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INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY

ARCL 6002A: ANCIENT EGYPT IN LONDON

Course handbook 2017–2018

Year 2 B.A. / Affiliate Option, 0.5 unit

Thursday, 14:00–16:00

Moodle password: ARCL6002

Turnitin Class ID: 3543561 Turnitin Password: IoA1718

Deadlines for coursework for this course: 01/11/2017, 13/12/2017

Co‐ordinator: Claudia Näser

[email protected]

UCL Institute of Archaeology, Room 113

Tel: 020 7679 1533 (from within UCL: 21533)

Office hours: Thursday, 16:00–18:00 or by appointment

Please see the last page of this handbook for important information about submission and marking procedures, or links to the relevant webpages.

ARCL 6002A Ancient Egypt in London 2017–18

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1 OVERVIEW

Short description

This course introduces the history and archaeology of ancient Egypt from 4000 BC to 30 BC, and its modern receptions, as represented in the British Museum, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL and other venues in London.

Week‐by‐week summary (For detailed descriptions see Pages 9–20 of this handbook).

Classes are taught by the course co‐ordinator Claudia Näser, Stephen Quirke (week 2) and Jan Picton (week 5). Each class includes student presentations and museum gallery visits.

1. 5 October 2017. Introduction. Meet at the Institute of Archaeology, Room 612. CN. Page 9.

Outline of course organisation and objectives, essay dates; agree order of student presentations. Review of literature and resources. Introduction to the frameworks for discussing the history of ancient Egypt in time and space. Models of periodisation, and of the physical and social geography of the Nile valley.

2. 12 October 2017. The production of ancient Egypt. Meet at British Museum, Great Court information desk. SQ. Page 9.

Taking up from the last session, this class will discuss the exploration of ancient Egypt, the development of Egyptology and the images which the Western world created of ancient Egypt in the past 250 years. Visit to the British Museum, Gallery of the Enlightenment (Room 1).

3. 19 October 2017. On the way to statehood. Meet at British Museum, Great Court information desk. CN. Page 10.

Introduction to the Predynastic period. Visit to the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Gallery (Room 64) at the British Museum. Explore Egypt’s route to statehood. Discussion of the archaeological record: How much of ancient Egypt does survive?

4. 26 October 2017. Ruling ancient Egypt. Meet at British Museum, Great Court information desk. CN. Page 11.

Kingship and the expression of power in sculpture. Visit to the British Museum (Room 4).

*** Essay 1 due on Turnitin by midnight Wednesday 1 November 2017 (hard copy to submission box at reception desk at IoA) ***

5. 2 November 2017. Gender, society and daily life. Meet in the Main Gallery of the Petrie Museum, Malet Place. CN and JP. Page 13.

Introduction to the Petrie Museum, the collection and records, and their value for archaeological research. Petrie Museum handling class with museum objects and archival material.

6–12 November 2017: Reading Week, no teaching.


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6. 16 November 2017. Wider horizons of Egypt: African, Asian, Mediterranean. Meet at British Museum, Great Court information desk. CN. Page 14.

Visit to the Levant Gallery and Nubian Gallery, British Museum (Rooms 57‐59).

Confirm Essay 2 choice to course co‐ordinator by email in advance of class 7.

7. 23 November 2017. Ancient Egyptian afterlives. Meet at British Museum, Great Court information desk. CN. Page 15.

Burial practices through time: reading museum displays and their gaps. Visit to the British Museum (Room 63).

8. 30 November 2017. Ancient Egypt in London. Meet at the obelisk at Victoria Embankment. CN. Page 16.

Visit to the obelisk at Embankment and to t Sir John Soane's Museum. Discussion of the reception of Ancient Egypt in 19th century social contexts.

9. 7 December 2017. Multiple object lives: Egyptian and Egyptianising objects. Meet in the Main Gallery of the Petrie Museum, Malet Place. CN. Page 17.

Visit to the Petrie Museum. Handling class with museum objects and archive documents. Course evaluations.

*** Essay 2 due on Turnitin by midnight Wednesday 13 December 2017 (hard copy to submission box at reception desk at IoA) ***

10. 14 December 2017. Re‐presenting Egypt. Meet at British Museum, Great Court information desk. CN. Page 19.

Visit the Nebamun Room (61) and other galleries in the British Museum. Course evaluation review.


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Basic reading

General reference works for the course as a whole, with useful bibliographies. Refer to this list for background research for essays. All titles are in the Institute of Archaeology Library.

Introductions and overviews

Baines, J. 2007. Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press. EGYPTOLOGY B 20 BAI; ISSUE DESK IOA BAI

Bard, K.A. 2015. An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. 2nd edition. Malden, Mass., Oxford, Carlton: Blackwell. Available online at SFX@UCL. 1st edition (2007) in library EGYPTOLOGY A 5 BAR, IOA ISSUE DESK BAR 29. Accessible introduction from an archaeological perspective.

Brewer, D.J. 2012. The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt: Beyond Pharaohs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. EGYPTOLOGY E 5 BRE

Kemp, B.J. 2006. Ancient Egypt. Anatomy of a Civilization. 2nd edition. London and New York: Routledge. Available online at SFX@UCL. EGYPTOLOGY B 5 KEM and IOA ISSUE DESK KEM. Combination of archaeological fieldwork with written and visual sources, extensively illustrated.

Nicholson, P.T. and I. Shaw (eds.) 2000. Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. INST ARCH K QUARTOS NIC / EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS S 5 NIC and ISSUE DESK. For the range of materials and technologies used in ancient Egypt and for use in object essays.

Robins, G. 2008. The Art of Ancient Egypt. Revised edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS M 5 ROB. A richly illustrated introduction, focussing on items in the British Museum, good bibliography.

Sasson, J.M. et al. (eds.) 2000. Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson. INST ARCH DBA 100 SAS. Essay collection with compendious bibliographies. A good starting point to research a topic.

Shaw, I. (ed.) 2003, The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press. EGYPTOLOGY B 5 SHA and available online at SFX@UCL. More in‐depth analysis of historical periods, useful for preparatory reading.

