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Sunday at the Met | Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom

Image 1: Relief with Senwosret I Running toward Min (detail), Dynasty 12, reign of Senwosret I (ca. 1961-1917 B.C.). Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London (UC14786)

Relief with Senwosret I Running toward Min (detail), Dynasty 12, reign of Senwosret I (ca. 1961-1917 B.C.). Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London (UC14786)

Learn about the interrelationship between depictions of royalty and the elite and literary texts from the era of the Middle Kingdom.

Speakers are Nimet Habachy, WQXR host; Dimitri Laboury, Senior Research Associate of the Belgian National Foundation for Scientific Research, University of Liège; Adela Oppenheim, Curator, Department of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Richard Bruce Parkinson, Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford.











When: Sun., Oct. 18, 2015 at 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave.
212-535-7710
Price: Free with museum admission
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Image 1: Relief with Senwosret I Running toward Min (detail), Dynasty 12, reign of Senwosret I (ca. 1961-1917 B.C.). Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London (UC14786)

Relief with Senwosret I Running toward Min (detail), Dynasty 12, reign of Senwosret I (ca. 1961-1917 B.C.). Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London (UC14786)

Learn about the interrelationship between depictions of royalty and the elite and literary texts from the era of the Middle Kingdom.

Speakers are Nimet Habachy, WQXR host; Dimitri Laboury, Senior Research Associate of the Belgian National Foundation for Scientific Research, University of Liège; Adela Oppenheim, Curator, Department of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Richard Bruce Parkinson, Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford.

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