Kelee M. Siat- PhD Student
- PhD Candidate at The University of Manchester
Kelee M. Siat
- PhD Student
- PhD Candidate at The University of Manchester
Currently working on my PhD thesis.
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Introduction
I am currently an Egyptology PhD student at the University of Manchester researching the presence of women in diplomatic correspondence between Egypt, the Mediterranean and Near East during the Late Bronze Age.
Thesis Title: Women, Agency, Politics and Power during the Late Bronze Age: An Examination of Women in Diplomatic Correspondence between Egypt and the wider Eastern Mediterranean region (c.1550 BCE - 1190 BCE)
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September 2019 - present
Position
- PhD Student
Description
- I am a current PhD student at the University of Manchester. Since 2019, I have been a moderator and co-chair of the Manchester Egyptology Journal Club, a student-led community committed to critically examining and discussing current articles in (and related to) the field of Egyptology.
Education
September 2014 - December 2019
September 2011 - July 2013
September 2003 - July 2006
Publications
Publications (8)
The Amarna Letters (c. 1360-1332 BCE) are one of the key textual archives that documents the international affairs between several established kingdoms or ‘Great Powers’ and vassal states from the Late Bronze Age. Previous academic interest in these diplomatic texts have centred around a masculine presence and patriarchal power; however, the presen...
The Amarna Letters (c. 1360-1332 BCE) are one of the key textual archives that documents the international affairs between the rulers and kings of Egypt and the wider Eastern Mediterranean and Near East. These texts identify an international social network consisting of male and female entities, royal and nonroyal. Previous academic interest in the...
Much research and many academic discussions surrounding Egypt and diplomacy in the Late Bronze Age have been derived from an examination of the Amarna Letters (c. 1360-1332 BCE). This textual archive records many international diplomatic affairs between Egypt, the wider Eastern Mediterranean and Near East and identifies many male and female entitie...
Egypt's diplomatic relationship with the wider Mediterranean and Near East has been characterised by the political power of a 'brotherhood', a patriarchal establishment. However, the presence of (royal) women has often been overlooked within this ancient political dynamic. Textual evidence in the form of commemorative scarabs and correspondence ins...
The ancient Egyptians believed that the humble dung beetle was a manifestation of the rising sun’s power of self-regeneration. The height of scarab production was during the 18th-Dynasty reign of Amenhotep III (ca. 1370 B.C.), and a brief examination of the inscriptions on their reverses reveals a shared royal space between the king and his queen,...
Diplomatic correspondence between Egypt and the wider Eastern Mediterranean and Near East has heavily been associated with the ‘brotherhood’, characterised by patriarchal perceptions of political power and control. However, the examination of foreign diplomatic correspondence during the Late Bronze Age (LBA) reveals the presence of royal women in t...
