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LECTURE: The Decoration and Identification of the site of the Kom el-Nana at Akhetaten

Date: Friday, June 18, 2010, 6:30 p.m.

Chapter: Washington, D.C.

Presenter: Dr. Jacquelyn Williamson, Johns Hopkins University

Location: Benjamin T. Rome Auditorium of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. (Dupont Circle Metro stop)

Lecture is free and open to the public. Please come and bring a guest.

Presentation Summary: The systematic excavations of the Kom el-Nana by the EES under Professor Barry Kemp in the late 1980s and early 1990s preserved a quantity of stone relief, allowing a unique opportunity to observe and study the art of Akhetaten in its original context. Using this material the relief program of a small section of the Kom el-Nana has been reconstructed and will be presented for discussion. In addition, fragments of inscriptions will be reviewed that appear to identify the structure as the Sun Shade of Nefertiti. A short introduction to the Amarna period will place this site in historical context. 

About the Speaker: Dr. Williamson is a former doctoral student of Professor Betsy Bryan's at the Near Eastern Studies Department of The Johns Hopkins University. Her specialties include the study of art and language in ancient Egypt.  She was a member of the Johns Hopkins expeditions to Theban Tomb 92 as well as the Mut Temple. Under a Fulbright grant, she worked on several sites and museums while resident in Egypt, including the Cairo Museum.  Currently she is assistant to the project director of the Talatat Project in Karnak Temple, and a member of the Expedition to Tell el-Amarna, headed by Professor Barry Kemp, Director of the Amarna Project.

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