ARCE 63rd ANNUAL MEETING - Schedule of Concurrent Papers and Events
2012
Friday
April 27
Symphony A
Symphony B
Mozart
Beethoven
ARCHAEOLOGY
OLD KINGDOM
STUDIES
ART HISTORY
RELIGIOUS TEXT
STUDIES
CHAIR: James Allen
Leslie Ann Warden,
Serdab Placement and
Cultic Practice in Old
Kingdom Private Tombs
CHAIR: Denise Doxey
* Kathryn Howley, A
Reexamination of Early
‘Sed Festival’
Representations
Joanne Rowland,
Quesna: Its Sacred Use
and Position within the
Socio-Political
Landscape of the
Central Nile Delta
Donald P. Ryan and
Roselyn A. Campbell,
Left Behind: Abandoned
Artifacts and the
Priorities of Earlier
Archaeologists in the
Valley of the Kings
Manfred Bietak, “I
brought a hand” –
Archaeological
Evidence from Avaris
Ann Macy Roth, High
Cheekbones and Hidden
Hieroglyphs in the
Metropolitan Museum’s
Mastaba Chapels
* Elizabeth Lang, The
Role of Bes on Horuscippi
CHAIR: Peter Brand
Solange Bumbaugh,
The Last Priests at
Philae - Language
Choice in Adoration
Graffiti as an Indication
of Ethnicity
Foy Scalf, Demotic
Votive Texts from an Ibis
Sanctuary
Violaine Chauvet,
Preservation, Ritual and
Memory
Lyn Green, Diagnostic
Use of the UraeusCombination by Queens
and Goddesses in the
19th Dynasty
Florence Friedman,
Evidence Suggesting
Additional Menkaure
Dyads
* Barbara Richter,
Iconography and Epithet
Plays in the Temple of
Hathor at Dendera
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ARCHAEOLOGY
(con't)
CHAIR: Sameh
Iskander
Timothy Sandiford, A
City No Less than
Thebes? The Ptolemaic
Abydos Settlement Site
2010-2011 and 20112012 Excavation
Seasons
Dawn McCormack,
Report of the 2003 and
2011 Seasons of the
South Abydos
Mastabas Project
RELIGIOUS TEXT
STUDIES
ART HISTORY (con't)
HISTORICAL STUDIES
CHAIR: Janice Kamrin
Mariam Ayad, Reviving
Harwa: Selection &
Layout of Opening of the
Mouth Scenes in TT 37
CHAIR: Gay Robins
Todd Gillen, The
Triumph Scene of Seti I
at Karnak: Cultural
Reinterpretation in the
Royal Monumental
Context
Harold Hays, Syntax of
Ancient Egyptian Rituals
Deanna Kiser-Go,
Pharaoh as Hunter:
Micro- and MacroMeaning in TT 143
Jeffrey Emanuel, ‘Šrdn
of the Strongholds, Šrdn
of the Sea’: The
Sherden in Egyptian
Society, Reassessed
Kei Yamamoto,
Ayrton’s Cemetery F at
Abydos: A New Look at
an Old Excavation
Francesco Tiradritti,
The Path of Harwa: A
Round Trip Ticket to
Eternity
* Danielle Phelps, A
Devastated Foreign
Landscape Depicted in
Luxor Temple
James Hoffmeier, The
Design and Origin of the
New Kingdom East
Frontier Defense System
AM
8:30
9:00
9:30
10:00
10:30
10:45
11:15
11:45
CHAIR: Carol
Redmount
Catharine Roehrig,
Work of the Joint
Mission to Malqata,
2012
* Luigi Prada, An
Unpublished Demotic
Dream Book: New
Contributions to the
Study of Ancient
Egyptian Dream
Interpretation
Joshua Roberson, The
Awakening of Osiris:
Interpretations and
Observations on a
Recalcitrant Sequence
of Cryptographic Texts
CHAIR: Thomas
Schneider
Matthew J. Adams, The
Myth of Memphis: An
Historiographical
Critique of a Pharaonic
City
Schedule subject to change
PM
12:15 1:45
1:45
LUNCH
LUNCH
LUNCH
LUNCH
Symphony A
Symphony B
Mozart
Beethoven
ART HISTORY
TEXT STUDIES
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
STUDIES
CHAIR: Catharine
Roehrig
Steve Harvey, The
Stela of Queen
Tetisheri Revisited
CHAIR: Edmund Meltzer
Orly Goldwasser, What
Are Determinatives Good
For?
