Priestly graffiti and the reshaping of sacred space in first millennium Egypt
Abstract
The lecture will present preliminary research questions and results of a new research project to record and analyse the graffiti left by priests and temple administrators in areas of the temple of Amun at Karnak from the late New Kingdom to the Late Period. Elizabeth will use these clusters of graffiti to assess how the meanings of specific temple areas could be substantially reformulated in order to foreground the display of priestly status, practices, and events. Through these discussions she will argue that this material has significant implications for our understanding of wider social and cultural change in the early first millennium.
Dr Elizabeth Frood
Elizabeth began her study of Egyptology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2004. Part of this doctorate was published as a monograph in 2007: Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt. From 2003–2006 she held the position of Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. Since 2006 she has been based at the University of Oxford as University Lecturer in Egyptology in the Faculty of Oriental Studies and as fellow of St Cross College. Her new research project will be the topic of her lecture for TVAES. Click for directions |
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