London seminar: Coptic Thebes: life in the 7th and 8th centuries AD
Event Info
Host: EES
Type: Education - Lecture
Time and Place
Start Time: Saturday, 17th April 2010, 11:00 am
End Time: Saturday, 17th April 2010, 4:00 pm
Location: The EES
Street: 3 Doughty Mews
City/Town: London WC1N 2PG
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Contact Details
Email: contact@ees.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7242 1880
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Description
During the 7th and 8th centuries Thebes was the location of a bustling Coptic community, in which both Deir el-Bahri and Medinet Habu played key roles. Edouard Naville, on behalf of the Egypt Exploration Fund, was responsible for the removal of the Coptic elements at the former site in his 1895/6 season, while the latter was cleared between the 1880s and 1920s, in a decidedly ad hoc fashion. Little physical evidence of this period remains at either site. However, a rich corpus of textual material exists and it is this, in conjunction with what archaeological evidence we have, that enables a reconstruction of life in the region during this time. This seminar will present new research on this material and will be led by:
Dr Jenny Cromwell, Lady Wallis Budge Junior Research Fellow in Egyptology, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.