BSS Provisional Timetables 2010
Please note: Timetable may change slightly before first day of the course.
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION: Myths, beliefs and rituals
12 - 16 July 2010, Course Director: George Hart
Sessions taught by George unless otherwise stated
| Monday 12th July | |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Students assemble in Room G09/10, Dept. of History, UCL |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Deputy Director's Welcome Address |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Orientation Meeting in teaching room, followed by Origins of Religion in Ancient Egypt |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Welcome Lunch in BSS Common Room (G09/10) |
| 14:00 | Short optional tour of UCL (meet in G09/10) |
| 14:30 – 15:45 | Creation Myths and Cosmogony |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Afternoon Tea in BSS Common Room (G09/10) |
| 16:15 – 17:30 | Osiris and the Myth of Kingship |
| Tuesday 13th July | |
| 10:00 – 11:15 | Group A: Object Handling in Petrie Museum (Jan Picton) |
| Group B: Private Study | |
| 11:45 – 13:00 | Amun-Ra: god of mystery and supremacy |
| 14:15 – 15:30 | Private Religion in Ancient Egypt (Lucia Gahlin) |
| 16:00 – 17:15 | Hathor: quintessential and universal goddess |
| 17:15 – 18:30 | Reception in the Petrie Museum |
| Wednesday 14th July | |
| 10:00 – 11:15 | Group B: Object Handling in Petrie Museum (Jan Picton) |
| Group A: Private Study | |
| 11:45 – 13:00 | Mummification and Funerary Rituals |
| 14:15 – 15:30 | Purity and Order in an Egyptian Household (Lucia Gahlin) |
| 16:00 – 17:15 | The Royal Hereafter: pyramids to the Valley of the Kings |
| Thursday 15th July | |
| 10:00 – 11:15 | Coffin Texts and the Book of the Dead |
| 11:45 – 13:00 | The High Priests of Amun at Karnak (Dr Aidan Dodson) |
| 14:15 – 15:30 | The Sacred Animals of Saqqara (Dr Aidan Dodson) |
| 16:00 – 17:15 | Visit to British Museum |
| Friday 16th July | |
| 10:00 – 11:15 | Religion in the Reign of Akhenaten |
| 11:45 – 13:00 | Festivals and Rituals in Egyptian Temples |
| 14:15 – 15:30 | Foreign Deities in Egypt’s Pantheon |
| 16:00 – 17:15 | Isis and the End of Egyptian Religion |
| 17:15 – 19:00 | Farewell Drinks Party in the Institute of Archaeology |
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