The London Diary for the Ancient Near East
No 39
January - March
2008
Compiled and circulated by the London Centre for the Ancient Near East
The compilers of the Diary and officers of the London Centre and BANEA cannot be held responsible for the
accuracy of the information supplied in this Diary. The events listed may be subject to changes or cancellation.
The events are free and open to non-members unless indicated otherwise. Please direct enquiries to the
organisers and not to the Diary Editor
Mon 14 Jan
16.00 Colin Renfrew ‘Archaeology and Language’ in retrospect
Room 612, Institute of Archaeology UCL, 31 Gordon Sq WC1. Institute of Archaeology seminar series Linguistics in archaeology: problems and possibilities. All welcome. Convenors Dorian Fuller & John Tait.
Further information [email protected]; www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology
Mon 14 Jan
18.00 Mark Weeden Mesopotamian learning in Hittite scribal practice
Room G51, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1. London Centre for the Ancient Near East (BANEA South-East)
Reports on current research - seminar series. ww.soas.ac.uk/anecentre
Tues 15 Jan
13.15 Hilary Williams Greece, Egypt and Assyria: their effect on decorative arts
British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free gallery talk, meet Room 47. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Wed 16 Jan
15.00 Olga Romanova From towns to pyramids: the people who built the monuments
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL, Malet Place WC1. Free themed museum tour - all welcome
Wed 16 Jan
18.30 Selma al-Radi The restoration of the ‘Ameriya in Rada‘, Yemen
Khalili lecture theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1. Islamic Art Circle lecture followed by a documentary on
the qudad process (the Yemeni traditional means of plastering). All welcome. Enquiries: Rosalind Wade
Haddon: 01608 730769, [email protected]
Thurs 17 Jan
18.00 Andrew Peterson The Ottoman conquest of Arabia from the 16th to 18th centuries
Stevenson lecture theatre, British Museum. Society for Arabian Studies / Palestine Exploration Fund / Council
for British Research in the Levant lecture. All welcome. Enquiries: [email protected]; 020 7935
5379
Thurs 17 Jan
18.45 Charlotte Booth Ethnic identity in ancient Egypt
Egyptian Cultural Centre, 4 Chesterfield Gardens W1. All welcome. Tel: 020 7491 7720.
www.egyptculture.org.uk
Sat 19 Jan
11.00 Veronica Walker Vanity and sexuality in ancient Egypt
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL, Malet Place WC1. Free themed museum tour - all welcome
Sat 19 Jan
13.15 Lorna Oakes Assyria and the state of Urartu
British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free gallery talk, meet Room 54. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Mon 21 Jan
16.00 Fiona Jordan Austronesian languages and phylogenetic methods
Room 612, Institute of Archaeology UCL, 31 Gordon Sq WC1. Institute of Archaeology seminar series Linguistics in archaeology: problems and possibilities. All welcome. Contact details see 14 January
Wed 23 Jan
15.00 Katherine McAlpine Fashion in ancient Egypt
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL, Malet Place WC1. Free themed museum tour - all welcome
Wed 23 Jan
16.00 Bruce Kapferer Mary Douglas & Henri Frankfort: re-orientations, the present in the past
Room 218 Foster Court UCL, Malet Place entrance. Mary Douglas Seminars on Anthropology and the Bible.
