March 2024 Q&A

EPISODE 81 | This episode is a recording of a live zoom Q&A with our listeners. Thank you to everyone who attended and submitted questions!

Show notes

• Byblos

• Baal and Seth

• Prof. Dani Candelora – Her research focuses on interactions between Egypt and West Asia.

• Prof. Marian Feldman, Diplomacy by Design

• Amarna Letter 23 – A Goddess Travels to Egypt

  • 1 3 - 1 7 Thus Sauska of Nineveh (goddess statue), mistress of all lands: "I wish to go

    to Egypt, a country that I love, and then return." Now I herewith send

    her, and she is on her way." (Moran 1992)

• Hathor and the Myth of the Heavenly Cow

  • Spalinger Anthony, “The Destruction of Mankind: A Transitional Literary Text,” Studien Zur Altagyptischen Kultur 28: 2000, 257–282. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152827

• Amenhotep III’s Mortuary Temple & Sekhmet Statues

  

  Recently excavated Sekhmet statues found during excavation (source)

• Kara’s Cambridge Elements – Coffin Commerce

  

• Judith Flanders – “Rites of Passage: Death & Mourning in Victorian Britain”

  

• Peter Saris – “Justinian”

  

• Lady Sennuwy, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

  

• Augustus Meroë Head

  

• Great Sphinx of Tanis, Louvre

• Vatican Phases of Construction

  

• Demon Bes – Coptic Magical Papyri

• End of the ancient Egyptian Religion, Christian Erasure

• Egyptian obelisks

• Egyptian object outside of Egypt – Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage Project

• Maat

  • Eloquent Peasant – status dynamics, misuse of Maat

  • Lichtheim, M. (1992) Maat in Egyptian autobiographies and related studies  / Miriam Lichtheim. Freiburg, Schweiz: Universitätsverlag.

  • Teeter, Emily. (1997) The presentation of Maat : ritual and legitimacy in ancient Egypt  / by Emily Teeter. Chicago, Ill: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

• Isfet

• Kemp, B. J. (1995) How Religious were the Ancient Egyptians? Cambridge archaeological journal. [Online] 5 (1), 25–54.

• James C. Scott, “Weapons of the Weak”