{"title":"Egyptian Geography of the Southern Red Sea: The Land of Wetenet","authors":"Julien Cooper","doi":"10.1163/18741665-bja10025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-bja10025","url":null,"abstract":"The land of Wetenet is one of the most enduring Red Sea placenames mentioned in Egyptian literature. Its place in the Egyptian conceptual map of the Red Sea has been largely ignored due to it being eclipsed by the much more ubiquitous toponym, Punt. Unlike Punt and its aromatics, Wetenet was visited primarily to secure ebony, with these voyages also providing the stimulus or “field notes” for the elucidating the Eastern Souls, the solar baboons of cosmographic literature. A study of the etymology and geography of this land provides a framework for Wetenet’s possible location, namely in the coastal regions of Sudan or Eritrea.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"164 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142194418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Search for Yaʿqobʾel in Edom in New Kingdom Topographical Lists","authors":"Dan’el Kahn","doi":"10.1163/18741665-bja10027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-bja10027","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I examine the presence of the toponym Yaʿqobʾel within its geographical context in the topographical lists of Thutmose <jats:sc>III</jats:sc>, Ramesses <jats:sc>II</jats:sc>, and Ramesses <jats:sc>III</jats:sc>. Historically, Yaʿqobʾel and the toponyms clustered with it are located by scholars in Syria. However, it is possible that Yaʿqobʾel within Thutmose <jats:sc>III</jats:sc>’s list is found to the south of Moab. The topographical lists of Ramesses <jats:sc>II</jats:sc> and Ramesses <jats:sc>III</jats:sc> mention place names that might be linked to Yaʿqobʾel, and should be located in southern Transjordan, where the Edomite deity Qaus was worshiped.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142194417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Vilification of the Hyksos: A Consideration of the Terminology","authors":"Laura Peirce","doi":"10.1163/18741665-bja10026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-bja10026","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates how the Hyksos’ notoriety was forged in seventeen ancient textual sources, considering the origins of the vilification of the Hyksos, the development of the vocabulary associated with these foreign rulers, and how the Thebans or Egyptians perceived themselves in direct contrast with the Hyksos. The study reveals that the negative terminology used in the textual sources to refer to the Hyksos is gradual and suggests that the growing hostility between Upper and Lower Egypt resulted in a shift in discourse to justify the conflict between the two kingdoms together with the establishment of a warrior ethos. Ultimately, this research highlights the pivotal role of the Theban (Egyptian) sources in shaping the legacy of the Hyksos that became a key “cultural memory” to articulate and affirm ancient Egyptian cultural identity in the New Kingdom.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142194419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"L’épithète de culte comme indice de datation. À quel moment les inscriptions hiéroglyphiques ont-elles qualifié Ptolémée IX de « dieu Sôter » ?","authors":"Mounir Habachy","doi":"10.1163/18741665-bja10024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-bja10024","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to study the appearance of the cult epithet “theos Soter” on the hieroglyphic monuments dating back to the second reign of Ptolemy <jats:sc>IX</jats:sc>. It highlights the problems that Egyptians encountered while translating such an epithet from Greek <jats:italic>theos Soter</jats:italic> to Egyptian <jats:italic>pꜢ nṯr nty nḥm</jats:italic>. As shown by the Demotic documents covering several years, this did not happen at once. This study offers a new dating tool for the monuments of the second reign of Ptolemy <jats:sc>IX</jats:sc> according to the appearance or absence of the translated epithet. Cette étude porte sur l’épithète de culte « dieu Sôter » lorsqu’elle apparaît sur les monuments égyptiens inscrits en hiéroglyphes au cours du second règne de Ptolémée <jats:sc>IX</jats:sc>. L’article consiste à mettre en relief les problèmes de traduction envisagés par les anciens Égyptiens pour transmettre le terme grec <jats:italic>théos Sôter</jats:italic> vers l’égyptien <jats:italic>pꜢ nṯr nty nḥm</jats:italic>, ce qui ne s’est pas fait en une seule fois. La présente étude offre un nouvel outil de datation pour les monuments au cours du second règne de Ptolémée <jats:sc>IX</jats:sc> en fonction de l’apparition ou non de l’épithète.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139910151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Provincial Community of the Late Dynasty 6. A Preliminary Case Study Based on P. 10500 A and B","authors":"Jérémie Florès","doi":"10.1163/18741665-bja10021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-bja10021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper presents the community registered in papyrus Berlin P. 10500 A–B, also known as the “Sharuna Papyrus.” It points out the presence of both men and women in the different accounts. People are also socially differentiated based on their titles and personal names (including their classifiers). Results demonstrate that the community from the “Sharuna Papyrus” resembles other groups of people in provincial context, including Sharuna.