Bloomsbury Summer School 2021

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BSS 2021 Programme Letter from BSS Ancient History, Archaeology, and Ancient Languages We’d like to tell you a little bit about Bloomsbury Summer School: = Online = In person See pages 6 – 14 & 21 – 24 for course details

Saturday 6 March OR READING HIEROGLYPHS: SPIRITS IN • We offer courses on the ancient history, special access (COVID-permitting) to UCL’s A TASTE OF HIEROGLYPHS CONTEXT Dr José Ramón Pérez-Accino and archaeology, ancient languages, and literature, stunning museum collections and excellent (FOR BEGINNERS) Dr Bill Manley Dr Bill Manley mainly of ancient Egypt and the Near East, university facilities. Our classes taught in the taught by experts working in universities, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology offer Sat 13 – Sun 14 & Sat 20 – Sun 21 Mar Monday 12 to Friday 16 July museums, and field archaeology; privileged access to this internationally important ART and ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT PERSIA: NEW PERSPECTIVES • Most courses run for 3 or 5 days in summer, collection of Egyptian and Sudanese artefacts. MESOAMERICA IN 100 OBJECTS Prof. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones but we also run 4-day courses split over two The opportunity to handle ancient objects is not Dr Elizabeth Baquedano OR STONE TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES weekends and 5-day spring courses; one to be missed; it is an exceptional experience. OR HIEROGLYPHS FOR (ALMOST) IN ANCIENT EGYPT Dr Sarah Doherty and • Normally, we deliver our programme at one of Our Bloomsbury location also allows us to include BEGINNERS Dr Bill Manley Mr Matt Szafran the world’s leading universities, University Col- teaching sessions in the nearby British Museum. lege London (UCL), in the heart of Bloomsbury Monday 12 to Friday 16 April Mon 19 to Wed 21 July in central London, although present circum- We are proud to have organised at least one COPTIC: A COURSE FOR BEGINNERS THE GREAT CIVILISATIONS OF THE NILE stances necessitate some online teaching; BSS in Egypt every year since 2009 (except Dr Bill Manley VALLEY: THE LAND & ITS PEOPLE Dr Iwona • Although rooted in academia, we offer a 2020). These courses in Egypt combine lectures / OR DEATH AND DIVINITY IN GRAECO- Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin and Dr Lidija McKnight relaxed and informal learning environment; classes with site visits – a perfect learning ROMAN EGYPT Dr Campbell Price OR THE LORD OF ALL: THE MULTIFACETED • Our lecturers are distinguished academics and experience. This autumn we hope to offer a NATURE OF PHARAOH specialists with world-leading expertise, but course at Amarna taught by Barry Kemp, Monday 21 to Friday 25 June Dr José Ramón Pérez-Accino they are also friendly and approachable; Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University CLEOPATRA’S HIEROGLYPHS: READING • 5-day courses have 19 teaching sessions, of Cambridge. HIEROGLYPHIC TEXTS FROM THE Monday 19 July 4-day courses have 16 sessions, and 3-day PTOLEMAIC AND ROMAN PERIODS VISIT EPIC IRAN EXHIBITION at the V&A courses have 12 sessions of mostly lectures, We also enjoy staging at least one Study Day Dr Luigi Prada with Prof. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones but may include museum visits / other activities; each year. This year we will be offering two study OR GODS & GODDESSES OF ANCIENT • Most courses are livestreamed and video days: one in June with Dr Campbell Price, and we EGYPT Ms Lucia Gahlin Saturday 26 June recorded so that, if you cannot come to also look forward to an autumn study day led by OR READING COPTIC: EXEMPLARY LIVES study day EMBODIED FORMS: NON- London, you can still enjoy learning and Dr José Ramón Pérez-Accino. Dr Bill Manley ROYAL STATUARY IN THE LATE PERIOD socialising with other students online; Dr Campbell Price • BSS not only offers well-taught courses in Given the uncertainties surrounding the Monday 28 June to Friday 2 July a range of exciting subjects, we also normally pandemic, programming prior to 5 July will HIEROGLYPHS: THE NEXT STEP Saturday 4 September organise accompanying social events, all of be delivered online, with hybrid teaching Dr Bill Manley study day RECENT DISCOVERIES IN THE which combine to create a rich learning exper- (in-person and online) thereafter. OR THE ROYAL TOMBS OF ANCIENT EGYPT ROYAL CACHE WADI ON LUXOR’S WEST ience you would struggle to find elsewhere; Prof. Aidan Dodson BANK Dr José Ramón Pérez-Accino • You are more than likely to go away after your Whether virtually or in person, we very much hope time with us, not only inspired by a wealth of to welcome you to BSS in 2021. Monday 5 to Friday 9 July Autumn dates TBC new material and ideas, but having made LOVE SPELLS, ORACLES, AMULETS: BSS IN EGYPT EXPLORING AMARNA: ITS new friends. Our very best wishes, ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RITUALS OF MAGIC ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE IDEAS BEHIND IT Dr KATHRYN E. PIQUETTE AND DIVINATION Dr Franziska Naether Prof. Barry Kemp At BSS, we are enormously fortunate to have Director 4 5

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International payments: CATERING Founded in 1990, BSS bss courses BIC: NWBK GB 2L endeavours to present BSS courses offer you: When teaching takes place in person, IBAN: GB49 NWBK 5600 3108 3364 58 the finest programme refreshments are available all day every day of of summer courses • Expert tuition provided by university lecturers, your course, and a buffet lunch is provided on We may be able to offer a modest discount to in Egyptology and museum staff, and archaeologists; the Monday. You can make use of the inexpensive those who would struggle to pay our course fees. ancient world history, • Online teaching for almost all courses / catering facilities on the UCL campus. These See page 29 for advice on bursary places. archaeology, languages, sessions using the video communication serve everything from breakfast through to and literature, available platform Zoom, as well as access to the sandwiches and hot meals. Alternatively, you in the United Kingdom. video recordings; may wish to take your lunch alfresco in Gordon BOOKINGS • Commencing on 5 July, in-person teaching Square, or enjoy a range of local pubs, cafés, and including: restaurants. You will be sent a list of local eateries To book one or more of our courses, simply In 2021, we are offering more courses than ever o Classes in the Petrie Museum of with your course joining instructions. complete the booking form (found inside this before – 16 intensive courses on hieroglyphs, Egyptian Archaeology and British brochure or downloadable from our website) and Coptic, and other aspects of ancient Egyptian Museum (where relevant); send it to us with the non-returnable deposit. archaeology, history, and culture, as well o Refreshments throughout the day; FEES Fees are payable by cheque (in sterling) or bank as courses on the ancient Middle East and o Social events designed to enrich the BSS transfer (details on this page). Alternatively, you Mesoamerica. In addition to 5-day courses and experience, including a buffet welcome • 1-day course: Special offer! £30 online can book using PayPal on our website: an Egyptian hieroglyphs taster day, new this year lunch, reception in the Petrie Museum, • 3-day course: £210 in person / £165 online www.egyptology-uk.com/bloomsbury in which are 3-day courses, and 4-day courses split and end-of-course drinks. • 4-day course: £220 online case the full fee will be payable immediately across two weekends the better to • 5-day course: £350 in person / £270 online (including the non-returnable deposit fee accommodate participant work schedules. as specified). Courses are described on pages 6–14. They are LOCATION A non-returnable deposit of £100 is included intended for interested adults of all ages, whether in the cost of each 3-, 4- or 5-day course; the lifelong learners or students wishing to broaden We are ideally located in the heart of Bloomsbury, 1-day course fee is non-returnable (but see CANCELLATIONS & REFUNDS their studies. We also extend a warm welcome to with easy access to many of London’s best- cancellation policy on this page). Fees are payable sixth-formers / high schoolers considering further known museums, galleries, shops, cinemas, by cheque (in sterling); PayPal via our website; or In the event of enrolee cancellation of a course study in these subject areas. and West End theatres. our preferred method, which is bank transfer. BSS booking, or withdrawal without notice, a scale of vouchers can be applied only when paying by charges will apply, so you might like to take out NB: Prior to 5 July, courses will be online, after cheque or bank transfer. suitable insurance cover. Refunds will be given which we plan to provide in-person and online FINDING US in accordance with the following scale, LESS the teaching. Some information applies to in-person BSS bank details: £100 deposit (no refund for 1-day courses): teaching only. BSS is easily reached by public transport. We are Bank: National Westminster Bank plc within walking distance of three main-line train Account name: COLEMAN C/TPM/LPOA • Notice of 6 weeks or more: 100% stations (Euston, St Pancras, and King’s Cross), Bank address: 45 Tottenham Court Road, • Between 6 weeks and 3 weeks: 50% and of several underground stations. You will find London W1T 2EA, UK • Less than 3 weeks and no-shows: no refund a map in the centrefold of this brochure. UK payments: In the event of cancellation by BSS (e.g. due to Please note that there are no car parking facilities Sort Code: 56-00-31 COVID-19 related circumstances), refund will be at UCL, nor is there free parking nearby. Account no.: 08336458 100%, including deposit. 6 7