CHAIR: Kara Cooney
Linda Evans, Suckling
Snakes! Why is
Renenutet a Symbol of
Abundance?
CHAIR:
* Alicia CunninghamBryant, Images for
Eternity: The Meroitic
Offering Tables in the
Egyptian Museum and
the Nubia Museum
* Elizabeth Minor, In
Search of the Kerman
Queen: Using Modern
Archival Resources to
Investigate Ancient
Nubian Women
2:15
Melinda Hartwig,
Artists & Archaeometry
Richard Jasnow and
Horst Beinlich,
Recovering an Ancient
Egyptian “Best-Seller.” A
Demotic-Hieratic
Fragment of the Book of
Fayum
David Klotz, The
Theological Significance
of Naophorous Statues
2:45
Lorelei Corcoran, A
Case for Continuity:
JPGM 91.AP.6
Nikolaos Lazaridis,
“Cyclops, you asked my
name. My name is
Nobody.” Naming
Characters in Egyptian
Literature
Teresa Moore, The
Lords of the West in
Ramesside Tombs
Kasia Szpakowska,
Snake Busters:
Experiments in Fracture
Patterns of Ritual
Figurines
3:15
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ART HISTORY (con't)
TEXT STUDIES (con't)
HISTORICAL STUDIES
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
STUDIES (con't)
CHAIR: Betsy Bryan
Catherine Cobb, An
Offering of Cool Water
CHAIR: Kasia
Szpakowska
Rita Lucarelli, Demons
in Ancient Egypt and
Mesopotamia
CHAIR: Joan Knudsen
* Jared Krebsbach, Fact
and Fiction: Achaemenid
Persian Perceptions of
Egypt and Nubia during
the 27th Dynasty
CHAIR: David Anderson
David Whitchurch and
R. Paul Evans, The
Burial Landscape of the
Graeco-Roman
Cemetery at Fag el
Gamous, Fayoum: An
Initial Synthesis
Hanan Mahmoud,
Teaching Archeology at
the ARCE/AERA Field
School: Memphis 2011
3:30
4:00
* Erin Peters, Issues of
Identity in Augustan Art
from Roman Egypt
Cynthia Sheikholeslami,
My Love’s Shiny Red
Teeth: Identifying the
Tree in the Love Song
pTurin 1966/1
Bryan Brinkman, Egypt
as a Symbol of Peace in
Flavian Rome
5:00 6:30
General Members' Meeting
6:50
7:00 9:00
Buses load at hotel to go to RISD Museum of Art reception
Reception at Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
Schedule subject to change
Saturday
April 28
Symphony A
Symphony B
Mozart
Beethoven
ARCHAEOLOGY
CHAIR: Joe Wegner
Kathryn Bard,
Excavations at the
Middle Kingdom Harbor
at Mersa/Wadi
Gawasis, 2001-2011
Stuart Tyson Smith,
Identity,
Commemoration and
Remembrance in
Nubia: Burials at
Tombos during the New
Kingdom and Its
Aftermath
Adela Oppenheim,
The North Chapel of
Senwosret III at
Dahshur
COFFIN STUDIES
CHAIR: Salima Ikram
Kathlyn Cooney, Reuse
of Theban 21st Dynasty
Funerary Arts: A Case
Study of Coffins in Italian
Collections
Alessia Amenta, Vatican
Museums Vatican Coffin
Project
COPTIC / ISLAMIC
CHAIR: Jocelyn Gohary
Jennifer Cromwell,
Unpublished Coptic
Documents in
Copenhagen
ARCE STUDIES
CHAIR: Emily Teeter
John Shearman, Luxor
EAC – 5th Season
Update and Description
of the New APS Project
Ali Bakr Hassan, AlShaykh al-Makîn (12051273): The Forgotten
Copt Historian Whose
Work Changed the
Protestant World Views
about Islam
Michael Jones, Cultural
Heritage Conservation
Through Documentation
Aidan Dodson, The
Egyptian Coffins in the
Provincial Collections of
the United Kingdom
(ECPUK) Project
John Stephenson, “The
deception requires a veil
thrown over it” – Coptic
Textiles and Gender in
Domestic Settings
Christie Pohl, ARCE's
Advanced Conservation
Training Program:
Current Projects in
Luxor, Karnak and the
West Bank
10:00
Carol Redmount,
Collateral Damage: El
Hibeh Middle Egypt
After the 2011
Revolution
Edwin Brock, The
