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? * 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 Get full access to Ancient/Now at ancientnow.substack.com/subscribe