Reminder: ARCE-PA February 20th Lecture - "The 'House of Life' in Ancient Egypt"
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Lisa Swart
Feb 17, 2010, 8:17:32 PM2/17/10
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Dear friends of ARCE-PA,
The Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt proudly presents:
"Only the Sun will See its Mystery!: On theTemple Scriptorium or 'House of Life' in Ancient Egypt "
Dr. Richard Jasnow, Johns Hopkins University
Saturday, February 20th, 2010, 3:30 PM
Classroom 2, Penn Museum
About the event:
"While the “House of Life” or per-ankh is familiar to Egyptologists as the designation for the temple scribal center, the nature of this institution is still quite obscure. Such basic questions as what was the primary function of the House of Life, what was its physical appearance, and who were the staff have yet to be satisfactorily answered. In this lecture I will present and comment on the evidence for the House of Life, paying special attention to the particularly important sources from the Graeco-Roman Period."
About the speaker:
Dr. Richard Jasnow is a specialist in the Late Period of Egypt, with a particular interest in Demotic Egyptian, the cursive form of the Egyptian script employed from about 750 B.C. through 450 A.D. While he is principally engaged in the publication of Late Period Demotic literary texts, he has also worked on legal and economic documents. Before arriving at Hopkins, he taught at the Institut für Ägyptologie (Universität Würzburg,) and was also a senior epigrapher (and associate director) of the Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago for about five years. He is the author of A Late Period Hieratic Wisdom Text (P. Brooklyn 47.218.135), Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 52 (The Oriental Institute, 1992), and the co-author (with George R. Hughes), of The Oriental Institute Hawara Papyri: An Egyptian Family Archive from the Time of Alexander the Great and the Early Ptolemies (Chicago, 1997). He has recently co-edited, with Professor Raymond Westbrook, a volume of papers: Security for Debt in Ancient Near Eastern Law (Brill, 2001).
Dr. Richard Jasnow is a specialist in the Late Period of Egypt, with a particular interest in Demotic Egyptian, the cursive form of the Egyptian script employed from about 750 B.C. through 450 A.D. While he is principally engaged in the publication of Late Period Demotic literary texts, he has also worked on legal and economic documents. Before arriving at Hopkins, he taught at the Institut für Ägyptologie (Universität Würzburg,) and was also a senior epigrapher (and associate director) of the Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago for about five years. He is the author of A Late Period Hieratic Wisdom Text (P. Brooklyn 47.218.135), Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 52 (The Oriental Institute, 1992), and the co-author (with George R. Hughes), of The Oriental Institute Hawara Papyri: An Egyptian Family Archive from the Time of Alexander the Great and the Early Ptolemies (Chicago, 1997). He has recently co-edited, with Professor Raymond Westbrook, a volume of papers: Security for Debt in Ancient Near Eastern Law (Brill, 2001).
We look forward to seeing you there.
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Lisa Swart, PhD
Vice President, Pennsylvania Chapter
American Research Center in Egypt
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
(215) 746-2071
www.arce-pa.org
v...@arce-pa.org
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Lisa Swart, PhD
Vice President, Pennsylvania Chapter
American Research Center in Egypt
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
(215) 746-2071
www.arce-pa.org
v...@arce-pa.org
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