Egypt, Ugarit, the God Ba’al and the Puzzle of a Royal Rebuf

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Egypt, Ugarit, the God Ba’al and the Puzzle of a Royal Rebuf

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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:

Egypt, Ugarit, the God Ba’al
And the Puzzle of a Royal Rebuff

By Dr. Ellen Morris
Classics and Ancient Studies Department,
Barnard College, Columbia University

WHEN: 3 p.m. Sunday, February 12, 2017
WHERE: 20 Barrows Hall, Barrow Lane and Bancroft Way, UC Berkeley
There is no admission, but donations are welcomed.

ABOUT THE LECTURE:
A letter found in an archive at Ugarit indicates the rather surprising fact that the statue of Ba’al in one of Ugarit’s main temples had been a gift from the pharaoh Merneptah. Moreover, the letter reveals that the king of Ugarit wished the pharaoh to commission another statue, this time of himself, that could also be erected in the Ba’al temple. To this request, Merneptah replied evasively, preferring to tell a fib rather than to acquiesce to his correspondent’s request. This paper examines four different aspects of statues that may have been taken into account in such negotiations. It is argued that Ugarit was considering shifting its primary loyalty from Hatti to Egypt in the reign of Merneptah and that the provision of statues played an important part in these negotiations.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Ellen Morris has published extensively on issues pertinent to ancient Egyptian imperialism. Her first book is entitled The Architecture of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Evolution of Foreign Policy in Egypt’s New Kingdom (Brill, 2005), and she is currently in the process of finishing a book entitled Egyptian Imperialism (under contract to Wiley-Blackwell Press). This second book engages the work of scholars of early empires in examining various instances of Egyptian imperialism from an explicitly cross-cultural perspective.
Morris’s ongoing research interests and other publications focus on topics such as the dynamics of political fragmentation, state formation, sexuality and sacred performance, international relations and diplomacy, retainer sacrifice, and divine kingship. She has excavated in the Nile Valley at Abydos and Mendes, and at the site of Amheida in the Dakhleh Oasis. Morris did her graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania and earned her B.A. from Barnard College in Ancient Studies. Classes that she teaches at Columbia University include The Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia, Egypt in the Classical World, and Identity and Society in Ancient Egypt.
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Re: Egypt, Ugarit, the God Ba’al and the Puzzle of a Royal R

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I wish this was closer!
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Re: Egypt, Ugarit, the God Ba’al and the Puzzle of a Royal R

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Me too min! :|

Have you seen any of the Egyptology videos by The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago? They post videos of their lectures on YouTube.
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Yes, indeed. I have learned a lot from them.


Hey, Khen. Has your group ever considered recording these sessions and putting them out on youtube or something?
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Re: Egypt, Ugarit, the God Ba’al and the Puzzle of a Royal R

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Yes, we have considered recording, but the policy is "no recordings." We have found that most speakers don't want their talks recorded.
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Re: Egypt, Ugarit, the God Ba’al and the Puzzle of a Royal R

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Well, that's that, then.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.

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