Smith, W.S. 1998. The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt. 3rd revised edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. EGYPT QUARTOS K 5 SMI. The original text is from 1958, but is still useful in this edition, profusely illustrated.

Spencer, J. (ed.) 2007. The British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum. EGYPTOLOGY A 5 SPE (earlier edition by Quirke and Spencer at EGYPTOLOGY A 5 JAM). Accessible guide to the history and material culture of ancient Egypt as represented in the British Museum. Useful for preparatory reading.

Trigger, B.G., B.J. Kemp, D. O’Connor and A.B. Loyd 1983. Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. EGYPTOLOGY B 5 TRI and available online at SFX@UCL. Useful introductions to main periods, adopting more archaeological approaches.

Wendrich, W. (ed.) 2010. Egyptian Archaeology. Chichester: Wiley‐Blackwell. EGYPTOLOGY A 6 WEN and IOA ISSUE DESK. A more advanced introduction to different topics in a chronological sequence

Wilkinson, T. (ed.) 2007. The Egyptian World. London and New York: Routledge. EGYPTOLOGY A 5 WIL and available online at SFX@UCL. Essays on topics relevant to presentations and coursework.


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Encyclopedias

Bard, K.A. 1999. Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. London: Routledge. EGYPTOLOGY A 2 BAR; ISSUE DESK IOA BAR 17

Helck, W. and E. Otto (eds.) 1975ff. Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Includes English, German and French articles. EGYPTOLOGY A 2 LEX

Redford, D.B. (ed.) 2001. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press. EGYPTOLOGY A 2 OXF and available online at SFX@UCL. Brief essays with further reading. Not to be cited in coursework, but useful bibliographies and background to topics.

Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. 8 volumes. EGYPTOLOGY A 1 POR and OPEN ACCESS E‐BOOK. Originally compiled by R. Porter and R.L.B. Moss, hence nicknamed the “Porter/Moss”.

UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology: http://escholarship.org/uc/nelc_uee

Sources for maps, with useful background and bibliographies

Baines, J. and J. Málek 2000. Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt. Revised edition. New York: Fact on file. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS A 2 BAI and ISSUE DESK IOA BAI 2. Some of the best maps available, with illustrated discussion of sites.

Manley, B. 1996. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt. London et. al.: Penguin. EGYPTOLOGY A 2 MAN

Methods of assessment

This course is assessed by means of two pieces of written coursework of between 1900–2100 words, each contributing 50% to the final marks for the course.

The course co‐ordinator is willing to discuss an outline of the student's approach to the assignment, provided this is planned suitably in advance of the submission date.

Guidance on preparing coursework can be found on Moodle under the heading 'IoA Student Administration': https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/.

The criteria for assessment used in this course are those agreed by the Board of Examiners in Archaeology, and are included in the Undergraduate Handbook which is also available on Moodle under the heading 'IoA Student Administration': https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/.

Teaching methods

This course will be taught through visits to the British Museum, the Petrie Museum and other venues. Attendance at all sessions is compulsory. All students will make one presentation per term. Object‐handling sessions give students closer familiarity with the material and awareness of conservation standards.


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Workload

There will be 20 hours of lectures/museum visits for this course. Students will be expected to undertake around 70 hours of reading and preparation of oral presentations for the course, plus 60 hours preparing for and producing the assessed work. This adds up to a total workload of 150 hours for the course.

Prerequisites

There is no formal prerequisite, but students should discuss with their personal tutors how this course complements their main area of study, and whether assessment by essays presents any issues.

2 AIMS, OBJECTIVES AND ASSESSMENT

Aims

This course will provide students with an introduction to the history and archaeology of ancient Egypt, and to the study and reception of ancient Egypt in modern times, based on objects in London museums and other venues in London.

Objectives

On successful completion of the course students will:

be familiar in outline with the history and archaeology of ancient Egypt,

understand the factors in the 19th and 20th centuries that led to large museum collections,

be able to recognise and evaluate different approaches and agendas to the presentation of Egypt’s past, both in museums and other sociocultural contexts,

develop confidence in handling and assessing museum objects.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will:

develop their oral presentation skills through debate and subject presentations,

develop a range of research skills transferable to all disciplines through reasoned and critical analysis of multiple sources,

develop competence in independent research use of the library and museum archive material,

demonstrate sensitivity and competence in managing fragile ancient materials.

Coursework

Please observe the rules set out in this handbook and in the online student handbook for the preparation and submission of coursework.


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There is suitable reading for all essays in the class reading lists provided – you should also make use of the bibliographies in these books, and remember to refer to the core reading list. Additional reading lists will be provided as necessary.

Well‐chosen illustrations and maps must be used to illustrate your argument. They are not included in the word count and can contribute to the clarity of your paper and will contribute to the marks. Irrelevant illustrations are not a substitute for a reasoned argument.

PLEASE USE THE EXACT TITLE OF THE ESSAY, NOT AN APPROXIMATION.

ESSAY 1. Between 1900–2100 words.

Submission deadline midnight Wednesday 1 November 2017 on Turnitin (hard copy to submission box at reception desk at IoA). The marked essays will be returned to the students by 16 November 2017.

Pick ONE of the following questions:

1. Which political and social factors resulted in large collections of Egyptian antiquities outside Egypt in the 19th century? Given their histories, is it justified to continue holding them?

2. Are the relief sculpture palettes of the late Predynastic Period art, communication or propaganda?

3. There have been differing theories for the rise of the complex state in Egypt. Discuss the evidence for different theories; which theory or theories do you consider the most persuasive?

ESSAY 2. Between 1900–2100 words.

Submission deadline midnight Wednesday 13 December 2017 on Turnitin (hard copy to submission box at reception desk at IoA) (hard copy to submission box at reception desk at IoA). The marked essays will be returned to the students by 10 January 2018.

Pick ONE of the following:

1. Describe one object on display in the Petrie Museum or the British Museum with a discussion of its origin, archaeological context, material, manufacture and comparable objects. A list will be provided.

