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Item A citizen of nowhere : Jaroslav Černý, Egyptologist (1898-1970) : a journey through the twentieth century(Peeters, 2023) Navrátilová, HanaThe transnational Egyptologist Jaroslav Černý was born in 1898 in Pilsen. He developed a remarkable scholarly network that connected Czechoslovakia, United Kingdom, Egypt and France. His intellectual development is an achievement in crossing boundaries and developing identities. When he died in 1970, he was part of a major strive for recording of Egyptian monuments organized by the Egyptian authorities and specialists in cooperation with UNESCO, as well as a member of the UK academic communityItem A curious and convivial traveller : Edward Roger Pratt in Greece and Egypt 1832-34(Peeters, 2020) Usick, Patricia; Roger Pratt, Edwardn 2001 the British Museum acquired the first of two ancient Egyptian stelae from the collection of the traveller Edward Roger Pratt (1789-1863) of Ryston Hall, Norfolk, and discovered his 1832-34 unpublished journals for Greece and Egypt and the 136-page album with his own drawings, watercolours, and paper impressions of bas-reliefs from a solo Nile voyage to the Second Cataract. Pratt recorded ancient monuments and sites, many later damaged or destroyed. In Greece Pratt travelled widely and adventurously with scholarly architects and artists studying ancient Greek sites, while in Egypt his guides were the works of the French Egyptologists Jean-François Champollion and Dominique Vivant Denon. A gregarious and enthusiastic traveller, Pratt was supported by extensive consular networks, expatriate communities and other travellers. In this volume his life and travels are reconstructed from his many journals, the travel journals for Greece and Egypt are transcribed and annotated, his maps and plans reproduced, his dispersed antiquities collection reconstructed, and the album drawings are identified and published in colorItem Addressing diversity: inclusive histories of Egyptology(Zaphon, 2023) Navrátilová, Hana; L. Gertzen, Thomas; Marleen De Meyer; Dodson, AidanItem Aegyptiaca in der nördlichen Levante : Eine Studie zur Kontextualisierung und Rezeption ägyptischer und ägyptisierender Objekte in der Bronzezeit(Peeters, 2020) Ahrens, AlexanderIn dieser interdisziplinären Studie untersucht Alexander Ahrens ägyptische Objekte, die in der nördlichen Levante (Libanon, Syrien und Regionen der Türkei) in Kontexten des zweiten Jahrtausends v. Chr. gefunden wurden. Er stützt sich auf Methoden der Archäologie und der soziokulturellen Theorie, um mittels einer eingehenden Analyse der Fundkontexte Strategien der Rezeption und eine damit verbundene Emulation der ägyptischen materiellen Kultur und ihrer spezifischen Motivik durch nordlevantinische Eliten zu charakterisieren. Die Studie vermittelt so ein besseres Verständnis der Komplexität und Vielfalt interkultureller Beziehungen im bronzezeitlichen östlichen MittelmeerraumItem Amara West : the pottery from cemeteries C and D(Peeters, 2023) Gasperini, ValentinaThe two cemeteries of Amara West in Sudan, a town founded in around 1300 BC as a new centre for the colonial pharaonic administration of Kush (Upper Nubia), were excavated by the British Museum’s Amara West Research Project between 2009 and 2016. This book focused on the ceramic vessels placed in the burials, between c. 1300 BC and the 8th century BC. The comprehensive analyses of the pottery, accompanied by a full catalogue, provides insights into the role of ceramic vessels for funerary purposes, trade networks between Upper Nubia, Egypt and farther afield. The inclusion of Nubian hand-made vessels with some burials reflects aspects of cultural entanglement, and raises questions of identity and cultural affiliation, particularly in the transition between the period of pharaonic occupation and its aftermath. An introduction by Michaela Binder provides an orientation to the architecture and archaeology of the cemeteries.Item Ancient Egypt in the Modern Imagination : Art, Literature and Culture(Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020) Dobson, Eleanor; Tonks, NicholaAncient Egypt has always been a source of fascination to writers, artists and architects in the West. This book is the first study to address representations of Ancient Egypt in the modern imagination, breaking down conventional disciplinary boundaries between fields such as History, Classics, Art History, Fashion, Film, Archaeology, Egyptology, and Literature to further a nuanced understanding of ancient Egypt in cultures stretching