Some recent Dissertations from the University of California

Some recent Dissertations from the University of California

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Elite Theban Women of the Eighth-Sixth Centuries BCE in Egypt: Identity, Status...

• Li, Jean
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UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2010)

The roles and status of women in ancient Egyptian society remain imperfectly defined particularly in the Third Intermediate and Late Periods. Egyptology has generally examined women from the perspective of fertility and sexuality, thus defining the social roles of...

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Raising the Dead: The Bioarchaeology of the Saite and Roman Period Wall of the...

• Kaiser, Jessica Elisabet
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UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2018)

This dissertation examines the extent to which sociopolitical changes from the Saite to Roman periods of Egyptian history affected the lives of a non-elite population from the Memphite region in Lower Egypt. This examination is accomplished through a...

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Transfiguring the Dead: The Iconography, Commemorative Use, and Materiality of Mummy...

• Jimenez, Lissette Marie
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UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2014)

The mummy shrouds, often overlooked or dissected into dichotomous parts because of their Hellenistic and Egyptian hybrid pictorial nature, provide unparalleled insight into religious and social facets of life and death in Roman Egypt. Moving beyond the aesthetic properties of these objects and focusing...

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• Peer Reviewed

The Provincial Cemeteries of Naga ed-Deir: A Comprehensive Study of Tomb...

• Kroenke, Karin Roberta
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UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2010)

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Gods Who Hear Prayers: Popular Piety or Kingship in Three Theban monuments of...

• Ausec, Cindy Lee
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UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2010)

For the past 50 years, Thutmose III's and Ramesses II's Eastern Temples at Karnak and the Eastern High Gate of Ramesses III's mortuary temple at Medinet Habu have been accepted as monuments that fulfilled the religious needs of the general populace of...

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• Peer Reviewed

The Use of Egyptian and Egyptianizing Material Culture in Nubian Burials of the...

• Minor, Elizabeth Joanna
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UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2012)

The ancient Nubian Classic Kerma culture remains understudied despite the excavation of the burials of the main community at the Kingdom's capital at Kerma almost one-hundred years ago. The finds and associated archive from this historical excavation remain...

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• Peer Reviewed

The Theology of Hathor of Dendera: Aural and Visual Scribal Techniques in the...

• Richter, Barbara Ann
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UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2012)

The Ptolemaic temples are some of the best-preserved examples of Egyptian religious architecture; they represent the culmination of a long line of development, reflected in an increase in the number and polyvalency of hieroglyphic signs and iconographic elements...

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