December 2024 Supporter Q&A

Kara and Jordan answer supporters’ questions on the theme of “How do we study what we study?”

Show Notes

How do you study coffins?

• Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Egyptian Royal Caches

  

How do we understand historicity in a literary text, like The Tale of Setne?

Statue of Khaemwaset (BM EA947)

• Great overview article by The Past

• Golverdingen, Joost 2009. Khaemwaset: Demotic legend or the world's first Egyptologist? Saqqara Newsletter 7, 25-29.

• Jay, Jacqueline E. 2016. Orality and literacy in the Demotic tales. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 81. Leiden; Boston: Brill.

• Rutherford, Ian 1997. Kalasiris and Setne Khamwas: a Greek novel and some Egyptian models. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 117, 203-209.

• Snape (2011) ‘Khaemwaset and the present past: history and the individual in Ramesside Egypt’, in M Collier and S Snape (eds), Ramesside Studies in Honour of K A Kitchen (Bolton: Rutherford Press), pp.465-473.

• Vinson, Steve 2018. The craft of a good scribe: history, narrative and meaning in the First tale of Setne Khaemwas. Harvard Egyptological Studies 3. Leiden; Boston: Brill. DOI: 10.1163/9789004353107.

How do you teach Egyptology?

• UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE)

• Online Egyptological Bibliography

• Ancient Near East Research Quarantine “Library”

• MET Publications

• ISAC Publications

• Google Scholar

• ARCE Library Portal (needs membership)

• Academia

• Research Gate

• Egytptological Open Access Journals

• EEF Digital Journals

• EEF Digitized Books

• Hathi Trust

• Internet Archive

• Deir el-Medina Database

• Deir el-Medina Online

• Museo Egizio Papyri Database

• Texts in Translation

  • Lichtheim, Miriam 2006. Ancient Egyptian literature. A book of readings, volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms. Berkeley, CA; London: University of California Press.

  • Lichtheim, Miriam 2006. Ancient Egyptian literature. A book of readings, volume II: The New Kingdom. Berkeley, CA; London: University of California Press.

  • Lichtheim, Miriam 2006. Ancient Egyptian literature. A book of readings, volume III: The Late Period. Berkeley, CA; London: University of California Press.

• Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae

• Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, British Museum

How do you study woodworking practice and wooden objects?

• Caroline Arbuckle MacCleod’s work

• Re, Alessandro, Alessandro Lo Giudice, Marco Nervo, Paola Buscaglia, Peter Luciani, Matilde Borla and Christian Greco. “The importance of tomography studying wooden artefacts: A comparison with radiography in the case of a coffin lid from ancient Egypt.” (2016).

• Albertin, Fauzia, Maria Pia Morigi, Matteo Bettuzzi, Rosa Brancaccio, Nicola Macchioni, Roberto Saccuman, Gianluca Quarta, Lucio Calcagnile and Daniela Picchi. “X-ray Tomography Unveils the Construction Technique of Un-Montu’s Egyptian Coffin (Early 26th Dynasty).” Journal of Imaging 8 (2022).

• Helen Strudwick’s work