2. Discuss one Egyptianising object or monument in London. A list will be provided.

For either option, discuss your choice with the course co‐ordinator by Thursday 30 November 2017.

Whichever topics you choose, your essays should comprise:

a clear (but brief) introduction to set the scene and outline your approach,

the main part with a well‐structured, fully‐referenced description that summarises your reading,

a conclusion with your OWN assessment/evaluation: please feel free to agree or disagree with conclusions reached by different authors you have read. What do YOU think is significant? It is not about who is right or wrong, but about how the evidence is interpreted.

If students are unclear about the nature of an assignment, they should discuss this with the course co‐ordinator.

Students are not permitted to re‐write and re‐submit essays in order to try to improve their marks. However, students may be permitted, in advance of the deadline for a given assignment, to submit for comment a brief outline of the assignment.


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Please note that in order to be deemed to have completed and passed in any course, it is necessary to submit all assessments.

Word counts

The following should not be included in the word‐count: title page, contents pages, lists of figure and tables, abstract, preface, acknowledgements, bibliography, lists of references, captions and contents of tables and figures, appendices.

Penalties will only be imposed if you exceed the upper figure in the indicated word count range. There is no penalty for using fewer words than the lower figure in the range: the lower figure is simply for your guidance to indicate the sort of length that is expected.

In the 2017‐18 session penalties for overlength work will be as follows:

For work that exceeds the specified maximum length by less than 10% the mark will be reduced by five percentage marks, but the penalised mark will not be reduced below the pass mark, assuming the work merited a Pass.

For work that exceeds the specified maximum length by 10% or more the mark will be reduced by ten percentage marks, but the penalised mark will not be reduced below the pass mark, assuming the work merited a Pass.

Coursework submission procedures

All coursework must normally be submitted both as hard copy and electronically. (The only exceptions are bulky portfolios and lab books which are normally submitted as hard copy only.)

You should staple the appropriate colour‐coded IoA coversheet (available in the IoA library and outside room 411a) to the front of each piece of work and submit it to the red box at the Reception Desk (or room 411a in the case of Year 1 undergraduate work).

All coursework should be uploaded to Turnitin by midnight on the day of the deadline. This will date‐stamp your work. It is essential to upload all parts of your work as this is sometimes the version that will be marked.

Instructions are given below.

Note that Turnitin uses the term “class” for what we normally call a “course”.

1. Ensure that your essay or other item of coursework has been saved as a Word doc, docx or PDF document, and that you have the Class ID for the course (available from the course handbook) and enrolment password (this is IoA1718 for all courses this session – note that this is capital letter I, lower case letter o, upper case A, followed by the current academic year).

2. Click on http://www.turnitinuk.com/en_gb/login.

3. Click on “Create account”.

4. Select your category as “Student”.

5. Create an account using your UCL email address. Note that you will be asked to specify a new password for your account – do not use your UCL password or the enrolment password, but invent one of your own (Turnitin will permanently associate this with your account, so you will not have to change it every 6 months, unlike your UCL password). In addition, you will be asked for a “Class ID” and a “Class enrolment password” (see point 1 above).


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6. Once you have created an account you can just log in at http://www.turnitinuk.com/en_gb/login and enrol for your other classes without going through the new user process again. Simply click on “Enrol in a class”. Make sure you have all the relevant “class IDs” at hand.

7. Click on the course to which you wish to submit your work.

8. Click on the correct assignment (e.g. Essay 1).

9. Double‐check that you are in the correct course and assignment and then click “Submit”.

10. Attach document as a “Single file upload”.

11. Enter your name (the examiner will not be able to see this).

12. Fill in the “Submission title” field with the right details: It is essential that the first word in the title is your examination candidate number (e.g. YGBR8 In what sense can culture be said to evolve?).

13. Click “Upload”. When the upload is finished, you will be able to see a text‐only version of your submission.

14. Click on “Submit”.

If you have problems, please email the IoA Turnitin Advisers on ioa‐[email protected], explaining the nature of the problem and the exact course and assignment involved.

One of the Turnitin Advisers will normally respond within 24 hours, Monday‐Friday during term. Please be sure to email the Turnitin Advisers if technical problems prevent you from uploading work in time to meet a submission deadline ‐ even if you do not obtain an immediate response from one of the Advisers they will be able to notify the relevant course co‐ordinator that you had attempted to submit the work before the deadline.

3 SCHEDULE AND SYLLABUS

Teaching schedule

Lectures will be held on Thursday 14:00–16:00. For venues and lecturers see the week‐by‐week summary on pp. 1–2 of this handbook and the syllabus on pp. 9–20.

Syllabus

The following is an outline for the course and identifies essential and supplementary readings relevant to each session. Information is provided as to where in the UCL library system individual readings are located; their location and Teaching Collection (TC) number, and status (whether out on loan) can also be accessed on the eUCLid computer catalogue system.

Reading marked as “essential” are considered essential to keep up with the topics covered in the course and should be read by all students in preparation for the class, not just those making presentations. Copies of individual articles and chapters identified as essential reading are in the Teaching Collection in the Institute Library (where permitted by copyright) or are available online. Students are recommended to take notes and ideas from these prior to the session to promote discussion. You should also refer to the ‘general reference works’ listed at the beginning of this handbook.


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1. ANCIENT EGYPT IN LONDON: INTRODUCTION. CN

Outline of course organisation and objectives, essay dates, literature and resources; agree order of student presentations. Meet at the Institute of Archaeology, Room 612.

Introduction to the sources for studying the history of ancient Egypt. Where does our information come from? How reliable is it? Essential reference works are introduced, together with London library resources and museum collections. Review of printed and online resources.

Outline of frameworks for discussing the history of ancient Egypt in time and space. Models of periodisation, and introduction to the physical and social geography of the Nile valley.

