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Winter 2009 - Spring 2010 Lecture Schedule
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weeks
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subject)
Friday, February 19, 2010,
6:30 p.m.
Christianne Henry
Walters Art Museum
Location: Benjamin T. Rome
Auditorium of the Johns Hopkins School
of Advanced International Studies, 1619 Massachusetts Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC (Dupont
Circle Metro stop)
“Tanyidamani:
A Ruler of Meroë in the 1st
century B.C.”
The Meroitic King
Tanyidamani (reign ca. 110-90 B.C.) is historically significant
primarily for
two important objects associated with his reign, a votive tablet in
theWalters Art Museum
collection, and a stele in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Both
of these objects contain texts inscribed in the cursive Meroitic
script, and
are the earliest datable documents displaying this unique writing
system. This
lecture will explore the significance of the Meroitic writing, and the
iconography depicted on these objects. Additionally, the lecture will
discuss
the king’s pyramid at Meroë, traditional burial customs, and the
lion-temple of
the Meroitic god Apedemak where the votive tablet was found.
Christianne Henry is
an Egyptologist with a Masters Degree from the Johns Hopkins University
. Her
undergraduate degrees include a B.A. in Egyptology from JHU and a B.A.
in French
from Towson State University .
She attended the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Institut für
Ägyptologie, in Munich Germany,
taking graduate courses in Egyptology. She has worked at theWalters Art
Museum, Baltimore, for nearly 12 years. Her present
position is Head of the Research Library at the
Walters. From 1997 through 2001 she was Project Coordinator for the
reinstallation of the new Egyptian galleries at the Walters Art Museum,
responsible for the management of the preparation and installation of
the Egyptian
collection at the Museum.
All lectures are free
and open to the
public. Please come and bring guests.
This page was last updated on January 18,
2009.
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