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    Beyond Egyptomania : objects, style and agency
    (De Gruyter, 2020) Versluys, M. J.
    Neue Forschungen zum Nachleben Ägyptens
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    The Greenfield Papyrus : funerary papyrus of a priestess at Karnak Temple (c. 950 BCE)
    (Peeters, 2023) Lenzo, Giuseppina
    The Greenfield Papyrus (P. BM EA 10554), at more than 37m in length, is the longest funerary papyrus surviving from ancient Egypt. Its content is highly original because it combines spells from the Book of the Dead with a 'mythological' section, as well as with hymns and litanies stemming from the context of temple liturgies. Furthermore, the selection of spells from the Book of the Dead provides very important insights into the Third Intermediate Period (1069-664 BCE). The Greenfield Papyrus is also of central importance to an understanding of the evolution of the Book of the Dead, after the New Kingdom (1539-1069 BCE) and before the Late and Ptolemaic Periods (664-30 BCE). The owner of the papyrus, Nestanebetisheru, occupied a very important position as priestess in the temples of Karnak. Since this role probably gave her access to temple archives, she may have selected the texts of her papyrus herself
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    The sheikh's house at Quseir Al-Qadim : documenting a thirteenth-century Red Sea port
    (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2021) Strange Burke, Katherine; M. Goodman, Steven; Wetterstrom, Wilma
    This study of a thirteenth-century dwelling on Egypt's Red Sea Coast draws on multiple lines of evidence--including texts excavated at the site--to reconstruct a history of the structure and the people who dwelt within. The inhabitants participated in Nile Valley-Red Sea-Indian Ocean trade, transported Ḥāǧǧ pilgrims, sent grain to Mecca and Medina, and wrote sermons and amulets for the local faithful. These activities are detailed in the documents and fleshed out in the botanical, faunal, artifact, and stratigraphic evidence from the University of Chicago's excavations (1978-82). This compound eventually consisted of two houses and a row of storerooms and became the center of mercantile activity at Quseir al-Qadim. Over time, as the number of named individuals who received shipping notes addressed to the "warehouse of Abū Mufarij" increased, living rooms and storerooms were added to accommodate this expansion of commerce. While most merchants were dealing in textiles, dates, and grains, additional commodities traded included perfumes, gemstone-decorated textiles, resist-dyed textiles, and porcelains. Specialist studies by Steven Goodman on the avian faunal remains and Wilma Wetterstrom on the macrobotanical finds reveal that the compound's occupants enjoyed a diet of chicken and Nile Valley produce such as grapes and watermelon, and they were supplemented by high-priced imports: nuts and fruits from around the Mediterranean, along with medicinal plants from as far away as India, indicate the wealth and status of this family of merchants. The evidence from this small portion of Quseir al-Qadim yields a rich local story that is a microcosm of Nile Valley-Red Sea-Indian Ocean trade under the last Ayyubid sultans of Egypt
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    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, Amy
    This 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 Hope
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    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, Foy
    Through 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 1957