course description: 6 march course descriptions: 13 – 14 & 20 – 21 mar (online only) (online only)

1-Day Course 4-Day Courses (split across 2 weekends) A TASTE OF HIEROGLYPHS first day of our week-long introductory course hieroglyphs for Hieroglyphs for (Almost) Beginners (see facing (FOR BEGINNERS) ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF (almost) beginners page). A Taste of Hieroglyphs assumes you have MESOAMERICA IN 100 OBJECTS Course Director: Dr Bill Manley no prior experience in the subject but, through Course Director: Dr Bill Manley (University of Glasgow) a series of presentations and practical sessions, Course Director: Dr Elizabeth Baquedano (University of Glasgow) aims to show you how to read some pharaonic (University College London) This course will be delivered online via monuments on display in world-famous museums This course will be delivered online via the video communication platform Zoom by the end of the day. This course will be delivered online via the video communication platform Zoom (details provided upon enrolment). the video communication platform Zoom (details provided upon enrolment). NB: You are welcome to take this one-day course (details provided upon enrolment). For those of you wishing to learn how to read on its own as a stand-alone experience. However, We are excited to bring back our popular hieroglyphs – or perhaps you are wondering those who wish to complete Hieroglyphs for We are pleased to welcome back Elizabeth beginners’ hieroglyphs course this year. Our whether to take the plunge – this one-day course (Almost) Beginners (see facing page) – including Baquedano, this time to explore the cultures of Course Director has vast experience of the will show you the basics behind reading ancient those of you who have taken A Taste of the Olmecs, Mayas, Toltecs, and Aztecs through subject and is regarded as one of the best Egyptian, and also give you a taste of what we Hieroglyphs previously – will find the remaining key objects from the period of c.2000 BCE to hieroglyphs-teachers around. The course itself do at Bloomsbury Summer School. During this four days available over two weekends following the arrival of the Spanish in 1519 CE. Jewellery, offers a unique, especially written introduction to pandemic year, this course also doubles as the this taster. masks, coffins, and figurines fashioned from the world of Egyptian hieroglyphs and requires jade, gold, and other precious materials provide no prior experience (but see below). Through a unique insights into daily life, religious belief, series of presentations and practical sessions, creation myths, and concepts of death and the you will progress from the basics of the writing afterlife. You will become familiar with elaborate and language of the ancient Egyptians to reading vessel types from Teotihuacan and the symbolic monuments on display in various world-famous meanings their iconography reveals. Elizabeth museum collections. This course is specifically will also introduce you (virtually) to the extensive intended for complete beginners but may collection of ancient Mexican turquoise mosaics well appeal to anyone wishing to refresh their held in the British Museum, as well as trace the knowledge of hieroglyphs, too. It promises to curious case of an obsidian mirror once used for be an intense and rewarding experience. divination and prognostication, that made its way to England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. NB: Because of the challenging circumstances Also, drawing on the rich collections of the British this year, we have adapted what is normally Museum, you will have the unique opportunity to our 5-day course, Hieroglyphs for Beginners, examine, through high-resolution images, codices into two parts: a stand-alone course A Taste of made of bark paper and deerskin, dealing with Hieroglyphs (see facing page) and this 4-day administrative, religious, and historical matters. course taking place across two weekends. To enrol on Hieroglyphs for (Almost) Beginners, you should have attended A Taste of Hieroglyphs in 2020, or should enrol on it this year. 8 9

course descriptions: 12 – 16 april course descriptions: 21 – 25 june (online only) (online only)

5-Day Courses 5-Day Courses (consecutive days) (consecutive days)

COPTIC: A COURSE DEATH AND DIVINITY IN CLEOPATRA’S HIEROGLYPHS: a knowledge – at least one year’s study – FOR BEGINNERS GRAECO-ROMAN EGYPT READING HIEROGLYPHIC TEXTS of hieroglyphic Middle Egyptian. Should you FROM THE PTOLEMAIC AND be uncertain as to your knowledge level, please Course Director: Dr Bill Manley Course Director: Dr Campbell Price feel free to contact BSS. ROMAN PERIODS (University of Glasgow) (University of Manchester) Course Director: Dr Luigi Prada This course will be delivered online via This course will be delivered online via (University of Uppsala) GODS AND GODDESSES the video communication platform Zoom the video communication platform Zoom OF ANCIENT EGYPT (details provided upon enrolment). (details provided upon enrolment). This course will be delivered online via the video communication platform Zoom Course Director: Ms Lucia Gahlin We are delighted to bring our unique introduction Often overlooked in popular Egyptology studies, (details provided upon enrolment). (University College London) to Coptic back in a springtime slot after the the Graeco-Roman Period (c.300 BCE – 300 pandemic frustrated our first attempt last year. CE) offers rich insight into the diversity of funerary This course offers you the unique opportunity This course will be delivered online via Coptic was the language of the early Christians practices among the elite in Egypt. Ancient to delve into Graeco-Roman hieroglyphic texts the video communication platform Zoom of Egypt, and the final phase of the ancient motifs are reinterpreted and combined with – a fascinating subject rarely offered, even at (details provided upon enrolment). language of the pharaohs. Our specially written innovative forms in order to transform the body the university level. You will gain access to a course offers you both the knowledge and the into something everlasting and divine. For the rich corpus of texts dating from the time of the The aim of this online course is to introduce you practice required to begin reading important wealthiest, this was achieved with the lustre of Ptolemies and the Roman Emperors, learning to the world of the ancient Egyptians through their groups of ancient texts, highlighting the wisdom gold. On this course, you will overview religious gradually to read from a wide selection of pantheon of gods and goddesses. Join Lucia of the fourth-century desert fathers, and the lives conceptions behind responses to death, focusing original material. From inscriptions on temples Gahlin as she opens a window on to ancient of monks and wealthy villagers at Thebes in the on the collections of Manchester Museum, with and tombs to obelisks and stelae, Luigi will Egyptian history, culture, and society through her aftermath of the Arab invasion. lectures drawing on readings from the new book: guide you in reading texts spanning the explanations of the iconography, attributes, and Golden Mummies of Egypt: Interpreting identities entire Graeco-Roman Period, including those worship of each deity, and how each relates to NB: This is an introduction to the Coptic language from the Graeco-Roman Period. contemporary with Alexander the Great, others within a rich tapestry of mythology and and Coptic texts, and does not presuppose Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, and the Emperor religion. This exploration of ancient Egyptian belief knowledge of Coptic or any other language. Hadrian, amongst others. This class also includes will help shed light on the life experience of the You will be invited to study various features of sessions taught on high-resolution images of ancient Egyptians and their view of the cosmos. the language and apply them from day one to written artefacts from the British Museum and Each session will focus on a different deity, and reading ancient Coptic texts, using notes specially the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, by the end of the course you will have examined written for BSS. Do not worry about the intensity: offering students a chance to read directly from a wealth of varied material – archaeological, there will be plenty of time for supervised reading the originals and thus best appreciate their architectural, visual, and textual – covering some practice and for questions and answers with epigraphic subtleties. 3,000 years of pharaonic Egyptian history. Expect your tutor. a lively course, packed with vivid images and NB: This class is not intended for beginners in the fascinating material presented in richly illustrated study of the ancient Egyptian writing system and lectures designed to provoke thought, questions, language. Participants will be expected to have and discussion. 10 11