2. THE PRODUCTION OF ANCIENT EGPYT. SQ

London is one of several cities outside Egypt with large collections of Egyptian antiquities. Museum displays express European fascination with the region, in the political and ideological framework that enabled Europe to dominate the appropriation of the Pharaonic past. Discussion of the agendas that have guided modern approaches to the study of ancient Egypt.

This class will outline the exploration of ancient Egypt, the development of Egyptology and the images which the Western world created of ancient Egypt in the past 250 years. Visit to the British Museum, Gallery of the Enlightenment (Room 1). Meet at British Museum, Great Court information desk.

PRESENTATIONS (10–12 minutes):

A. Discuss the impact of the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt on the study of ancient Egypt.

B. What were the factors behind the origins of the great collections of Egyptian antiquities?

Essential reading

Moser, S. 2006. Wondrous Curiosities. Ancient Egypt at the British Museum. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. Read Chapter 3: 65–92. Useful for discussion of presentations. EGYPTOLOGY C 10 BM and ISSUE DESK

Reid, D. 2002. Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. Read pp. 21–48 for a summary on early 19th century archaeology in Egypt; pp. 103–107, 159–163, 237–239, 275–278 briefly introduce the creation of the four major archaeological museums in Egypt. EGYPTOLOGY A 8 REI; also available online at SFX@UCL

Scham, S.A. 2003. Ancient Egypt and the archaeology of the disenfranchised. In: Jeffreys, D. (ed.). Views of Ancient Egypt since Napoleon Bonaparte: Imperialism, Colonialism and Modern Appropriations. London: University College London Press, 171–178. EGYPTOLOGY A 8 JEF and DIGITISED READING

Additional reading

Colla, E. 2007. Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Read Introduction and Chapter 1: pp. 1–66. EGYPTOLOGY A 8 COL and IOA ISSUE DESK COL 13; also available online at SFX@UCL


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Doyon, W. 2008. The poetics of Egyptian museum practice, BMSAES 10, 1–37. Available online at SFX@UCL

Eldaly, O. 2003. Ancient Egypt in medieval Arabic writings. In: Ucko, P. and T. Champion (eds.). The Wisdom of Egypt: Changing Visions through the Ages. London: UCL Press, 39–63. EGYPTOLOGY A 8 UCK and DIGITISED READING

Riggs, C. 2013. Colonial visions. Egyptian antiquities and contested histories in the Cairo Museum, Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 1, 65–84. Available online at SFX@UCL

Said, E.W. 2003. Orientalism. London: Penguin. MAIN LIBRARY HISTORY 6 A SAI. Classic (first published in 1978) which introduces the highly debated concept of ‘Orientalism’ as a framework for understanding ‘Western’ appropriations and presentations of the ‘East’.

Trigger, B.G. 1984. Alternative archaeologies: nationalist, colonialist, imperialist, Man, New Series 19, 355–370. Available online at SFX@UCL

Trigger, B.G. 1995. Egyptology, ancient Egypt and the American imagination. In: Thomas, N. (ed.). The American Discovery of Ancient Egypt. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 21–35. INST ARCH TC 3098

For student presentations, also consult the Digital Egypt for Universities page:

http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/museum/index.html

3. ON THE WAY TO STATEHOOD. CN

Between 4000 and 3000 BC, the foundations of the political and religious institutions and many cultural practices which came to characterise ancient Egypt were laid. Visit to the British Museum to find out about the roots of ancient Egypt and its way to statehood. Meet at British Museum, Great Court information desk.


A. Outline the theories proposed for the origins of the ancient Egyptian state.

B. Discuss the development and uses of writing in the Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods.

Essential reading

Bard, K.A. 2015. An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. 2nd edition. Malden, Mass., Oxford, Carlton: Blackwell. Read Chapter 5: pp. 93–131. Available online at SFX@UCL. 1st edition (2007) in library EGYPTOLOGY A 5 BAR and DIGITIED READING

Köhler, C. 2010. Theories of state formation. In: Wendrich, W. (ed.). Egyptian Archaeology. Chichester: Wiley‐Blackwell, 36–54. EGYPTOLOGY A 6 WEN and IOA ISSUE DESK

Additional reading

Adams, B. 1984. Predynastic Egypt. Shire Egyptology 7. Princes Risborough: Shire. Reprinted 2011. EGYPTOLOGY B 5 ADA and EGYPTOLOGY B 11 ADA

Adams, B. and K.M. Ciałowicz 1997. Protodynastic Egypt. Shire Egyptology 25. Princes Risborough: Shire. EGYPTOLOGY B 5 ADA


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Bard, K.A. 1992. Toward an interpretation of the role of ideology in the evolution of complex society in Egypt, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 11, 1–24. Available online at SFX@UCL

Brewer, D.J. 2012. The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt: Beyond Pharaohs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. See Chapters 3–5. EGYPTOLOGY E 5 BRE

Ciałowicz, K.M. 2007. Ivory and Gold: Beginnings of the Egyptian Art: exhibition / text. Poznań: Prehistoric Society. EGYPTOLOGY M20 CIA and ISSUE DESK

Craig Patch, D. 2011. Dawn of Egyptian Art. Yale and New York: Yale University Press and Metropolitan Museum of Art. EGYPTOLOGY M 5 PAT

Moreno García, J. C. 2016. Early writing, archaic states and nascent administration: Ancient Egypt in context (late 4th–early 3rd millennium BC), Archéo‐Nil 26, 149–169. INST ARCH PERS

Shaw, I. (ed.) 2003. The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Read Chapters 2 and 3: pp. 16–56. EGYPTOLOGY B 5 SHA and available online at SFX@UCL

Spencer, A.J. 1993. Early Egypt: The Rise of Civilisation in the Nile Valley. London: British Museum. Read Introduction and Chapters 1–2: pp. 9–48. EGYPTOLOGY B 11 SPE

Spencer, A.J. (ed.) 1996. Aspects of Early Egypt. London: British Museum Press. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS A 6 SPE

Teeter, E. (ed.) 2011. Before the Pyramids. The Origins of Egyptian Civilization. Oriental Institute Museum Publications 33. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. ISSUE DESK IOA TEE, online at https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/ shared/docs/oimp33.pdf

