Egyptology
The unusual New Kingdom Tomb-Chapel of Isisnofret on a rocky outcropping at Northwest Saqqara
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesDr. Nozomu Kawai specializes in history, art and archaeology of the New Kingdom in Egypt, with a particular emphasis on the period from the late Eighteenth Dynasty to the Nineteenth Dynasty. She has been directing Japanese archaeological excavation at Northwest Saqqara / South Abusir since 2001. Her Ph.D. thesis was on the reign of...
Senenmut Redivivus: The Interesting Life & Afterlife of an Ancient Egyptian Official
Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesSenenmut was one of ancient Egypt’s most famous personalities: chief minister and possible lover of Queen Hatshepsut (c. 1473-1478), Egypt’s female pharaoh. More monuments are known for Senenmut than for any other official of the New Kingdom, implying his exceptional status during life. Recently, an unassuming stone fragment in the Manchester Museum, UK, proved the...
Graduate Student Conference Talks and Q&A
Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCome and hear what the graduate students in NELC are working on! Graduate students presenting their research at academic conferences in the next month will be giving their talks for the NELC community, and would love feedback and questions! Speakers (in order): Andrew Danielson Danielle Candelora Jacob Damm Jeremy Williams Timothy Hogue Marissa Stevens Event...
From Pastoral Nomads to Policemen: Ethnicity and Identity of the Medjay in Ancient Egypt
Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesProfessor Kate Liszka will provide a lecture on the introduction of the diverse textual, artistic, and archaeological sources that help us identify how Medjay evolved from an ethnic group to Egypt’s most important police force. Come learn more about the Medjay people. Lunch will be provided. Kate Liszka completed her degree in Egyptology at the...
ARCE Practice Talks Round 2
161 Dodd Hall 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe Compositional Design of Djedhor Cairo JE 46341 Michael Chen (Egyptology). This paper examines the layout of spells upon the statue surfaces of Djedhor to uncover the inherent planning behind the design of the statue. This strategic design reveals both a balanced spell arrangement and the inscribing order of the statue’s construction. The patterns observed in...
In the Workshop of an Ancient Egyptian Sculptor
Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIn 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....
A Romano-Egyptian Obelisk Beyond the Nile
Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesUsing 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...
Reuse of New Kingdom Monuments and Visitors’ Graffiti in Late and Graeco-Roman Period Elkab
Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesSince 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...
The Relationship of Egyptian and Semitic
Kaplan Hall 348It 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...
Graduate Student Research Presentations and Q&A
Kaplan Hall 36512:00 – 1:00pm Overspecializing the Specialist: Reevaluating the Role of Producers in the Study of Technological Interconnectivity Nadia Ben-Marzouk (Archaeology) Accounting for Kingship: The Samaria Ostraca as Royal Performance Jason Price (Hebrew Bible) An Image on the Stele or a Ghost in the Shell? A Cognitive Scientific Approach to the Material "Soul" in the Levant...