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oi.uchicago.edu SAOC 70 Oriental Institute Titles of Egyptian Interest ESSAYS — all volumes available online — FOR THE LIBRARY The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago OF SESHAT oi.uchicago.edu Studies E S S AY S Presented Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization to Janet H. SAOC 69 Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut.José M. Galán, Betsy M. Bryan, Johnson F O R T H E and Peter F. Dorman, eds. 2014. Pp. lxx + 442; 284 figures, 6 tables SAOC 65 Perspectives on Ptolemaic Thebes: Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop. ROBERTK. Peter F. Dorman and Betsy M. Bryan, eds. 2011. Pp. xiv + 146; 77 figures, 5 tables RITNER, ed. L I B R A R Y Oriental Institute Museum Publications OIMP 39 Book of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt. Foy Scalf, ed. 2017. Pp. 376; 373 O F S E S H AT illustrations OIMP 38 A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Old Cairo. Tasha Vorderstrasse studies presented to and Tanya Treptow, eds. 2015. Pp. 232; 185 illustrations Janet H. Oriental Institute Publications OIP 141 Bir Umm Fawakhir 3: Excavations 1999–2001. Carol Meyer, with contributions by Lisa A. Heidorn, Salima Ikram, Richard L. Jaeschke, Thomas C. Roby, and Wendy Johnson Smith. 2014. Pp. xxviii + 172; 48 figures, 132 plates, 9 tables OIP 133 Baked Clay Figurines and Votive Beds from Medinet Habu. Emily Teeter. 2010. Pp. xxviv + 216; 21 figures, 2 plans, 132 plates, 1 table on the occasion of her 70th birthday Oriental Institute Seminars OIS 10 Household Studies in Complex Societies: (Micro) Archaeological and Textual Approaches. Miriam Müller, ed. 2015. Pp. xlii + 470; 208 illustrations OIS 9 Heaven on Earth: Temples, Ritual, and Cosmic Symbolism in the Ancient World. Deena Ragavan, ed. 2013. Pp. vii + 463; 174 illustrations edited by ROBERT K. RITNER STUDIES IN ANCIENT ORIENTAL CIVILIZATION NUMBER 70 • A FESTSCHRIFT THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ISBN-13: 978-1-61491-032-9 CHICAGO • ILLINOIS ORIENTAL PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES INSTITUTE oi.uchicago.edu i ESSAYS FOR THE LIBRARY OF SESHAT oi.uchicago.edu ii ESSAYS FOR THE It is the library of Seshat the great, the mansion of records of Isis. LIBRARY OF SESHAT Philae library dedication, J. F. Champollion, Notices descriptives, 1844, Vol. I, p. 193. Berlin Philae 856, Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften oi.uchicago.edu iii ESSAYS FOR THE LIBRARY OF SESHAT Studies Presented to Janet H. Johnson on the Occasion of Her 70th Birthday edited by ROBERT K. RITNER This celebratory volume is underwritten by Marjorie M. Fisher in honor of her colleague, mentor, and friend Janet H. Johnson STUDIES IN ANCIENT ORIENTAL CIVILIZATION • NUMBER 70 THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CHICAGO • ILLINOIS oi.uchicago.edu iv isbn-13: 978-1-61491-032-9 issn: 0081-7554 lccn: 2017963199 The Oriental Institute, Chicago. © 2017 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Published 2017. Printed in the United States of America Series Editors Thomas G. Urban, Charissa Johnson, and Leslie Schramer with the assistance of Rebecca Cain, Alexandra Cornacchia, and Emily Smith Cover by Charissa Johnson Figure of Seshat, goddess of writing. Retouched detail of plate 468, Medinet Habu VI. Epigraphic Survey. Oriental Institute Publications 84. Chicago, 1963 Printed through Four Colour Print Group by Jostens, Inc., Clarksville, Tennessee USA This paper meets the requirements of ANSI Z39.48-1984 (Permanence of Paper) oi.uchicago.edu v Table of Contents Publications of Janet H. Johnson. John A. Larson, University of Chicago ....................................... vii Introduction. Robert K. Ritner, University of Chicago ............................................................. xi 1. The ABCs of Painting in the Mid-Eighteenth Dynasty Terminology and Social Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Betsy M. Bryan, Johns Hopkins University 2. Yellow Is Not a Metaphor for “All [That]’s ‘Fair’ in Love and War” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Lorelei H. Corcoran, University of Memphis 3. The Camel as a Sethian Creature .......................................................................... 41 François Gaudard, University of Chicago 4. A Ptolemaic Grain Account Papyrus (P. Vienna D. 13.534) .................................................... 