ARCE-PA Lecture Saturday, December 4- "The Coregency Elite: Who Won and Lost in Hapshepsut’s Rise."
Lisa Swart
Dear Friends of ARCE-PA,
The Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt proudly presents:
"The Coregency Elite: Who Won and Lost in Hatshepsut’s Rise and the Transition to Thutmose III”
DR. J.J. SHIRLEY
Johns Hopkins University
Saturday, December 4, 2010
3:30 PM
Classroom 2
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA
This event is sponsored by ARCE-PA. It is FREE to all who wish to attend
www.arce-pa.org
www.museum.upenn.edu
About the
event:
This paper will address several
issues concerning elite officials who served during the Hatshepsut/Thutmose III
coregency and continued under Thutmose III, with a view towards elucidating how
Hatshepsut may have effected her rise to king and discerning whether there were
consequences once Thutmose III became sole king.
There are several competing hypotheses regarding the means through which Hatshepsut assumed the mantle of kingship and became Thutmose III's co-regent. Did several officials, believing a crisis could occur when Thutmose II's death left a young successor, determine the best way to proceed was to have Hatshepsut assume power? Did Hatshepsut herself utilize her power as GWA to obtain the support of particular elite, thereby stabilizing her reign and creating a "support and reward" situation? This paper will re-examine these questions considering that during Hatshepsut's regency several officials were promoted of had their duties expanded. To what extent was this due to an associated with Hatshepsut, the internal creation of a cabal, or simply "business as usual" within the Egyptian government?
Considering the role that officials may have played in establishing Hatshepsut’s kingship, it is interesting to note that several officials transitioned from serving under Hatshepsut to Thutmose III’s sole reign with their positions intact. Here too, however, there needs to be a re-examination of how many of these officials remained in power, for how long, and who was chosen by Thutmose III to replace them. The fate of officials in office at the time of Thutmose III’s ascension perhaps reflects on the manner through which Hatshepsut came to power.
About our
speaker
DR. JJ Shirley, PhD Johns Hopkins, has taught Egyptian Art, Archaeology
and Language at the University of Michigan, University of Wales, Swansea,
and most recently as a Visiting Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, and
has been the Managing Editor for the Journal of Egyptian History,
published by Brill, since 2007. In addition she has participated on
several archaeological projects in Egypt and Syria. Dr. Shirley has
published articles about Theban tombs, the New Kingdom Theban landscape,
and the social, political and familial relationships among New Kingdom
officials. She is currently working on her first book, Administration
and its Social Context in New Kingdom Egypt: New Perspectives on
Bureaucracy and the Culture of Officialdom in the mid-18th Dynasty.
We look forward to seeing you on the 4th!
Sincerely,
Lisa Swart, PhD
Vice President, ARCE-PA
v...@arce-pa.org
www.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
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