JOURNAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY最新文献

{"title":"Book of the Dead, Book of the Living: BD Spells as Temple Texts*","authors":"Alexandra von Lieven","doi":"10.1177/030751331209800114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/030751331209800114","url":null,"abstract":"Several temples, both of the New Kingdom as well as of the Graeco-Roman period, contain spells from the Book of the Dead among their decoration. The present paper gathers all the attestations and discusses their significance in a temple context. This leads to new insights on the origins and meanings of the respective spells in general.","PeriodicalId":54147,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"98 1","pages":"249 - 267"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/030751331209800114","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65103038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inlaid eyes on Old Kingdom coffins: a history of misidentification","authors":"M. De Meyer","doi":"10.1177/030751331109700113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/030751331109700113","url":null,"abstract":"Certain stone objects found in association with a number of old Kingdom coffins have been wrongly identified in the past as model grooming implements or amulets. These objects are in fact inlaid udjat-eyes, and often form the sole evidence for this type of treatment, which is rare during the Old Kingdom.","PeriodicalId":54147,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"97 1","pages":"201 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/030751331109700113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65102749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"La stèle de Ptolémée VIII Évergète II à Héracléion","authors":"Martina Minas-Nerpel","doi":"10.1177/030751331109700136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/030751331109700136","url":null,"abstract":"In this important book, Christophe Thiers presents the monumental bilingual stela (hieroglyphic egyptian and Greek) found in 2001 at the underwater site of Herakleion-Thonis off the Mediterranean coast of egypt near Canopus. The text and commentary of what is the longest surviving hieroglyphic inscription on a stela from the Ptolemaic period constitute the heart of this volume. Additional short interpretative essays put the document in its historical, religious, and political context during the reign of Ptolemy vIII with his two wives, Cleopatra II and Cleopatra III. The study begins with a brief introduction by Franck Goddio, summarising the discovery and the excavation context of the gigantic stela. Luc Tamborero then presents the purely technical data concerning the once monolithic gneiss stela, which is 617 cm high, 314 cm wide, and up to 38 cm deep, and broken into numerous parts. Altogether, seventeen fragments of the stela have been discovered, weighing around seventeen tons. Figure 4 on p. xii, and plate 1, present the re-assembled fragments. The lowest part of the stela, about 115–120 cm long, was intentionally left blank as it was embedded in the ground. Several parts of the monument are still missing, mainly from the lunette and the middle of the hieroglyphic text, but also from the uninscribed lower part. In addition, due to erosion underwater, the inscribed face is now quite deteriorated, so that the beginning of every hieroglyphic line has been lost. Of the Greek inscription, which followed the egyptian one, only a few letters remain. According to Goddio (p. xv) the stela had not been reused, but tumbled down from its original location. After the introduction (pp. ix–xxii), the volume is divided into six chapters, by Christophe Thiers. First is the general presentation of the stela (pp. 1–6), including the dating and the discussion of its lunette; second, the translation of the hieroglyphic text (pp. 7–24); third, the running commentary (pp. 25–37); fourth, the presentation of the almost entirely destroyed Greek inscription (p. 39); fifth, essays of interpretation (pp. 41–9); and sixth, the conclusion (pp. 51–5). Several useful tools are added: chapter seven presents a comprehensive overview of the hieroglyphic inscription and its translation as a running text (pp. 56–66). The volume concludes with extensive indices (Chapter 8, pp. 67–92), a wide-ranging bibliography (Chapter 9, pp. 93–105), as well as several plates of the stela—now in the Maritime Museum Alexandria (SCA 529)—and squeezes of it, which are now kept in Paris. Highly useful is the loose facsimile drawing inserted at the back cover. Altogether, the volume is well produced with fine plates and figures in clear print. The hieroglyphs are for the most part legibly printed, but occasionally they are partly cut, primarily in the notes (for example on pp. 15–16). After a general description, Thiers’ first chapter deals with the dating of the stela (pp. 2–3). Most of the stel","PeriodicalId":54147,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"48 1","pages":"281 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/030751331109700136","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65102787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Zwischen König und Karikatur: Das Bild Ptolemaios' VIII. im Spannungsfeld der Überlieferung","authors":"Martina Minas-Nerpel","doi":"10.1177/030751330909500123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/030751330909500123","url":null,"abstract":"In this volume, Peter Nadig discusses textual and iconographic evidence concerning Ptolemy vIII euergetes II, who reigned in egypt from 170 to 163 and from 145 to 116 bc. Nadig takes into account the contemporary sources in Greek, Demotic, and hieroglyphic egyptian, as well as the ancient authors from Polybius, a Hellenistic historian of the second century bc, to Orosius, a Christian author of the fifth century ad. Nadig’s chief aim is not only to provide an overview of all relevant sources (p. 5), but also to critically examine why the literary sources judged Ptolemy vIII to be one of the most tarnished Hellenistic kings (p. 2). In other words, the author wants to scrutinise and look beyond the prejudices of the ancient authors, who provide a negative and almost caricatured picture which drastically diverges from the king’s self-presentation. To achieve this goal, Nadig analyses and compares the diverse sources from different points of view, including the king’s own provided by his fragmentary Hypomnemata (memoirs), and evaluates the king and the nature of his rule in this new light. As is necessary for many topics related to Graeco-Roman egypt, Nadig takes an interdisciplinary approach. The book was submitted in 2002 as a Habilitationsschrift in Ancient History, but he includes both egyptological and archaeological data in order to present a comprehensive picture of Ptolemy vIII. The result is a useful source book which sheds light on egypt’s development in the Hellenistic period, and on egypt’s connections with Rome. It does not, however, significantly change our picture of a king officially called Euergetes (benefactor) and denigrated as Kakergetes (malefactor) and Physkon (pot belly). The book begins with a brief review of the history of scholarship on Ptolemy vIII and a short biography (Chapter I); this overview includes the king’s difficult relationships with his siblings and co-rulers from 170 to 164, Ptolemy vI and Cleopatra II, his sole reign in 164/3, and