course descriptions: 21 – 25 june (cont’d) course descriptions: 28 june – 2 july (online only) (online only)

NB: Our course Coptic: A course for beginners READING COPTIC: taught in the spring (12 – 16 April) would be 5-Day Courses EXEMPLARY LIVES good preparation for this course. Whilst you (consecutive days) Course Director: Dr Bill Manley need not have taken this introductory course (University of Glasgow) at BSS, Reading Coptic assumes you do have HIEROGLYPHS: THE NEXT STEP hieroglyphic Egyptian. As a general guide, some experience in reading Coptic texts (as you should already be able to read a basic This course will be delivered online via a rule of thumb, you should be able to read a Course Director: Dr Bill Manley offering formula and to cope with the monuments the video communication platform Zoom short narrative including the past tense and (University of Glasgow) on pages 46 and 48 of the course book (see (details provided upon enrolment). circumstantial forms). However, do not worry Recommended Reading on page 22). That said, about the intensity: there will be plenty of time This course will be delivered online via do not worry about the intensity of the course: Our brand-new course for old friends and for supervised practice and for questions and the video communication platform Zoom there will be plenty of time for supervised reading newcomers is designed to build on your skills in answers with your tutor. If you have taken (details provided upon enrolment). and for contact with your tutor. reading Coptic and develop your appreciation of Reading Coptic with us previously, you will find Egyptian culture. This time we will concentrate all-new content in this latest course. We are delighted once again to offer our second- on the biographies of exemplary figures in the stage course in Egyptian hieroglyphs. Bill Manley THE ROYAL TOMBS OF Coptic tradition, including the monastic rule-giver returns to show you The Next Step, which ANCIENT EGYPT Pachomius, and Archellites, a Roman noble builds on the knowledge and skills you acquired whose romantic lifestory was set down in Coptic on the course Hieroglyphs for Beginners. Course Director: Prof. Aidan Dodson in the seventh century. You will be invited to study In a series of practical sessions, you will be (University of Bristol) different aspects of the language and apply them introduced to increasingly elaborate monuments, in reading the ancient texts using notes specially including monuments made for kings as well This course will be delivered online via written for BSS. as officials. In this way, you will develop a more the video communication platform Zoom sophisticated appreciation of hieroglyphic (details provided upon enrolment). writing and the language, including: ways of talking about the king and the gods; talking We are thrilled to welcome back Prof. Aidan about the past, present, and future; and making Dodson with an exciting course on the royal negative statements. Through the week you tombs of ancient Egypt. These include some of will enrich your understanding of different kinds the most stupendous monuments of all time, of monuments and expand your knowledge of containing some of the greatest treasures to Middle Egyptian. survive from the ancient world. During this week, you will explore the history and archaeology of NB: The combined courses of A Taste of the funerary complexes of Egypt’s kings, queens, Hieroglyphs (for Beginners) and Hieroglyphs and the wider royal family, from the very dawn for (Almost) Beginners taught online in the of history down to, and beyond, the country’s spring across three weekends (6, 13 – 14, absorption into the Roman Empire, three 20 – 21 March, see pages 6 and 7) would be millennia later. We will also make some short good preparation for this course. Whilst you detours into the royal tombs of other nations, to need not have taken this introductory course compare and contrast the ways in which human at BSS beforehand, The Next Step assumes beings have dealt with the posthumous destinies you do have some experience in reading of their rulers. 12 13

course descriptions: 5 – 9 july course descriptions: 12 – 16 july (in person and online) (in person and online)

5-Day Courses 5-Day Courses (consecutive days) (consecutive days)

LOVE SPELLS, ORACLES, As ever, we have set aside a course for those ANCIENT PERSIA: STONE TOOLS AND TECH- AMULETS: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN of you who love to discover pharaonic Egypt NEW PERSPECTIVES NOLOGIES IN ANCIENT EGYPT by reading the ancient texts. In response to RITUALS OF MAGIC & DIVINATION feedback in previous years, we are delighted to Course Director: Prof. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Course Co-Directors: Dr Sarah K. Doherty Course Director: Dr Franziska Naether offer a brand-new course exploring the layout (University of Cardiff) (University of Oxford) and Mr Matt Szafran (University of Leipzig) and decoration of specific tombs in order to (Independent) understand the place of tomb biographies within This course will be taught in person and This course will be taught in person and them. In particular, we will look at the tomb online (details provided upon enrolment). This course will be taught in person only – online (details provided upon enrolment). inscriptions of Metjen – perhaps the earliest unless teaching cannot take place in person, account of a human life in history – and Puyemra, We are thrilled to welcome back Lloyd Llewellyn- when the course will be delivered online We are thrilled to introduce Franziska Naether, a a priest at Karnak during the reign of Thutmose III Jones to deliver a course on the Persian Empire. only, with partial refunds issued accordingly. newcomer to BSS. In this course, she will take (18th Dynasty). You will learn about the Achaemenids (559–330 you on a deep dive into ancient Egyptian magic BCE), one of the great dysfunctional families We are thrilled to welcome the ancient – and back again! Explore what magic meant for NB: In response to ever-increasing demand of history, and their story – a saga of naked technologist double act of Doherty and Szafran! the ancient Egyptians compared with our views for our Reading Hieroglyphs courses, Spirits in ambition, betrayal, revenge, and murder. To In this course, they will draw on the results of today. Lectures will examine sources dating from Context will be run in two parallel groups to allow understand the Persian Empire, we must focus on their own experimental archaeological research c.1500 BCE to 600 CE and involving all kinds of for smaller class-sizes and increased enrolment – the dynasty that controlled it. This course will thus to demonstrate the different ways in which magical spells, medical magic, amulets for pro- but the content will be the same for each group. explore the Achaemenid Empire from its humble ancient Egyptians worked stone and worked tection (including a practical session), and magic Our Reading Hieroglyphs courses assume you beginnings under the brilliant leadership of Cyrus using stone. You will learn about different stone for communicating with the gods (such as reading already have good knowledge of reading the Great to its fall to Alexander of Macedon types, their uses, significance, and the tools from oracle books). Finally, Franziska will explore hieroglyphic Middle Egyptian. Normally, we under the dashing but unlucky Darius III. You will required to work them – particularly stone with you the influence of ancient cult practices on would expect you to have taken both of the BSS trace the story of the world’s first superpower – tools but also considering the development of early modern and current spiritual life, including courses Hieroglyphs for Beginners (first stage; an empire built, unusually for imperial ambition, copper and bronze. You will become familiar the work of Aleister Crowley, and Napoléon see pages 6–7) and Hieroglyphs: The Next Step on cooperation and respect for others. Bypassing with the workshops, tools, and trades (and Bonaparte and his “secret” book of fate. (second stage; see page 11) beforehand. As a the pejorative “histories” created by Classical attitudes towards them) of ancient Egypt. You rule of thumb, before you come along you should authors, this course draws on genuine Persian will also learn how to use your newly acquired be comfortable reading all of the texts in How to sources. Ancient Persia: New perspectives is the knowledge of these processes to find toolmarks READING HIEROGLYPHS: Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs (see Recommended inside history of the Achaemenid dynasty and its and uncover stories on original artefacts through SPIRITS IN CONTEXT Reading, page 23). Do not worry about the Empire – it is the definitive Persian Version. sessions taught at the British Museum and the intensity of this course: during the week, there UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. Course Co-Directors: Dr José Ramón Pérez- will be plenty of time for your own work and for This course also features a guest lecture from Accino (Complutense University of Madrid) questions and answers with your tutors. Dr Campbell Price, Curator of Egypt and Sudan and Dr Bill Manley (University of Glasgow) at the University of Manchester’s Manchester Museum, who will be discussing the prestige of This course will be taught in person and stone as a material and its particular applications online (details provided upon enrolment). in sculpture. 14 15

