December 2024 Supporter Q&A

Kara and Jordan answer supporters’ questions on the theme of “How do we study what we study?”Show NotesHow do you study coffins?* Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Egyptian Royal CachesHow 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 MuseumHow 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