Luigi Prada, British Academy research fellow in Egyptology at the University of Oxford and a trustee of the Egypt Exploration Society in London, will host a seminar on Aug. 28 from noon to 2 p.m. in the Humanities Building. The seminar, titled “Reuse of New Kingdom Monuments and Visitors’ Graffiti in Late and Graeco-Roman Period Elkab,” will present samples of textual and figural inscriptions from Egypt and the techniques employed in recording them.
Prada’s main research interests lie in ancient Egyptian textual studies, as well as in the study of Graeco-Egyptian bilingualism and ancient translations, in connection with the development of Coptic. He is also active in the field, both in Egypt as assistant field director of the Oxford Expedition to Elkab and in Sudan as an epigraphist at Jebel Dosha and the Dal Cataract.
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