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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T123000
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SUMMARY:Headless Men and Shattered Bodies: The Destruction of  Prisoner Statues during the Late Old Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:Six pharaohs of the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties erected nearly life-size statues of kneeling bound foreigners in their pyramid complexes. These unique statues\, which are known as prisoner statues\, have only ever been discovered in fragments. This has led scholars to question whether the statues had been intentionally broken for ritualistic reasons. However\, only the prisoner statues from two pyramid complexes actually show evidence of intentional damage in antiquity; those from the complex of Pepi I were methodically decapitated while those from the complex of Pepi II were violently smashed apart. In this talk I will explore the ritualized context of this destruction and how its significance developed from one complex to the other. \n  \nDr. Tara Prakash is Assistant Professor of Ancient Art at the College of Charleston and currently the W. Benson Harer Egyptology Scholar in Residence in the Department of History at California State University\, San Bernardino. She received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University with a specialty in the art and archaeology of ancient Egypt. Dr. Prakash has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on issues of ethnicity and identity\, foreign interactions\, artistic agency\, and the visualization of pain and emotion in ancient Egypt\, and her current book project is the first comprehensive study on the prisoner statues. \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”140″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/headless-men-and-shattered-bodies-the-destruction-of-prisoner-statues-during-the-late-old-kingdom/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Egyptology,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190926T120000
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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:20190419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190419T130000
DTSTAMP:20190412T180837Z
CREATED:20190412T180634Z
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SUMMARY:Nabta Playa: An Abandoned Site Dating Back to the Earliest Days of Ancient Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Nabta Playa is an abandoned place located in the southwestern desert of Egypt. Although it may not appear to be a promising area for the study of the prehistoric archaeology as it is considered among the driest areas in the world\, there is evidence that there were several humid periods in the past that resulted in a parallel civilization to that one in Delta. \n\nDr. Abeer Amin is a professor of ancient Egyptian archaeology and Heritage studies\, Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management at Helwan University\, and visiting Faculty of Sciences professor at Arizona University. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”121″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/nabta-playa-an-abandoned-site-dating-back-to-the-earliest-days-of-ancient-egypt/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T160000
DTSTAMP:20190325T170058Z
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SUMMARY:Feeding the Gods in Ancient Israel
DESCRIPTION:Bread and other grain-based foods were not only staples in the ancient Israelite diet; they were also staples in the ritual acts that accompanied the worship of several deities in ancient Israel. In addition to the state god YHWH\, who required regular offerings of lechem hapanim (“bread of the presence”) in the Tabernacle and the Jerusalem Temple (Exodus 25:30\, 39:36\, 40:23; Leviticus 24: 5-9; Numbers 4:7; 1 Kings 7:48)\, the Queen of Heaven (Jeremiah 7:18\, 44:17-25) was worshipped by families in Jerusalem and throughout Judah with cakes that were marked with her image. Although the biblical writers did not record the details of these practices\, the remains of ritual activity in a variety of Iron Age (ca. 1200-586 BCE) archaeological contexts are strongly associated with areas where bread and other foods were prepared and consumed. In this presentation\, I will discuss the evidence for feeding the gods in Israelite houses\, the house of YHWH\, and other contexts\, and suggest that the ritual importance of bread in ancient Israel began with women’s food offerings to household deities. \n  \nJennie Ebeling is associate professor of archaeology at the University of Evansville in Indiana and co-director of the Jezreel Expedition. A former Fulbright fellow\, she has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Lady Davis Trust to support research in Israel and Jordan. Her research interests include ancient food and drink technology\, women in Canaan and ancient Israel\, and religion and cult in the Bronze and Iron Age Levant\, and her publications include Women’s Lives in Biblical Times (2010) and the edited volumes The Old Testament in Archaeology and History(2017) with J.E. Wright\, M. Elliott\, and P.V.M. Flesher\, Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond (2011) with A. Yasur-Landau and L. Mazow\, and New Approaches to Old Stones: Recent Studies of Ground Stone Artifacts (2008) with Y. Rowan. She produced several films based on her ethnographic research of traditional bread ovens in Jordan; one is on permanent exhibit in the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv. Ebeling served as Vice President (Membership) of ASOR and was an ASOR Trustee for ten years; in 2013 she was awarded the Charles U. Harris Service Award in recognition of her long term service to ASOR. She teaches a variety of courses in Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Evansville and her excellence in undergraduate teaching was recognized with the Dean’s Teaching Award (2011) and Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award (2014). \n  \n  \nPlease RSVP at https://www.cjs.ucla.edu/event/feeding-the-gods-in-ancient-israel/.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/feeding-the-gods-in-ancient-israel/
LOCATION:UCLA Faculty Center
CATEGORIES:Israel Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,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
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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:20180411T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180411T170000
DTSTAMP:20180516T194627Z
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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:20170120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170120T130000
DTSTAMP:20170119T161725Z
CREATED:20170105T193537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T161725Z
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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:20161006T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161006T193000
DTSTAMP:20161006T221429Z
CREATED:20160929T164606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161006T221429Z
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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: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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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T130000
DTSTAMP:20160708T182244Z
CREATED:20160708T180933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T182244Z
UID:2387-1453377600-1453381200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Secret Knowledge and Doubtful Priests in Ancient Egyptian Literature
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will discuss two themes of my ongoing book project “Cult Practice in Ancient Egyptian Literature”. First\, Egyptian literary texts (narratives\, wisdom texts and discourses) often make reference to “secret knowledge.” What does this mean? Second\, doubt is an important motif in several of these texts\, that is\, doubts about the claims of certain priests\, doubts about the efficacy of magic and offerings\, and even priestly self-doubt. What role does this motif play in these texts? \n  \nFranziska Naether is assistant professor of Egyptology at the Egyptological Institute and Egyptian Museum “Georg Steindorff” at the University of Leipzig. Her dissertation “Sortes Astrampsychi” focused on a complex Greek lot oracle from Roman Egypt and other divinatory methods and their legacy. Naether’s research interests include ancient Egyptian literature\, religion and its material culture\, representation and communication of rulers\, papyrology and digital humanities. From 2005 to 2008\, she was collaborator of the initial phase of the “Trismegistos” database and is now working for the “Demotistische Literaturübersicht\,” a review project for demotic studies featured in the journal “Enchoria” and in Trismegistos. Naether is a Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York for the 2015-16 academic year and currently for a short leave at the Getty Research Institute.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/secret-knowledge-doubtful-priests-ancient-egyptian-literature-2/
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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