Institute of Jewish Studies UCL / Royal Anthropological Institute lecture. 020 7679 3520. [email protected]
Thurs 24 Jan
16.30 Makis Aperghis Monetarization and modernism: public finance in the Seleucid Empire
Senate House, North Wing, room 336 ICS Ancient History Seminar
Thurs 24 Jan
18.00 Irving Finkel From Jerusalem to Babylon and back again: new thoughts on the Jewish exile in Babylon
Stevenson lecture theatre, British Museum WC1. Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society Richard Barnett
Memorial Lecture. All welcome. Enquiries: 020 7691 1467. Website: www.aias.org.uk
Fri 25 Jan
17.00 Martin Leuenberger The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III (858-824 BC) and Jehu of Israel. A lesson in
the history of Biblical interpretation
Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, WC1. History of Scholarship seminar series. Further info, Christopher
Ligota, 020 7862 8949
Sat 26 Jan
10.00-16.30 Lucia Gahlin & Jan Picton Queenship in ancient Egypt
Egyptian Cultural Centre, 4 Chesterfield Gardens W1. Study Day, ticketed. Tickets tel: 020 7491 7720
Sat 26 Jan
11.00 Charlotte Rose Crafts in ancient Egypt
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL, Malet Place WC1. Free themed museum tour - all welcome
Sat 26 Jan
12.00 & 15.00 Middle East storytelling: family events
13.00 & 16.00 Middle East storytelling: adult events
Room 34, British Museum WC1. Free admission. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Mon 28 Jan
16.00 Paul Heggarty & David Beresford-Jones Agriculture and language, origins and dispersal: an Andean
exception?
Room 612, Institute of Archaeology UCL, seminar series see 14 Jan
Mon 28 Jan
18.00 Sarah Collins The British Museum excavations at Sidon, Lebanon, 1998-2007
Room G51, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1. London Centre for the Ancient Near East (BANEA South-East)
Reports on current research - seminar series. ww.soas.ac.uk/anecentre
Wed 30 Jan
14.15 Jan Tavernier Mesopotamian and Greek inventories: a comparative study
Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, WC1. History of Scholarship seminar series. Further info, Christopher
Ligota, 020 7862 8949
Wed 30 Jan
15.00 Hanna Davis Introduction to the Petrie Museum
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL, Malet Place WC1. Free themed museum tour - all welcome
Wed 30 Jan
18.45 Gideon Bohak Two magical scrolls from the Cairo Genizah
Gustave Tuck lecture theatre UCL, Gower St entrance. Institute of Jewish Studies UCL lecture. Reception
6.15pm, Haldane Room, precedes lecture. All welcome. Enquiries: 020 7679 3520. [email protected]
Thurs 31 Jan
16.30 Christopher Tuplin The King’s Cut: searching for Achaemenid taxation at Persepolis and elsewhere
Senate House, North Wing, room 336. ICS Ancient History Seminar
Thurs 31 Jan
18.30 Jaromir Malek Ten years’ hard labour: the recording of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Carter & co.
BP lecture theatre, British Museum WC1. Tickets £5 / £3. Tel: 020 7323 8181.
[email protected]
Thurs 31 Jan
18.45 Ian Shaw Dwellers in the sand: nomads and pastoralists in ancient Egypt and Sudan
Egyptian Cultural Centre, 4 Chesterfield Gardens W1. All welcome. Tel: 020 7491 7720.
www.egyptculture.org.uk
Fri 1 Feb
18.30 Karen Exell Ramesses the god: the ruler cult of Ramesses II
G6 Institute of Archaeology, 31 Gordon Sq WC1. Friends of the Petrie Museum lecture - all welcome,
followed by ticketed New Year Party, members only. Further information: Jan Picton 020 7679 2369,
[email protected]
Sat 2 Feb
10.00-17.00 Study Day Living Images: Egyptian funerary portraits in the Petrie Museum
G6 Institute of Archaeology, 31 Gordon Sq WC1. Friends of the Petrie Museum study day. Tickets £30 / £25
PMF/ £15 students, includes lunch. Speakers Stephen Quirke, Paul Roberts, Helena Jaeschke. Further
information: Jan Picton 020 7679 2369, [email protected]; www.ucl.ac.uk/FriendsofPetrie
Sat 2 Feb
10.00-17.00 Study Day The Sumerians: Iraq’s first civilization
Birkbeck College, Malet St WC1. Speakers: Paul Collins, Harriet Crawford, Roger Matthews, Eleanor Robson,
Zipang. Joint Birkbeck / BSAI event. Tickets £40 /£20. Tel: 020 7631 6651, quote code FFAR031NACS