Wengrow, D. 2006. The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformation in North‐East Africa, 10,000 to 2650 BC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. EGYPT B 11 WEN, ISSUE DESK IOA WEN 7

Wenke, R.J. 2009. The Ancient Egyptian State: The Origins of Egyptian Culture (c. 8000‐2000 BC). New York: Cambridge University Press. EGYPTOLOGY B 6 WEN

See also the following web sites:

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/hesyra/palettes.htm, with illustrations for all relief palettes

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums‐static/digitalegypt//naqadan/index.html

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums‐static/digitalegypt//archaicegypt/index.html

www.hierakonpolis‐online.org


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4. RULING ANCIENT EGYPT. CN

Explore ancient Egyptian kingship and the expression of power in sculpture. This class is structured around a visit to the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery of the British Museum. Meet at British Museum, Great Court information desk.


A. Why were images of ancient Egyptian kings created?

B. Do modern aesthetics and art history help us to understand ancient Egyptian art and sculpture?

Essential reading

Baines, J. 1989. Communication and display: the integration of early Egyptian art and writing, Antiquity 63, 471–482. Available online at SFX@UCL

Baines, J. 1994. On the status and purposes of Egyptian art, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 4, 67–94. INST ARCH PERS and available online at SFX@UCL

Additional reading

Bryan, B. 1992. Royal and divine statuary. In: Kozloff, A., B. Bryan and L.M. Berman (eds.). Egypt’s Dazzling Sun. Amenhotep III and his World. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art and Indiana University Press, 125–184. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS C81 CLE and ISSUE DESK

Bryan, B. 1996. Art, Egypt and the end of the Late Bronze Age. In: Cooper, J.S. and G.M. Schwartz (eds.). The Study of the Ancient Near East in the Twenty‐First Century. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 33–80. INST ARCH ISSUE DESK COO 4 and DIGITISED READING

Cherpion, N. 1999. The human image in Old Kingdom non‐royal reliefs. In: Arnold, D. et al. (eds.). Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 103–115. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS M 5 MET

Frankfort, H. 1932. On Egyptian art, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 18, 33–48 (review of Schäfer). INST ARCH PERS and available online at SFX@UCL

Laboury, D. 2010. Portrait versus ideal image. In: Wendrich, W. (ed.). UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. Los Angeles. http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0025jjv0

Robins, G. 2007. Art. In: Wilkinson, T (ed.). The Egyptian World. London and New York: Routledge, 355–365. EGYPTOLOGY A 5 WIL, ISSUE DESK and available online at SFX@UCL

Schäfer, H. 1986. Principles of Egyptian Art. 4th, posthumous edition by E. Brunner‐Traut, translated by J. Baines. Oxford: Griffith Institute. EGYPTOLOGY M5 SCH. In the afterword the editor Emma Brunner‐Traut introduces the term ‘aspective’.

For student presentations, also consult the Digital Egypt for Universities page:

http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/art/art3.html

http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/religion/wpr.html


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5. GENDER, SOCIETY AND DAILY LIFE. CN and JP

Handling class with objects to explore aspects of gender, society and daily life in Egypt. Introduction to the Petrie Museum, the collection and records, and their value to archaeological research. Meet in the Main Gallery of the Petrie Museum, Malet Place.


A. Discuss the strengths of the Petrie Museum as a teaching collection.

B. Discuss the role of women in Ancient Egypt.

Essential reading

Stevenson, A. (ed.) 2015. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections. London: UCL Press. Available online at SFX@UCL

Kemp, B. 2006. Ancient Egypt. Anatomy of a Civilization. 2nd edition. London and New York: Routledge. Read Chapter 5: pp. 193–244. EGYPTOLOGY B 5 KEM, ISSUE DESK INST ARCH KEM and online at SFX@UCL

Additional reading

Janssen, R. 1992. The First Hundred Years: Egyptology at University College London 1892–1992. London: UCL Press. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS A 8 JAN and ISSUE DESK

Janssen, R.M. and J.J. Janssen 1990. Growing up in Ancient Egypt. London: Rubicon. EGYPTOLOGY B 20 JAN

Janssen, R.M. and J.J. Janssen 1996. Getting Old in Ancient Egypt. London: Rubicon. EGYPTOLOGY B 20 JAN. Also available as a joint volume.

Leprohon, R.J. 1999. Concept of the family in ancient Egyptian literature, KMT 10:2, 50–55. TC INST ARCH 2869

Meskell, L. 2002. Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. Especially Chapter 4. EGYPTOLOGY B 20 MES

Petrie, W.M.F. 1927. Objects of Daily Use. Publications of the Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt 42. London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS E 30; also available as E‐BOOK

Robins, G. 1993. Women in Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press. EGYPTOLOGY B 20 ROB

Robins, G. 1995. Women and children in peril. Pregnancy, birth and infant mortality in ancient Egypt, KMT 5:4, 24–35. TC INST ARCH 2868

Samson, J. 1978. Amarna. City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. Nefertiti as Pharaoh. Warminster: Aris & Phillips. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS C 11 UNI This presents many of the more important Amarna items in the Petrie Museum collection.

Wilfong, T.G. 1997. Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: from Prehistory to Late Antiquity: An Exhibition at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 14 March–15 June 1997. Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum. EGYPTOLOGY B 20 WIL

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www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk

www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk, including:

http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/sitesindex.html for a guide to the sites that Petrie excavated, major finds, and publications and links to other useful pages

6. WIDER HORIZONS OF EGYPT: AFRICAN, ASIAN, MEDITERRANEAN. CN

This class is based on a visit to the Levant Gallery and the Nubian Gallery of the British Museum. Meet at British Museum, Great Court information desk.