from the eighteenth century to the present day, emphasising how some of the various meanings of ancient Egypt to modern people have traversed time and media. Divided into three themes, the chapters scrutinise different aspects of the use of ancient Egypt in a variety of media, looking in particular at the ways in which Egyptology as a discipline has influenced representations of Egypt, ancient Egypt's associations with death and mysticism, as well as connections between ancient Egypt and gendered power. The diversity of this study aims to emphasise both the multiplicity and the patterning of popular responses to ancient Egypt, as well as the longevity of this phenomenon and its relevance today.Item Ancient Egyptian biographies : contexts, forms, functions(Lockwood Press, 2020) Stauder-Porchet, Julie; Frood, Elizabeth; Stauder, Andréas(Auto-)biography is a genre of ancient Egyptian written discourse that was central to high culture from its earliest periods. Belonging to the nonroyal elites, these texts present aspects of individual lives and experience, sometimes as narratives of key events, sometimes as characterizations of personal qualities. Egyptian (auto-) biographies offer a unique opportunity to examine the ways in which individuals fashioned distinctive selves for display and the significance of the physical, religious, and social contexts they selected. 0The present volume brings together specialists from a range of relevant periods, approaches, and interests. The studies collected here examine Egyptian (auto-)biographies from a variety of complementary perspectives: (1) anthropological and contrastive perspectives; (2) the original Old Kingdom settings; (3) text format and language; (4) social dimensions; and (5) religious experience.Item Archaeological Sites of the Nile Delta of Egypt : A Gazeteer(Egypt Exploration Society, London, 2024) Spencer, JeffreyArchaeological Sites of the Nile Delta of Egypt is intended to be a directory, providing an overview and a direction to original sources, without seeking to republish all the known information about each site. It makes available the data on all 783 of the sites in the Egypt Exploration Society’s Delta Survey.Item Archaeological Sites of the Nile Delta of Egypt : A Gazeteer Archaeological Sites of the Nile Delta of Egypt : A Gazeteer(Egypt Exploration Society,, 2024) Spencer, A. JeffreyArchaeological Sites of the Nile Delta of Egypt is intended to be a directory, providing an overview and a direction to original sources, without seeking to republish all the known information about each site. It makes available the data on all 783 of the sites in the Egypt Exploration Society’s Delta Survey.Item The archive of Thotsutmis, son of Panouphis : early Ptolemaic ostraca from Deir el Bahari (O. Edgerton)(The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago,, 2021) Muhs, Brian Paul; Jay, Jacqueline E.; Scalf, FoyThrough the publication and close examination of an archive of texts, the following volume attempts to reconstruct a microhistory of one man and his family working on the west bank of Thebes in the mortuary industry during the early Ptolemaic Period. Although only a rather rough micronarrative can be reconstructed for their activities, the integrity of the archive is essential to expanding and nuancing our view of these individuals and the associated events. Rarely have such collections been found in situ. 1 The forty-two ostraca published in this volume provide a rare opportunity to explore the intersections between an “intact” ancient archive of private administrative documents and the larger social and legal contexts into which they fit. A note is in order about the references throughout this volume. When referring to individual texts, cita tions follow the practice common in papyrology by using an accepted siglum, abbreviation, and number from the publication in which the text was published, e.g., O. Med. Habu, no. 63. Established sigla have been used where available. In certain cases, a siglum has been created because the authors thought it would prove useful to readers. Festschriften in which texts are consecutively numbered have been assigned sigla, e.g., FsZauzich 1. For texts found in publications without convenient sigla, they have been cited according to an author-date format followed by the number assigned by the original editor, e.g., Wångstedt 1968, no. 13, or by museum inventory number followed by an author-date reference, e.g., P. Berlin P. 3089 (Vittmann 1982, pp. 166–71). However, when a citation is made to the particular