The Stephen Glanville Memorial Lecture

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On Saturday we went to a lecture in Cambridge - every year there's a Stephen Glanville Memorial Lecture on Egyptology, given by some notable person in the field, organised by the Fitzwilliam Museum. Last year was pretty much the sort of thing I'd expected - a talk about Memphis (capital of Egypt in the Old Kingdom period) given by Jaromir Málek,

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*giggle* No, it's not. It's more like "mah-aht-ian". I think Maat is sometimes written Ma'at to reflect the pronunciation better. The two 'A's are actually different letters, neither of which entirely match anything in English but are both variants on a "a" sound. So a direct transliteration would look like:
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