Presenter: Dr. Ann Macy Roth, Clinical Associate Professor of Egyptology; Clinical Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Art History, NYU

Description: Tombs of high Egyptian officials built during Second and Third Dynasties often contained spaces and installations taken from domestic architecture, as James Quibell noted already in 1923.  More recent excavations in both cemeteries and settlement sites allow this metaphor to be explored more fully.  While the most obvious domestic features had disappeared by the beginning of the Fourth Dynasty, one significant feature continued to evolve and appear in the later Old Kingdom.  Its metamorphosis has implications for the development of Egyptian mortuary beliefs. 

About the speaker: Ann Macy Roth received her doctorate in Egyptology in 1985 from the University of Chicago. Her research investigates Egyptian social organization and religious beliefs in the Old Kingdom and other periods through ancient texts and images and through her archaeological work in Giza’s Western Cemetery.  A clinical associate professor at New York University, she currently holds the J. Clawson Mills research fellowship in Egyptian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.