Published since January 1, 1863

Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde

ISSN: 2196-713X

Edited by: Susanne Bickel, Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert, Antonio Loprieno, Stefan Pfeiffer

Editorial Board: John Baines, Elke Blumenthal, Julia Budka, Richard Parkinson, Kim Ryholt, Stephan Johannes Seidlmayer, Jean Winand, Tonio Sebastian Richter

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The "Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde", the oldest Egyptological journal, covers the whole field of Egyptology including Demotic, Coptic and Meroitic studies. The contributions examine the language, history, religion, art, and material culture of the ancient Nile valley. In addition, they deal with the history of Egyptology and with Egypt's influence on contemporary and later cultures.

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Volume 149 Issue 2

November 2022

Publicly Available October 29, 2022

Titelseiten

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Open Access October 29, 2022

Wolf-Peter Funk

1943–2021

Tonio Sebastian Richter

Page range: 124-127

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Open Access October 29, 2022

Wolfhart Westendorf

1924–2018

Heike Behlmer, Friedrich Junge

Page range: 129-132

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October 29, 2022

Zur Frühentstehung der Osirisliturgien an den Beispielen der Kapellen des Osiris Ptah Neb Anch und Osiris Neb Anch in Karnak

Martin Bommas

Page range: 133-149

Abstract

Papyrus Schmitt, dated in early Ptolemaic times, offers a clue to the earliest date of the writing of the mortuary liturgies of the Old and Middle Kingdom, which were transformed into Osiris liturgies. Mortuary liturgies were always recited from papyrus scrolls, as attested for example by the ritual Papyrus BM EA 10819 from the New Kingdom. Examples of Osiris liturgies on papyrus as part of the grave goods of private individuals are generally attested from the early Ptolemaic period onwards. At the same time, there can be no doubt that parts of the mortuary liturgies from the Old and Middle Kingdom were already performed in temples as part of the Osiris cult before their later canonisation on papyrus. In the following, ways of transmission will be presented that can explain the introduction of Osirian recitation texts into the temple cult before the beginning of the Ptolemaic period and thus before the point of time universally accepted for the canonisation of Osiris liturgies.

October 29, 2022

Hidden in Plain Sight: Saroy of TT 233 in the Tomb of Samut-Kyky (TT 409)

David Chapman, Susanne Binder

Page range: 150-157

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Attention is drawn to the official named Saroy with the title Overseer of the Hunters of Amun in the context of the banquet scene in the Ramesside tomb of Samut-Kyky (TT 409). This leads to a critical assessment of all the evidence to see whether it is plausible that the Saroy in TT 409 is the official known as the owner of TT 233 and the statues CG 42167 and 42168 in the Cairo Museum.

October 29, 2022

La tablette comptable British Museum EA 29558

Louis Dautais, Marc Gabolde, Kévin Birin

Page range: 158-181

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This article contains the edition and preliminary discussion of the writing-tablet EA 29558 kept at the British Museum. The document, written in hieratic, comes from the Hay collection and was purchased by the Museum in 1868. A followed translation is offered as well as a dating (mid-18th dynasty). This accounting document shows a circuit of production and distribution of the srm.t -beverage, most probably within the Theban region.

October 29, 2022

Zwei demotische Papyri aus Soknopaiu Nesos in der Sammlung der Universitätsbibliothek Utrecht

Charlotte Dietrich, Elena L. Hertel

Page range: 182-195

Abstract

This article is the first edition of two papyri with demotic script (pUtrecht, University Library, Demotic Ms. B6.7a and d+e, shortened pUtrecht, Dem. Ms. B6.7a and pUtrecht, Dem. Ms. B6.7d+e), which today are part of the collection of the University Library in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Due to palaeography and content, the fragments’ origin can be traced back to Soknopaiou Nesos. Both texts are of documentary content; one is concerned with the sale of a house share, the other is a receipt of a transaction involving wheat.

Open Access October 29, 2022

Fragment einer präparierten und linierten Kalksteintafel mit Auszug aus dem Hymnus auf Amun-Re von pBoulaq 17 (oDeM 1793)

Hans-W. Fischer-Elfert

Page range: 196-198

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The limestone tablet oDeM 1793 is known particularly for its representativeness as a writing medium. In the following it will be shown that the preserved hieratic text can be identified as part of the hymnus of Amun of pBoulaq 17.

