ARCE-PA Lecture: April 15th - "The Secrets of Tomb 10A: The Tomb of Djehutynakht at Bersha"
Lisa Swart
Dear friends of ARCE-PA,
The Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt proudly presents:
"The Secrets of Tomb 10A:
The Tomb of Djehutynakht at Bersha"
Dr. Rita Freed, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Thursday, April 15th, 6:30 PM
Classroom 2, Penn Museum
In April, 1915 the Harvard-Boston Expedition blasted its way into
a tomb shaft at the Middle Egyptian site of Bersha, and what greeted them was a
burial chamber filled with a helter-skelter mass of material. Its contents
included some of the Middle Kingdom's finest painted coffins and sculptures
ever found, as well as some of its worst. The fascinating objects from the tomb
of Nomarch Djehutynakht and the questions they raise form the topic of this
lecture and the current expedition at the MFA Boston.
DR. RITA FREED is the Norma-Jean Calderwood Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art and the Joint Head of the Department of Art of the Ancient World at the Museum of Fine Arts as well as Adjunct Professor of Art at Wellesley College. She has excavated in Egypt, Israel, and Cyprus.
$5 general admission, $3 Penn Museum members/students, FREE to ARCE-PA members.
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Lisa Swart, PhD
Vice President, Pennsylvania Chapter
American Research Center in Egypt
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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