course descriptions: 19 – 21 july BSS Director and Course Directors (in person and online)

3-Day Courses BSS Director BSS Course Directors (consecutive days) Kathryn E. Piquette received her PhD in Elizabeth Baquedano is an Honorary Senior Egyptology from University College London Lecturer at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, THE GREAT CIVILISATIONS THE LORD OF ALL: (UCL), specialising in early Egyptian writing and where she also obtained her PhD. She is currently OF THE NILE VALLEY: THE LAND THE MULTIFACETED NATURE art. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the involved in research on Aztec gold. Elizabeth AND ITS PEOPLE OF PHARAOH UCL Centre for Digital Humanities where she gives regular gallery talks and lectures at the has lectured on digital approaches to cultural British Museum and around the world. Her Course Co-Directors: Course Director: heritage and works as an imaging specialist for publications include Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Dr Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin Dr José Ramón Pérez-Accino UCL Advanced Imaging Consultants. She is also supreme deity (2014), Aztec Sculpture (1994), and Dr Lidija McKnight (Complutense University of Madrid) a Senior Research Fellow at The Ancient Egypt and chapters in Living with the Dead: Mortuary (both University of Manchester) Foundation. Kathryn took over directorship of ritual in Mesoamerica (2011). This course will be taught in person and BSS in 2019, having directed and coordinated This course will be taught in person and online (details provided upon enrolment). several BSS courses over the past two decades. online (details provided upon enrolment). A longstanding member of the Friends of the Aidan Dodson is Honorary Professor of Like a diamond with many polished faces that Petrie Museum, Kathryn has served as Student Egyptology at the University of Bristol, where he After nearly two centuries of excavating and sparkle in the rays of the sun, Pharaoh, the Representative and Membership Officer. She is has taught since 1996. A graduate of Liverpool studying the archaeology of the Nile Valley, it king of Egypt, is a multifaceted and complex also a member of the Egypt Exploration Society. (BA) and Cambridge (MPhil, PhD), he was may seem we know it all. But do we? Recent figure. Over this 3-day course, you will explore, Her archaeological fieldwork includes excavation Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American discoveries and multidisciplinary approaches to compare, and contrast the various facets that in Jordan (Petra) and Egypt (Wadi Natrun, University in Cairo for the Spring of 2013, and the past deliver new evidence and opportunities construct the Egyptian ruler. Drawing on a wide Hierakonpolis, Giza), and work as advanced Chair of Trustees of the Egypt Exploration Society for fresh interpretation. Iwona and Lidija return range of artistic, literary, and other archaeological digital imaging specialist at Qubbet el-Hawa, from 2011 to 2016. Elected a Fellow of the to co-direct this short course examining the sources, you will come to understand how Deir Anba Hadra, Philae Temple, the C2 Project: Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003, he is people and the land that shaped the great ancient Pharaoh’s actions encompassed all the realms of Royal Cache Wadi survey, and several other the author of over 20 books, including on the civilisations that once flourished in Egypt and the the Egyptian world. As the material embodiment projects in Egypt. Among her publications is the royal tombs of Egypt and on those of the UK. Sudan. You will enjoy lectures on the environment, of perfection, Pharaoh provided a model for the Open Access monograph An Archaeology of natural resources, animal life, and artefactual ancient Egyptians to follow, informing their lived Art and Writing: Early Egyptian labels in context evidence, as well as examine how these informed experience in diverse ways. From divine entity and (2018) with supporting online database, and and transformed past society through time. This political leader to soldier, family man and more, the freely available co-edited volume Writing exciting course presents a variety of approaches you will become familiar with the different faces of as Material Practice: Substance, surface and combined with modern methods of investigation Pharaoh – “The Lord of All”. medium (2013). She is also working on co-edited that will challenge some of our long-held views volumes on the Narmer Palette, Palermo Stone, and enrich your understanding of the ancient Nile and the Shabaqo Stone. Valley and its people.