comments of the editor of the text, references follow the author-date format, e.g., Lichtheim 1957, p. 32. All bibliographic information for sigla and citations can be found in the list of abbreviations and sigla along with the bibliography. Line numbers to text are separated from their respective number by a period, so that O. Med. Habu, no. 63.1, signifies line 1 of the text assigned the catalog number sixty-three in Lichtheim 1957Item Beyond Egyptomania : objects, style and agency(De Gruyter, 2020) Versluys, M. J.Neue Forschungen zum Nachleben ÄgyptensItem Bookkeeping without writing : early administrative technologies in context : proceedings of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) Postdoctoral Research Fellow First Annual Conference, 5th and 6th February 2021(Peeters, 2023) Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten; Bennison-Chapman, Lucy E.Item The catacombs of Anubis at North Saqqara an archaeological perspective(Peeters, 2021) NICHOLSON, P.In 1897 Jacques de Morgan published a map of the Memphite necropolis, showing for the first time a pair of catacombs for mummified dogs. No further information was given and the catacombs remained largely un-investigated until the 21st century. In 2009 the Catacombs of Anubis Project was set up by Cardiff University who worked in collaboration with the Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities in an attempt to understand the larger of the two catacombs.0This publication describes the work of the Catacombs of Anubis Project. It examines the way in which the catacomb was created and the likely phases of its development in the Late and Ptolemaic periods. The way in which the many thousands of animal mummies were procured is discussed in the light of modern faunal analysis and these results are combined with a new survey of the site to give a picture of the functioning of the cult at Saqqara. Finally, the way in which the monument may have been re-used in the post-pharaonic era is discussed.0The results will be of interest to all those interested in animal mummies and in the development of catacombs as well as those concerned with the evolution of the sacred landscape of SaqqaraItem Catalogue of Coptic and Arabic Manuscripts in Dayr al-Suryān. Volume 1, Coptic and Arabic Biblical Texts; Coptic Language Resources, Including Biblical Lexica(Peeters, 2020) Davis, S. J.; J. Davis, Stephen; al- Suryāni, BigoulItem Coptic : a grammar of its six major dialects(Eisenbrauns, University Park, 2020) P. Allen, JamesA current grammar of Coptic (the last stage of the ancient Egyptian language) that includes material from all six of its major dialects. Includes a chrestomathy of readings in the six dialects as well as a dictionary.Item Death, power, and apotheosis in ancient Egypt : the Old and Middle Kingdoms(Cornell University Press, 2021) Troche, JuliaExplores the perceived agency of esteemed dead in ancient Egyptian social, political, and religious life, during the Old through Middle Kingdoms (c. 2700-1650 BCE). It considers how power was constructed, maintained, and challenged in ancient Egypt, through the particular lens of mortuary culture and apotheosis-i.e. deificationItem Der Nil in Aswân : Inschriften und Heiligtümer(De Gruyter, 2022) Johannes Seidlmayer, StephanÄgypten ist das Land des Nils. Bei Aswân durchbricht der Fluss eine Felsbarriere aus Granit und bildet die Stromschnellen des Ersten Katarakts. Hier tritt der Nil in das Siedlungsgebiet Ägyptens ein. Sein jährlicher Flutzyklus - rund 8 m betrug die Differenz zwischen Niedrig- und Hochwasser - hatte enorme praktische Auswirkungen auf Verkehr und Transport in dieser Grenz- und Steinbruchregion, vor allem aber für die Wirtschaft des ganzen Landes. Das Alte Ägypten lokalisierte die Quellen der Nilflut in der spektakulären Felslandschaft des Ersten Katarakts, und in den Nilometern im Gebiet von Aswân wurde der Verlauf des lebensentscheidenen Naturphänomens seit ältester Zeit präzise beobachtet und vermessen. Die Ursachen der Nilflut dachte das Alte Ägypten in religiösen Kategorien. In den Riten und Mythen um die Gottheiten in den Tempeln der Region wurden Theorien der sakralen Kontrolle der Flut formuliert. Den Nil technisch zu kontrollieren, blieb der Neuzeit vorbehalten. Die großen Staudämme bei Aswân stehen für dieses letzte Kapitel in der Geschichte des Stroms. Daher eignet sich der Nil als Leitmotiv, Landschaft, Denkmäler, Bilder und Inschriften der Region von Aswân seit ältester Zeit und bis in die Gegenwart zu betrachtenItem Dust, demons and pots : studies in honour of Colin