The Northern California Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt; the Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley; and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley, are sponsoring the following lecture:
Lapis Lazuli: Ancient Egypt’s “Splendid and Costly Stone”
By Dr. Diana Craig-Patch
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
WHEN: 3 p.m. Sunday, September 11, 2016
WHERE: 20 Barrows Hall, Barrow Lane and Bancroft Way, UC Berkeley
There is no admission, but donations are welcomed.
ABOUT THE LECTURE:
Lapis lazuli was
mined in the hills of Afghanistan and traded over 3000
miles into Egypt. This brilliant deep blue stone
was highly desirable to the ancient Egyptians for the
symbolism its color epitomized, and they called
it “a costly precious stone from the God’s
Land.” Found first as beads in Predynastic
burials, lapis lazuli was regularly used throughout
Egyptian history in jewelry and for small objects, such
as amulets and the exceptional statuette.
This lecture discusses the evolution of lapis lazuli’s
use in ancient Egypt and how the stone’s importance can
be better understood from considering the objects made
from this rare deep blue stone.
ABOUT THE LECTURER:
Diana Craig
Patch, Lila Acheson Wallace Curator in Charge,
is an Egyptologist specializing in archaeology, who
received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
During her tenure at the Met, Patch has curated The
Dawn of Egyptian Art (2012), an exhibition
that demonstrated how Predynastic art contributed to the
foundation of Pharaonic culture, and the exhibition Cleopatra's
Needle (2013–14), which celebrated the
Central Park icon. Additionally, she co-curated the
reinstallation of the Predynastic
and Early Dynastic gallery (2003). Patch has taught
courses at the Institute of Fine Arts, City University of
New York, and Rutgers University, and also lectures
extensively. For the past thirty-five years, Patch has
carried out fieldwork in Egypt and currently is
co-director of the Joint Expedition to Malqata—a project
for mapping, excavating, and restoring the festival city
of Amenhotep III in western Thebes.Selected Publications:
- MetPublications: Selected publications by Diana Craig Patch
- Patch, Diana Craig. "By Necessity or Design: A Study of Faience Use in Ancient Egyptian Culture." In Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience, by Florence Friedman, et al., 32–45. London: Thames & Hudson, 1998.
- ———. "A 'Lower Egyptian' Costume: Its Origin, Development, and Meaning." In Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 32 (1995): 93–116.
Parking is available in U.C. lots after 5 p.m. on weekdays and all day on weekends for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept either $5 bills or $1.00 bills. Parking is available in Parking Structure B on Bancroft between Hearst Gym and Kroeber Hall and just across the street from the University Art Museum. Parking is also available under the shops on Bancroft opposite Barrows Hall. There is a parking structure under the Student Union further west on Bancroft.
A map of the campus is available online at
http://www.berkeley.edu/
http://www.arce-nc.org/lectures.htm
or
https://www.facebook.com/Northern-California-Chapter-American-Research-Center-in-Egypt-115250638513867/
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