DRAFT FINAL PROGRAM

FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING of THE AMERICAN RESEARCH CENTER IN EGYPT BERKELEY, APRIL 28-30

University of California at Berkeley Hosts:
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies
The P.A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
The Department of Near Eastern Studies
The Graduate Division
The Graduate Program in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archeology

Executive Committee
Oversight Committee
Long-Range Planning Committee
Executive Committee
Endowment Committee Meeting

9:00 Cynthia May Sheikholeslami (American University in Cairo) Some Chantresses of the Khenu of Amun and Osorkon of Teudjoi

9:20 Gayle Gibson (Royal Ontario Museum, Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities) Tails of Western Thebes

9:40 Nozomu Kawai (Johns Hopkins University) Coffin Fragments from the Area around Theban Tomb 92: An Aspect of the Theban Necropolis in the First Millennium B.C.E.

10:00 Mariam Ayad (Brown University) Some Reflections of the History, Transmission and Use of the Book of Day in the Third Intermediate Period

10:20 D. L. MacLaughlan (UCLA) Divine Therapy: The Late Period Apis Cult in Egypt

10:40 BREAK

11:00 Renate Mueller-Wollermann (University of Tübingen) The Use of Coins in Late Period Egypt

11:20 Elizabeth Bettles (University College, London) A Phoenician Amphora in Late Period Iconography

11:40 Jean Revez (Université du Québec à Montréal) The 25th dynasty «king's brothers» (snw nsw)

1:30 Eugene Cruz-Uribe (Northern Arizona University) Some Thoughts on the Invasion of Egypt by Cambyses

1:50 Stanley Burstein (California State University, Los Angeles) Pharaonic Epilogue: The Reign of Khababash

2:10 John A. Seeger (Northern Arizona University) The 1999 Field Season at Marsa Nakari

2:30 D.J.I. Begg (Trent University) Tebtunis: The Insulae 1934 - 1999

2:50: BREAK

3:10 Barbara Mendoza (UC Berkeley) "Heritage of the Egyptian Mummy Mask Tradition: Two Plaster Masks from the P.A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology"

3:30 Robert K. Ritner (The Oriental Institute) A Healing Stela of Bes Pantheos in the Brooklyn Museum

3:50 John Gee (Brigham Young University) Stylistic Dating of Greco-Roman Period Egyptian Stele

1:30 Harold M. Hays (University of Chicago) The Historicity of Papyrus Westcar

1:50 Lloyd Kropp (Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville) Some Comments on the Narrative Structure of Ancient Egyptian Tales

2:10 Ronald J. Leprohon (University of Toronto) What Wenamun Could Have Bought: The Value of his Stolen Goods

2:30 Steve Vinson (University of Oregon) Tragedy, Comedy and Reconciliation in the First Tale of Setne Khaemwas

2:50 BREAK

3:10 Ogden Goelet (New York University) Anaphoric Elements in Egyptian Literature and Inscriptions

3:30 Kasia Szpakowska (UCLA) "qd": To Sleep, Perchance A Dream

3:50 Monica Bontty (UCLA) Some Observations on "hp"

9:00 Jessica Nager (UC Berkeley) Ancient Writers, Ethnicity and Modern Scholarship: What the Literary Sources Really Say About Greeks and Egyptians in Hellenistic Egypt

9:20 Richard Jasnow (Johns Hopkins University) "O Solon, Solon, You Greeks are always Children." Didactic Statements by Egyptians to Foreigners

9:40 Birger A. Pearson (UC Santa Barbara) The Coptic Inscriptions in the Old Church of St. Antony

10:00 Teresa Moore (UC Berkeley) Coptic Ostraca from Deir el-Ballas in the Hearst Museum of Anthropology

10:20 Susan H. Auth (The Newark Museum) Egyptian, Classical And Christian Themes in Coptic Art

10:40 BREAK

11:00 Sarah Parcak (Yale University) The Old Kingdom Empire?

