Date: Saturday, March 3, 2012, 5:00 p.m.

Chapter: Illinois

Speaker: Brian Muhs, University of Chicago

Location: La Salle Bank Room, The Oriental Institute

This free lecture is held at the Oriental Institute, LaSalle Bank Room. 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago, 60637.

For more information call 773-702-1062.

Description: Examples of petitions and trial proceedings will be discussed and used to reconstruct ancient Egyptian legal procedures. Legal proceedings usually began with petitions to the appropriate authorities. Pharaoh’s representatives, such as the vizier and other high officials, usually dealt with serious personal injuries, death, and crimes against the state, while local and regional courts handled issues relating to the Egyptian equivalent of property or contract law. Once the authorities accepted a case, trial proceedings could record their investigations and decisions.

About the Speaker: Brian Muhs received his PhD in Egyptology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, and taught at the Papyrological Institute of the University of Leiden for 14 years before joining the Oriental Institute and the University of Chicago in 2011.