53 Richard Jasnow, Johns Hopkins University 5. The Syntax and Semantics of the Particle ἰst in the Middle Egyptian Tales ..................................... 63 Jacqueline Jay, Eastern Kentucky University 6. An Indurated-Limestone Sphinx Fragment of Nefertiti in the Luxor Temple Blockyard ......................... 75 W. Raymond Johnson, University of Chicago 7. Were There Legal Form Books, Legal Casebooks, or Case Law in Ancient Egypt? ................................ 81 Thomas Logan, Monterey Peninsula College 8. State Making, Military Power, and Bureaucracy: Some Thoughts on New Directions in the ...................... 111 Study of the History of Bureaucracy in Egypt Joseph G. Manning, Yale University 9. “Completamente distrutte”: Réévaluation archéologique de Philadelphie du Fayoum, Égypte ................... 121 Gregory Marouard, University of Chicago 10. Fragments of a Late Roman Doorway at Medinet Habu ...................................................... 155 J. Brett McClain, University of Chicago 11. “Nonsense Burners” and Nomads ......................................................................... 171 Carol Meyer, University of Chicago 12. The Foundation and Purpose of the Settlement at Lahun during the Middle Kingdom: A New Evaluation ......... 183 Nadine Moeller, University of Chicago 13. A Loan Contract in Chicago from the Archive of the Theban Choachytes (Second Century BCE) .................. 205 Brian P. Muhs, University of Chicago 14. “Greeks” in a Demotic List O. Lips. ÄMUL dem. inv. 1422 ..................................................... 227 Franziska Naether, Universität Leipzig 15. Converters in Old Egyptian .............................................................................. 233 Hratch Papazian, University of Cambridge 16. Family of Priests in the Theban Tombs of Ahmose and R‘a (TT 121 and 72) ..................................... 255 Peter A. Piccione, University of Charleston, S. C. 17. The Origin of Evil in Egyptian Theological Speculation ...................................................... 281 Robert K. Ritner, University of Chicago 18. Fear of Hieroglyphs: Patterns of Suppression and Mutilation in Old Kingdom Period Burial Chambers ............ 291 Ann Macy Roth, New York University 19. An Embalmer’s Bowl with Demotic Inscription (Oriental Institute Museum E9115) ............................. 311 Foy Scalf, University of Chicago 20. Stela of Tamiw Naming a King Takelot (Liverpool 24.11.81.7) ................................................. 325 Cynthia May Sheikholeslami, Cairo, Egypt 21. Pectorals, Seals, and Seal Cases(?) ......................................................................... 345 David P. Silverman, Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania v oi.uchicago.edu v i Table of Contents 22. Transformation and Justification: A Unique Adaptation of Book of the Dead Spell 125 in P. Louvre E 3452 ........ 363 Mark Smith, University of Oxford 23. Djedhor Son of Usirwer in the Valley of the Kings .......................................................... 381 Steve Vinson, Indiana University Bloomington, Eugene Cruz-Uribe, Indiana University East, and Jacqueline Jay, Eastern Kentucky University 24. The Beginning and End of Coffin Spell 149: A Living Person Approaches the Netherworld Tribunal .............. 399 Edward F. Wente, University of Chicago 25. Revisiting the Egyptian Memnon: Landscape and Memory in Western Thebes ................................. 405 Jennifer Westerfeld, University of Louisville 26. A Saite Family Burial Assemblage from Nag el-Hassiya in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology ................... 417 T. G. Wilfong, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan 27. Security Conditions and Methods in the Middle Kingdom ................................................... 429 Bruce B. Williams, University of Chicago 28. Eine neue demotische Lebenslehre (Pap. Berlin P. 13605) .................................................... 441 Karl-Theodor Zauzich oi.uchicago.edu vii Publications of Janet H. Johnson John A. Larson, University of Chicago In addition to her authorship of the monographs, articles, reviews, and on-line publications listed in this bibliography, Jan has influenced and contributed to the scholarship of the field by her service as the Director of the Chicago Demotic Dictionary Proj- ect, the Director of the Annotated Egyptian Readingbook Project (Mellon Foundation), and in her work on the re-publication of the so-called Demotic Chronicle. From 2008 to 2009, she served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 1970 “Conditional Clauses in Onchsheshonqy.” Serapis 2: 22–28. 