The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt Art Identity and Funerary Religion

Lorelei Corcoran

PROFESSOR, Egyptian Fine art and Archeology

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lcorcorn@memphis.edu

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315 Fine art & Communication

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BIOGRAPHY

Lorelei H. Corcoran is Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Director of the Institute of Egyptian Art & Archæology, a Center of Excellence at the University of Memphis. She is also advisor for the MA and BA concentrations in Egyptian art and archeology. She earned her BA in Classical Studies at Tufts University and her PhD in About Eastern Languages and Civilizations, with a concentration in Egyptology, at the University of Chicago. Dr. Corcoran has an extensive history of fieldwork in Egypt - as epigrapher for the Academy of Chicago'due south Epigraphic Survey and for the University of Memphis Neat Hypostyle Hall Project and as a staff member on excavations at aboriginal Memphis, the tomb of Harwa and KV-63 in Luxor (ancient Thebes). Equally a former assistant curator at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago and former curator of the Egyptian drove of the IEAA, her longtime commitment to museum curatorial work continues to exist reflected in her study of material culture and the interconnection of texts and images. Her enquiry focus on the iconography of Egyptian funerary material has led to invitations to lecture at the British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Fine art Institute of Chicago, amid others, to appearances on television programs from Reading Rainbow to National Geographic specials, and to interviews with the New York Times, the BBC and PBS radio. Her publications include Portrait Mummies from Roman Arab republic of egypt (1995) and Herakleides: a Portrait Mummy from Roman Egypt (2010) as well as numerous articles on Egyptian art and organized religion. In 2016, her article, "The Color Blue as an Animator in Ancient Egyptian Art," highlighted her discovery of the earliest show for Egyptian blueish, the first artificially produced paint in human history.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Egyptology, University of Chicago
• B.A. Classical Studies, Tufts University

Enquiry INTERESTS

• Iconography of Funerary Art
• Interconnection of Text and Epitome
• Part and Employ of Color in Egyptian Art

University HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2012 - Ane of the One Hundred About Influential Women in the I Hundred Year History of the University of Memphis
• 2012 – Higher of Advice and Fine Arts, Dean'southward Outstanding Research Award
• 2011 – Academy of Memphis Alumni Honor for Distinguished Inquiry in the Humanities

MONOGRAPHS

Herakleides: A Portrait Mummy from Roman Egypt. Co-authored with Marie Svoboda. (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010).

Portrait Mummies from Roman Egypt (I-Four centuries A.D.): with a Catalog of Portrait Mummies in Egyptian Museums, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, vol. 56 (Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1995).

Selected Book Chapters, Articles and Book Reviews:

"Yellow is not a Metaphor for All [That]'s 'Off-white' in Love and State of war," in Robert K. Ritner, ed., Essays for the Library of Seshat: Studies Presented to Janet H. Johnson on the Occasion of Her 70th Birthday, (Chicago: The Oriental Institute Printing, forthcoming).

"The Colour Blue equally an Animator in Ancient Egyptian Art," in Rachael Goldman, ed., Essays in Global Color History: Interpreting the Ancient Spectrum (NJ: Gorgias Press, 2016), pp. 59-82.

Lorelei H. Corcoran and Fred C. Albertson, "Gendered Color," a review of Thousand.A. Eaverly, Tan Men, Stake Women: Color and Gender in Archaic Hellenic republic and Arab republic of egypt (University of Michigan Press, 2013) in The Classical Review (Cambridge) 65 (2015): 252-54.

"Color Symbolism," in Roger S. Bagnall et al., eds., The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal History, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, in impress and online.

"A miscellany of funerary material from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt," a review article of Christina Riggs, The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt, Fine art, Identity and Funerary Organized religion (Oxford University Printing, 2005) in Journal of Roman Archeology 23:2 (2010): 770-72.

"Mummies," in Michael Gagarin, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Hellenic republic and Rome. Vol. v (Oxford Academy Press, 2010), pp. 2–3.

"The Mummy, Cartonnage Set and Coffin of Irtwirw," in Mamdouh Eldamaty and May Trad, eds., Egyptian Museum Collections around the Earth: Studies for the Centennial of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, vol. i, (Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2002), pp. 231-242.

"Masks," in Donald B. Redford, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, vol. ii (New York, Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 345-348.

"A Case for Narrativity: Gilt Stucco Mummy Embrace in the Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, inv. 27808" in Emily Teeter and John A. Larson, eds., Gilt of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, vol. 58 (Chicago, The Oriental Plant of the Academy of Chicago, 1999), Ch.v, pp. 55-66; figs. v.1-v.ten.

"Mysticism and the Mummy Portraits" in Morris L. Bierbrier, ed., Portraits and Masks: Burial Customs in Roman Egypt, (London: British Museum Press, 1997), pp. 45-53.

"Evidence for the Survival of Pharaonic Religion in Roman Egypt: The Portrait Mummy," in Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, eds., Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, Ii/18, (Berlin:Walter de Gruyter, 1995), pp. 3316-3332; pls. ane-nine.

"The Roman Period," in Sue D'Auria, Peter Lacovara and Catharine A. Roehrig, eds., Mummies & Magic, The Funerary Arts of Ancient Arab republic of egypt, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1988), pp. 201-215.

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