The evidence shows that the Achaemenids gave the Tyrian royal house control of the Upper Galilee and its agricultural bounty\, but that this disappeared under the Ptolemies and Seleucids\, who reduced scions of elite families to provincial functionaries. \n  \nShortly after the middle of the second century\, the compound at Kedesh was abandoned in haste and never returned to administrative use. Within a year or two the building’s archive was deliberately polluted by an infant burial; a few years later squatters occupied portions of the building. The author of 1 Maccabees describes a battle c. 143 BCE in which Jonathan chased Seleucid forces to Kedesh – but the juxtaposition of text and archaeological evidence suggest a very different scenario. The building’s abandonment marks the effective end of imperial authority here\, while the burial in the archive room suggests that Tyrian administrators took advantage of imperial weakness for their own political liberation. The author of 1 Maccabees\, writing at least a generation later\, then “borrowed” an episode that properly belonged to Tyrian history in order to create a heroic persona for Jonathan and to support then-current Hasmonean interests in the Upper Galilee\, a territory considered to be Israelite by divine right. In overwriting an episode of Tyrian resistance as Judean military victory\, he transformed felt geographic destiny into history.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/better-story-tyrian-resistance-hasmonean-valor-authority-narrative/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Israel Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology
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