The London Diary for the Ancient Near East

The London Diary for the Ancient Near East No 40 April September 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 about events to their organisers. Mon 14 April 18.00 Diana Stein The biblical tree of knowledge; reflections from the ancient Near East Stevenson lecture theatre, British Museum WC1. Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society lecture. All welcome. Enquiries: 020 7691 1467. Website: www.aias.org.uk Tues 15 April 18.00 Douglas Baird The world's first farming villages: 10,000 year old sites in Turkey British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace SW1. British Institute at Ankara/Anglo Turkish Society lecture All welcome. Further info: Siobhan McKeown Email: biaa@britac.ac.uk, Tel 020 7969 5204. 16-20 April 11.00-16.00 Family events Discover Persia: arts, crafts, music and stories British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free, just drop in. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Wed 16 April 15.00 Charlotte Rose Religion in ancient Egypt Thurs 17 April 13.15 Christopher Spring Ethiopia in the African galleries British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free gallery talk, meet Room 25. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 18-19 April Conference Do we understand the Middle East? Brunei Gallery lecture theatre, SOAS WC1. BRISMES / LMEI conference. Tickets 30 / 20 BRISMES/MLEI, 5 students. Pre-registration required to Louise Hosking, email: lh2@soas.ac.uk; www.lmei.soas.ac.uk Fri 18 April 18.30 John Baines Ancient Egyptian attitudes to landscape G6 Institute of Archaeology, 31 Gordon Sq WC1. Friends of the Petrie Museum lecture - all welcome. Further information: Jan Picton 020 7679 2369, j.picton@ucl.ac.uk; www.ucl.ac.uk/friendsofpetrie Sat 19 April 10.00-13.00 Workshop Jane Elliott Drawing faces Strang Print Room UCL & Petrie Museum UCL. Workshop on the principles of drawing faces using the Hawara portraits as inspiration. Tickets 5 includes materials. Book in advance, 020 7679 4138. Email: d.challis@ucl.ac.uk Sat 19 April 13.15 Lorna Oakes How is the king represented in Assyrian art British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free gallery talk, meet Room 6. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Mon 21 April 18.00 Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault Excavations in Tell Masaikh, Syria: a Neo-Assyrian colony in the lower Syrian Euphrates valley Room G51, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1. London Centre for the Ancient Near East (BANEA South-East) AGM and public lecture jointly with the Institute for Jewish Studies - all welcome. www.soas.ac.uk/anecentre Tues 22 April 18.00 Olivier Rouault The Syrian-French excavations at Ashara-Terqa in Syria J.Z. Young lecture theatre, Anatomy Building UCL, Gower St WC1. UCL Institute of Archaeology & BISI lecture. Admission free. Further info, Joan Porter MacIver, 020 7969 5274, email: bisi@britac.ac.uk Wed 23 April 15.00 Virginie Cerdeira Egypt in the old Kingdom Wed 23 April 19.00 Sophie Makariou The Mamluk Basin of Hugues IV of Lusignan Khalili lecture theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1. Islamic Art Circle lecture. All welcome. Enquiries: Rosalind Wade Haddon: 01608 730769, RosalindHaddon@aol.com 24 April / 1 May / 8 May 18.00-21.00 Film season Adventure archaeologists Lecture theatre G6, Institute of Archaeology, 31 Gordon Sq WC1. Petrie Museum & UCL Students Film programme. Admission free to UCL students and PMF. Debbie Challis 020 7679 4138. Email: d.challis@ucl.ac.uk Sat 26 April 11.00 Celia Henderson Personal adornment Wed 30 April 14.00-17.00 Workshop Jane Elliott Drawing faces Strang Print Room UCL & Petrie Museum UCL. Details as 19 April Wed 30 April 15.00 Carolyn Perry Dynasties of medieval Egypt through May June 11.00 Saturdays, 15.00 Wednesdays Gallery talks in the Petrie Museum, Malet Place WC1. Various themes, all welcome. Further information www.ucl.ac.uk/news/ Sat 3 May 13.15 George Hart Egyptians and Hittites from Tutankhamun to Ramesses II British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free gallery talk, meet Room 4. