March 2024 Q&A

Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney

EPISODE 81 | This episode is a recording of a live zoom Q&A with our listeners. Thank you to everyone who attended and submitted questions!

Show notes

* Byblos

* Baal and Seth

* Prof. Dani Candelora – Her research focuses on interactions between Egypt and West Asia.

* Prof. Marian Feldman, Diplomacy by Design

* Amarna Letter 23 – A Goddess Travels to Egypt

* 1 3 - 1 7 Thus Sauska of Nineveh (goddess statue), mistress of all lands: "I wish to go

to Egypt, a country that I love, and then return." Now I herewith send

her, and she is on her way." (Moran 1992)

* Hathor and the Myth of the Heavenly Cow

* Spalinger Anthony, “The Destruction of Mankind: A Transitional Literary Text,” Studien Zur Altagyptischen Kultur 28: 2000, 257–282. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152827

* Amenhotep III’s Mortuary Temple & Sekhmet Statues

* Kara’s Cambridge Elements – Coffin Commerce

* Judith Flanders – “Rites of Passage: Death & Mourning in Victorian Britain”

* Peter Saris – “Justinian”

* Lady Sennuwy, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

* Augustus Meroë Head

* Great Sphinx of Tanis, Louvre

* Vatican Phases of Construction

* Demon Bes – Coptic Magical Papyri

* End of the ancient Egyptian Religion, Christian Erasure

* Egyptian obelisks

* Egyptian object outside of Egypt – Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage Project

* Maat

* Eloquent Peasant – status dynamics, misuse of Maat

* Lichtheim, M. (1992) Maat in Egyptian autobiographies and related studies / Miriam Lichtheim. Freiburg, Schweiz: Universitätsverlag.

* Teeter, Emily. (1997) The presentation of Maat : ritual and legitimacy in ancient Egypt / by Emily Teeter. Chicago, Ill: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

* Isfet

* Kemp, B. J. (1995) How Religious were the Ancient Egyptians? Cambridge archaeological journal. [Online] 5 (1), 25–54.

* James C. Scott, “Weapons of the Weak”

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