the final period from 145 to 116 bc. From 142, he not only ruled with one, but with two queens or wives, his sister-","PeriodicalId":54147,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"95 1","pages":"284 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/030751330909500123","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65102738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Some Uses of the Resumptive Pronoun in Late Egyptian Relative Clauses*","authors":"J. Winand","doi":"10.1177/030751330909500108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/030751330909500108","url":null,"abstract":"The focus of this paper is the presence or absence of the resumptive pronoun in relative clauses in Late Egyptian. Particular attention is given to the causative construction (rdi sḏm.f/sḏm.tw.f) when rd'i is itself conjugated in a relative form. In LEg, the resumptive pronoun is conspicuously absent. The construction rd'i + infinitive is also investigated, which appears to be quite common in Late Egyptian. It is suggested that this construction might have developed in Upper Egypt, where it tends to supersede the pattern rd'i + subjunctive with otherwise very common verbs, like b3k, ŝsp, ẖdb, and grg.","PeriodicalId":54147,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"55 1","pages":"149 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/030751330909500108","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65102724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Two Coptic Epitaphs from Qasr Ibrim *","authors":"J. V. D. van der Vliet","doi":"10.1177/030751330609200109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/030751330609200109","url":null,"abstract":"A first edition and brief discussion of two Coptic funerary stelae from the medieval cemeteries of Qasr Ibrim in Northern Nubia (ancient Nobadia).","PeriodicalId":54147,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"92 1","pages":"217 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/030751330609200109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65102561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Tombs at Giza, I. Kaiemankh (G4561) and Seshemnefer I (G4940)","authors":"K. Daoud","doi":"10.1177/030751330409001s05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/030751330409001s05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54147,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"90 1","pages":"8 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/030751330409001s05","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65102832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Cartonnage Papyri in Context. New Ptolemaic Documents from Abū Ṣīr Al-Malaq","authors":"Henri Melaerts","doi":"10.1177/030751330409001s26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/030751330409001s26","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54147,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"90 1","pages":"57 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/030751330409001s26","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65102490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: The Cosmos of Khnumhotep II at Beni Hasan","authors":"R. Leprohon","doi":"10.1177/030751330409001S10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/030751330409001S10","url":null,"abstract":"themselves presented as defining elements in the choice of a syntax. His wide exemplification focuses on the range of sentence patterns that are self-standing ('asyndetic'), and their underlying syntax. Particular emphasis lies on the patterns in which a subject is followed by an adverbial construction ('syntagm'): adverbial sentences, pseudo-verbal constructions and second tenses.! The importance of these constructions is explained as a historical development (pp. 39-42), marking the process by which the characteristic word order of earlier Egyptian-Verb-Subject-Object-was converted to the order of Subject-Verb-Object that characterises the latest stage of the language. Here, in practice, Vernus's eclectic and ad hoc approach wobbles into internal contradiction, since his core presentation is reminiscent of the structuralist paradigm: a structuralist explanation of the syntax as subject + adverb(ial transposition), where surely it would be preferable to account for the variety of forms that can follow a subject as a range of etymologically and structurally varied grammaticalisations. The final section of the book addresses the existence of an 'indicative srjm=f in Middle Egyptian: a declarative present tense srjm=f, that is self-standing and syntactically complete. The collection of examples is large, but problematic, confused by the question of archaism and the often rather peculiar or special registers in which the relevant texts are written. Nevertheless Vernus concludes that there is a small core of real examples. Like all the suffix conjugations that have a word order of Verb-Subject-Object, he defines it as recessive in the language, but with a genuine existence integrated into the discourse register of Middle Egyptian. The great merit of this slim volume lies in its emphasis on linguistic complexity, through its attack on the application of an ahistorical conception of language to the study of Egyptian, and on the habit of teaching Egyptian as a sort of logical construct, claimed to have its roots in a set of structural universals of syntax (pp. 42-3). Vernus largely avoids the trap of appeal to undocumentable etymology in the structuring of his argument, the appeal that has historically informed all attempts to describe a systematic paradigm of Egyptian verb forms according to function, whether that functional organisation is one of tense or aspect or syntactic position. Yet in his emphasis on semantic and syntactic complexity he seems to provide justification for an ad hoc pick-and-mix approach to the use of linguistic theories, and, where convenient, he relies happily on much the same analytical criteria and techniques he criticises so strongly in the 'Standard Theory'. Underlying the book is a particular, often idiosyncratic, and extraordinarily condensed view of the overall structure of classical Egyptian that cannot be satisfactorily summarised in a review; the implied subtleties of its argument, but also the elusive contradictions ","PeriodicalId":54147,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"31 1","pages":"22 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/030751330409001S10","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65102401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Day in the Life of the Ancient Egyptian Goatherd Ityaa: Abnormal Hieratic P. Michaelides 1 and 2 (P. BM EA 10907 and 10906) *","authors":"Koen Donker Van Heel","doi":"10.1177/030751330409000109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/030751330409000109","url":null,"abstract":"Publication of abnormal hieratic P. Michaelides 1 and 2 (P. BM EA 10907 and 10906), both dealing with a financial transaction involving the goatherd Ityaa and two of his colleagues. The texts probably come from Thebes and were written c. 700 bc.","PeriodicalId":54147,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":"90 1","pages":"153 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/030751330409000109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65102808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}