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Continued from page 15 Barry Kemp is Emeritus Professor of Egyptology Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones holds the Chair in Bill Manley is a best-selling author, who at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Ancient History at Cardiff University and is the teaches Egyptology and the Coptic language at Sarah K. Doherty is a Ceramicist for the Research, University of Cambridge. He has Director of the Ancient Iran Programme for the the University of Glasgow, and has taught both Amarna Project’s Great Aten Temple, a Buildings been Field Director at Tell el-Amarna since 1977, British Institute of Persian Studies. He has written subjects at Bloomsbury Summer School for more Archaeologist in the UK Commercial Archaeology pioneering excavations formerly for the Egypt widely for both academic and public audiences. than 25 years. He was formerly Senior Curator for Sector, and is an Archaeology Tutor at Oxford Exploration Society, and now as The Amarna His books include: King and Court in Ancient Ancient Egypt at National Museums Scotland, University. She undertook her BA and MA at Project supported by the Amarna Trust. Among Persia, Ctesias’ History of Persia: Tales of the and continues to work with archaeological UCL, and her PhD at Cardiff University focusing his important publications are Amarna Reports, Orient (2013); The Culture of Animals in Antiquity projects in Egypt, including the C2 Project: Royal on Egyptian ceramics and technology. This was I–VI (1984–1995), and Ancient Egypt: Anatomy (2020); and Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Cache Wadi survey. His specialist output includes published in 2015 as The Origins and Use of the of a civilisation (2006). created the ancient world (2018). His work has books, catalogues, articles, and exhibitions Potter’s Wheel in Ancient Egypt. Sarah’s research featured in BBC History Magazine, History Today, covering such diverse subjects as ancient texts, interests include pottery, settlement archaeology, and World History and he has often appeared the history of Egyptology, gold jewelry, the experimental reconstruction of ancient craft, and Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin is Researcher on the BBC, Channel 4, and in The Times and archaeology of Palestine, and the world’s oldest ancient technology. Sarah has worked at a wide at the University of Manchester and Honorary other media outlets. He works alongside various philosophy. He has also spoken at international variety of sites in Europe, Egypt, and the Sudan, Curator of Human Remains at the Manchester schools and institutions in the promotion of book festivals, including The Sunday Times including Gebel el-Silsila, Heit el-Gurob, Amara Museum. Over the last 18 years, she has worked Ancient History and the study of ancient Persia. Literary Festival. Bill is Honorary President of West, Amarna, and the Valley of the Kings. She extensively in Egypt (Tell el-Farkha, Saqqara, and He is one of the most significant international Egyptology Scotland, a contributor to the Coptic is at her happiest digging up complete huge pots Thebes) and the Sudan (between the 3rd and 4th names in the fields of Ancient History and Persian Magical Papyri Project, a committee member of in New Kingdom sites. Cataracts) in collaboration with multidisciplinary Studies and has spent extensive time in Iran, the Society of Authors in Scotland, and research teams, investigating various aspects where his books have received Farsi translation. Co-Director of Egiptología Complutense along of life and death of ancient populations. Her Lloyd is the Series Editor for Edinburgh Studies with José Ramón Pérez-Accino. Lucia Gahlin directed BSS from 2009 to research is focused on the relationship between in Ancient Persia at Edinburgh University Press. 2019, having also directed numerous highly humans and their environment in the Nile Valley, Future publications include The Persians, for successful courses of her own and played a health, disability, and care, as well as ancient Wildfire Books. Lidija McKnight holds a BSc in Archaeology role in its organisation since 1994. She is an burial practices. from the University of York and a PhD in Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Institute Biomedical Egyptology from the University of of Archaeology and lectures widely on ancient Manchester. Her major research interest is the Egypt. She leads regular archaeological tours application of non-invasive imaging to human to Egypt (including for Andante Travels). She and animal mummies. She is currently completing has a long-standing association with the UCL her third post-doctoral research project funded Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, and has by the Arts and Humanities Research Council worked particularly on its material from Amarna. investigating so-called “fake” mummies. She is Chair of the Friends of the Petrie Museum, Lidija is founder and curator of the Ancient and has been a Trustee of the Egypt Exploration Egyptian Animal Bio Bank, Honorary Curator of Society. She has worked as Small Finds Registrar Archaeozoology at the Manchester Museum, at the archaeological site of Tell el-Amarna in and project curator for the touring exhibition Middle Egypt. Her publications include Egypt: Gifts for the Gods: Animal mummies revealed. Gods, myths and religion (2001), and chapters in Wilkinson, T. (ed.) The Egyptian World (2007). 20 21

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Franziska Naether (Saxon Academy of University, Sweden. He is also active in the field, Central America. Thames and Hudson. It is A TASTE OF HIEROGLYPHS Sciences and Humanities) is adjunct assistant both in Egypt as Assistant Director of the Oxford recommended that all students obtain a professor at Leipzig University in Germany Expedition to Elkab (Ashmolean Museum), and in (FOR BEGINNERS) copy of this book. (Egyptological Institute / Egyptian Museum) the Sudan, and is the president of Associazione It would be a good idea on the day (but not and Stellenbosch University in South Africa Amici Collaboratori del Museo Egizio di Torino essential) to have with you a copy of: Collier, M. (Department of Ancient Studies). She is head (Society of Friends of the Museo Egizio, Turin). and Manley, B. (2003) How to Read Egyptian CLEOPATRA’S HIEROGLYPHS: of the Digital Rosetta Stone Project and has Hieroglyphs. British Museum Press (ideally 2003 READING HIEROGLYPHIC TEXTS published widely on ancient religion, magic, revised edition, but earlier edition fine). FROM THE PTOLEMAIC AND and literature. Her other research interests Campbell Price is Curator of Egypt and ROMAN PERIODS include the history and society of Graeco- Sudan at the University of Manchester’s NB: If you intend to take the remainder of the Roman Egypt, Museology, reception of Egypt, Manchester Museum, one of the UK’s largest full one-week course Hieroglyphs for (Almost) There is no complete English reference grammar and Digital Humanities. Egyptology collections. He has a PhD in Beginners, this book is essential for that course. or sign-list for Graeco-Roman hieroglyphic Egyptology from the University of Liverpool, texts. All the necessary teaching material will where he is an Honorary Research Fellow. His be provided by the Course Director. If you so José Ramón Pérez-Accino is Senior Lecturer research focuses on elite monuments of the First ANCIENT PERSIA: choose, you can begin familiarising yourself with of Egyptology and Ancient History at the Millennium BCE, particularly on sculpture, and NEW PERSPECTIVES the topic through the titles below. Complutense University of Madrid. He specialises the representation of ancient Egypt in museums. in Egyptian literature, texts, and the intellectual Recent publications include: Pocket Museum: Allen, L. (2005) The Persian Empire. University of NB: These also include studies relevant to the world of the ancient Egyptians. In addition to Ancient Egypt (2018); Golden Mummies of Egypt: Chicago Press. wider context of written culture in Graeco-Roman being Co-Director of Egiptología Complutense Interpreting identities from the Graeco-Roman Kuhrt, A. (2007) The Persian Empire: A corpus of Egypt, and not specifically focused on linguistic / with Bill Manley, he conducts fieldwork in Egypt, Period (2020); and Perfected Forms: Non-royal sources from the Achaemenid Period. Routledge. philological problems: including at Ehnasya el-Medina (Herakleopolis temple sculpture in the Egyptian Late Period Llewellyn-Jones, L. (2013) King and Court in Bowman, A. K. (1986 and subsequent Magna) and Western Thebes, where he is now (forthcoming). Campbell is Vice-Chair of Trustees Ancient Persia, 559 to 331 BCE. Edinburgh re-editions) Egypt after the Pharaohs: 332 BC – Co-Director of the C2 Project: Royal Cache of the Egypt Exploration Society. University Press. AD 642: From Alexander to the Arab Conquest. Wadi survey. He has taught Egyptology for the Potts, D. T. (ed.) (2013) The Oxford Handbook of British Museum. University of London’s Birkbeck College and Ancient Iran. Oxford University Press. Engshade, A. (2016) Traditional Egyptian II University College London. He has directed many Matt Szafran is an independent researcher Wiesehöfer, J. (1996) Ancient Persia: From 550 (Ptolemaic, Roman). In UCLA Encyclopedia of highly acclaimed courses for BSS, often regarded specialising in the study of ancient tools and BC to 650 AD. I. B. Tauris. Egyptology, UCLA. URL: digital2.library.ucla.edu/ by our students as some of the most challenging technologies. His current research focuses Online resources: See our website. viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz002k6stb (click on and thoughtful courses we offer. on the manufacture and use of stone palettes “View PDF Content”). in Predynastic Egypt, using experimental Fairman, H. W. (1943) An Introduction to the archaeology and advanced imaging technologies, ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF Study of Ptolemaic Signs and Their Values. Luigi Prada was educated in both Egyptology such as microscopy and Reflectance MESOAMERICA IN 100 OBJECTS BIFAO 43: 51–138. URL: www.ifao.egnet.net/ and Classics, firstly in Italy and then in Oxford. He Transformation Imaging (RTI) to complement bifao/043/02 works primarily on textual and cultural-historical textual studies. Matt has lectured on predynastic Berdan, F. F. (2014) Aztec Archaeology and Hill, M. (2016) Egypt in the Ptolemaic Period. In studies, with a focus on the later phases of palettes, assisted in the teaching of RTI Ethnohistory. Cambridge University Press. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Met. URL: Egypt’s history and language(s) / scripts. He has workshops, has published in peer-reviewed Cowgill, G. (2015) Ancient Teotihuacan: Early www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ptol/hd_ptol.htm held academic positions in the UK, Germany, journals and magazines, and is currently writing urbanism in Central Mexico. Cambridge Prada, L. (2018) Multilingualism along the Nile. and Denmark, and was recently appointed a book discussing the possible uses of University Press. In The Getty Iris Blog, J. Paul Getty Trust. URL: Assistant Professor of Egyptology at Uppsala predynastic palettes. Evans, S. T. (2013) Ancient Mexico and blogs.getty.edu/iris/multilingualism-along-the-nile 22 23

