Singing to the Gods: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Rituals Through the Lens of the Chantresses of Amun
November 5, 2024 | 10 am | $20
In the Reichert Planetarium
The Museum’s Curator of Ancient Art will give a lecture on funerary art from a female perspective. Artifacts such as coffins, statuary, and musical instruments…
Roberta Casagrande-Kim is an archaeologist and curator of ancient art exhibits. Dr. Casagrande-Kim holds a B.A. in Christian Archaeology from the Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy) and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Roman Art and Archaeology from Columbia University. Curator at ISAW of Mapping and Measuring Space: Geographic Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity, When the Greeks Ruled Egypt: From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra, and Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past, Dr. Casagrande-Kim is a specialist in Roman funerary practices and beliefs in the Afterlife, Late Antique urbanism, and Greco-Roman mapping. She has worked extensively in archaeological excavations in Italy, Israel, and Turkey, and has served as the Assistant Field Director at the Amheida excavations (Egypt) since 2010.
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