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Tues 6 May 17.30 Saad Al Ghariani Managing scarce resources: water, land and agriculture British Academy, Carlton House Terrace SW1. Society for Libyan Studies lecture. All welcome Wed 7 May 15.30 Lorenz Winkler Visualization of power: the Parthenon and the Apadana at Persepolis Rm 336, North Block, Senate House WC1. ICLS Classical seminar. Free. Further information 020 7862 8700, email:

admin.icls@sas.ac.uk; www.sas.ac.uk/icls/ Wed 7 May 18.45 Maureen Bloom Jewish mysticism and magic: an anthropological perspective Gustave Tuck lecture theatre UCL, Gower St entrance. Institute of Jewish Studies UCL lecture. Reception 6.15pm, Terrace Restaurant, precedes lecture. All welcome. Enquiries: 020 7679 3520. uclhvtm@ucl.ac.uk Thurs 8 May 16.30 Kate Spence El-Amarna: city of Akhetaten BP lecture theatre, British Museum WC1. Tickets 5 / 3. Tel: 020 7323 8181. boxoffice@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Thurs 8 May 18.45 Aidan Dodson Saites, sarcophagi... and a Scottish Pretender Fri 9 May 13.15 Hilary Williams Assyrian revival: art and archaeology British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free gallery talk, meet Room 47. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Fri 9 May 18.30 Rosalie David The Ancient Egyptian Pharmacy Project: a multidisciplinary study of pharaonic medicine G6 Institute of Archaeology, 31 Gordon Sq WC1. Friends of the Petrie Museum lecture - all welcome. Further information: Jan Picton 020 7679 2369, j.picton@ucl.ac.uk; www.ucl.ac.uk/friendsofpetrie Fri 9 May 18.30 Kutalmis Görkay Architecture and iconography at the imperial margin: late Hellenistic and Roman Zeugma Stevenson lecture theatre, British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. British Institute at Ankara lecture All welcome. Further info and tickets from Siobhan McKeown Email: biaa@britac.ac.uk, Tel 020 7969 5204 10-11 May Conference Cultures of commodity branding G6 Institute of Archaeology, 31 Gordon Sq WC1. Institute of Archaeology conference, exploring commodity branding in the long-term transformation of human societies. Tickets 30 / 10 students. Further information from: d.wengrow@ucl.ac.uk / a.bevan@ucl.ac.uk. www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology Mon 12 May 18.00 Joanne Clarke Cyprus and the Levant in the Neolithic: new theories, insights, data Stevenson lecture theatre, British Museum WC1. Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society lecture. All welcome. Enquiries: 020 7691 1467. Website: www.aias.org.uk Tues 13 May Colloquium Recent archaeological fieldwork in the Sudan Stevenson lecture theatre, British Museum WC1. Sudan Archaeological Research Society event followed by reception. Tickets are available from The Honorary Secretary. Telephone 0207 323 8500/8306, email SARS@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk, www.sudarchrs.org.uk Wed 14 May 17.00 Jean-Claude Poursat Palaces and polities in Minoan Crete: a view from Malia Rm 336, North Block, Senate House WC1. ICLS Michael Ventris memorial lecture. Free but apply for place on 020 7862 8700, email: admin.icls@sas.ac.uk www.sas.ac.uk/icls/ Wed 14 May 19.00 Julia Gonnella The citadel of Aleppo: recent excavations Khalili lecture theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1. Islamic Art Circle - The Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture. All welcome. Enquiries: 01608 730769, RosalindHaddon@aol.com