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Riggs, C. (ed.) (2012) The Oxford Handbook of you at each class (the first or second Lexicon. Scholars Press. GODS AND GODDESSES Roman Egypt. Oxford University Press. edition are equally useful). The following Yanney, R. (2020) Life of St Pachomius. St Wilson, P. (1997) A Ptolemaic Lexikon. Peeters. OF ANCIENT EGYPT books are not essential, but you may find Shenouda Press. Hart, G. (2005) The Routledge Dictionary of it helpful to bring a copy with you, if you Egyptian Gods and Goddesses. Routledge. happen to have one. COPTIC: A COURSE Mark, Joshua J. (2016) Egyptian Gods – The Faulkner, R. O. (1962) A Concise Dictionary of READING HIEROGLYPHS: FOR BEGINNERS Complete List. In Ancient History Encyclopedia. Middle Egyptian. Griffith Institute. SPIRITS IN CONTEXT URL: www.ancient.eu/article/885 Manley, B. (2012) Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Cannuyer, C. (2001) Coptic Egypt: The Christians Pinch, G. (2002) Egyptian Mythology: A guide to Complete Beginners. Thames and Hudson. This course is based on handouts specially of the Nile. Thames and Hudson. the gods, goddesses and traditions of ancient prepared for BSS. However, we recommend Egypt. Oxford University Press. that you bring a copy of the following Quirke, S. et al. (2003) Ideology and Belief in LOVE SPELLS, ORACLES, with you: DEATH AND DIVINITY IN Ancient Egypt. In Digital Egypt for Universities. AMULETS: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN Collier, M. and Manley, B. (1998 or 2003) How GRAECO-ROMAN EGYPT URL: www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/ RITUALS OF MAGIC & DIVINATION to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs. British Museum digitalegypt/themes/beliefae.html Press. APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Shaw, G. (2014) The Egyptian Myths: A guide to Naether, F. (2016) Magic in the Internet: If you happen to have a copy of the analysis, and research) Project: www.getty.edu/ the ancient gods and legends. Thames & Hudson. Investigation by genre in Trismegistos. In following, you will find it useful at BSS or, museum/research/appearproject/ Wilkinson, R. H. (2003) The Complete Gods and Kousoulis, P. and Lazaridis, N. (eds), Proceedings indeed, whenever you read ancient Picton, J., Quirke, S., and Roberts, P. C. (eds) Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptian texts: (2003). Living Images: Egyptian funerary portraits UCLA Online Encyclopedia of Egyptology: Egyptologists, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Faulkner, R. O. (1962) A Concise Dictionary of in the Petrie Museum. Left Coast Press. Articles on many of the ancient Egyptian gods, 22–29 May 2008 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta Middle Egyptian. Griffith Institute. Price, C. (2020) “While skulls bobbed on the myths and temples, e.g. Wilkinson, R. H. (2008) 241). Leuven, 1485–1494. PDF: nbn-resolving. waves”: Flinders Petrie (& others) at Hawara, Anthropomorphic Deities. URL: escholarship.org/ org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-234583 KMT. A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 31(2): uc/item/5s54w4tc Pinch (Harris), G. (2010) Magic in Ancient Egypt STONE TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES 16–29. PDF: www.academia.edu/43997805/_ (revised edition). University of Texas Press. IN ANCIENT EGYPT While_skulls_bobbed_on_the_waves_Flinders_ Raven, M. (2012) Egyptian Magic: The quest for Petrie_and_others_at_Hawara HIEROGLYPHS FOR Thoth’s Book of Secrets. American University of Lucas, A. and Harris, J. (2012 [1948]) Ancient Price, C. (2020) Golden Mummies of Egypt: (ALMOST) BEGINNERS Cairo Press. Egyptian Materials and Industries. Courier Interpreting identities from the Graeco-Roman Online resources: See our website. Corporation. Period. Nomad Exhibitions / Manchester Collier, M. and Manley, B. (2003) How to Read Nicholson, P. and Shaw, I. (2000) Ancient Museum. Order a copy direct for £25 incl. UK Egyptian Hieroglyphs. British Mus. Press (ideally Egyptian Materials and Technology. Cambridge P&P: [email protected] 2003 revised edition, but earlier edition fine). READING COPTIC: University Press. Riggs, C. (2002) Facing the Dead: Recent EXEMPLARY LIVES Scheel, B. (1998) Egyptian Metalworking and research on the funerary art of Ptolemaic and Tools (Shire Egyptology). Shire Publications. Roman Egypt. American Journal of Archaeology HIEROGLYPHS: THE NEXT STEP The following books are not essential, but you Stocks, D. A. (2003) Experiments in Egyptian 106(1): 85–101. PDF: www.academia. may find it helpful to bring a copy with you, if you Archaeology: Stoneworking technology in ancient edu/12440030/_Facing_the_dead_Recent_ Collier, M. and Manley, B. (2003) How to Read happen to have one. Egypt. Routledge. research_on_the_funerary_art_of_Ptolemaic_ Egyptian Hieroglyphs (revised edition). British Cannuyer, C. (2001) Coptic Egypt: The Christians Weissberg, S. and Bleiberg, E. (2019) Striking and_Roman_Egypt_American_Journal_of_ Museum Press. This is the required course of the Nile. Thames and Hudson. Power: Iconoclasm in ancient Egypt. Pulitzer Archaeology_106_1_2002_85_101 book, so do ensure you have a copy with Smith, R. (1993) A Concise Coptic-English Foundation. 24 25

