You are invited to an HAD Faculty Conversations by Kate Minniti, “More than countless trinkets: Egyptian objects in Archaic Sicily (776-480 BCE).”
Date: Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Venue: Main 210
About the Speaker: Kate Minniti holds a PhD in Classical Archaeology from the University of British Columbia, BC, and degrees in Egyptian Archaeology from UCL and History of Art and Archaeology from NYU. She has been working as a field archaeologist around the Mediterranean for more than a decade, and she is a senior member of the NYU-UniMi archaeological expedition in Selinunte, Italy. Her main research interests are Archaic-Period connectivity and local responses to globalization in the Mediterranean. She is also interested in reception studies, and since 2013 has been exploring and publishing on the representation of Ancient Egypt in video games.
About the Project: Sicily has yielded roughly 300 Egyptian-looking objects, commonly referred to as Aegyptiaca, found in Archaic (ca. 776-480 BCE) archaeological contexts. Earlier studies have focused only on the formal elements of the artifacts, and even less often have they framed the data in the context of pan-Mediterranean trends. My research sits at the intersection of trade, politics, and religion, as it focuses not only on the roles that Aegyptiaca played in the lives of the inhabitants of Sicily – as religious and élite objects – but also on how their use can help us reassess Sicily’s position in Archaic-period Mediterranean networks of trade and exchange.
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* This event is for Pratt community.