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The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the UCSC Archaeological Research Center present Professor Rita Lucarelli Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley Ghosts and Restless Dead in Ancient Egypt Thursday, October 29 at 5:15 p.m. Humanities 1, Room 210 Free and open to the public Refreshments at 5 p.m. and reception to follow the lecture Free parking for lecture in the lower Cowell parking lot The belief in ghosts and the spirits of the dead are widespread in world religions. In ancient Egypt, however, there is a certain inconsistency when mentioning the manifestations of the dead in magical and religious texts. This paper will present and discuss the various evidence, which may indicate ghosts, revenants and evil dead in the spells and objects used in everyday magic as well as in mortuary compositions such as the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Rita Lucarelli is an assistant professor of Egyptology at UC Berkeley. She studied at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” Italy, where she received her MA degree in Classical Languages and Egyptology. She holds her Ph.D. from Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her Ph.D. thesis was published in 2006 as The Book of the Dead of Gatseshen: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Religion in the 10th Century BC (2006). She has held positions as Lecturer of Egyptology at the University of Verona, Italy and as a Research Scholar on the Book of the Dead Project at the University of Bonn, Germany. She has also been a Visiting Research Scholar at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies of Columbia University and at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, a Research Scholar and Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Department of Egyptology of Bonn University, and a Lecturer of Egyptology at the University of Bari in Italy. Professor Lucarelli is currently writing a monograph on demonology in ancient Egypt and she is one of the coordinators of the Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project (http://www.demonthings.com). For more information on the lecture, please contact [email protected] Staff support provided by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research
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The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
and the UCSC Archaeological Research Center present
Professor Rita Lucarelli Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
Ghosts and Restless Dead in Ancient Egypt
Thursday, October 29 at 5:15 p.m.
Humanities 1, Room 210
Free and open to the public Refreshments at 5 p.m. and reception to follow the lecture
Free parking for lecture in the lower Cowell parking lot
The belief in ghosts and the spirits of the dead are widespread in world religions. In ancient Egypt, however, there is a certain inconsistency when mentioning the manifestations of the dead in magical and religious texts. This paper will present and discuss the various evidence, which may indicate ghosts, revenants and evil dead in the spells and objects used in everyday magic as well as in mortuary compositions such as the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
Rita Lucarelli is an assistant professor of Egyptology at UC Berkeley. She studied at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” Italy, where she received her MA degree in Classical Languages and Egyptology. She holds her Ph.D. from Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her Ph.D. thesis was published in 2006 as The Book of the Dead of Gatseshen: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Religion in the 10th Century BC (2006). She has held positions as Lecturer of Egyptology at the University of Verona, Italy and as a Research Scholar on the Book of the Dead Project at the University of Bonn, Germany. She has also been a Visiting Research Scholar at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies of Columbia University and at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, a Research Scholar and Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Department of Egyptology of Bonn University, and a Lecturer of Egyptology at the University of Bari in Italy. Professor Lucarelli is currently writing a monograph on demonology in ancient Egypt and she is one of the coordinators of the Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project (http://www.demonthings.com).
For more information on the lecture, please contact [email protected]
Staff support provided by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research