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Petrie, W. M. F. (1917) Tools and Weapons: Ray, J. D. (1976) The Archive of Hor. Egypt Saturday 26 June (online only) Saturday 4 Sep (online & in person) Illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University Exploration Society. College, London, and 2,000 outlines from other Strouhal, E. (1992) Life in Ancient Egypt. EMBODIED FORMS: NON-ROYAL RECENT DISCOVERIES IN THE sources. Bernard Quaritch. Cambridge University Press. STATUARY IN THE LATE PERIOD ROYAL CACHE WADI ON LUXOR’S Szpakowska, K. (2007) Daily life in Ancient Egypt: WEST BANK Recreating Lahun. Blackwell Publishing. Speaker: Dr Campbell Price THE ROYAL TOMBS OF Yletyinen, J. (2009) Holocene Climate Variability (University of Manchester) Speaker: Dr José Ramón Pérez-Accino ANCIENT EGYPT and Cultural Changes at River Nile and its (Complutense University of Madrid) Saharan Surroundings. PDF: www.diva-portal. Temple statuary was the chief medium for elite Dodson, A. (2016) The Royal Tombs of Ancient org/smash/get/diva2:400169/FULLTEXT01.pdf self-presentation in the Late Period (c.750–30 We are pleased to invite Dr José Ramón Egypt. Pen and Sword. It is recommended that Wasef, S., Subramanian, S., O’Rorke, R., BCE). Dedication of such monuments at the vast Pérez-Accino to lead our autumn study on the all students obtain a copy of this book. Huynen, L., El-Marghani, S., Curtis, C., Popinga, complex of Karnak was a privilege of the priestly Royal Cache Wadi. It is here, on the West Bank Dodson, A. M. and Ikram, S. (2004) The Tomb in A., Holland, B., Ikram, S., Millar, C., Willerslev, E., elite. This study day explores the forms and at Luxor, that a key chapter in the life history of Ancient Egypt. Thames and Hudson. and Lambert, D. (2019) Mitogenomic Diversity inscriptions of some of these statues. These give the Valley of the Kings came to a close 500 years Hornung, E. (1999) The Ancient Egyptian Books in Sacred Ibis Mummies Sheds Light on Early an important insight into conceptions of divinity, after it began as a royal necropolis. At the end of the Afterlife (translated by D. Lorton). Cornell Egyptian Practices. PLoS ONE 14(11): materiality, and expectations of how the statues of the New Kingdom, the mummified bodies of University Press. e0223964. were conceived to function for eternity in temples Egyptian rulers and some members of the royal Reeves, C. N. and Wilkinson, R. H. (1996) The frequented by gods, the living, and the dead. court were deposited in a tomb in a wadi or bay Complete Valley of the Kings. Thames and in the cliffs near the temple at Deir el-Bahari. Hudson. THE LORD OF ALL: The four lectures include: The uncovering of this “Royal Cache” in 1881 Wilkinson, R. H. and Weeks, K. R. (eds) (2016) THE MULTIFACETED NATURE was the first spectacular discovery of Egyptian The Oxford Handbook to the Valley of the Kings. OF PHARAOH 1. Dedicating a Temple Statue archaeology to be covered by the mass media. Oxford University Press. 2. Existing in the Shade of Karnak Since that time, it has been assumed that this Clayton, P. A. (1994) Chronicle of the Pharaohs: 3. Archaism and Innovation: Attitudes to so-called wadi is otherwise largely devoid of The reign by reign record of the rulers and the past archaeological remains. However, since 2017, THE GREAT CIVILISATIONS OF dynasties of ancient Egypt. Thames and Hudson. 4. Being Among the Praised Ones: the C2 Project: Royal Cache Wadi survey has THE NILE VALLEY: THE LAND AND Dodson, A. (1995) Monarchs of the Nile. Reciprocal actions revealed new evidence for religious activity prior to ITS PEOPLE Rubicon. the re-burial of the kings. These exciting findings Maitland, M. (2012) Pharaoh: King of Egypt. In addition to hearing four engaging lectures, you significantly change our understanding of the Hays, J. (2018) Disease and Health Problems British Museum Press. will have plenty of opportunity to ask questions, area and especially the history of the Valley of in Ancient Egypt. In Facts and Details. URL: Shaw, G. J. (2012) The Pharaoh: Life at Court and to socialise with the speaker during an online the Kings. factsanddetails.com/world/cat56/sub404/ and on Campaign. Thames and Hudson. drinks reception. entry-6405.html The four lectures include: Janssen, R. and Janssen, J. (2007) Growing Up See enclosed flyer for details and booking form. and Getting Old in Ancient Egypt (2nd edition). 1. Not the Last Journey: The re-burial of the Golden House Publications. kings at the end of the New Kingdom McKnight, L. M., Atherton-Woolham, S. D., and 2. The Night of Tasting Fear: A discovery in Adams, J. E. (2015) Clinical Imaging of Ancient the mountains Egyptian Animal Mummies. RadioGraphics, 35(3): 2108–2120. Continued overleaf 26 27

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Continued from previous page Monday 19 July (in person) Autumn dates TBC (in person) This year we are thrilled to be returning to Amarna after more than a decade, for another course with 3. The Forgotten Valley. The C2 Project EPIC IRAN AT THE VICTORIA AND Exploring Amarna: Prof. Barry Kemp, renowned Egyptologist 4. Work in Progress: Lines of research and ALBERT MUSEUM Its archaeology and and Director of excavations at the site of future plans Amarna since 1977. Classes will take place the ideas behind it with Prof. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones in our hotel, the Nefertiti, and our related site In addition to hearing four fascinating lectures, (University of Cardiff) Course Director: Prof. Barry Kemp visits will include the locations of the Aten you will have plenty of opportunity to ask (University of Cambridge) temples, royal palaces, the house of the sculptor questions, and to socialise with the speaker over Join Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, one of the foremost Thutmose, workshops, tombs, and more. We will morning and afternoon refreshments. international names in Persian Studies, for a BSS in Egypt is a very special learning experience also pay a visit to the beautifully painted, rock-cut unique and personalised tour of Epic Iran – a – an annual course taught in Egypt, and different tombs at the nearby site of Beni Hasan. Group See enclosed flyer for details and booking form. fascinating exhibition opening soon at the Victoria each year – offering a programme of classes and meals provide an opportunity to discuss the and Albert Museum. During your visit you will visits to archaeological sites, often including sites course and site visits, and to socialise with the explore 5,000 years of art, design, and culture that are usually closed to visitors but are opened Course Director and fellow students. and gain new insight into “…one of the greatest specially for BSS by the Egyptian Ministry of State historic civilisations, its journey into the 21st for Antiquities. Send expressions of interest to: century and its monumental artistic achievements, [email protected] which remain unknown to many.” This tour will be This is a unique opportunity to engage in a the perfect accompaniment to the BSS course 10-session course taught by a renowned Ancient Persia: New perspectives, also led by academic on location in Egypt. Daily visits Lloyd (see page 13). to ancient monuments enhance the learning experience. Our Course Director accompanies Exhibition visit will take place in person, but the site visits, and is on hand throughout to remains contingent upon UK government policy answer questions, discuss, and socialise regarding COVID-safe interaction. Visit time slot with you. and prices will be determined closer to the time. Our 12 BSS in Egypt courses to date have been Send expressions of interest to: directed by Prof. Barry Kemp, Mr John Romer, [email protected] Dr Robert Morkot, Dr Stephen Harvey, Dr Peter Lacovara, Dr Bill Manley, and Dr Bernadette Brady. We base ourselves in one hotel for the entire course. Thus far, our courses have taken place in Cairo, Minya, Sohag, Luxor, and Aswan. 28 29