11:20 Mark C. Stone (Yale University) Identifying the i3w.t wdb.(y)t 'ab.w in the Hymn to Re of Wahankh Antef II's Stela (MMA 13.182.3)

11:40 Kerry Muhlestein (UCLA) Asiatic Influence in Egypt: Finding the footprint of foreign intellectual influence in the Middle Kingdom

8:40 Jay Enoch (UC Berkeley) Ingenious Optical Elements and Schematic Eyes: Old Kingdom Statues and the First Known Lenses

9:00 David O'Connor (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) Context, Function and Program; Understanding Ceremonial Slate Palettes

9:20 Bruce Williams (Oriental Institute) Interpreting the Serekh

9:40 Karin Kroenke (UC Berkeley) A Selection of Wooden Tomb Models and Servant Statuettes in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

10:00 Gay Robins (Emory University) Reexamining the Phenomenon of the Husband's Absence from his Wife's Monuments

10:20 BREAK

9:00 James A. Harrell (University of Toledo) and Michael D. Lewan (USGS) Discovery of a Steatite Baram Industry of the Medieval Islamic Period in Egypt's Eastern Desert

9:20 Sumaiya Abbas Hamdani (George Mason University - Assist. Prof., History Dept.) State, Sect, and the Formation of a Madhhab in the Fatimid Period

9:40 Rachel T. Howes (UC Santa Barbara) The Relationship Between the Chief Judge, the Chief Propagandist, and the Wazir in the 11th Century Fatimid Court

10:00 BREAK

10:20 John Calvert (Creighton University) The Individual and the Nation: Sayyid Qutb's Tifl min al-Qarya (Child from the Village)

10:40 Ahmed Ali Salem (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) "Islam and the Bases of Governance": Review and Reflection of an Intellectual Debate

11:00 Charles D. Smith (University of Arizona) Egypt, Islam, Nationalism, and the State: Justification of Existing Theories or a Model for New Directions?

11:20 DISCUSSION

10:40 Edward D. Johnson (UCLA) The 1999-2000 Field Season at Hierakonpolis

11:00 Gregory Mumford (UCLA) Investigating a 'Dark Age' in Egypt's Delta: Archaeological work in the Late Old Kingdom to First Intermediate Period (ca.2200-2040 BCE) at Tell er-Ru'ba (Mendes) and Tell Tebilla.

11:20 Janet E. Richards (University of Michigan, Kelsey Museum) The Abydos Middle Cemetery Project, 1999

11:40 Joseph Wegner (University of Pennsylvania) Excavations at the Mortuary Complex of Senwosret III at South Abydos

12:00 Vanessa Smith (University of Pennsylvania) Excavations in the Production Area of the Senwosret III Mortuary Temple

1:30 Chris Bennett (UC San Diego) The Missing Titles of Queen Sitdjehuti and the Genealogy of Kamose

1:50 Carolyn Routledge, Richard Stockton (College of New Jersey) Ritualization and Identity in Egyptian Imperial Strategies

2:10 Peter Feinman (Columbia University) The Merneptah Stele: Egypt in Transition from the Age of Bronze to the Age of Iron

2:30 Patricia Blackwell Gary (New York University) Touched by the Hands of God: Joy in the Court of the Hwt-Benben at Akhetaten

2:50 BREAK

3:10 Geoffrey Graham(Yale University) Scepters and Staves for Osiris

3:30 Shang-ying Shih (UC Berkeley) Death in Deir El-Medinah: A Psychological Perspective

3:50 Heather Lee McCarthy (Institute of Fine Arts at New York University) A Discussion of Cosmological Aspects of the Beit el-Wali Temple of Ramesses II

1:30 Thomas Logan (Monterey Peninsula College) Soundings South of the Eighth Pylon at Karnak: 1999-2000

1:50 Stuart Tyson Smith (UC Santa Barbara) The UCSB Dongola Reach Expedition: Excavations at Tombos and Hannek

2:10 Sara E. Orel (Truman State University) Only Part of the Story: A Reexamination of the Egyptian Excavations at Kom el-Hisn, 1943-1952

2:30 BREAK

1:30 Amira ElAzhary Sonbol (Georgetown University) Women and Legal Reform: A Rereading

1:50 Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot (UCLA) Women and Property in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Egypt

2:10 Haifaa Khalafallah (Georgetown University) Reclaiming the Islamic Legal Method in the Twentieth Century

2:30 Khaled Abou El Fadl (UCLA School of Law) A Secured Marriage: The Use of Conditions in Islamic Marriage Contracts

2:50 DISCUSSION

2:50 James A. Harrell (University of Toledo) and V. Max Brown (University of Toledo) Ancient Petroleum Seep at Gebel Zeit, Egypt

3:10 James McLane (McLane and Associates, Architects) and Raphael A.J. Wüst (University of British Columbia) A First Step Toward Preserving the Tomb of Seti I, Valley of the Kings: Findings and Recommendations of a Geotechnical Evaluation

3:30 Russell D. Rothe Ph.D. (Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Duluth) Using GIS to Examine Spatial/Temporal Distribution of Inscriptions From the Southern Eastern Desert

3:50 Raphael Wüst (University of British Columbia) and Garniss Curtiss (Berkeley Geochronology Center) The Hydrogeologists of the Eighteenth Dynasty Tomb of Tuthmosis III (KV34) in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt: Dilettantes or Genii?