1972 Review of Enchoria, Zeitschrift für Demotistik und Koptologie, vol. 1 (1971). Journal of Near Eastern Studies 31: 138. 1973 “The Coptic Conditional Particles šan and ene in Demotic.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 32: 167–69. 1974 “The Demotic Chronicle as an Historical Source.” Enchoria 4: 1–17. Review of Karnak, by K. Michaelowski. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 33: 167–68. 1975–1976 “The Demotic Magical Spells of Leiden I 384.” Oudheidkundige Mededelingen uit Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden 56: 29–64. “A Demotic Magical Text in Leiden.” Serapis 3: 9–15. “Glossary,” to G. Mattha, The Demotic Legal Code of Hermopolis West, edited by G. R. Hughes. Bibliothèque d’Étude 45: 127–50. “Appendix B: Hieroglyphic Text,” to M. Gibson, Excavations at Nippur, Eleventh Season, pp. 143–50. Oriental Institute Communications 22. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Review of Ägyptische Handschriften, Part 1, Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Vol. 19/1, by Ursula Kaplony-Heckel. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 34: 280–81. Review of Ägyptische Handschriften, Part 2, Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Vol. 19/2, by Karl-Theodor Zauzich. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 34: 281–83. Review of Der Text der “Nilhymnus,” Klein Ägyptische Texte, by Wolfgang Helck. Journal of the American Oriental Society 95: 104–05. 1975 Review of Orientalische Geschichte von Kyros bis Mohammed, Lfg. 1A, Handbuch der Orientalistik, Abt. 1, Bd. 2, Absch. 4, by E. Visser and H. Volkmann. Journal of the American Oriental Society 95: 105–06. 1976 Review of A Visit to Ancient Egypt: Life at Memphis & Saqqara (c. 500–30 BC), by H. S. Smith. Bibliotheca Orientalis 33: 182. Review of Syntax of the Negative Particles bw and bn in Late Egyptian, Münchner Ägyptologische Studien 29, by Virginia Lee Davis. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 35: 214–16. 1977 The Demotic Verbal System. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 38. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. vii oi.uchicago.edu vviiiiii Publications of Janet H. Johnson Editor, with Edward F. Wente, Studies in Honor of George R. Hughes, January 12, 1977. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 39. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. “Louvre E 3229: A Demotic Magical Text.” Enchoria 7: 55–102. “Private Name Seals of the Middle Kingdom.” In Seals and Sealing in the Ancient Near East, edited by M. Gibson and R. D. Biggs, pp. 141–45. Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 6. Malibu: Undena. “The Dialect of the Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden.” In Studies in Honor of George R. Hughes, January 12, 1977, edited by J. H. Johnson and E. F. Wente, pp. 105–32. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 39. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Review of An Outline of the Late Egyptian Verbal System, by Paul John Frandsen. Journal of the American Oriental Society 97: 590–92. Review of The Demotic Ostraca in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, Collections of the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden 1, by M. A. A. Nur el-Din. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 36: 219. 1978 “Remarks on Egyptian Verbal Sentences.” Afroasiatic Linguistics 5/5 (May): 1–20. “The Chicago Demotic Dictionary Project.” Enchoria 8, Sonderband: 11–13. Review of Grammaire fonctionnelle et progressive de l’égyptien démotique, by Pierre du Bourguet. Bibliotheca Orien- talis 35: 35–40. 1979 Quseir al-Qadim 1978: Preliminary Report, with Donald S. Whitcomb. Cairo: American Research Center in Egypt. Review of Commodity Prices from the Ramessid Period, by Jac. J. Janssen. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 38: 68–69. Review of Dizionario di Mitologia Egizia, vol. 4, by R. V. Lanzone. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 38: 70. Review of Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica, vol. 6/7 (1975–1976), Miscellanea in Honorem Josephi Vergote, edited by P. Naster, H. de Meulenaere, and J. Quaegebeur. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 38: 138–39. 