Talk: Nefertiti’s Sun Temple: Queenship and Death at Amarna with Dr Jacquelyn Williamson
Date: Sunday 3 August, 15.00
Location: Online on Zoom
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Free for members. A zoom link will be sent to members shortly before 3 August.
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Talk information
Nefertiti’s Sun Temple, called a “Sunshade of Re,” is a fascinating puzzle. Although partially destroyed in antiquity, enough remains of it’s decoration to ask, and sometimes answer, new questions about the Amarna Period of ancient Egypt. This discussion will present several reconstructed scenes and inscriptions that shed light not only on Nefertiti, but also on the afterlife beliefs of the period, which are mostly unknown.
Dr Jacquelyn Williamson
Dr. Jacquelyn Williamson is an Egyptologist, with a special focus on gender and religious power. Her book, Nefertiti’s Sun Temple: A New Cult Complex at Tell el-Amarna, part of Brill’s Harvard Egyptology Series, was published in September 2016. She is involved in the ongoing investigation of Kom el-Nana at Tell el-Amarna in Egypt, the site of a sun temple associated with Queen Nefertiti, which is the subject of her first book. She has been a member of several archaeological missions in Egypt and has worked in many museums including the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the Harvard Semitic Museum, and has held teaching and research positions at UC Berkeley, Harvard University, and Brandeis University. Dr. Williamson teaches classes on the art and archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean World.