Wed 14 May 19.00 Valeria Coke Out of Egypt: Coptic Christianity and links to Ethiopia Room B102, Brunei Building, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1. Anglo-Ethiopian Society lecture. All welcome. Contact info: David Jackson, email: events@anglo-ethiopian.org 16-17 May 08.45-18.00 Conference The ancient Levant G6, Institute of Archaeology UCL, 31 Gordon Sq WC1. Institute of Archaeology research conference covering the archaeology of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Cyprus. Admission free but pre-booking essential. Sponsored by CBRL and UCL. All enquiries to Kathryn Piquette at email: ancientlevant@googlemail.com www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/events/index.htm Mon 19 May 18.45 Ora Schwarzwald Translations of liturgical texts: temporal and textual variations Gustave Tuck lecture theatre UCL, Gower St entrance. Institute of Jewish Studies UCL lecture. Reception 6.15pm, Terrace Restaurant, precedes lecture. All welcome. Enquiries: 020 7679 3520. uclhvtm@ucl.ac.uk Wed 21 May 16.00 Florentina Badalanova Geller Folk bible: the hypertext 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. uclhvtm@ucl.ac.uk Wed 21 May 17.30 William Facey From Mayfair to Mecca - the travels of Lady Evelyn Cobbold Khalili lecture theatre, SOAS. Society for Arabian Studies lecture follows AGM. All welcome. Enquiries: ionisthompson@ukonline.co.uk; 020 7935 5379, www.societyforarabianstudies.org Thurs 22 May 14.00-16.30 Hilary Williams and Henrietta McCall Delacroix and Sardanapalus Stevenson lecture theatre, British Museum WC1. Tickets 20/ 14.020 7323 8181. Boxoffice@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Thurs 22 May 18.45 Colin Reader Aswan granite Sat 24 May 13.15 Lorna Oakes The beginnings of civilisation in Mesopotamia British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free gallery talk, meet Room 56. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Sat 31 May 10.00-17.00 Conference David Silverman & Kate Spence Tutankhamun: the making of a legend Bloomsbury Theatre, Gordon St, WC1. Friends of the Petrie Museum 20th anniversary conference. Tickets 30 includes wine, book via the theatre, tel. 020 7388 8822; www.thebloomsbury.com/event Wed 4 June 19.00 Konstantinos Politis The archaeology of the sugar industry in the Near East Khalili lecture theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1. Islamic Art Circle - The Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture. All welcome. Enquiries: 01608 730769, RosalindHaddon@aol.com Thurs 5 June 18.45 Rosalie David Diet and disease in ancient Egypt: recent scientific studies

Sat 7 June 10.00-17.00 Study Day Middle Kingdom revisited Room B34, Birkbeck College, Malet St WC1. Speakers Wolfram Grajetzki, George Hart, Joseph Clayton, Alan Lloyd, Angela Thomas. Tickets 40/20. Tel: 020 7361 6651. archaeology@fce.bbk.ac.uk Wed 11 June 17.30 Elizabeth Stone The structure of settlement in Mesopotamian cities, towns, villages British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, WC1. British Institute for the Study of Iraq (BISI). Admission free. Further info: Joan Porter Maclver, tel: 020 7969 5274, email: bisi@britac.ac.uk, www.britac.ac.uk/institutes/iraq/ Thurs 12 June 13.15 Nicholas Badcott The arts of Sudanic Africa British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free gallery talk, meet Room 25. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Thurs 12 June 18.00 Tobias Richter At the lake edge: the final Pleistocene in the Azraq oasis Stevenson lecture theatre, British Museum WC1. Palestine Exploration Fund AGM and lecture. All welcome. Contact 020 7935 5379, fax 020 7486 7438, execsec@pef.org, www.pef.org.uk Sat 14 June 11.00-12.30 Cathie Bryan Egypt undead: a walk through Kensal Green Cemetery Meet at the Main entrance to Kensal Green Cemetery on the Harrow Rd, W9 (not the Crematorium entrance). A walking tour examining ancient Egypt s influence on the architecture and monuments of London. Tickets 5, numbers limited. Book through Debbie Challis 020 7679 4138, email: d.challis@ucl.ac.uk Sat 14 June 13.15 Thomas Kiely Cyprus in the shadow of empires British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free gallery talk, meet Room 72. