{"title":"Graffiti","authors":"Chiara Salvador","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190604653.013.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190604653.013.30","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers an overview of graffiti in ancient Egypt from an epigraphic perspective, highlighting the points of contact and divergence between this and other epigraphic categories. In the introduction graffiti are defined as a distinct, yet fuzzy, category comprising both texts and drawings. The wide range of their quality, formality, visibility, and context accounts for the challenge that finding a terminology suitable for all graffiti presents. After a brief history of graffiti recording, the chapter focuses on some technical aspects of their documentation, which is schematically presented as a four-stage procedure: survey, recording, collation, and post-recording process. Issues of identifying, recording, and publishing graffiti are discussed within the article’s subsections with references to old methods and new technologies.","PeriodicalId":416825,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Paleography","volume":"260 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123138825","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":"Hieroglyphic Palaeography","authors":"Frédéric Servajean","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190604653.013.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190604653.013.38","url":null,"abstract":"Hieroglyphic palaeography has never been systematically studied until very recently. The earlier works considered the hieroglyphic sign from the perspective of the history of art. In the 1970s, new perspectives emerged thanks to H. G. Fischer, who developed an original approach through which the sign is coupled with cultural facts. However, it was not until 2004 that the first hieroglyphic palaeography program was launched by D. Meeks. There is, however, an area that escapes hieroglyphic palaeography: that of the cursive hieroglyphics. This is the reason why U. Verhoeven has just launched an inventory program of hieratic and hieroglyphic cursive signs.Only the analysis of the different stages of execution of a monumental inscription—from the cursive sign to the carved and painted sign—will make it possible to understand the work of scribes. Hieroglyphic palaeography will then be able to make up for lost time.","PeriodicalId":416825,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Paleography","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121291943","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 Historical Record","authors":"P. Brand","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190604653.013.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190604653.013.4","url":null,"abstract":"Monumental reliefs and inscriptions constitute an important body of evidence scholars use to reconstruct Egyptian history. Beyond their artistic and textual content, monumental inscriptions are useful for historical inquiry because they often display evidence of alteration, erasure, and palimpsest. Although investigating how and why monumental inscriptions were altered is vital to reconstructing Egyptian history, historians must be careful to avoid modern value judgments. Terms like “usurpation” and “damnatio memoriae” are anachronistic or culturally inappropriate for interpreting the motives of the Egyptians in altering or erasing monumental reliefs. Historiographical case studies on late Eighteenth Dynasty and Ramesside royal inscriptions consider the issue of epigraphic data on reinscribed royal names and the issue of hypothetical coregencies between Amenhotep III and Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten and of Seti I and Ramesses II to explore the possibilities and limitations of using epigraphic sources to reconstruct Egyptian history.","PeriodicalId":416825,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Paleography","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131365822","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":"Egyptian Epigraphic Genres and Their Relation with Nonepigraphic Ones","authors":"Julie Stauder-Porchet, A. Stauder","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190604653.013.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190604653.013.5","url":null,"abstract":"Given fundamental differences between the inscriptional and noninscriptional realms of written performance in ancient Egypt, several major textual genres are specifically inscriptional in origins and functions (e.g., the nonroyal autobiography and the royal wḏ, “decree” or authoritative pronouncement). This did not preclude productive interactions between the two realms, manifest in secondary epigraphic genres (e.g., “funerary literature,” hymns and prayers, administrative and judicial texts); relations between epigraphic genres and Middle Egyptian literature are productive in both directions. Lapidary inscriptions are defined by their out-of-the-ordinary register, authoritative nature, resultative aspect, and sacralizing force. Characteristic of various epigraphic genres are their relation to the place of inscription, their focus on the (royal or nonroyal) name, and their integration with pictorial representations.","PeriodicalId":416825,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Paleography","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126615405","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":"Audiences","authors":"Hana Navrátilová","doi":"10.4135/9781483317731.n72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n72","url":null,"abstract":"A search for audiences in ancient Egypt involves an assessment of the concept of cultural communications, accepted communicative practices, understanding of space, and other elements. Traces of many communicative acts and performances in antiquity will remain elusive, yet it is possible to recognize dedicated communicative spaces as well as strategies that involved ancient audiences. Edifices and texts targeted their specific audiences, for instance in a royal monumental discourse or a private commemorative discourse included within Egyptian autobiographies. Ancient works of art also often bear marks by a second or a third hand that was engaged in inspecting, changing, copying, as well as destroying them, as well as by visitors, exemplified by graffiti. Apart from the emic audiences, there are also etic audiences, standing outside the Egyptian culture, but constituting a distinct link in the chain of cultural memory.","PeriodicalId":416825,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Paleography","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122073558","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}
J. Quack, Jan M. Korte, Fabian Wespi, Claudia Maderna-Sieben
{"title":"Demotic Palaeography","authors":"J. Quack, Jan M. Korte, Fabian Wespi, Claudia Maderna-Sieben","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190604653.013.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190604653.013.46","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter covers all aspects of Demotic palaeography. It deals with its research history and names its most important tools. Palaeographic methodology and issues of sign definition are discussed from a Demotic point of view. The problems of classifying Demotic scribal hands and assigning them to chronologically and topographically defined palaeographic stages are addressed. The chapter furthermore discusses the influence of text types, palaeographic “registers,” and scribal schools on sign shapes as well as the interactions between Demotic and other Egyptian scripts. It addresses the categorization of the Demotic signs and also orthography.","PeriodicalId":416825,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Paleography","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130590446","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}