W. Raymond Johnson | Medinet Habu and Tel el-Amarna: Tales of Blocks and Towers

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The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

4 жыл бұрын

Presented by W. Raymond Johnson, director of the Epigraphic Survey, Luxor, Egypt, OI
"Medinet Habu and Tel el-Amarna: Tales of Blocks and Towers"
**This is an at home lecture, please excuse the audio and video quality.
W. Raymond Johnson, director of the OI’s Epigraphic Survey, Luxor, Egypt, returns home from the field to discuss his team’s ongoing work at Medinet Habu, and its connection to his research piecing together evidence of Akhenaten’s royal palaces at Amarna.
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@myrongator 2 жыл бұрын

Myron peeler here. I am suffering from covid even though I am vaccinated. These lectures fro this institute is what have kept me going. Ty so much for all the knowledge.

@DankoMx 4 жыл бұрын

Jawdropping lecture! Please bring us more lectures like this.

@yrebrac 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing to non-members, fascinating talk

@Roheryn100 2 жыл бұрын

This was wonderful ! Thank you for the opportunity to listen …

@ms.d.franks242 4 жыл бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed the lecture. Thank you so much!✌😄

@human2human929 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! A king on a chair in his garden shooting arrows at birds eating his figs. A scene any gardener can relate to!

@joanleaming6684 10 ай бұрын

Very exciting - thank you

@annascott3542 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! Fascinating!! Bravo on your detective work. Thoroughly enjoyed that.

@Shmakazyabra 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, I really enjoyed the lecture. It's highly informative and gives valuable insight into the researchers' work. Besides Dr. Johnson's way of communication is very comfortable.

@gruboniell4189 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, ur ability to fill in the gaps is inspiring. Thank you

@imiseba 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic, just fantastic! Thank you very much Ray, excellent lecture!

@atticus6572 2 жыл бұрын

I find it fascinating that palaces were largely built of mudbrick. It explains why, despite my countless internet searches to see, so few have remained. I wonder if the palaces at Pi-Ramesses were mudbrick or stone.

@brianphillips1864 Жыл бұрын

Bravo bravo bravo bravo!!!!

@marianneluban3347 Жыл бұрын

A great presentation. I was particularly struck by the line drawing/reconstruction of Kiya sitting at the feet of Akhenaten and holding an arrow. I often wish more representations of this secondary wife had survived.

@DingoAteMeBaby 4 жыл бұрын

Your mic is really good and that makes the presentation bearable!

@tommywong3336 4 жыл бұрын

Lecture starts 02:17

@stewartwhite9818 4 жыл бұрын

Great to see and hear you, Ray!

@GinaSalama 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing lecture Ray , this is amazing.

@johnfraser8116 2 жыл бұрын

This is great. Your experience and knowledge of resources are amazing. Thank you so much.

@davidcovill3006 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Ray for a fascinating and illuminating lecture. Your profound knowledge of Amarna art continues to amaze and educate. Please consider giving more lectures on the art of the Amarna Period in the future, (perhaps even a book). Again, thank you.

@pattheplanter 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent content, well-delivered. Thanks. Out of all the fascinating details, I found the underbed air-freshener most intriguing. I hate most synthetic air-fresheners as they give me headaches but myrrh and rose would be acceptable.

@sidious36 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this wonderful lecture!

@codygentry4742 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent lecture! Thank you for being with us remotely! :)

@7se7en24 2 жыл бұрын

This was wonderful, thank you.

@dianakeen4934 4 жыл бұрын

An amazing lecture and what detective work! Medinet Habu is my favourite temple/palace as well now. I can’t wait to go again after lockdown and look at it again with all this new information. Thank you, I will have to listen again, and again.

@ingurlund9657 2 жыл бұрын

At 35.50 you say Horemheb reused blocks from Amarna palaces but actually added material including a limestone Sphinx to the Great Aten temple at Amarna. That's amazing considering that he was chiselling out the names of Tutankhamun and Ay from every public surface that he was still honouring a temple built by Akhenaten. Did it mean that Akhetaten was still at least partially inhabited and the worship of the Aten there was still ongoing? Edit. You've just gone on and said the Aten cult went on long after Akhenaten's death. I had no idea. that is amazing. So even after they moved the capital to Thebes Akhetaten was not copmpletely abandoned but still at least partially inhabited?

