Volume 146, Issue 1

This article deals with the further exploration in tomb KV 38 in the Valley of Kings. In the course of this exploration in early 2018 I discovered more small mud-plaster fragments of the Amduat book. These different Amduat fragments can be identified as a part of the fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth and tenth hour of the book of Amduat. Therefore, these Amduat fragments prove that possibly the cliff walls of the tomb of king Thutmose I were originally encased and decorated with a complete corpus of the book of Amduat (long version). After an examination of the displayed scenes and their comparison with similar sections of the Amduat from tomb KV 34 it turned out that both specimens show clear differences and that both tombs have manifold artistic variations. Therefore, both specimen are originate from different reigns and were not made by the same king.

A Heliopolitan inscription in a temple door post from Sesostris I’s times was published by Daressy in 1903. It has since then been almost entirely disregarded by Egyptologists despite its relevance on Sesostris I’s policy regarding endowments to Egyptian temples. This paper is the first historical and philological study of such a document and it aims to shed some new light on Sesostris I’s reign. It comprises four parts —dating and purpose of the temple door post (I); general remarks on the text (II); transcription and transliteration (III); explanatory notes (IV).

First publication of P. Louvre E 7856 C, a documentary fragment from the archive of Djekhy & Son (abnormal hieratic and early demotic P. Louvre E 7832-7861, bought together with Ptolemaic demotic P. Louvre E 7862), which shows both abnormal hieratic and early demotic traits. It was most probably written in the reign of Amasis, and may have been a receipt for the payment of the tax of the overseer of the necropolis ( HD mr-X#s.t ) or – perhaps more likely – a memo about the payment of this (or another) tax.

Publication of a block statue (JE 36668) with a separate fragmentary base (JE 36669). Both objects came from the Karnak Cachette and are on display in the Cairo Museum. The statue owner, a man named Ḏd-ḥr, held a number of important priestly titles, such as: jt-nṯr , ḥm-nṯr , ḥm-ḏw , and rdwy-nṯr of Amun at Karnak. The statue can be dated, on stylistic grounds, to the post-Persian Period.

Identification of the currently sole known image of Giuseppe (Joseph) Passalacqua, the first director of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin

In the present study, when a comparison is made between the combination of divine attributes s ḫ m and onX represented at the end of the “long complete” cartouches, and those held by the divinities inside “synthetic complete” cartouches of Ptolemy V and Ptolemy XII, the reading sXm-onX-Jmn is acceptable. But, when the same method is applied to the cartouches of Ptolemy IX Soter II, the reading becomes problematic. We are trying, then, to examine the reading of the Coronation name of this king.

In the year 90 of the era of Diocletian, AD 373, an enigmatic incident occurs in Nubia. This event being related to the history of Philae in an important way, the present article is intended to identify its historical setting on the basis of archaeological and textual materials. Guided by a monument discovered in Tafa, we shall attempt to understand the circumstances of the incident and its significance in the southern frontier of Egypt.

A detailed examination of the individuals mentioned in TT 4, the family tomb of the sculptor Qen (ii) and his two wives, Nefertari (vi) and Henutmehyt (iii), and on other family monuments, demonstrates that Nefertari (vi) was the senior of the two ladies of the house. The male relatives included in the representation of the funerary procession, and the ritual roles allotted to the children of each wife, are also key pieces of evidence leading to this conclusion.

Publication of E.31, a Middle Kingdom stela from cenotaph 321 A’07, discovered by John Garstang at Abydos, currently housed in the Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool. The stela contains information about the family of the Bearer of Soil Iy at Abydos in the late Middle Kingdom, adding to Simpson’s ANOC 19. The archaeological context of the object is explored, and a full translation of E.31 is provided, as well as discussion of a heavily fragmented stela (321d) found in the same context by Garstang.

The present paper studies grammaticalisation of verbs in Coptic. Various (classes of) expressions found in this language can be shown to occupy different sections or ‘points’ on the continuum/cline of evolution of verbs posited in linguistics that extends from lexical items to auxiliaries, affixes, parts of other lexemes, and finally zero (nothing). The mechanisms that ‘push’ verbs along this continuum turn out to be those seen also in other languages, and the same holds for the semantic and morpho-syntactic signals thereof. Besides being of typological interest, this again emphasises the importance and necessity of studying Coptic from a more diachronic perspective.