A. Discuss the relations between Egypt and the Levant during the second millennium BC.

B. Discuss the relations between Egypt and Nubia during the second millennium BC.

Essential reading

Edwards, D.N. 2004. The Nubian Past: An Archaeology of the Sudan. London: Routledge. Read pp. 78–79, 101–111. EGYPTOLOGY E 120 EDW and DIGITISED READING

Mumford, G.D. 2014. Egypt and the Levant. In: Steiner, M. L. and A.E. Killebrew (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant: c. 8000‐332 BCE. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 69–89. INST ARCH DBA 100 STE and available online at SFX@UCL

Shaw, I. 2003. Egypt and the outside world. In: Shaw, I. (ed.). The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 308–323. Available online at SFX@UCL

Additional reading

Bard, K.A. 2015. An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. 2nd edition. Malden, Mass., Oxford, Carlton: Blackwell. Read Chapters 7.10–8.1, pp. 208–234. Available online at SFX@UCL. 1st edition (2007) in library EGYPTOLOGY A 5 BAR, IOA ISSUE DESK BAR 29.

Bietak, M. (ed.) 1995. Trade, Power and Cultural Exchange: Hyksos Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World 1800–1500 BC, Ägypten und Levante 5. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. IOA PERS

Liverani, M. 1990. Prestige and Interest: International Relations in the Near East ca 1600–1100 BC. Padua: Sargon. MAIN LIBRARY, ANCIENT HISTORY B61 LIV

Podany, A.H. 2010. Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapters 7 and 8. MAIN LIBRARY, ANCIENT HISTORY B 57 POD

Smith, S.T. 1995. Askut in Nubia: The Economics and Ideology of Egyptian Imperialism in the Second Millenium B.C. London: Kegan. EGYPTOLOGY B 20 SMI

Smith, S.T. 2003. Wretched Kush: Ethnic Identities and Boundaries in Egypt’s Nubian Empire. London and New York: Routledge. EGYPTOLOGY B 60 SMI


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Török, L. 2009. Between Two Worlds: The Frontier Region between Ancient Nubia and Egypt, 3700 BC – 500 AD. Leiden: Brill. EGYPTOLOGY B 20 TOR

Wilkinson, T. (ed.). The Egyptian World. London and New York: Routledge. Section VII: pp. 401–487. EGYPTOLOGY A 5 WIL, ISSUE DESK and available online at SFX@UCL

7. ANCIENT EGYPTIAN AFTERLIVES. CN

Burial practices through time: reading museum displays and their gaps. This class uses relevant exhibits at the British Museum. Meet at British Museum, Great Court information desk.


A. How did the ancient Egyptians view death? Discuss with specific reference to the “Book of the Dead”.

B. Outline the development of ancient Egyptian coffins from the Old Kingdom to the Roman period, using examples from the British Museum collection.

Essential reading

Näser, C. 2013. Equipping and stripping the dead. A case‐study on the procurement, compilation, arrangement, and fragmentation of grave inventories in New Kingdom Thebes. In: Tarlow, S. and L. Nilsson Stutz (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 643–661. ISSUE DESK IOA TAR1 and online at SFX@UCL

Taylor, J. 2001. Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum. Read Chapter 1: pp. 10–43. EGYPTOLOGY R 5 TAY and DIGITISED READING

Additional reading

Allen, J.P. 2004. Some aspects of the non‐royal afterlife in the Old Kingdom. In: Barta, M. (ed.). The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology: Proceedings of the Conference Held in Prague, May 31–June 4. Prague: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 9–18. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS B 12 BAR and online at SFX@UCL

Assmann, J. 2005. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt. Translated from German by D. Lorton. Abridged and updated by the author. Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press. EGYPTOLOGY R 5 ASS

Forman, W. and S. Quirke 1996. Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt. London. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS V 10 FOR. For a general overview on the text genres associated with death and burial.

Grajetzki, W. 2003. Burial Customs in Ancient Egypt. Life in Death for Rich and Poor, London: Golden House Publications. EGYPTOLOGY E 7 GRA. A good overview on the archaeological evidence and the development of burial customs through all periods of ancient Egyptian history.

Ikram, S. and A. Dodson 1998. The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for the Afterlife. London: Thames & Hudson. EGYPTOLOGY E7 IKR. Richly illustrated.

Kozloff, A. 1998. The decorative and funerary arts during the reign of Amenhotep III. In: O’Connor, D. and E. Cline (eds.). Amenhotep III: Perspectives on his Reign. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 96–102. EGYPTOLOGY B12 OCO


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Pinch, G. 2003. Redefining funerary objects. In: Hawass, Z.A. and L. Pinch Brock (eds.). Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty‐First Century. Proceedings of the Eight International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo, 2000. Volume 2: History, Religion. Cairo and New York: American University Press, 443–447. EGYPTOLOGY A 6 CON and ISSUE DESK

Quirke, S. 2013. Going out in Daylight : prt m hrw : the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: Trans‐lations, Sources, Meanings. London : Golden House Publications. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS V 30 BOO

Taylor, J.H. 2010. Journey through the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. London: British Museum Press. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS V 50 BOO

Taylor, J.H. 2001. Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press. EGYPTOLOGY R5 TAY

For student presentations, see also the Digital Egypt for Universities page:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums‐static/digitalegypt//religion/index.html

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums‐static/digitalegypt//burialcustoms/index.html

8. ANCIENT EGYPT IN LONDON. CN

Visit to the obelisk at Victoria Embankment and Sir John Soane's Museum. Discussion of the reception of Ancient Egypt in 19th and 20th century social contexts. Meet at the obelisk at Victoria Embankment.


A. Discuss the ancient and modern history of the obelisk of Thutmose III which today stands on Victoria Embankment, London.

B. Discuss the socio‐historical context which surrounded the acquisition of the sarcophagus of Seti I by Sir John Soane in 1824.