Merenptah Sarcophagi
Restoration
Moustafa El-Bahy Rezk,
Influences of Islamic
Architecture on Italian
Architecture
10:30
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ARCHAEOLOGY
(con't)
CHAIR: Adela
Oppenheim
James A. Harrell and
Elizabeth Bloxam, The
Wadi Hammamat
Quarryscapes Survey
SOCIAL TEXT STUDIES
ART HISTORY
TEXT STUDIES
CHAIR: Richard Jasnow
Bryan Muhs, An
Unrecognized Loan
Contract From the
Archive of the
Choachytes, in Chicago
Jaqueline Jay, Petese,
Mythus, and the Jar
Texts: Demotic
“Composite Texts” and
the Oral Tradition
Kathryn Bandy, Recent
work on the Tell Edfu
Ostraca
CHAIR: Melinda Hartwig
Kelly-Anne Diamond,
The Sacred District
Scene in the New
Kingdom Tombs at Elkab
CHAIR: Aidan Dodson
Melinda Nelson-Hurst,
Succession within the
Khnumhotep Family
Heather Lee McCarthy,
Ramesside Royal
Women’s Tombs as
Mortuary Trendsetters
Karen Bryson, A New
Look at the “Coronation
Inscription” of Horemheb
Zoe McQuinn, Immortal
Visages in the
Diniacopoulos Collection:
A Statue Group from
Theban Tomb 318
Edmund S. Meltzer and
Gonzalo M. Sanchez,
Edwin Smith Speaks,
and His Papyrus Lives
AM
8:30
9:00
9:30
10:45
11:15
11:45
Peter Brand and Jean
Revez, The Karnak
Hypostyle Hall Project:
2011 Season Fieldwork
Report
Betsy Bryan,
Execration and
Execution: A Skeleton
from Mut Temple
Precinct
PM
12:15 1:00
Chapter Council Fundraiser, 19th Egypt in 3D, in Symphony A
12:15 1:45
LUNCH
LUNCH
LUNCH
LUNCH
Schedule subject to change
1:45
Symphony A
Symphony B
Mozart
Beethoven
ARCHAEOLOGY
HISTORY
MUMMIES &
OSTEOLOGY
CHAIR: James Hoffmeier
Thomas Schneider,
Egypt’s Foreign Relations
in the Old Kingdom
CHAIR: John Shearman
Paul H. Chapman,
Replicating the
Mutilations of the Facial
Skeleton of Djehutynakht
in a Human Cadaver
TECHNICAL
ARCHAEOLOGY
CHAIR: Kerry
Muhlestein
Andrew Wilburn, New
and Old: GIS
Technology and the
Michigan Excavations at
Karanis (1924-1935)
CHAIR: Eugene CruzUribe
Salima Ikram, Pigeon
Towers, Pots, and Fine
Precipitation Spots:
Recent Work of the
North Kharga Oasis
Survey
2:15
Sameh Iskander,
2011-2012 New York
University Epigraphic
and Conservation
Expedition to the
Temple of Ramesses II
at Abydos
Jeremy Pope, The
“Gum-Eaters” of Nubia
W. Benson Harer, Study
of a Baby Mummy
2:45
Nozomu Kawai, The
Newly Discovered
Tomb Chapel of
Isisnofret at Northwest
Saqqara
Hratch Papazian,
Thoughts on the Old
Kingdom Gebelein Papyri
Jane Hill and Maria
Rosado, Dead Men Do
Tell Tales: Forensic
Anthropology of One of
Penn Museum’s Oldest
Mummies
3:15
Nicholas Reeves, New
Light on Amenhotep,
Overseer of the
Builders of Amun
Marina Brown, Agents of
Construction: The
Territoriality of Ancient
Egyptian Graffiti and
Modern Functional
Parallels
Jonathan Elias and
Carter Lupton, Natural
Mummification and
Questions of Preferred
Ritual in Dynastic Egypt
Sonali Gupta-Agarwal,
The Abandonment of
Karanis: Debating the
End through Ceramics
3:45
Steve Vinson, Demotic
Graffiti in the Valley of
the Kings – A Progress
Report
Emilia Cortes, Long
Term Preservation –
Recovering Contexts:
Roman Mummies
Excavated by the
Metropolitan Museum of
Art at Dahshur
Ahmed Salah Attia,
Non Destructive Testing
as a New Integrated
Methodology to Evaluate
Mechanical Resistance
of Ancient Mortars
4:30 5:30
4:15 5:45
Fellowship Forum and AUC Graduate Studies Program - Mozart Room
6:30 8:30pm
ARCE Member Reception and Best Student Paper Award - Symphony Ballroom
Dinner buffet provided
Pearce Paul Creasman
and Richard H.
