Lecture | Herta Mohr Lecture
Herta Mohr lecture 2025: TT 217, the tomb of the sculptor Ipuy
- Prof. Dr Kathrin Gabler (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz)
- Date
- Friday 11 April 2025
- Time
- Serie
- Herta Mohr lecture
- Address
- Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (also online via Zoom)
TT 217, the tomb of the sculptor Ipuy, and the impact of Nina and Norman de Garis Davies
In the early 20th century, Nina and Norman de Garis Davies showed a particular interest in the tomb of Ipuy at Deir el-Medina. TT 217 is famous for its extraordinary chapel in which several ancient crafts and professions are depicted in polychrome decoration. The unique and rarely painted scenes caught the special attention of the couple, who performed a first detailed study of the tomb shortly before and after the First World War.
The presentation will summarise past and present work in the tomb complex TT 217, with a focus on the role of women researchers, exemplified by Nina de Garis Davies, and their work in Egyptology, about 100 years ago.
Practical information
The Herta Mohr lecture will be held as a hybrid event. Please join us!
- Date: Friday, 11 April 2025
- Venue: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden and online (via Zoom)
- Time: Doors open at 16.00; lecture 16.30-17.30 hrs, drinks afterwards
- Admission: free – registration required
Registration
- If you wish to attend the lecture in person, please register on the RMO website [in Dutch]
- If you wish to follow the livestream, please register here to receive the Zoom link
New annual Herta Mohr lecture
The Netherland Institute for the Near East in cooperation with the National Museum of Antiquities inaugurates a new lecture series that will annually showcase and focus on early career contributions to Egyptology.
The series is named after Herta Mohr who, as a native Austrian, moved with her family to the Netherlands and studied Egyptology at Leiden University from 1937 onwards. She published a volume on the mastaba of Hetepherakhty in the National Museum of Antiquities. Together with her parents, Herta was deported and ultimately died at concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Records mention April 15th, 1945, the day that Bergen-Belsen was liberated, as the day of her death. With this lecture, we remember the 80th anniversary of her death.