Saturday, 13 July 2024
***Please note the change of venue to Lecture Theatre 2, UCL Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6AE***
A study day exploring the rich material from Rifeh with Bram Calcoen, Wolfram Grajetzki, Campbell Price, Marisol Solchaga, John Tait, and Paul Whelan.
In 1907 Flinders Petrie and his team excavated several burial grounds at Rifeh in Middle Egypt. They uncovered about 450 burials dating to the Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period and New Kingdom. Several thousand objects were found and are now in many collections all around the world. Over the last fifteen years those items have been collected in a UCL project and can now be re-united, at least on paper. Join us for an exclusive preview of the upcoming publication content and hear directly from the authors. After the day of talks, the Petrie Museum will be open for in-person attendees for a private visit to view the rich material from Rifeh.
VENUE: Lecture Theatre 2, UCL Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6AE.
PROGRAMME:
9:15 – 9:40 Arrival and registration
9:40 – 9:45 Welcome
9:45 – 10:45 Wolfram Grajetzki: Petrie and Rifeh, Old Excavations and New Insights
10:45 – 11:15 Tea/Coffee
11:15 – 12:00 Marisol Solchaga: Offering-trays and Soul-houses as Evidence of Ritual Practices in the Cemetery of the Plain at Rifeh
12:00 – 12:45 Paul Whelan: Rifeh’s Many Moulded Minions and Others: Shabtis from Rifeh
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 John Tait: The Papyrus Cartonnage from Rifeh
14:45 – 15:30 Bram Calcoen: Jean Capart and Rifeh in Brussels, the Catalyst for a 23 Year Old Curator to Start Building an Amazing Collection
15:30 – 16:15 Tea/Coffee and raffle
16:15 – 17:15 Campbell Price: Reinterpreting the “Two Brothers” from Rifeh: Faces, Facts and Fictions
17:15 – 17:30 Conclusion
17:30 – 18:15 Private visit to the Petrie Museum
COST:
PMF member in-person (incl. lunch + refreshments): £40
PMF member online: £35
PMF member student: £10
Non-Member in-person: £60
Non-Member online: £55
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