Egypt
What's New in Papyrology?
It's nice to see the ways in which graffiti can be useful! Details of the lecture by Jennifer Westerfeld, in Chicago at the end of March, are on the above page. A short bio of Westerfeld is also shown on the above page.
- Lecture Notes: 'egypt Guy' Discusses Pilgrimages, Graffiti
The Brown Daily Herald - Campus News (Matthew Klebanoff) Issue date: 2/19/09 Section: Campus News Known in his field as "the Egypt Guy," Eugene Cruz-Uribe, a professor of history at Northern Arizona University, discussed Egyptian pilgrimages before a...
- New Website: Travellers' Graffiti From Egypt And The Sudan
http://www.egypt-sudan-graffiti.be/ Apparently this site was quite new when it was pointed out to me over a month ago, but I never got around to posting about it so here it is, better late than never. Travellers’ Graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan is...
- Recent Publication: Hibis Temple Project, Volume Iii
Thanks very much to Eugene Cruz-Uribe for letting me know of his recent publication Hibis Temple Project Vol III, The Graffiti from the Temple Precinct (San Antonio: Van Sicklen, 2008), which deals with the various pictoral and figurative graffiti found...
- Nuns At Abydos
This is a short article on a collection of graffiti scribbled on the walls of the Temple of Seti I at Abydos which are currently being studied and may represent the works of a community of Coptic nuns....
- Graffiti Online
Here is a new website on graffiti left by travellers to Egypt. Very interesting! http://www.egypt-sudan-graffiti.be/...
Egypt
Coptic Graffiti and Early Christian Impressions of the Past
What's New in Papyrology?
The abstract of a forthcoming lecture by Jennifer Westerfeld, which highlights some important points itself, and is accompanied by a photograph that amply illustrates the point being made:
Spray-painted across walls or scratched onto the windows of subway cars, graffiti is often seen as a modern, urban phenomenon. However, the practice of writing graffiti actually goes back many thousands of years, and graffiti from the ancient world can be a valuable source of information for modern historians, giving us greater insight into how the ancients interacted with local landscapes. This talk will draw on recent fieldwork at Abydos and sites in Egypt's Kharga Oasis to discuss how Christian graffiti from the late antique period (roughly 350-750 CE) reflect changing attitudes towards sacred space and can help us reconstruct early Egyptian Christians' impressions of the Pharaonic monuments that still dominated the landscape at that time.
It's nice to see the ways in which graffiti can be useful! Details of the lecture by Jennifer Westerfeld, in Chicago at the end of March, are on the above page. A short bio of Westerfeld is also shown on the above page.
- Lecture Notes: 'egypt Guy' Discusses Pilgrimages, Graffiti
The Brown Daily Herald - Campus News (Matthew Klebanoff) Issue date: 2/19/09 Section: Campus News Known in his field as "the Egypt Guy," Eugene Cruz-Uribe, a professor of history at Northern Arizona University, discussed Egyptian pilgrimages before a...
- New Website: Travellers' Graffiti From Egypt And The Sudan
http://www.egypt-sudan-graffiti.be/ Apparently this site was quite new when it was pointed out to me over a month ago, but I never got around to posting about it so here it is, better late than never. Travellers’ Graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan is...
- Recent Publication: Hibis Temple Project, Volume Iii
Thanks very much to Eugene Cruz-Uribe for letting me know of his recent publication Hibis Temple Project Vol III, The Graffiti from the Temple Precinct (San Antonio: Van Sicklen, 2008), which deals with the various pictoral and figurative graffiti found...
- Nuns At Abydos
This is a short article on a collection of graffiti scribbled on the walls of the Temple of Seti I at Abydos which are currently being studied and may represent the works of a community of Coptic nuns....
- Graffiti Online
Here is a new website on graffiti left by travellers to Egypt. Very interesting! http://www.egypt-sudan-graffiti.be/...