28 Apr 2012 - 10:30
Norwich
Norwich Study Day: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Practices and Beliefs
Event Info
Host: EES
Type: Education – Lecture
Time and Place
Start Time: Saturday, 28th April 2012, 10:30 am
End Time: Saturday, 28th April 2012, 4:30 pm
Location: Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
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City/Town: Norwich NR1 3JU
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Contact Details
Email: contact@ees.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7242 1880
Link: http://www.ees.ac.uk/events/index/102.html
Description
The Society will be hosting this study day in collaboration with Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery. The ‘Norwich Shroud’ belonging to the lady Ipu (see Egyptian Archaeology 39, pp. 15-17) which was recently unrolled at the British Musuem will be on display at this event which focusses on funerary practices and beliefs.
PROGRAMME:
10.15 Registration and refreshments
10.45 Marcus Mueller, The shroud of Ipu: New insights into an ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
11.45 Faye Kalloniatis, Ipu’s shroud: its background
12.15 Extended Lunch (to include viewing of shroud)
13.30 John Taylor, Judgement and rebirth: interpreting the decoration of the coffins of Ankh-hor
14.30 Carol Andrews, “Do not stand against me as witness”: heart scarabs and other funerary amulets
15.30 Refreshments
16.00 Ashley Cooke, The Function of Private Tombs in the Late Old Kingdom
Dr Marcus Mueller studied Egyptology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Prehistory at the Universities in Heidelberg, Cologne, Mainz and Tuebingen. During 2003 – 2006 he had a scholarship from the German Protestant Academic Foundation to complete his PhD on the Book of the Day, an ancient Egyptian guide to the netherworld. Since 2006 he has been working on the Book of the Dead project at the University of Bonn, a research project funded by the Academy of Sciences and Arts of North Rhine-Westphalia. His work is focussed on the editing of Book of the Dead manuscripts and the analysis of their vignettes.
Faye Kalloniatis is a research associate at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, where she curates the Egyptian collection. Most recently she has worked on a catalogue of finds from Tell Basta. Faye instigated the Norwich shroud project, a joint partnership between Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery and the British Museum. This lecture will tell the story of how the shroud was collected – by Jeremiah Colman of Colman’s Mustards – and will also give an outline of the recent project to unfold and conserve it. The shroud will be on display and participants will be able to view it.
Dr John Taylor is Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, The British Museum. The mummy of the priest of Amun, Ankh-hor (late 22nd Dynasty), in the Norwich Castle Museum, was enclosed within a set of coffins of exceptionally fine workmanship. The decoration of the inner case and the outer coffin lid which have survived reflects a carefully selected programme of images and passages from the Book of the Dead and other funerary compositions. This lecture will explore the meaning of these scenes and texts and will draw comparisons with other coffin-sets to suggest how Ankh-hor’s burial outfit might originally have appeared.
Carol Andrews was Assistant Keeper in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1971 to 1999 and is currently a lecturer in Egyptology for Birkbeck College, London. The wearing of amulets permeated every aspect of Egyptian civilisation: from pharaoh to peasant, the living and the dead, even gods and sacred animals wore them and any worn in life could be taken to the tomb for use in the Afterlife. Funerary amulets, however, were intended expressly to be set on the mummy to give aid and protection on the fraught journey to the Other World and provide even greater ease in life after death.
Dr Ashley Cooke is Head of Antiquities and Curator of Egyptology at National Museums Liverpool and an Honorary Research Fellow of Liverpool University. He has been working for Liverpool University on several fieldwork research projects in Egypt since 1997. This lecture is based on fieldwork carried out at Saqqara and will illustrate how the form and decoration of tombs is an expression of the funerary practices and beliefs for the time. It will consider the components of design that made an ideal burial and how tombs were used in the late Old Kingdom.
All proceeds from ticket sales go towards the continuation of the Society’s work in Egypt and the UK.