8:40 Rockwell Townsend (Independent) A Newly Discovered Year-Record Label from the Time of King Narmer

9:00 Charles R. Jones (ARCE/SC) Egyptian-Early Zhou Chinese Word Comparisons

9:20 Jonathan Van Lepp (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) California Institute of Technology And the Gods Created Mankind

9:40 Minoru Kodera (Comet Research Institute) A Discovery in the Great Pyramid Complex at Giza

10:00 Peter Mendez (California State University at Long Beach) and Jonathan Van Lepp (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology) Between the Moon, Nile, Royal Cubit and Sothic Year

10:20 James Evans (Consulting Engineer, United Technologies) Empire Chronology of Amarna Period in Egypt

10:40: BREAK

9:00 Christine Lilyquist (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Pottery from Wady Qabbanat el-Qirud, the tomb of Tuthmosis III's three foreign wives

9:20 Deanna J. Kiser (UC Berkeley) New Kingdom Domestic Painting and its Relationship to Decorated Pottery

9:40 Heidi Saleh (UC Berkeley) Products of an International Age: An Overview of the Relationships between Aegean and Egyptian Paintings in the Late Bronze Age

10:00 Marian Feldman (UC Berkeley) Who Wants to Marry an Egyptian Princess? Status and Identity in Late Bronze Age Diplomatic Marriages

10:20 BREAK

10:40 Doha M. Mostafa (Helwan University) Remarks on the Architectural Development in the Necropolis of Deir el-Medinah

11:00 Kristin Thompson (Trustee, The Amarna Research Foundation; University of Wisconsin) The Problem with Frontal Shoulders, Part 2: Amarna Royal Offering Scenes

11:20 Earl Ertman (University of Akron) The Identity of the King and Queen on Tutankhamun's Golden Throne

11:40 Donald P. Ryan (Pacific Lutheran University) Tomb KV 21 revisited

9:00 Mark Pettigrew (UC Berkeley) Imagining Egypt's Past: Constructions of Ancient Egypt in a Medieval Treasure-Hunting Manual

9:20 Elliot Colla (Brown University - Dept. of Comp. Lit.) Zaynab and the Limits of Nationalist Print Culture

9:40 Adriana Valencia (UC Berkeley) The Location of Power in Gamal al-Ghitani's "Az-Zayni Barakat"

10:00 Michael Cooperson (UCLA) "Risaala ilaa al-waalii": A Recent Egyptian Time-Travel Film

10:20 BREAK 10:40 Noha M. Radwan (UC Berkeley) When Sexuality Translates into the Non-Sexual: A Reading of "Ayyam al-Insan al-Sab'ah"

11:00 Ray Farrin (UC Berkeley) Hard Times: Egypt during al-Infitaah as Depticted in Naguib Mahfouz's "Love on Pyramid Plateau"

11:20 Shaden M. Tageldin (UC Berkeley) Disembodied Voices, Dismembered: Colonial Translations in Naguib Mahfouz's "Zuqaq al-Midaqq"

11:40 Nader Khalaf Uthman (Emory University) Between the Palaces of Naguib Mahfouz' "Bayn al-qasrayn": The Present as Modern

12:00 DISCUSSION

11:00 Robyn Adams Gillam (York University - Programme in Classical Studies) The Mysteries of Osiris: A Student Performance

11:20 D.C. Woodcox (Truman State University - Associate Professor of English) Egyptomania in the Rural United States

11:40 David Pinault (Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum; Santa Clara University) The Amarna Age at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum

1:30 Mohamed El-Shafie (The Medical College of Ohio) Medicine in Ancient Egypt

1:50 Lyn Green (Royal Ontario Museum) Spices and Herbs in Pharaonic Medicine

2:10 Gonzalo M. Sanchez (University of South Dakota) and Tamara L. Siuda (University of Chicago) A Case of Mistaken Identity - Ebers Papyrus Case 873: The First Known Description of von Recklinghausen's disease

2:30 BREAK

2:50 Salima Ikram (American University in Cairo) Animal Mummies and Experimental Archaeology

3:10 William Clifford (University of Missouri, St. Louis) and Matt Wetherbee (UC Santa Cruz) Experimental Archaeology :Animal Mummification in Ancient Egypt

3:30 Francis W. Niedenfuhr (President of the Washington DC Chapter of ARCE) Preservation of the Body: Sterilization and Dessication