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Mon 16 June 17.30 Denys Pringle Acre at the time of the Crusader kingdom Stevenson lecture theatre, British Museum WC1. Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society AGM 17.30, followed by lecture at 18.00. All welcome. Enquiries: 020 7691 1467. Website: www.aias.org.uk 16-18 June 18.45 Conference Sects and sectarianism in Jewish history UCL. Institute of Jewish Studies conference, register to receive further details. Tel: 020 7679 3520. E- mail: uclhvtm@ucl.ac.uk; www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/ijs Thurs 19 June 18.30 William Dalrymple From the Holy Mountain: a journey in the shadow of Byzantium BP lecture theatre, British Museum, Gt Russell St WC1. British Institute for the Study of Iraq (BISI) Iraqi scholars appeal fundraiser. Tickets 15 / 10 BISI and BMP. Apply by 16 June to BISI/Dalrymple lecture, 10 Carlton House Terrace, SW1. tel: 020 7969 5274, email: bisi@britac.ac.uk, www.britac.ac.uk/institutes/iraq Thurs 19 June 18.45 Bob Partridge The royal mummies Thurs 19 June 19.00 Niall Finneran Lalibela, Ethiopia: towards an archaeological context Room B102, Brunei Building, SOAS, Thomhaugh St WC1. Anglo-Ethiopian Society lecture. All welcome. Contact info: David Jackson, email: events@anglo-ethiopian.org

Fri 20 June 18.00 Nicholas Sims-Williams Between Iran and China: a Bactrian archive from Afghanistan BP lecture theatre, British Museum. Department of the Middle East annual Vladimir G. Lukonin Memorial Lecture. Admission Free. Enquiries to Claire Burton, 020 7323 8315, email cburton@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Sat 21 June 13.15 Lorna Oakes Early civilisation in ancient Egypt British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free gallery talk, meet Room 64. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 21-22 June Conference The kingdom of Osiris: aspects of Egyptian funerary archaeology Brunei Gallery theatre, SOAS, WC1. Egypt Exploration Society conference. Speakers: Martin Bommas, Rosalie David, Marleen de Meyer, Aidan Dodson, Geoffrey Martin, Chris Naunton, Caroline Simpson, Alice Stevenson, John Taylor, Harco Willems. Ticket price 60 EES / 75 non-members. 020 7242 1903, email: contact@ees.ac.uk Fri 27 June 18.30 Friends of the Petrie Museum AGM & Summer Party G6 Institute of Archaeology, 31 Gordon Sq WC1. PMF AGM, Museum reports, followed by Summer Party, ticketed. Further information: Jan Picton 020 7679 2369, j.picton@ucl.ac.uk; www.ucl.ac.uk/friendsofpetrie Sat 28 June 13.15 George Hart Ancient Egypt and the island of Cyprus British Museum, Great Russell St WC1. Free gallery talk, meet Room 72. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Fri 27 June Aram Twenty-Fifth International Conference Decapolis: history and archaeology The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford. Further details Shafiq Abouzayd, tel: 01865-514041 Email: shafiq.abouzayd@orinst.ox.ac.uk; aram@aramsociety.org; www.aramsociety.org/forthcomingconferences.htm Sat 5 July 11.00-16.00 Seminar Epigraphy in Egypt EES, 3 Doughty Mews WC1. Egypt Exploration Society seminar. Speakers C. Naunton, W. Schenck, J. Jarret. Ticket price 20 EES / 15 EES student members. 