Wilkinson, The
University of Arizona
Tausret Temple Project:
An Overview of
Excavations and
Remote Sensing
Karl Lorenz, Late
Predynastic Period
Ceramic Frequency
Change and the Process
of Cultural Unification of
Lower Egypt
Chapter Officer Meeting - Haydn Room
Schedule subject to change
Sunday
April 29
Symphony A
Symphony B
Mozart
Beethoven
ARCHAEOLOGY
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
TOPICS
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
CERAMICS
CHAIR: James Harrell
Niv Allon, Writing Off
Scribes: The Decrease in
the Representation of
Texts and Scribes at
Amarna
Jocelyn Gohary, New
Light on Akhenaten at
Karnak: The ARCE
Talatat Project
CHAIR: Lorelei Corcoran
Christina Geisen, The
Ramesseum Dramatic
Papyrus - A Statue Ritual
in Commemoration of
Senwosret I
Charlotte Rose, For
Fertility Now and
Herafter: Bed Figures and
Votive Model Beds in the
Penn Museum
CHAIR: Michael Jones
David A. Anderson and
Dustin Peasley, The
Predynastic Ceramic
Industry at el-Mahâsna
AM
CHAIR: Violaine
Chauvet
9:00
9:30
Josef Wegner, 2012
Excavations in the
Mayoral Residence of
Wah-Sut (South
Abydos)
10:00
Gaber Abdeldayem Ali
Omar, A New
Generation of
Archaeologists Reviving
the Egyptian School
Phyllis Saretta, Asiatic
Musicians at Akhenaten's
Court: An Amarna Relief
in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art
Julia Hsieh, The
Vernacular of the Letters
to the Dead
10:30
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GIZA STUDIES
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
TOPICS (con't)
CHAIR: Rita Lucarelli
Virginia Emery, The
Palace in Ancient Egypt:
Toward a Definition of
Form and Function
Joan Knudsen,
Misattributed Papyrus
Fragments and the Fort
at El Ahaiwah
MUSEOLOGY /
ARCHIVAL STUDIES
CHAIR: Deanna Kiser-Go
Anna Serotta and Isabel
Stuenkel, Vibration
Concerns in a Museum
Environment
Christopher Naunton,
The Egypt Exploration
Society’s Archive and the
History of Egyptology: A
Progress Report
Patrizia Piacentini, The
First 150 Years of
Egyptian Collections in
Egypt through the
Archives of the Milan
University
TEXT STUDIES
Janice Kamrin, Putting
the Tomb of the
Treasurer Khety On-line
Ramadan Badry
Hussein, Textual
Criticism or Literary
Criticism? Rethinking
Approaches to Studying
Egyptian Religious Texts
10:45
11:15
11:45
12:15
CHAIR: Kathryn Bard
Peter Der Manuelian,
Digital Access to the
Giza Necropolis: Past
Progress, Future Plans
Rus Gant, Modeling the
Giza Plateau in 3D
Nicholas Picardo,
Three-Dimensional
Graphic Modeling as
Archaeological
Research Tool: The
Menkaure Valley
Temple Settlements at
Giza
Rachel Aronin, Fit for a
Queen: Experimental
3D Reconstruction of
the Tomb of Meresankh
III at Giza
Ana Tavares and
Mohsen Kamel, More
from Memphis:
Excavations at the Middle
Kingdom Settlement in
Kom el Fakhry
Kerry Muhlestein,
Turning Point in the Fag
el-Gamous/Seila Pyramid
Excavation
Rachel Mittelman,
Ceramics as an Ethnic
Identifier: Libyans in the
Eastern Nile Delta
during the Third
Intermediate Period
Mohammed Naguib,
Teaching of Pottery at
the ARCE/AERA Field
School
CHAIR: Brian Muhs
Susan Hollis, Nut
Before the Pyramid
Texts: An Exploration
Julia Troche, The Akh
as an Active Agent
Racheli Shalomi-Hen,
Pain and Suffering as
Punishment in Ancient
Egypt
* Indicates candidate for Best Student Paper Award
Schedule subject to change