26 May 2012 - 10:00
Edinburgh
Edinburgh Study Day: Temples, Tombs and Fascinating Mummies: Deir el-Bahri and those who left their mark there
Event Info
Host: EES
Type: Education – Lecture
Time and Place
Start Time: Saturday, 26th May 2012, 10:00 am
End Time: Saturday, 26th May 2012, 5:00 pm
Location: Auditorium, Level 1 Learning Centre, National Museum of Scotland
Street: Chambers Street
City/Town: Edinburgh, EH1 1JF
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Contact Details
Email:
Phone: +44 (0)300 123 6789
Link:
http://www.nms.ac.uk
http://www.ees.ac.uk/events/index/118.html
Description
The Society will be hosting this study day in collaboration with National Museums Scotland.
National Museums Scotland will be hosting the Fascinating Mummies exhibition of treasures from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, from 11 February to 27 May 2012. This study day, organised by the EES and NMS with the support of Egyptology Scotland, takes as its starting point, the mummy of Ankh-hor, an early 26th Dyn Priest of Montju at Karnak, which is the exhibition’s star attraction. Ankh-hor was buried in the Late Period cemetery within the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir El-Bahri, a monument with which the Society has a very close association. The lectures will explore the site, Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh with whom it is most often associated, and its long history before and after her reign. The programme for the day will be as follows:
10.00 Registration, coffee/tea and biscuits
10.30 Opening remarks
10.45 Dr Aidan Dodson, Deir el-Bahri before the Late Period: Montuhotep, Hatshepsut, the Royal Mummies and More
11.30 Chris Naunton, Still thriving: Deir el-Bahri and el-Asasif in the Late Period
12.15 Questions
12.30 Lunch (please make your own arrangements) and opportunity to view Fascinating Mummies
14.00 Chris Naunton, The EES at Deir el-Bahri: Edouard Naville, Howard Carter and the revealing of temples
14.45 Questions
15.30 Coffee/tea and biscuits
16.00 Dr Aidan Dodson, West Theban Pioneers: Belzoni, Rhind, Wilkinson and their contemporaries
16.45 Discussion and closing remarks
17.00 Close
Dr Aidan Dodson is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology & Anthropology at the University of Bristol.
Deir el-Bahari before the Late Period: Montuhotep, Hatshepsut, the Royal Mummies and More. The great bay in the West Theban cliffs now known as Deir el-Bahri first became a burial-place following the reunification of Egypt by Montuhotep II, who turned it into a necropolis for himself, his family and court. Half a millennium later, Hatshepsut and Thutmose III built their temples there, and during the Third Intermediate Period the area became a magnet for high status burials – including that of the high priest of Amun, Panedjem II, whose sepulchre was to become the royal cache, the last ancient resting place of some of the greatest kings of the New Kingdom.
West Theban Pioneers: Belzoni, Rhind, Wilkinson and their contemporaries. The first decades of the nineteenth century have often been called the ‘heroic’ era of Egyptology. Here we look at the careers of Belzoni and some of those who followed him in investigating Western Thebes, including Alexander Henry Rhind – often regarded as the first ‘scientific’ excavator in Egypt.
Chris Naunton is Deputy Director of the EES. Deir el-Bahri is among the most spectacular sites (and sights) in Egypt. Gazing at the harmonious marriage of the 18th Dynasty temple to the natural landscape one imagines Hatshepsut would be pleased that her monument dominates the landscape in the twenty-first century. But was it always like that? In the centuries following the end of the New Kingdom the temple remained an important stop on the ‘Beautiful Festival of the Valley’ procession but was also re-used as a cemetery. When the EES came to work at the site in 1883 a mudbrick tower which formed part of the later monastery – the ‘Deir’ which gives its name to the site – was the most striking building in evidence. Over the course of two talks Chris will explain what came after Hatshepsut, what the EES found when it began working at the site, and how Hatshepsut came to dominante the area again during the twentieth century.
TO BOOK:
Please contact the National Museum of Scotland – details above
Telephone and online bookings open on 14 November 2011.
The EES will NOT be handling bookings for this event.