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SUMMARY:ARCE Lecture: Dirty Pictures for a Dangerous Goddess
DESCRIPTION:Note: We are now fully booked for this event and are only 
 accepting names for the wait-list. Papyrus 55001 in Turin's Museo Egiz
 io\, often called the "Turin Erotic Papyrus" has long been a subject o
 f intense Egyptological interest despite its rather fragmentary state.
  Almost certainly the product of the community of royal artists at the
  village of Deir el-Medina on the west bank at Thebes\, it dates to th
 e later New Kingdom period\, probably to the reign of Ramesses III (ro
 ughly 1184-1153 BCE). Two thirds of its length shows a sequence of twe
 lve couples in sexual poses while the remaining third depicts a wide v
 ariety of animals engaged in role-reversed or anthropomorphic activiti
 es. Diverse interpretations of the meaning and social function of the 
 papyrus have been proposed\, ranging from cosmological to pornographic
  to cautionary\, although most scholars seem to agree that it was inte
 nded for male edification and titillation. This X-rated talk will prop
 ose a new interpretation of the social function of the papyrus and sug
 gest a rather different audience\, pointing to a reinterpretation of a
 ncient Egyptian erotica more generally.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
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