The jewelers of the Pharaohs

Presentation of a research project as part of the "Jeudis de la Maison Suger", a residents' research seminar.

Benjamin Sass is emeritus professor of archaeology of Tel Aviv University. His books are Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals (1997, with Nahman Avigad), The Alphabet at the Turn of the Millennium (2005), and Aramaic and Figural Stamp Impressions on Bricks of the Sixth Century B.C. from Babylon (2010, with Joachim Marzahn). In the last decade he has been writing extensively about the alphabet in the earlier Iron Age, much of it with Israel Finkelstein. The research questions and results of these studies are encapsulated in the synopsis of a paper in Near Eastern Archaeaology 86.1 (2023), 28-45).

Presentation of the project

"Most of the royal tombs of antiquity have disappeared. In Pharaonic Egypt, however, a few were preserve, including Tutankhamen's tomb, which is a prime example. Following a chronological framework and an overview of royal funerary assemblages, the richly illustrated presentation provides an extract of Egyptian royal jewels from the Pharaonic era. materials, manufacturing techniques, object types and symbolic meanings."

Speaker

 Benjamin Sass: emeritus professor of archaeology of Tel Aviv University