The South Asasif Conservation Project (SACP) - 2019 Ceiling Project field season results

The South Asasif Conservation Project (SACP) was founded in 2006 under the direction of Dr. Elena Pischikova to excavate, conserve, and restore three Late Period tombs of the South Asasif necropolis in Thebes: Karakhamun (TT 223), Karabasken (TT 391), and Irtieru (TT 390). Karakhamun’s monumental tomb contains the earliest painted ceiling from the Kushite-Saite period, borrowing from the corpus of brilliantly painted New Kingdom ceiling patterns in the Theban Necropolis but also contributing unique designs to the landscape. The Karakhamun Ceiling Project was initiated in 2015 to attempt a partial reconstruction of the ceiling patterns and research the role that the ceiling played in Kushite-Saite funerary architecture. This Millet Scholarship Lecture will present the aims and results of the Ceiling Project’s 2019 field season. 

About the Speaker:
Taylor Bryanne Woodcock is a doctoral candidate in the Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations Department at the University of Toronto where she currently teaches Intermediate Middle Egyptian. She received a master’s degree in Egyptology from the American University in Cairo, writing her thesis on the textual associations, epithets, and descriptors the Egyptians used to qualify the ethnic uniqueness of their regional neighbors. She has been a member of the South Asasif Conservation Project since 2013 and has also worked at Gebel Barkal in Sudan. Her ongoing dissertation research examines the construction, maintenance, and perception of ethnic identity in the ancient Egyptian world.