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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, March 31, 2023 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
  \n Room 2108 \n Sidney Smith Hall \n 100 St. George Street \n\nSpeakers 
 \nVerena Lepper \n\nDescription: \nThe Hidden Treasures of Elephantine Isl
 and The Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations co-sponsored b
 y the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities (Toronto Chapter) pres
 ents a lecture by Dr. Verena Lepper, Curator of the Egyptian and Oriental
  Papyrus Collection of the Egyptian Museum, Berlin National Museums + Hon
 orary Professor at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Date: Friday, March 
 31, 2023, from 6 - 8 PM Location: Room 2108, Sidney Smith Hall, Univer
 sity of Toronto (100 St. George Street, Toronto) Elephantine was a milita
 rily and strategically important island in the river Nile on the southern 
 border of Egypt. No other Egyptian settlement is so well attested through 
 texts over a period of 4000 years. Its inhabitants formed a multi-ethnic,
  multicultural and multi-religious community that has left vast amounts of
  written sources detailing their everyday lives, from the Old Kingdom (c.
  2400 BCE) to beyond the Arab Conquest (in 642 CE). Today, several thousa
 nd papyri and other manuscripts from Elephantine are scattered in more tha
 n 60 institutions in 24 different countries across Europe and beyond. They
  are written in ten different languages and scripts, including Hieroglyph
 s, Hieratic, Demotic, Aramaic, Greek, Coptic and Arabic. 80% of these
  manuscripts have remained unpublished or unstudied until now. The Elephan
 tine project aims to make these texts publicly available in an open access
  online research database. Incorporating cutting-edge methods from digital
  humanities, physics and mathematics, the project has been able to ident
 ify links between papyrus fragments from different collections in a verita
 ble international 'papyrus puzzle undertaking’, even allowing for the vir
 tual unfolding of papyri. In bringing together medical, religious, legal
 , administrative, even literary texts, the database permits to study th
 e micro-history of the everyday life of the local and global (i.e. 'glocal
 ') community of Elephantine within its socio-cultural setting in Egypt and
  beyond.   \n\nContact Information: \n Department of Near and Middle Easte
 rn Civilizations nmc@utoronto.ca Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civ
 ilizations \n\nSponsors \nDepartment of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizati
 ons \n100 St. George Street \n\nCategories \n Lecture \n\nAudiences \n All
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LOCATION:100 St. George Street
SUMMARY:The Hidden Treasures of Elephantine Island
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/events/hidden-treasures-ele
 phantine-island
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