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>>Update
on Chicago ARCE programs:
All programs, unless otherwise stated,
are presented at the Oriental Institute 1155 East 58th
Street, Chicago. For further information contact
Emily Teeter 773-702-1062
Saturday, January 7,
2012
Brittany Hayden
Money Changes Everything: The Evolution of Money and
Coins in Ancient Egypt Money
How are you going to pay for that? This question we hear
so often from cashiers in our daily lives is not
specific to modern America. In ancient Egypt, coined
money was a relatively late arrival. For most of
Egyptian history, these ancient consumers could pay for
things with sacks of grain, bolts of cloth, or barter.
When Greeks began arriving in the land of the Nile,
bringing their coins with them, they changed Egyptian
society in a fundamental way. Ultimately, money is not
only an economic phenomenon, but also one with social
significance; people act differently around each other
when money is involved. This lecture will discuss the
development of money in ancient Egypt from its earliest
history until the Roman period, as well as how the
introduction of coinage affected Egyptian society and
politics.
Brittany Hayden is a PhD candidate in Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations at the University of
Chicago. She is currently writing her dissertation on
the development and fluctuation of prices in Egypt under
Ptolemaic rule.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Nigel Strudwick
Two Lives in Epigraphy: Norman and Nina de Garis Davies
The names of Norman and Nina de Garis Davies are
synonymous with the highest quality copying of ancient
Egyptian tombs and other monuments. Norman had been
working in Egypt since 1897 and in 1906 met Nina who was
visiting friends in Alexandria. After their marriage in
1907, they began work for the Metropolitan Museum
Egyptian Expedition in Thebes, and continued working
there until 1939, with only a slight interruption for
the war. This lecture will look at what we know of them
as people, plus of course examining and evaluating their
work and the legacy they left Egyptology.
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the
exhibit “Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the
Ancient Middle East” on view at the Oriental Institute
through September 2, 2012.
Nigel Strudwick is an Egyptologist who is currently
teaching at the University of Memphis in Tennessee. He
served as Assistant Keeper in the Egyptian Department of
the British Museum. He has worked in the Tombs of the
Nobles at Luxor since 1984, and he has written and
lectured widely on Theban tombs and on the Old Kingdom.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
 Brian
Muhs
Law and Order in Ancient Egypt
Examples of petitions and trial proceedings will be
discussed and used to reconstruct ancient Egyptian legal
procedures. Legal proceedings usually began
with petitions to the appropriate authorities. Pharaoh’s
representatives, such as the vizier and other high
officials, usually dealt with serious personal injuries,
death, and crimes against the state, while local and
regional courts handled issues relating to the Egyptian
equivalent of property or contract law. Once the
authorities accepted a case, trial proceedings could
record their investigations and decisions.
Brian Muhs received his PhD in Egyptology from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1996, and taught at the
Papyrological Institute of the University of Leiden for
14 years before joining the Oriental Institute and the
University of Chicago in 2011.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Graduate student symposium
April 27-29, 2012:
Annual Meeting of ARCE in
Providence RI
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Annual Meeting Recap
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