020 7242 1903, email: contact@ees.ac.uk, www.ees.ac.uk Fri 11 July 18.30 Francesco Tiradritti Current fieldwork and research at the Theban tomb of Harwa Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House W1. EES guest lecture. Ticket price 25 from the EES. Enquiries to 020 7242 1903, email: contact@ees.ac.uk, www.ees.ac.uk 14 July-8 Aug Bloomsbury Summer School History Dept, UCL WC1. One-week courses on Egypt and the Ancient Near East. Fees 320. Further info: Bloomsbury Summer School, Dept History, UCL. Tel: 020 7679 3622, www.egyptology-uk.com/bloomsbury Wed 16 July 14.00-16.00 Cathie Bryan Egypt undead: a walk through Kensal Green Cemetery Examining ancient Egypt s influence on the architecture and monuments of London. See details on 14 June Sat 19 July 9.30-16.30 Study day Gay Robins Amarna art in the age of Akhenaten and Tutankhamun Reading University. Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society event. Full details from Philip Wickens, 467 Basingstoke Rd, Reading, or download application from www.tvaes.fsnet.co.uk

Sat 19 July 12.00-14.00 Debbie Challis Cleopatra s Needle: the journey Petrie Museum, Malet Place WC1 and then Cleopatra s Needle, Embankment. Part of National Archaeology Week. Free, drop in. Further information from Debbie Challis at d.challis@ucl.ac.uk, 020 7679 4138 24-26 July Conference Seminar for Arabian Studies BP lecture theatre, British Museum. Fees: 80/ BMP 45, students 25. Day rate 35. Booking and enquiries: Dr Ardle MacMahon, email: seminar.arab@durham.ac.uk; www.arabianseminar.org.uk/contact.html Thurs 24 July 18.30 Dan Potts Cartography and cantatas: Arabia and the European enlightenment BP lecture theatre, British Museum. Seminar for Arabian Studies MBI Al-Jaber Lecture. Free - all welcome 27 Jul - 1 Aug Egypt at its Origins: International Colloquium on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt British Museum WC1. Third International Colloquium. Tickets 60 to include Annual British Museum Colloquium, Sackler lecture and reception. Email: admin@origins3.org.uk; www.origins3.org.uk, or postal enquiries to Dr Renee Friedman at the British Museum, address below. 28 July Colloquium Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt - recent discoveries BP lecture theatre, British Museum Department of Ancient Egypt & Sudan event. Tickets for the colloquium 20, or combined ticket with Sackler lecture 30, will be available after 1 June from Alison Cameron, Dept of AES, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, acameron@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk, or 020 7323 8306 (postal enquiries please enclose s.a.e.). www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/aes/aeshome.html Mon 28 July 18.00 Krzystof Cialowicz Gold and ivory in the Delta: excavations at Tell el-farka BP lecture theatre, British Museum WC1. Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology. Ticket for lecture only 15, or combined ticket, details as above. 8-10 Sept Aram Twenty Sixth International Conference The Mandaeans SOAS, Thomhaugh St, WC1. Further details Shafiq Abouzayd, tel: 01865-514041 Email: shafiq.abouzayd@orinst.ox.ac.uk; aram@aramsociety.org; www.aramsociety.org/forthcomingconferences.htm Tues 16 Sept 19.00 Gerald Gotzen The painting of history and legend of King Lalibela Room B 102, Brunei Building, SOAS, Thomhaugh St WC1. Anglo-Ethiopian Society lecture. All welcome. Contact info: David Jackson, email: events@anglo-ethiopian.org Tues 16 Sept tba tba Sudan Archaeological Research Society Kirwan Memorial Lecture follows AGM British Museum WC1. SARS Kirwan Memorial Lecture follows AGM. Further info: SARS, Dept of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, British Museum. Tel: 0207 323 8500/8306, email: SARS@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 25-26 Sept Conference Red Sea IV Connected hinterlands Centre for Maritime Archaeology, Avenue Campus, Southampton University SO 17 1BF. CMA and Society for Arabian Studies conference exploring themes of connection and communication across and along the Red Sea. Email: redsea@soton.ac.uk. Register online at www.arch.soton.ac.uk/redsea08