Saturday, 28 January 2017, Study Day
Re-examining the Amarna Letters
Looking at the Amarna Letters from the ‘other side’. Many of the Amarna letters between the
Great Kings of the Ancient Near East and Egypt were written first in Akkadian in the
cuneiform script and translated into Egyptian for the king, and vice versa. Who were these
scribes? How did they learn? How did international diplomacy work? All this and more to be
discussed at this very special day
From
09.45
Doors open for registration
10.00 - 10.15
Welcome
10.15 - 11.30
Jana Mynářová: Not a Peasant Woman. On the Discovery of the Amarna Archive
11.30 - 12.00
coffee
12.00 - 13.15
Jana Mynářová: Between Clay and Papyrus. The Acquisition and Use of
Cuneiform Writing in Egypt
13.15 - 14.15
lunch – please make your own arrangements
14.15 - 15.30
Jana Mynářová: How to Present Eloquent Words to the King: Diplomacy, Politics
and Legal Aspects in the Amarna Correspondence
15.30 - 16.00
tea
16.00 - 17.15
Carl Walsh: Amarna Diplomacy: A Behavioural, Social, and Material Discussion
17.15 - 17.30
Q&A
Jana Mynářová is an Associate Professor of Egyptology at the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles
University in Prague. She graduated in Egyptology and Cuneiform Studies and gained her Ph.D. in Philology – Languages of
Asia and Africa in 2004. She specializes in the relations between Egypt and the Near East in the 2nd millennium BC, Egyptian
history and society in the New Kingdom and Peripheral Akkadian. At present she is working on a research project dedicated to
the study of Amarna cuneiform palaeography (to be published as Handbook of Amarna Cuneiform Palaeography).
Dr Carl Walsh is a Teaching Fellow in the History Department at UCL having gained his PhD in the Institute of Archaeology.
Carl is a comparative archaeologist specializing in the eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age. His research focuses on
archaeological theories of embodiment, particularly in relation to diplomacy and intercultural interactions, palatial architecture,
and elite body culture and behaviour. Currently he is working on research regarding the construction and transmission of
courtly behaviour between the court societies of the Middle and Late Bronze Ages in the eastern Mediterranean.
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