Book of the Dead Spell 161 as Tomb Decoration
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About the Event
The American Research Center in Egypt – ARCE/NY – presents Egyptologist Heather McCarthy at Salmagundi Club for an in-depth exploration of the intericonic translation between portable objects and funerary monuments in Ancient Egypt. Drawing on Spell 161 from the legendary Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, McCarthy will reveal insights into ancient Egyptian conceptions of the afterlife.
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About the Speaker
Dr. Heather L. McCarthy is an Egyptologist and art historian who received her 2011 PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is the deputy director of the New York University Expedition to the Ramesses II Temple at Abydos, where, as an epigrapher, she documented the temple’s decorative program for its re-publication. She has also worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and for the Getty Conservation Institute’s Valley of the Queens Field Project.
She has written about Ramesside queens’ tombs, the Valley of the Kings, the female pharaoh Tawosret, the impact of gender on ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs, Ramesside battle scenes, and Egyptian temple cosmology.
Her current research project elucidates the impact early 19th Dynasty queens’ tomb programs made upon the iconographic tradition and tombs of the contemporary, neighboring Deir el-Medina villagers, who were responsible for cutting and decorating the royal women’s tombs.
