Essex Egyptology GroupMar 14

Our April meeting (Sunday 12th April, ONLINE via Zoom) will feature Professor Rita Lucarelli giving a talk on "Coffins as Magical Machines: Visualizing Ancient Egyptian Funerary Texts in 3D" (1/5)

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Magical texts for the dead are best known from papyri, most notably from the corpus conventionally referred to as the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Yet it is on three-dimensional objects such as coffins that the logic of funerary magic becomes most apparent (2/5)
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Through case studies it will be demonstrated how 3D visualization makes it possible to recover the spatial, material, and functional dimensions of funerary texts, offering new perspectives on the materiality of ancient Egyptian magic for the dead in the First Millennium BCE (3/5)
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Rita Lucarelli is an Associate Professor of Egyptology at UC Berkeley and Faculty Curator of Egyptology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Her research centers on ancient Egyptian religion, especially funerary texts, demonology, and the modern reception of Egyptian religion.

She also leads The Book of the Dead in 3D, a digital humanities project that combines philology and 3D modeling to make Egyptian coffins more accessible for study (4/5)

Mar 14 at 11:54amWeb
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This will be a Zoom meeting with Q&A afterwards. Admission from 2.45pm UK time, the talk starts at 3pm.

Free for EEG Zoom members, £7 for guests (via https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coffins-as-magical-machines-visualizing-ae-funerary-texts-in-3d-tickets-1984763795942). All welcome!

For more info: https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=4194

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Coffins as Magical Machines: Visualizing AE Funerary Texts in 3D

With Dr Rita Lucarelli, Associate Professor of Egyptology at UC Berkeley - this is a Zoom lecture and will not be recorded nor live streamed

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