Essential reading

Colla, E. 2007. Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Read Introduction and Chapter 1: pp. 1–66. EGYPTOLOGY A 8 COL and IOA ISSUE DESK COL 13; also available online at SFX@UCL

Additional reading

France, P. 1991.The Rape of Egypt: How the Europeans Stripped Egypt of its Heritage. London: Barrie & Jenkins. EGYPTOLOGY A 8 FRA

Hassan, F. 2003. Imperialist appropriations of Egyptian obelisks. In: Jeffreys, D. (ed.). Views of Ancient Egypt since Napoleon Bonaparte: Imperialism, Colonialism and Modern Appropriations. London: University College London Press, 19–68. EGYPTOLOGY A 8 JEF

Reid, D. 2002. Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. Read pp. 21–48. EGYPTOLOGY A 8 REI; also available online at SFX@UCL


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For the sarcophagus of Seti I, also consult:

http://collections.soane.org/object‐m470

http://www.factumfoundation.org/pag/244/Recording‐and‐rematerialising‐the‐sarcophagus‐of‐Seti‐I

http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_831.html

Darley, G. 1999. John Soane: An Accidental Romantic. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. BARTLETT LIBRARY NA997.S7 D 27 1999

Dorey, H. 1991. Sir John Soane's Acquisition of the Sarcophagus of Seti I, The Georgian Group Journal 1, 26–35.

Hornung, E. 1999. The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife. Translated from German by D. Lorton. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. EGYPTOLOGY V 50 HOR

Reeves, N. and R.H. Wilkinson 1996. The Complete Valley of the Kings: Tombs and Treasures of Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs. London: Thames and Hudson. Read pp. 137–139. EGYPTOLOGY E 7 REE

Wilkinson, R.H. and K.R. Weeks 2016. The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings. New York: Oxford University Press. Read chapters 13, 16: pp. 200–217, 245–259. Available online at SFX@UCL

For 'Cleopatra's needle', also consult:

Chaney, E. 2011. Roma Britannica and the Cultural Memory of Egypt: Lord Arundel and the Obelisk of Domitian. In: Marshall, D., K. Wolfe and S. Russell (eds.). Roma Britannica: Art Patronage and Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth‐Century Rome. Rome: British School at Rome, 147–170. MAIN LIBRARY ART KI 7 MAR

Martin, K. 1999. Obelisks: quarrying, transporting and erecting. In: Bard, K.A. (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. London: Routledge, 587–589. EGYPTOLOGY A 2 BAR; ISSUE DESK IOA BAR 17

Iversen, E. 1968–1972. Obelisks in Exile. 2 volumes. Copenhagen: Gad. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS E 7 IVE

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums‐static/digitalegypt/architecture/obelisks.html

9. MULTIPLE OBJECT LIVES: EGYPTIAN AND EGYPTIANISING OBJECTS. CN

Visit to the Petrie Museum. Handling class with museum objects and presentations on Egyptianising objects and monuments in London. Meet in the Main Gallery of the Petrie Museum, Malet Place. Ten minutes of this class are set aside for filling out the course evaluation forms.

Presentations (by all course participants):

5‐minute presentations on the history of one object on display in the Petrie Museum or an Egyptianising object or monument in London. You can choose any object or monument.

For museum objects: Use the inventory number as recorded on the display label to identify on the online museum database (a) the provenance and (b) the way the object reached the museum.

For all presentations: Bring print‐out maps and/or pictures of the findspots or locations of the objects/monuments you present. You can also illustrate your talk with further images. Relate the object/monument to topics we have explored during the course and discuss its relevance for learning about ancient Egypt. NB: strict 5‐minute limit!


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Essential reading

Kopytoff, I. 1986, The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process. In: Appadurai, A. (ed.). The Social Life of Things. Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 64–91. Available online at SFX@UCL

Gosden, C. and Y. Marshall 1999. The cultural biography of objects, World Archaeology 31, 169–178. Available online at SFX@UCL

Additional reading

Curl, J.S. 2005. The Egyptian Revival: Ancient Egypt as the Inspiration for Design Motifs in the West. London: Routledge. BARTLETT LIBRARY N6351.2.E39 C87 2005

Elliott, C. K. Griffis‐Greenberg and R. Lunn 2003. Egypt in London – entertainment and commerce in the 20th century metropolis. In: Price, C. and J.‐M. Humbert (eds.). Imhotep Today: Egyptianizing Architecture. Encounters with Ancient Egypt. London: University College London Press, 106–125. EGYPTOLOGY K 5 HUM

Humbert, J.‐M., M. Pantazzi and C. Ziegler (eds.) 1994. Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 1730–1930. Ottawa and Paris: National Gallery of Canada and Réunion des Musées Nationaux. MAIN LIBRARY ART P 7 EGY

Nicholson, P. and I. Shaw (eds.) 2000. Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Read introduction: pp. 1–2. INST ARCH K QUARTOS NIC / EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS S 5 NIC, ISSUE DESK and DIGITISED READING

Petrie, W.M.F. 1927. Objects of Daily Use. Publications of the Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt 42. London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt. Read pp. 39–43. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS E 30; also available as E‐BOOK

Shaw, I. 2012. Ancient Egyptian Technology and Innovation. Transformations in Pharaonic Material Culture. London: Bristol Classical Press. EGYPTOLOGY S 5 SHA

Stevens, A. and M. Eccleston 2007. Craft production and technology. In: Wilkinson, T. (ed.). The Egyptian World. London and New York: Routledge, 146–159. EGYPTOLOGY A 5 WIL, ISSUE DESK and DIGITISED READING

For Egyptianising monuments and architecture in London, also consult:

https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/museums/tag/egyptian‐revival/

http://www.e‐c‐h‐o.org/egyptomania.php


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10. RE‐PRESENTING EGYPT. CN

Visit the Nebamun Room (61) of the British Museum to view some of the best New Kingdom tomb paintings displayed alongside the material relevant to the period. Meet at British Museum, Great Court information desk. Discussion of course evaluation.

PRESENTATIONS

A. Describe the layout of a typical 18th dynasty elite tomb in the Theban necropolis.

B. There are several competing models for the socio‐economic classification and social hierarchies in New Kingdom Egypt. Outline them and their sources.