February
Sats 11.00 / Weds 15.00 Petrie Museum UCL, Malet Place WC1. Free themed museum tours - all welcome
Sat 2 Feb
11.00-16.00 Val Maxfield Study day on Roman Egypt
Committee Room EES, 3 Doughty Mews WC1. Egypt Exploration Society study day - members only. Ticket
price for is £20 / £15 EES students. Enquiries to 020 7242 1903, email: [email protected], www.ees.ac.uk
Sat 2 Feb
13.15 George Hart Egypt under the Roman emperors
British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free gallery talk, meet Room 70. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Mon 4 Feb
16.00 Peter Forster Reconstructing language prehistory using phylogenetic network methods
Room 612, Institute of Archaeology UCL, 31 Gordon Sq WC1. Institute of Archaeology seminar series Linguistics in archaeology: problems and possibilities. All welcome. Contact details see 14 January
Fri 8 Feb
17.00 Avi Lifschitz Johann David Michaelis and the ancient Near East. From divine inspiration to empirical
enquiry
Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, WC1. History of Scholarship seminar series. Further info, Christopher
Ligota, 020 7862 8949
Tues 5 Feb
17.30 Paul Bennett Archaeological impact assessments and an archaeological protocol for the hydrocarbon
sector
British Academy, Carlton House Terrace SW1. Society for Libyan Studies / Libyan British Business Council.
Libya's Oil and Gas Resources: Current Developments and Prospects for the Future. All welcome.
Wed 6 Feb
16.00 Nicolas Wyatt Circumcision and circumstance: male genital mutilation in ancient Ugarit and Israel
Room 218 Foster Court UCL, Malet Place entrance. Mary Douglas Seminars on Anthropology and the Bible.
Institute of Jewish Studies UCL / Royal Anthropological Institute lecture. 020 7679 3520. [email protected]
Wed 6 Feb
19.00 Michele Bernardini Reciprocal influences between Italians and Ilkhanids/Golden Horde
Khalili lecture theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1. Islamic Art Circle - The Hadassah and Daniel Khalili
Memorial Lecture. All welcome. Enquiries: 01608 730769, [email protected]
Thurs 7 Feb
16.30 Karen Radner Tax versus tribute: fund-raising in the Assyrian Empire
For further information contact Hans van Wees: [email protected]
Senate House, North Wing, room 336. ICS Ancient History Seminar
Thurs 7 Feb
18.30 John J Johnston Beyond Isis and Osiris: alternative sexualities in ancient Egypt
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL, Malet Place WC1. Open evening for LGBT History Month
17.30-19.30 (talk at 18.30). All welcome. Tel: 020 7679 4138. Email [email protected]
Sat 9 Feb
13.15 Lorna Oakes Darius and the city of Persepolis
British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free gallery talk, meet Room 52. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Sat 9 Feb
14.00-17.00 Museum tour Ancient bling: adornment and hidden histories
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL, Malet Place WC1. Find out about jewellery in Ancient Egypt.
Free but book in advance, tel: 020 7679 4138. Email [email protected]; www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk
Tues 12 Feb
18.45 Sylvie Anne Goldberg The making of tradition: oriental and occidental Jews confronting their origins
Gustave Tuck lecture theatre UCL, Gower St entrance. Institute of Jewish Studies UCL lecture. Reception
6.15pm, Haldane Room, precedes lecture. All welcome. Enquiries: 020 7679 3520. [email protected]
Thurs 14 Feb
18.45 Peter Clayton The discovery of ancient Egypt in the European tradition from Alexander the Great to
Flinders Petrie
Egyptian Cultural Centre, 4 Chesterfield Gardens W1. All welcome. Tel: 020 7491 7720.
www.egyptculture.org.uk
15-16 Feb
Workshop The frontiers of the Ottoman world: fortifications, trade, pilgrimage and slavery
British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace SW1. Multidisciplinary workshop supported by British Academy
Schools and Institutes. Limited places for non-participants at £7.50 per day including lunch. Cheques payable
'BIAA', sent to Joan Porter MacIver, British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace London SW1 5AH.
