Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society (Oxon, Berks, Bucks)

THESE are our forthcoming lectures:

To hear, or to divide words? The changing face of Egyptian justice, 27001700BCE

Saturday, November 10, 2pm.

Dr Alex Loktionov presents a new approach to prosopographic and textual analysis allows us to reconstruct the judicial landscape at the time before the New Kingdom in unprecedented detail.

This talk brings that detail to light, arguing that a previously unnoticed revolution in Egyptian justice occurred during the First Intermediate Period led to the emergence of ‘lawyers’ as a professional class and ‘law’ as a definable, abstract concept. The First Egyptologists Saturday, December 8, 2pm

Egyptology starts with the Ancient Egyptians, the best-known example being Khaemwese, a son of Ramesses II. A particularly interesting case is Horapollo who wrote at the time when Pharaonic culture was almost dead. This lecture from Professor Alan Lloyd will explore aspects of ancient Egyptology to determine what these writers thought they were doing and how well, or badly, they did it.

The emergence of the Egyptian State - links with the landscape evolution of the Nile Delta

Saturday, January 12, 2pm

Around 3100 BC, early upstream centres of culture were transformed into a larger territory encompassing all Egypt. Recent work shows the deltaic landscapes downstream to have been highly dynamic. A new model suggests that this

landscape remodelling may have allowed, or even stimulated, a variety of important socioeconomic changes in this region which could have impacted upon the emergence of Dynastic Egypt. Dr Ben Pennington explains.

Our meetings take place at the Oakwood Centre in Headley Road, Woodley.

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