A. Hope(Peeters, 2020) Hope, Colin A.; Warfe, Ashten R.; Gill, James C. R.; Hamilton, Caleb R.; Jean Pettman, AmyThis volume brings together fifty-four studies on ancient Egypt and its interconnections with neighbouring regions to celebrate the career of Colin Hope. Presented by friends, colleagues and former students, contributions to the volume offer original research and fieldwork discoveries informed by new interpretations and insights on contemporary issues in Egyptology. In recognition of Colin Hope's extensive research interests, the subjects of discussion are wide-ranging in their exploration of the art, archaeology, language and literature of Egypt from prehistory to the pharaonic period, the Roman period and later. Also included are studies on the reception of Egyptology and discussions on museum collections and material conservation. A feature of the volume is the range of studies that come from contexts within the Nile Valley proper and the desert regions beyond. Together, the contrasting perspectives reflect important directions in an ever-expanding discipline and in the long-standing contributions made to it by Colin HopeItem Egypt at its origins 6 : proceedings of the Sixth International Conference "Origin of the state. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Vienna, 10th-15th September 2017(Peeters, 2021) E. Christiana Köhlerhis volume represents the 6th installment of proceedings of the successful international conference series "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", which this time was held at the University of Vienna in Austria from 10th to 15th of September 2017. With this new peer-reviewed volume of focused research on early Egypt, the 41 contributors dedicated their research to various questions surrounding prehistoric Egypt, the emergence of Pharaonic civilization and the territorial state. While some papers present new archaeological results from on-going excavations, others involve the analysis and interpretation of previously known evidence from the different regions along the Nile Valley. A large group of papers specifically discuss the area of ancient Memphis, which was also a central theme of the conference helping to summarize 20 years of research at the archaeological site of Helwan. Following the good tradition of previous Origins conferences, a very large number of papers are dedicated to the area of Lower Egypt and the Nile Delta from early prehistoric through to the early Old Kingdom periods. These papers highlight the significance and enormous progress of archaeological fieldwork in an area that was long considered an uninhabitable swampland in prehistoric times. Other papers report on new fieldwork at different sites in a largely unexplored region of the Egyptian Nile Valley - the Eastern Desert of Middle Egypt, where active mining on a very large scale has taken place raising questions about the organization and scale of such activities during the formative periods of Egyptian civilization. There are numerous contributions on archaeological evidence from sites in Upper Egypt and their material culture, many of which having been excavated long ago but offering the opportunity to raise new questionsItem Egyptian Deportations of the Late Bronze Age : a Study in Political Economy(De Gruyter, 2021) Langer, ChristianEgyptian Deportations of the Late Bronze Age explores the political economy of deportations in New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1550-1070 BCE) from an interdisciplinary angle. The analysis of ancient Egyptian primary source material and the international correspondence of the time draws a comprehensive picture of the complex and far-reaching policies. The dataset reveals their geographic scope, economic and demographic impact in Egypt and abroad as well as their interconnection with territorial expansion, international relations, and labour management. The supply chain, profiting institutions and individuals in Egypt as the well as the labour tasks, origins and the composition of the deportees are discussed in detail. A comparative analytical framework integrates the Egyptian policies with a review of deportation discourses as well as historical premodern and modern cases and enables a global and diachronic understanding of the topic. The study is thus the first systematic investigation of deportations in ancient Egyptian history and offers new insights into Egyptian governance that revise previous assessments of the role of forced migration und unfree labour in ancient Egyptian society and their long-term effects