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ancient civilizations > Deciphering Demons: Underworld Figures in Egypt and Etruria

DECIPHERING DEMONS: UNDERWORLD FIGURES IN EGYPT AND ETRURIA

 A Zoom presentation with Lisa Pieraccini and Rita Lucarelli

 

The SF Bay Area Chapter of ISSNAF is pleased to invite you the next BAC Connect event, held online on Monday, October 24 at 9AM PDT to include an audience from both Europe and the United States. 

 

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The Egyptians and Etruscans are distinctly different cultures, yet their funerary traditions share many common features. This can be best analyzed through tomb paintings and mortuary and magical items prepared for the deceased’s journey to the netherworld. This webinar will explore the fascinating parallels of the Egyptian and Etruscan depiction of “demons” in tomb chambers and on sarcophagi. It will examine how the visual programs of funerary art negotiated demonic iconography in similar and distinct ways.

 

SPEAKERS

Lisa Pieraccini – UC Berkeley – Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology

lisa pieracciniLisa C. Pieraccini is the Program Coordinator for the Del Chiaro Center for Ancient Italian Studies, Lecturer in the History of Art Department, and Affiliate Faculty member of the Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include visual culture, funerary ritual, foodways, reception studies, and issues of indigeneity and decolonization in ancient Mediterranean art. She is coeditor of several books including the book series entitled Cities and Communities of the Etruscans, published by University of Texas Press Press (2016–), and is an elected member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici in Florence, Italy

Rita Lucarelli – UC Berkeley -Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

rita lucarelliRita Lucarelli is currently an Associate Professor of Egyptology at UC Berkeley and Associate Faculty Curator of Egyptology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology of the University of California. She is presently working at a project aiming at realizing 3D models of ancient Egyptian coffins (http://3dcoffins.berkeley.edu/), and she is completing a monograph on demonology in ancient Egypt. Her specialty is the study of the ancient Egyptian religion and its reception in modern and contemporary times.

 

This event is presented by the Bay Area Chapter of ISSNAF
Co-presented by the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco

 

  • Organizzato da: ISSNAF BAC