October 29, 2022

The Shabti of the Lady of the House Iahhetep and the Emergence of Female Shabtis in the New Kingdom

Rahel Glanzmann

Page range: 199-212

Abstract

This paper is divided into two main sections. The first section represents the publication of a shabti preserved in the Musée du Louvre in Paris (Inv. No. E 3088). This shabti belonged to a Lady of the House named Iahhetep. It dates to the 18 th Dynasty under Pharaoh Thutmosis III. It is notable because it is one of the first known shabtis to exhibit female features in its outer appearance: the Hathor wig. The second section of this paper deals with female shabtis in general. It illustrates their iconographic variety and outlines their role as transitional figurines within the movement from mummiform shabtis towards the production of shabtis in the dress of daily life. Furthermore, female shabtis may have served as a vehicle of the owner’s self-presentation and may thus be regarded as a manifestation of the self-confidence and self-awareness of elite women of the period.

Open Access October 29, 2022

Patterns and Practices of Sign-Form Variation

Selected Examples of the qjs Logogram from the Fifth to Nineteenth Dynasties

Jordan Scott Miller

Page range: 213-227

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A survey of the forms and distribution of the hieroglyphic logogram for the town of Qis ( qjs ). A typology of sign-forms is proposed on the basis of sign lists and selected examples from the Fifth to Nineteenth Dynasties. Patterns in sign-form usage during the Old and Middle Kingdoms are discussed, and reasons for sign-form variation from the Old through New Kingdoms are suggested.

October 29, 2022

L’auteur de la porte d’Amon à Karnak

René Preys

Page range: 228-239

Abstract

The texts and images of the façade of the Ptolemaic gate of the second pylon of Karnak show similarities with the texts of the façade of the Ptolemaic temple of Esna. Numerous divine epithets are unique to those two compositions which also use similar grammatical expressions. The gate of Karnak was engraved during the first phase of the reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor. Work on the façade of Esna started five years later during the third phase of the reign. Comparisons between the two temple decorations suggest that both were composed by the same author.

October 29, 2022

Papyrus Havana Book of the Dead spell 194

A Versioned Copy of the Tribunal of the Dead or ‘Anubis and the Daemons’

Ivan Rodríguez López

Page range: 240-252

Abstract

Papyrus Havana has long being known as the source –among others – of a rare version of the Book of the Dead spell 194, commonly addressed as ‘Anubis and the daemons’ after Heerma van Voss, but until very recent no complete edition of it had been made. A detailed study of the spell copy is presented for the first time, including its reconstruction, transcription, translation and interpretation. Also, a comparative analysis of spell sequences from other related witnesses that connect p. Havana with the Book of the Dead tradition from the Twenty-first Dynasty and the Theban area is presented, along with the spell’s iconographic, textual and historical relationship with other sources like the fishers and fowlers with the net (BD 153) and the Reinigungsszene .

October 29, 2022

Mekes – Creating an Imagery of Kingship and Transmission of power in Ancient Egypt

Walid Shaikh Al Arab

Page range: 253-273

Abstract

The mekes was an important element of the royal ceremonial regalia. Started from the reign of the First Dynasty’s pharaoh Den (2914—2867 BC), the mekes was frequently depicted in reliefs, where the pharaoh grasps it in his raised left hand with the -flail in the other, while performing a ritual race during his coronation’s ceremonies. The aim of the present article is to build upon the analysis included in previous studies, to propose an accurate translation for this object and its meaning, and to demonstrate its political and socio-religious connotations communicated by its iconography. After a survey of previous studies, the question of its name will be briefly tackled, and an analysis of its attestations will be presented. However, given the largess of potential data sources, we have delimited the survey to the inscriptions of Edfu temple as a sample to the Ptolemaic and Roman temples.

Open Access October 29, 2022

The Destruction of ‘Mankind’

Sami Uljas

Page range: 274-280

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The phonological changes undergone by the word rmṯ , ‘person’, are shown to have clashed with its emblematic and almost logographic written form established at the end of the Old Kingdom. The orthography of the lexeme was highly resistant to alterations in its phonology, which resulted in two changes of its gender over time, from original masculine to feminine, and finally back to masculine. However, Egyptian scribes sometimes tried to solve this discrepancy, and in one instance such attempts resulted in what in Egyptology has often been assumed to be a separate lexeme for ‘mankind’. It is argued here, however, that the said word never existed and that its alleged attestations exemplify one solution to the particular mismatches between traditional writing and spoken form of the word rmṯ .

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Hans-W. Fischer-Elfert, Leipzig
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Sebastian Richter, Berlin

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Elke Blumenthal, Leipzig
Julia Budka, Wien
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Online ISSN: 2196-713X
Print ISSN: 0044-216X
Type: Journal
Languages: German, Multiple languages
Publisher: De Gruyter (A)
First published: January 1, 1863
Publication Frequency: 2 Issues per Year