Another wonderful day yesterday thoroughly enjoyed by me a and a packed lecture theatre!!! Lets face it, Egypt did not operate in isolation and it is so useful finding about the other Near East countries that were in contact with each other in the early days . Many many thanks to Lucia, Jan, the speakers and EVERYONE who was involved in putting the day together :D BSS Study Day Kingship and the Gods: the origins of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Iran Our second study day this Spring will bring together some of the current research at the University of Oxford, under the direction of BSS favourite, Dr Paul Collins. Saturday May 10th 2014: 10.00 am - 5.15 pm Cruciform Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Ticket: £40 (ticket price includes tea/coffee & biscuits in the afternoon and morning breaks, but does not include lunch). The lecturers: Dr Paul Collins, Assistant Keeper for Ancient Near East at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (See ‘Course Directors 2014’ here on our website for further information about this Course Director); Dr Alice Stevenson, Curator of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology; Dr Jacob Dahl, Lecturer in Assyriology for the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford; Kathryn Kelley of the University of Oxford’s Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. The lectures: Connections: what, where and when? (Dr Paul Collins) The Uruk Phenomenon (Dr Paul Collins) The Origins of Kingship in Egypt (Dr Alice Stevenson) Authority in Early Iran: something very different (Dr Jacob Dahl and Ms Kathryn Kelley) Connections: how and why? Panel and Audience Discussion What to expect: In the period 3500-2900 BC, the worlds first cities and states arose in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Iran. Traditionally, these centres have been examined independently although there is fascinating evidence for their interaction in the centuries around 3000 BC. This took the form of shared imagery, architecture and ideas (perhaps including the earliest writing) that were closely associated with notions of kingship and relationships with the gods. This day school revisits the evidence to explore how and why these connections over vast distances occurred. Why was the shared imagery later abandoned so that each region developed along very different trajectories? How did this crucial period help to shape the emergence of the city-states of Sumer and the first dynasties of a unified Egypt?
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