WAMCAES double lecture - Dr. Boyo Ockinga and Dr. Susanne Binder

Public Lecture | Updated 1 decade ago

Two tourists walking through the corridors of the tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh
Tomb of Ramesses VI
Image courtesy of Susanne Binder

Western Australian Museum and the Western Australian Museum Centre for Ancient Egyptian Studies (WAMCAES) present a double lecture event

Escaping the maws of the ‘Gobbler’: The ancient Egyptian concept of the judgment of the dead

Dr Boyo Ockinga
Associate Professor, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University
2.30pm, Saturday 29 June 2013
State Library Theatre, State Library of Western Australia (entrance via Francis St)

This talk will focus on the concept of the judgement of the dead as recorded in text and image in chapter 125 of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.

The representation of the weighing of the heart of the deceased is one of the best known motifs of ancient Egyptian funerary art in the New Kingdom, and the so-called ‘Negative Confession’ or ‘Declaration of Innocence’ which it accompanied is one of the best-known texts of the Book of the Dead. These traditions offer revealing insight into the origins of the belief that at death every person had to stand before the judgement throne of Osiris, the king of the netherworld.

Join Dr Boyo Ockinga as he discusses what the iconographic and textual evidence tells us of how it was thought that this divine judgement would be carried out, and the influence of this belief beyond the borders of Egypt.

Cost: Free event
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Seals broken and contents plundered?: The fate of the royal tombs in the Valley of Kings

Dr Susanne Binder
Associate Lecturer, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University
4.00pm, Saturday 29 June 2013
State Library Theatre, State Library of Western Australia (entrance via Francis St)

What happened to the contents of the royal tombs of the Valley of the Kings? Why is the famous tomb of Tutankhamun the only one to have been found intact?

This lecture takes us to the burial place of the ancient Egyptian kings of the New Kingdom (c. 1550-1069 BCE) on the West Bank of the Nile at Luxor in Upper Egypt, which is 800 km south of modern-day Cairo. The tombs designed for the New Kingdom kings are enormous subterranean structures, with steep sloping passages into the depths of the mountain, with huge sarcophagus chambers, brightly painted walls decorated with the various mythological compositions concerning the journey of the sun-god through day and night.

Surprisingly, the archaeology of the Valley has uncovered extremely little in terms of material finds of the original contents of these tombs. The exceptions to this are well-known sensational finds like KV 62, the tomb of the boy-king Tutankhamun located in 1921 (KV 62); the prior discovery of the tomb of Yuya and Thuya in 1905; or the gold hoard in the tomb of Queen Tawosret (KV 56) revealed in 1908.

Join Dr Susanne Binder as she explores interpretations of the curious situation of missing material finds that surrounds the story of archaeological discovery in the Valley of the Kings.

Cost: Free event
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