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

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