@chrismonroe4855 3 жыл бұрын

Great, timely. Thanks.

@andrein7160 4 жыл бұрын

A very interesitng lecture and a great listenable presentation!

@oz2776 4 жыл бұрын

Bloody fantastic thanks mate

@jmmcgee3509 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. This is so interesting. Amarna seemed specifically connected to the old kingdom.

@placova 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant work!

@brinx8634 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful talk, thank you.

@agustinaforesi1583 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@timhazeltine3256 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful synthesis of archaeological and textual sources placing palace architecture of the 18th through 20th Dynasties in a larger historical context. The duality of palace architecture, with its exterior centered on a window of appearances surrounded by iconography expressing the power of the state and interiors celebrating the domestic life of Pharaoh and his court family is echoed throughout history and not just in Egypt. The iconography of modern-era state residences, like Buckingham Palace, with its central balcony, have distinct parallels. Also, I was fascinated by the interpretation of scenes from the golden shrine of Tutankhamun and Ankhsenamun. Is it now interpreted as a schematized representation of the domestic sphere of the royal palace?

@waclosh 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@awuma 2 жыл бұрын

The continuity of art forms and architecture is fascinating, and once again the significance of the Deir el-Medina artisans is attested. What indications of the Amarna period appear in the Deir el-Medina ostraca and monumental decorations? Was there a genuine artistic revolution, or was it just that the true intimacy of the artists as shown in their own personal work was given freer reign during Amarna? It is remarkable that elements of the Amarna period (and earlier!) of over a century and a half earlier show up so clearly in the Medinet-el-Habu decorations. Lovely stuff.

@PearlmanYeC 4 жыл бұрын

Nice, interesting presentation.

@akwabanthebe5836 2 жыл бұрын

The African version of Tel el Amarna is TETE AMAANA( AMANDA) Which means CENTRE OF ENLIGHTENMENT or literally " Writing and not sleeping "

@samyebeid4534 Жыл бұрын

Tel El-Amarna is just the modern Arabic name of the area. It simply means the Hill of the Amarna clan, one of the influential clans in the area. The ancient Egyptian name was Akhet-Aten

@akwabanthebe5836 Жыл бұрын

@@samyebeid4534 you talking from the mainstream egyptology and you are right. They made your professors believe they were right so they taught you same. I'm speaking as a native African word archeologist / etymological researcher. I mean Tel Amarna is not Arabic else we can't have Tel Aviv. Tel originally had nothing to do with mountains or hills, it came from the Akan word te or 'tete' and the English 'terra' referring to heap of mud, mound , clay- tablets, bricks etc relating to ancient mud buildings or clay writings left in mountains of roubles. It was these heaped ruin sites that begun to give the word a picture of hills so it assumed the meaning mountains. For a Tel to become accepted as a mountain it has to be prefixed with Ab or Abe or Be as Bethel to relate to stone- heaps. In the case of Amarna the history supporting the name indicates is still a site for heaps of clay writings some of which egyptologists cannot decipher. The meaning is also clear in Akan my language as "Te Amarnna" mean "the city of eternal clay writings". Call Tel Amarna mountains of clay writings and you are right. Secondly, Akhet- Aten is not original , closest to original is "Akhenaten" meaning " Ankh and Aten" thus " the Disc and the Sun Rays" * the capital/ captain of the Sun Worship. Forget about whatever you know for this is the truth.

@ericmc6482 4 жыл бұрын

Thankyou.

@PearlmanYeC 4 жыл бұрын

Looks interesting, just starting to listen now. In 'Torah Discovery Chronology' (TDC) we make the case that the EA letter span is mostly during Samuel. (references include Rohl and Chazal..). let us see if this provides data that corroborates our chazal based chronology or challenges it :) OK i see it relates to Ramses III who was about a century after the EA letter span, so per TDC, during the divided kingdom of Israel. Interesting the Medinat Habu kings list Right procession goes back to early EA letter span listing Amenhotep III. Torah Discovery Chronology has EA letter span (which was mostly during Samuel until early King David (2884-2924), places Ramses III during the split Kingdom. About early Asa King of Judah (2984-3025) and Basa King of Israel (2986-3009).