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SUMMARY:ARCE Lecture: Middle Kingdom Clappers\, Dancers\, Birth Magic\, and the Reinvention of Ritual
DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses upon a particularly enigmatic artifact c
 ategory. Hand-shaped clappers fashioned out of hippo tusk are occasion
 ally found in tombs of Middle Kingdom date. While later equivalents ar
 e often decorated with the head of the goddess Hathor on their sleeve 
 or with an inscription naming their owner\, Middle Kingdom clappers ar
 e unadorned. This talk argues that the archaeological and iconological
  contexts of these artifacts reveal a great deal. On the basis of stud
 ies of archival material from Asasif and Lisht at the Metropolitan Mus
 eum of Art and on excavation records from other other sites\, three po
 ints emerge. First\, the findspots of clappers and the artifacts with 
 which they were discovered suggest their employment in Hathoric ritual
 s oriented toward the strengthening of the sun-god and the reviving of
  the souls posthumously identified with this god. Second\, clappers ar
 e also strongly associated with birth magic and especially with the en
 tities that protected the sun-god and all those about to be born or re
 born. Finally\, it is argued that\, like many Middle Kingdom grave goo
 ds\, clappers had been ‘rediscovered’ and religiously re-envisione
 d by sacral authorities who encountered Protodynastic and Early Dynast
 ic votive material during temple renovations and perhaps also during w
 ork at the pilgrimage site of Umm el-Qa’ab.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
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