Essential reading

Kampp‐Seyfried, F. 2003. The Theban necropolis: An overview of topography and tomb development from the Middle Kingdom to the Ramesside Period. In: Strudwick, N. and J.H. Taylor (eds.). The Theban Necropolis. Past, Present and Future. London: British Museum Press, 2–10. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS E 100 STR

Bryan, B. 2009. Memory and knowledge in Egyptian tomb painting. In: Cropper, E. (ed.). Dialogues in Art History, from Mesopotamian to Modern: Readings for a New Century. Studies in the History of Art 74, Symposium Papers 51. Washington: National Gallery of Art; New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 18–39. MAIN LIBRARY ART C 5 CRO and available online at SFX@UCL

Additional reading

Assmann, J. 2003. The Ramesside tomb and the construction of sacred space. In: Strudwick, N. and J.H. Taylor (eds.). The Theban Necropolis. Past, Present and Future. London: British Museum Press, 46–52. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS E 100 STR

Feucht, E. 1992. Fishing and fowling with the spear and the throw‐stick reconsidered. In: Luft, U. (ed.). The Intellectual Heritage if Egypt: Studies Presented to Lászlo Kákosy by Friends and Colleagues on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. Studia Aegyptiaca 14. Budapest: La Chaire d'Égyptologie de l'Université Eötvös Loránd de Budapest, 157–169. EGYPTOLOGY A 6 KAK

Kampp‐Seyfried, F. 1998. Overcoming death – the private tombs at Thebes. In: Schulz. R. and M. Seidel (eds.). Egypt: The World of the Pharaohs. Cologne: Könemann, 248–263. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS B 5 SCH

Kemp, B.J. 1989. Ancient Egypt. Anatomy of a Civilization. 1st edition. London: Routledge. EGYPTOL‐OGY B 5 KEM. Read pp. 294–317 on the socio‐economic classification of New Kingdom society

Manniche, L. 2003, The so‐called scenes of daily life in the private tombs of the Eighteenth Dynasty: An overview. In: Strudwick, N. and J.H. Taylor (eds.). The Theban Necropolis. Past, Present and Future. London: British Museum Press, 42–45. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS E 100 STR

O'Connor, D. 1983. New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, 1552–664 BC. In: Trigger, B.G., B.J. Kemp, D. O’Connor and A.B. Loyd. Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 183–278. Read pp. 191–194 on the socio‐economic classification of New Kingdom society. EGYPTOLOGY B 5 TRI and available online at SFX@UCL

Strudwick, N. 1995. The population of Thebes in the New Kingdom, some preliminary thoughts. In: Assmann, J. et al. (eds.). Thebanische Beamtennekropolen. Schriften zur Altägyptischen Geschichte und Archäologie 12. Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag, 97–106. EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS E 7 ASS


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For the tomb chapel of Nebamun see also:

Parkinson, R.B. 2008. The Painted Tomb‐Chapel of Nebamun: Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art in the British Museum. London: British Museum Press. EGYPTOLOGY M 20 PAR and ISSUE DESK

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/nebamun_wall_paintings.aspx

4 ONLINE RESOURCES

Moodle

This handbook and all course information are uploaded to Moodle. The Moodle password for this course is ARCL6002.

Online reading list

An online reading list is available for this course:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/studying/undergraduate/courses/ARCL6002.

5 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Libraries and other resources

In addition to the Library of the Institute of Archaeology (IoA), other libraries in UCL with holdings of particular relevance to this degree are: Main Library, Bartlett Library, DMS Watson Library (all availability accessed via the online catalogue).

This course is largely taught at the British Museum and the Petrie Museum. Relevant resources with regard to the collections of these two museums are:

www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk www.petrie.ac.uk

Avoid any website that is not linked to a recognisable museum, academic institution or scholar. Further recommended sites for this course are:

www.digitalegypt.ac.uk www.accessingvirtualegypt.ucl.ac.uk

www.mfa.org www.metmuseum.org

www.griffithinstitute.ox.ac.uk www.hierakonpolis.org

www.ees.ac.uk www.globalegyptianmuseum.org

www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/er has links to many other sites

Among the websites above, those for museums in London (Petrie Museum, British Museum) and elsewhere have object databases which are very useful both for information and for illustrations for your essays (always cite museum location and accession numbers).


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Information for intercollegiate and interdepartmental students

Students enrolled in departments outside the Institute of Archaeology should obtain the Institute’s coursework guidelines from Judy Medrington (email: [email protected]), which will also be available on Moodle.

Feedback

In trying to make this course as effective as possible, we welcome feedback from students during the course of the year. All students are asked to give their views on the course in an anonymous questionnaire which will be circulated at one of the last sessions of the course.

These questionnaires are taken seriously and help the course co‐ordinator to develop the course. The summarised responses are considered by the Institute's Staff‐Student Consultative Committee, Teaching Committee, and by the Faculty Teaching Committee.

If students are concerned about any aspect of this course we hope they will feel able to talk to the course co‐ordinator, but if they feel this is not appropriate, they should consult their Personal Tutor, the Academic Administrator, or the Chair of Teaching Committee.

APPENDIX

INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY COURSEWORK PROCEDURES

General policies and procedures concerning courses and coursework, including submission procedures, assessment criteria, and general resources, are available on the IoA Student Administration section of Moodle: https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=40867. It is essential that you read and comply with these. Note that some of the policies and procedures will be different depending on your status (e.g. undergraduate, postgraduate taught, affiliate, graduate diploma, intercollegiate, interdepartmental). If in doubt, please consult your course co‐ordinator.

GRANTING OF EXTENSIONS: Note that there are strict UCL‐wide regulations with regard to the granting of extensions for coursework. Note that course co‐ordinators are not permitted to grant extensions. All requests for extensions must be submitted on a the appropriate UCL form, together with supporting documentation, via Judy Medrington’s office and will then be referred on for consideration. Please be aware that the grounds that are acceptable are limited. Those with long‐term difficulties should contact UCL Student Disability Services to make special arrangements. Please see the IoA Student Administration section of Moodle for further information. Additional information is given here:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/srs/academic‐manual/c4/extenuating‐circumstances/.

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