Sat 16 Feb
14.00-16.30 George Hart & Hilary Williams David Roberts and the Holy Land
Stevenson lecture theatre, British Museum WC1. Tickets £15 / £12. Tel: 020 7323 8181
Mon 18 Feb
16.00 Jerome Lewis As well as words: what Pygmy hunter-gatherer communicative culture suggests about
the origins of language
Room 612, Institute of Archaeology UCL, seminar series see 14 Jan for details
Mon18 Feb
18.00 Lindsay Allen Deciphering Persepolis, a creative phase of Orientalist enquiry in Persian antiquity,
c.1750-1825
Room G51, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1. London Centre for the Ancient Near East (BANEA South-East)
Reports on current research - seminar series. ww.soas.ac.uk/anecentre
Wed 20 Feb
13.15 Silke Ackermann Art in Heaven: astronomy and astrology in Islam
British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free gallery talk, meet Room 34. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Wed 20 Feb
16.00 Adam Kuper Anthropologists and the Bible since the Victorians
Room 218 Foster Court UCL, Malet Place entrance. Mary Douglas Seminars on Anthropology and the Bible.
Institute of Jewish Studies UCL / Royal Anthropological Institute lecture. 020 7679 3520. [email protected]
21-22 Feb
Conference Holding it all together: ancient and modern approaches to joining, repair and consolidation
British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Convenor: Janet Ambers, Department of Conservation, Documentation
and Science. Tickets £150 / £80. Email: [email protected]; fax: 020 7323 8276
Thurs 21 Feb
18.00 Avraham Faust The extent of Sennacherib’s campaign to Judah in 701 BCE
Stevenson lecture theatre, British Museum WC1. Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society lecture. All welcome.
Sat 23 Feb
13.15 Jake Wilson Ashurbanipal’s lion hunt reliefs: an ancient masterpiece
British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free gallery talk, meet Room 10. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Mon 25 Feb
16.00 April McMahon The archaeology of sounds: which modern English accents sound most like
Shakespeare?
Room 612, Institute of Archaeology UCL, seminar series, contact details 14 Jan
Mon 25 Feb
18.00 Benjamin Sass Aramaic impressions on bricks from Babylon and their contribution to the history of the
city under Nebuchadnezzar
Room G51, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1. London Centre for the Ancient Near East (BANEA South-East)
Reports on current research - seminar series. ww.soas.ac.uk/anecentre
Thurs 28 Feb
13.15 Alexandra Fletcher The first farmers
British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free gallery talk, meet Rm 51. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Thurs 28 Feb
18.45 Lucia Gahlin Living in the shadow of the pyramids: the settlements at Giza
Egyptian Cultural Centre, 4 Chesterfield Gardens W1. All welcome. Tel: 020 7491 7720
www.egyptculture.org.uk
March
Sats 11.00 / Weds 15.00 Petrie Museum UCL, Malet Place WC1. Free themed museum tours - all welcome
Mon 3 March
16.00 Mark Collier Accessing ancient cognition: linguistic approaches through ancient Egyptian language
Room 612, Institute of Archaeology UCL, 31 Gordon Sq WC1. Institute of Archaeology seminar series Linguistics in archaeology: problems and possibilities. All welcome. Contact details see 14 January
Wed 5 March
16.00 Seth Kunin A structuralist analysis of competitive models of sacred space in the biblical texts
Room 218 Foster Court UCL, Malet Place entrance. Mary Douglas seminar series, see 20 Feb
Thurs 6 March
18.30 Jessica Rawson & John Taylor Tutankhamun and the First Emperor
BP lecture theatre, British Museum WC1. Tickets £5 / £3. Tel: 020 7323 8181.
