December 2024 Supporter Q&A

Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney

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

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