Jan 24th, 2023 - A SPECIAL LECTURE IN EGYPTOLOGY AT KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY 'From Trash to Treasure: Figuring Out a Harpokrates Amulet from Tel Dor, Israel'
Speaker: Dr. Jessica Nitschke, Stellenbosch University
| Date: | January 24th, 2023 (Tue.) / 13:00-14:30 (Japan Standard Time). |
| Venue : | Human and Social Science Lecture Hall 1, Room 101 , Kanazawa University |
| Participation fee: | free |
| Language: | English |
| Sponsorship: | Sponsorship: Institute for the Study of Ancient Civilizations |
| Co-sponsorship: | Institute for Frontier Science Initiative, Kanazawa University |
From Trash to Treasure: Figuring Out a Harpokrates Amulet from Tel Dor, Israel
Dr. Jessica Nitschke, Stellenbosch University
During the 2009 excavation season at Tel Dor, a Phoenician site on the coast of Israel, we found a dark blue glass pendant in the form of Harpokrates (Egyptian Hr-pa-khered, or “Horus the Child”) in a Late Hellenistic context. It belongs to a category of mold-made glass pendants that were mass-produced in the Late Hellenistic period. Images of the Egyptian child deity are known from the Levant and Phoenician world since at least the early Iron Age, and became widely popular across the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. However, the glass pendants have not traditionally figured much in discussions of Harpokrates imagery. In this talk I will walk through my process of studying this little amulet, from excavation to publication. I will try to situate the Harpokrates glass pendants within the history of Harpokrates objects in the Mediterranean, touching on various themes, including cross-cultural-exchange, glass production, the spread of Egyptian religion, Phoenician personal religious practice, and the localization of Mediterranean-wide styles and trends.
Bio:
Dr Jessica Nitschke is a Research Fellow at the Department of Ancient Studies at Stellenbosch University and the editor of The Ancient Near East Today, the weekly e-magazine of ASOR. She has a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and a BA from the University of Chicago. She has participated in excavations in Israel, Egypt, and Greece, and was recently a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute.
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nozomu.kawai@staff.Kanazawa-u.ac.jp
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