We have two MAES meetings in December! The first is next Monday. As ever, everyone welcome! Free to MAES members, guests welcome via Eventbrite here:

Doors open 7:30pm GMT and the lecture runs 8-9pm.

8 December: Maiken Mosleth King

The Commemoration of Women in Roman Egypt

Terenouthis was a town in the Western Delta that gained prosperity in the Roman period due to its economic role as a major exporter of natron. A new local elite emerged after the conquest, seeking to participate in Graeco-Roman culture whilst also maintaining their ancient religious traditions, centred on the worship of the goddess Hathor. The site is a fascinating case study for cultural change and continuity in the Roman world, and how the Roman conquest impacted ordinary people in the provinces. This lecture will look at the funerary images and epitaphs of women in Roman Terenouthis, and examine how these objects drew from Graeco-Roman artistic conventions whilst also facilitating the women’s identification with Hathor and their resurrection in the kingdom of Osiris.

Maiken Mosleth King is a heritage practitioner and Egyptologist, with a BA and MA in Egyptology from the University of Liverpool. She completed her PhD thesis, “Social Identity as Constructed and Expressed on Funerary Stelae from Terenouthis”, at the University of Bristol, and is currently working on turning this thesis into a monograph. Her research interests include gender and ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean, material culture in Roman provinces, and reception studies.