[email protected]
Thurs 6 March
18.30 Roland Smith & Trevor Proudfoot Aphrodisias: excavation and research
Stevenson lecture theatre, British Museum WC1. Tickets £5 / £3. Tel: 020 7323 8181. Email as previous listing
Thurs 6 March
19.00 Eldryd Parry The work of THET in Ethiopia
Room G50, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1. Anglo-Ethiopian Society lecture. Email [email protected]
Fri 7 March
17.30 Kay Prag Crystal Bennett: from Bruton to Buseirah
British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace SW1. Council for British Research in the Levant Crystal Bennett
Memorial Lecture. Further information: Penny Wiggins 020 7969 5296, [email protected]
Fri 7 March
18.30 John Methuen The Copts: between the pharaohs and the caliphs
G6 Institute of Archaeology, 31 Gordon Sq WC1. Friends of the Petrie Museum lecture - all welcome. Further
information: Jan Picton 020 7679 2369, [email protected]; www.ucl.ac.uk/FriendsofPetrie
Mon 10 March
16.00 Rachel Mairs Ethnic contact, language contact and the archaeological record: Hellenistic case studies
from Egypt and Afghanistan
Room 612, Institute of Archaeology UCL, 31 Gordon Sq WC1. Institute of Archaeology seminar series Linguistics in archaeology: problems and possibilities. All welcome. Contact details see 14 January
Mon 10 March
18.00 Jon Taylor Fragments of Babylonian history (from a Babylonian perspective)
Room G51, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1. London Centre for the Ancient Near East (BANEA South-East)
Reports on current research - seminar series. ww.soas.ac.uk/anecentre
Wed 12 March
15.00 Museum talk Pick your brains! Dissection, medicine and ancient Egypt
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL, Malet Place WC1. National Science Week event. Free - all
welcome. Tel: 020 7679 4138. Email [email protected]
Wed 12 March
19.00 Rebecca Foote Of castles & crops: agricultural estates in Early Islamic Arabia
Khalili lecture theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1. Islamic Art Circle - The Hadassah and Daniel Khalili
Memorial Lecture. All welcome. Enquiries: 01608 730769, [email protected]
Thurs 13 March
18.45 Khalifa Ezzat Women in the Islamic civilization
Egyptian Cultural Centre, 4 Chesterfield Gardens W1. All welcome. Tel: 020 7491 7720.
www.egyptculture.org.uk
14-16 March
Conference Second British Egyptological Conference
School of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology, University of LIVERPOOL. Jointly organised with the EES.
Full details on events page www.ees.ac.uk; or www.liv.ac.uk/sace/. Email [email protected]
Sat 15 March
11.00 Museum talk Pick your brains! Dissection, medicine and ancient Egypt
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL, Malet Place WC1. Free - all welcome
Sat 15 March
14.00-17.00 Family day Pick your brains! Dissection, medicine and ancient Egypt
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL, Malet Place WC1 and then the Hunterian Museum. National
Science Week event. Free but book in advance. Tel: 020 7679 4138. Email [email protected]
Mon 17 March
16.00 James Clackson Using language to reconstruct prehistory, the Indo-European case
Room 612, Institute of Archaeology UCL, 31 Gordon Sq WC1. Institute of Archaeology seminar series Linguistics in archaeology: problems and possibilities. All welcome. Contact details see 14 January
Wed 19 March
17.30 Nelida Fuccaro City and state in Bahrain and in the Gulf before oil
Khalili lecture theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1. Society for Arabian Studies /British-Bahrain Society joint
lecture. All welcome. Enquiries: [email protected]; 020 7935 5379
Thurs 20 March 18.00 Ken Dark Reinterpreting Roman-Period and Byzantine Nazareth
Stevenson lecture theatre, British Museum WC1. Joint Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society / Palestine
Exploration Fund lecture. All welcome. Enquiries: 020 7691 1467. www.aias.org.uk; www.pef.org.uk
Thurs 27 March
18.45 Martin Davies The history and rescue of the monuments of Philae
Egyptian Cultural Centre, 4 Chesterfield Gardens W1. All welcome. Tel: 020 7491 7720.
www.egyptculture.org.uk
Sat 29 March
10.30-16.00 Study Day Look like an Egyptian: Roman portraits from Hawara
National Portrait Gallery / Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL. Tickets £30 / £20 PMF/concessions.
Book through NPG Course & Study Day Bookings, tel: 020 7306 0055