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The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology New Friends of the Petrie Museum are always THe BSS BUrSArY SCHeMe BSS WeBSITe AND SOCIAL MeDIA here at UCL plays an important role in the warmly welcomed. Friends are invited to attend BSS programme, whether virtually or in monthly (online) lectures and (when face-to-face Bloomsbury Summer School runs a modest Do keep an eye on our website: person. It houses more than 80,000 objects interaction is permitted once again) object- bursary scheme, off ering unfi lled places on our www.egyptology-uk.com/bloomsbury from the Nile Valley. Most of these are from the handling seminars, as well as a host of special spring and summer courses to those who would excavations of William Matthew Flinders Petrie, events including study days, book launches, book fi nd it challenging to pay our course fees. We are Here you will fi nd BSS news items, photographs, the “Father of Egyptian Archaeology”, during auctions, parties, day trips, and tours to Egypt usually able to off er a small number of applicants the contents of this brochure, information about the late 19th and early 20th century. Petrie and museums around the world. Friends also places for £90 / £60 less than the full fee for our study days, BSS in Egypt, and downloadable became the fi rst Edwards Professor of have access to the excellent Edwards Egyptology 5-day courses (normally £350 in person / £270 booking forms. You will also fi nd a facility to pay Egyptology at UCL in 1893 and the college Library in the UCL Institute of Archaeology. Even online), and £40 less than the full fee for 4-day for our courses and study days via PayPal if you subsequently acquired his collection, which, if you live miles from the Petrie Museum, it is well courses (normally £220 online); and £40 / £20 should wish to do so. with that of Amelia Edwards, forms the core of worth becoming a Friend in order to support less than the full fee for 3-day courses (normally the museum as we know it today. one of the world’s most important collections £210 in person / £165 online). Here you will also fi nd a link to our Facebook of Egyptian antiquities. Friends fund the much- page, where you will fi nd information about BSS The collection can claim a number of “fi rsts”, needed conservation of objects in the collection. Eligible students who wish to join the scheme (and other) events, and where like-minded people among them the oldest known woven Please contact the Secretary of the Friends of the are welcome to do so. You need only email or around the world can interact with us at BSS. We garment, monumental sculpture, calendar, and Petrie Museum for further information: send in a brief statement of your wishes, putting are also on Twitter and Instagram. gynaecological papyrus. It also has the largest [email protected] your chosen courses in order of preference. collection of Egyptian pots, Middle Kingdom You may apply for as many courses as you Bloomsbury-Summer-School papyri, weights, and Roman Period mummy For courses taught in person, BSS like. All you need do after you have sent in an @Bloomsbury_SS #BSS2021 portraits outside Egypt. The collection is students beneﬁ t from a unique opportunity application is try to keep your diary clear of @bloomsbury_ss #BSS2021 uniquely important because much of it comes to learn from Petrie’s teaching collection important engagements for the relevant week(s). from documented excavations, providing an in the manner he intended. These courses The process of awarding bursary places usually unparalleled insight into the way ancient people often include exclusive-access visits to begins at the end of February for spring courses lived and died in the Nile Valley. This ensures that the museum and / or object-handling and end of May for summer courses. the Petrie Museum remains a valuable resource sessions – intimate contact with the material for today’s scholars, students, and public alike. culture of ancient Egypt for enriching the There is of course no guarantee that a bursary learning experience. place on a given course will arise at all; even The Petrie Museum was the fi rst museum in the when bursary places do become available, they world to make its entire catalogue available for We recommend you visit: sometimes do so rather late in the day, as a study via its online database. Its commitment to www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/petrie-museum consequence of last-minute student cancellation. accessibility was publicly recognised by the highly www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk prestigious Museums and Heritage Award for www.ucl.ac.uk/FriendsofPetrie Excellence, which the museum won in 2005. The museum celebrated its centenary in 2015 with a fi ne exhibition Characters and Collections and an accompanying book, downloadable for free here: www.uclpress.co.uk/products/82987 30 31

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For further information and to book, visit: I’ve been to BSS every year since bss in egypt ACCOMMODATION london.ac.uk/staycentral or contact: 1994 – the chance to immerse Accommodation is available during the summer Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8881 myself in Egyptology for a week I had an absolutely wonderful and amazing week. in reasonably priced university halls of residence Email: [email protected] or two, with great teachers Words cannot really do justice to the experience. close to BSS. For a room in a UCL Hall of Residence, visit: and friendly fellow students, is I cannot thank you enough for making my time www.ucl.ac.uk/residences or contact: something I absolutely treasure. in Egypt such a joy. I did not have to worry about NB: If you wish to book accommodation (when Tel: +44 (0)20 7529 8975 Mick Oakey anything as you had taken care of it all and so I in-person teaching resumes), you need to make or +44 (0)20 7387 4537 could just look, imagine, and enjoy. I also met so your own arrangements. Email: [email protected] The BSS online experience in 2020 was terrific, many lovely fellow-students. Bill Manley’s lessons almost as good as being there in person! I chose were brilliant, and I look forward to next summer’s University of London Halls of Residence There are also plenty of hotels close to BSS. two weeks of lectures to attend and thoroughly BSS courses in London. include: Please get in touch with Kathryn at BSS if you enjoyed it, even with a 3am start time for my Cindy Farrington need further advice on accommodation. time zone in Canada. Being online meant I could COLLEGE HALL attend two courses instead of one! This was my first time in Egypt and I must say Located in Malet Street between RADA (Royal Stephanie Lindeburg it was truly magical. I was so overwhelmed by all Academy of Dramatic Art) and Waterstones eNqUIrIeS the sites that we got to see and my face literally Bookshop on Malet Street. A 5-minute walk BSS is the highlight of my year – the unique hurt from smiling. from BSS. We will be happy to provide any further combination of learning, sharing, focusing for Imogen Olliver-Kneafsey information about Bloomsbury Summer School. a whole week on a chosen topic in a friendly CONNAUGHT HALL Enquiries should be addressed to: and approachable environment, renewing old Bill Manley is inspirational and very hard working. Overlooks the gardens of Tavistock Square. friendships, and the added privilege of lectures by His energy and desire to share his immense A 3-minute walk from BSS. Dr Kathryn E. Piquette people who are household names in Egyptology sea of knowledge with us was so special. I Bloomsbury Summer School and Ancient Near East circles, is what keeps me can’t thank you all enough. You deserve all the c/o The Accordia Research Institute INTERNATIONAL HALL coming back. gratitude and glittering accolades for 42 Runnemede Road Located close to the shops and restaurants of the Gill R. organising such a smooth-running, magical, Brunswick Centre in Lansdowne Terrace close to Egham TW20 9BL, UK and safe experience. Russell Square. A 15-minute walk from BSS. BSS – where else could I actually handle objects Vanessa Lee-Miller Tel: (voicemail and we will +44 (0)20 7679 3622 created and used by the ancient Egyptians, return your call) THE GARDEN HALLS except in the Petrie Museum as part of a BSS Located in Cartwright Gardens. A 10-minute walk class? Brilliant! Email: [email protected] from BSS. Kay Fox Web: www.egyptology-uk.com/ Prices start at £46 per night for a single room bloomsbury It’s a terrific opportunity to learn more about and £88 for a double room (including breakfast). the ancient world in a relaxed and friendly Self-catering apartments are also available from atmosphere – no pressure and great fun. £105 per night. Esmond Lindop

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: We would like to thank the UCL Institute of Archaeology, UCL Front cover image: Detail of the chest area of a cartonnage panel from the mummy of Library Services, UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, the British Museum, the Egypt Tasheriankh (early Ptolemaic Period, c.300 BCE; Salford EA 7, now held in the Manchester Museum, Exploration Society, and The Ancient Egypt Foundation, for their support. accession number 13783). photograph: © julia thorne, tetisheri (https://tetisheri.co.uk/)

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