</p>","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139052777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Development of an ‘Incidental’ Form of Aquaculture During the Late Old Kingdom? Cattle as ‘Marshland Modifiers’ of the Nilotic Marshes and Their Potential Impact upon Old Kingdom Fishing Behaviors","authors":"John Burn","doi":"10.1163/18741665-bja10023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-bja10023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>During the latter half of the Old Kingdom, Egypt experienced irregular water supply. Lower than normal inundations resulted in nutrients normally lost from the river remaining within it. Over the same time, unusually strong rainfall events occurred, transferring even more nutrients into the river. These excess nutrients changed the ecology, affecting the local environment. These changes may have influenced the ecological characteristics of the riverine habitat, and how society responded and adapted. In the latter half of the Old Kingdom, depictions of cattle fording increased, suggesting that cattle were able to take advantage of the plants that now flourished upon the riverbanks as a result of the excess nutrients available. As the movement of cattle across the various river channels increased, the physical structures of the marshlands changed, which may have impacted upon those organisms also exploiting those areas, and affected fishing practices therein. <em>Were these responses accidental, incidental, or co-incidental?</em></p>","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139052997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What’s in a Name: The Personification of the Royal Name","authors":"Ahmed Hamden","doi":"10.1163/18741665-bja10022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-bja10022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Determining the visual metaphors of aesthetic and religious distinctions between the regular royal titulary names and their personified aspects is the fundamental goal of this paper. The study deals with different metaphorical compositions of religious elements in ancient Egypt such as kingship, royal imperialism, and political and religious ideology.</p>","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139052953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mechanisms of Royal Generosity (1939–1760 BCE)","authors":"Martina Bardoňová","doi":"10.1163/18741665-bja10019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-bja10019","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Gift-giving was, and in many societies still is, one of the key social phenomena. The gifts were more than just goods given to somebody. Economically they represent an important means to procure needed goods. Socially, they expressed relationships between donors and recipients and was among the means for an individual to exercise power over another. The present study is conceived as a first step to understanding the complex problem of gift-giving during the Middle Kingdom. Its main aim is to outline the patterns of royal generosity visible in the Twelfth Dynasty (c.1939–1760 BCE) textual sources and to contextualize them with respect to the general findings of evolutionary psychology and Social Exchange Theory.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48557560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Overseer of Linen (jmj-r sšrw) in the Old Kingdom","authors":"Raúl Sánchez-Casado, Jónatan Ortiz-García","doi":"10.1163/18741665-bja10020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-bja10020","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper focuses on the figure of the overseer of linen (jmj-r sšrw) during the chronological period of the Old Kingdom. By choosing a wide selection of sources, we have undertaken the reconstruction of the main features that defined this title, looking in-depth at the specific roles associated with it and the contexts in which they were exercised. The nature of the sources has meant that we have taken a mainly iconographic approach, which, combined with textual and archaeological analysis, has allowed us to get the most out of the evidence available. Thus, the jmj-r sšrw is revealed as an essential character in the Old Kingdom household, overseeing the supply, storage, and distribution of linen within the estate. Additionally, the supervision of a product that is key for the well-being of the deceased in the netherworld granted the jmj-r sšrw an important role in the funerary cult of their deceased master, who aimed to ensure his eternal supply of linen.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45542199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Memphite Sacerdotal Decree of 161 BCE (Plates I–V)","authors":"M. Panov, E. Lanciers","doi":"10.1163/18741665-bja10017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18741665-bja10017","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The present article deals with a little-known sacerdotal decree composed under Ptolemy VI Philometor in 161 BCE and includes a new hieroglyphic copy, a translation, and a commentary. The document is the most recent of the preserved Ptolemaic priestly decrees. It is of particular historical interest because it provides information on coronation ceremonies for Ptolemy VI in Memphis, an event not mentioned in other sources. Other notable elements are the reference to a revolt or unrest and the fact that the royal cartouches are consistently erased. Although the text has the usual structure of the other synodal decrees and shows, in particular, several parallels with the decrees of 196 and 185 BCE, it contains significant deviations from these texts and cannot be considered a copy or simple update of these earlier texts.","PeriodicalId":41016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Egyptian History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43144629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}