1980 “NIMS in Middle Egyptian.” Serapis 6: 69–73. “The Demotic Transliteration System Used by the Chicago Demotic Dictionary Project.” Enchoria 10: 5–6. “Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt, and the Red Sea Trade,” with Donald S. Whitcomb. Das Altertum 26: 103–12. “The Port of Quseir al-Qadim 1980,” with Donald Whitcomb. Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 51/6 (June): 24–26. Review of Fragen an die altägyptische Literatur, Studien zum Gedenken Eberhard Otto, edited by Jan Assmann, Erika Feucht, and Reinhard Grieshammer. Serapis 5: 60–62. Review of The Archive of Ḥor, Egypt Exploration Society, Texts from Excavations 2, by J. D. Ray. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 39: 232–34. 1981 “Demotic Nominal Sentences.” In Studies Presented to Hans Jacob Polotsky, edited by D. W. Young, pp. 414–30. Massachusetts: Pirtle and Polson. “Egypt and the Spice Trade,” with Donald S. Whitcomb. Archaeology 34/6 (November): 16–23. 1982 Quseir al-Qadim 1980: Preliminary Report, with Donald S. Whitcomb, American Research Center in Egypt Reports 7. Malibu: Undena. Review of Coptic Etymological Dictionary, compiled by J. Černý. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 41: 139–40. Review of From the Contents of the Libraries of the Suchos Temples in the Fayyum, Part 1: A Medical Book from Croco- dilopolis; Part 2: From Ancient Egyptian Hermetic Writings, Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der österrei- chischen Nationalbibliothek (Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer) n.s. 10–11, by E. A. E. Reymond. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 41: 301–03. Review of Textes grecs, démotiques et bilingues, Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 19, edited by diverse authors and published by E. Boswinkel and P. W. Pestman. Journal of the American Oriental Society 102: 396–97. 1983 “The Demotic Chronicle as a Statement of a Theory of Kingship.” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 13: 61–72. 1984 “The Use of the Particle mk in Middle Kingdom Letters.” In Studien zu Sprache und Religion Ägyptens: Zu Ehren von Wolfhart Westendorf überreicht von seinen Freunden und Schülern, edited by Friedrich Junge, pp. 71–85. Göttingen: Göttinger Miszellen. “Is the Demotic Chronicle an Anti-Greek Tract?” In Grammata Demotika für Erich Lüddeckens zum 15. Juni 1983, edited by H.-J. Thissen and K.-Th. Zauzich, pp. 107–24. Würzburg: Gisela Zauzich Verlag. “The Eastern Desert of Upper Egypt: Routes and Inscriptions,” with Lanny Bell and Donald Whitcomb. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 43: 27–46. Review of Sekhmet et la protection du monde, Aegyptiaca Helvetica 9, by Philippe Germond. Journal of the American Oriental Society 104: 361–62. 1985 “Quseir Project.” National Geographic Society Research Reports [1977] 18: 389–99. 1986 Thus Wrote ‘Onchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 45. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. “‘Focussing’ on Various ‘Themes’.” In Crossroad: Chaos or the Beginning of a New Paradigm, Papers from the Confer- ence on Egyptian Grammar, Helsingor, 28–30 May 1986, “CNI Publications, vol. 1,” edited by Gertie Englund and Paul John Frandsen, pp. 401–10. Copenhagen: Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Near East Studies. oi.uchicago.edu Publications of Janet H. Johnson ix “The Role of the Egyptian Priesthood in Ptolemaic Egypt.” In Egyptological Studies in Honor of Richard A. Parker, edited by Leonard H. Lesko, pp. 70–84. Hanover: University Press of New England for Brown University Press. “Introduction to the Demotic Magical Texts” and translation of Demotic magical texts in The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, edited by Hans Dieter Betz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Review of Introduction to Sahidic Coptic, by Thomas O. Lambdin. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 45: 158–60. 1987 “The Use of the Articles and the Generic in Demotic.” In Aspects of Demotic Lexicography, Acts of the Second International Conference for Demotic Studies, held in Leiden, September, 1984, edited by Sven Vleeming, pp. 41–55. Leuven: Peeters. “Ptolemaic Bureaucracy from an Egyptian Point of View.” In The Organization of Power: Aspects of Administration in the Ancient, Medieval and Ottoman Middle East, a Symposium held at the University of Chicago, Spring, 1983, edited by M. Gibson and R. Biggs, pp. 141–49. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 46 (reprinted 1991). Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Review of Studies on Ptolemaic Memphis, Studia Hellenistica 24, by Dorothy J. Crawford, Jan Quaegebeur, and Willy Clarysse. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 46: 323–24. 1989 “A Royal Head from Luxor,” with Donald Whitcomb. In Essays in Ancient Civilization Presented to Helene J. Kantor, edited by Albert Leonard, Jr., and Bruce Beyer Williams, pp. 135–48, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 47. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. 1990 “Multiple Meaning and Ambiguity in the ‘Demotic Chronicle’,” with Robert K. Ritner. In Studies in Egyptology Presented to Miriam Lichtheim, edited by Sarah Israelit-Groll. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, pp. 494–506. 1990 “L’Egiziano,” section 2 of chapter 3 “Linguistica del Vicino e Medio Oriente.” In Storia Della Linguistica, edited by Giulio C. Lepschy, vol. 1, pp. 86–96. Bologna: Mulino. (English language version in press) 1991 Thus Wrote ‘Onchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 45. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2nd revised edition. 1992 Editor, Life in a Multi-cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine (and Beyond), Proceedings of the Symposium held in Chicago, September, 1990. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 51. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. 1994 “Text Abbreviations Used by the Chicago Demotic Dictionary Including All References Cited as of June 20, 1988.” Enchoria 21: 128–41. “The Persians and Continuity of Egyptian Culture.” In Achaemenid History VIII: Continuity and Change, Proceedings of the Last Achaemenid History Workshop (held in Ann Arbor, Spring 1990), edited by Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg, Amélie Kuhrt, and Margaret Cool Root, pp. 149–59. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten. Translated to Persian in volume 4 of the Book of Persia (Teheran, 2006). “‘Annuity Contracts’ and Marriage.” In For His Ka, Essays Offered in Memory of Klaus Baer, edited by David P. Silver- man, pp. 113–32. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 55. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. “Computers, Graphics, and Papyrology.” In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrologists, Copenha- gen, 23–29 August 1992, edited by Adam Bulow-Jacobsen, pp. 618–20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen. Review of Life of the Ancient Egyptians, by Eugen Strouhal, with photographs by Werner Forman, translated by Deryck Viney. The Classical Bulletin 70/1: 31–33. “Computers, Graphics, and Papyrology.” In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrologists, Copenha- gen, 23–29 August, 1992, edited by Adam Bulow-Jacobsen, pp. 618–20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen. http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/dem/cgp.html. 1997 “The Legal Status of Women in Ancient Egypt.” In Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven, Women in Ancient Egypt, catalogue accompanying the exhibit “Women in Ancient Egypt” organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum, edited by Anne K. Capel and Glenn E. Markoe, pp. 175–86 and 215–18. New York: Hudson Hill. 1998 “Women, Wealth and Work in Egyptian Society of the Ptolemaic Period.” In Egyptian Religion, The Last Thousand Years, Studies Dedicated to the Memory of Jan Quaegebeur, edited by Willy Clarysse, Antoon Schoors, and Harco Willems, pp. 1393–1421. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 85. Leuven: Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies. 1999 “Ethnicity in Persian Period Egypt.” In Gold of Praise, Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente, edited by Emily Teeter and John A. Larson, pp. 211–22. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 58. Chicago: The Ori- ental Institute of the University of Chicago. “Late and Ptolemaic Periods, Overview.” In Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, edited by Kathryn A. Bard, pp. 66–72. London: Routledge. “Speculations on Middle Kingdom Marriage.” In Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honour of H. S. Smith, edited by Anthony Leahy and John Tait, pp. 169–72. London: Egypt Exploration Society. “Textual Sources, Late Period.” In Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, edited by Kathryn A. Bard, pp. 793–95. London: Routledge. “The Chicago Demotic Dictionary Project.” In Textcorpus und Wörterbuch, Aspekte zur ägyptischen Lexikographie, edited by Stefan Grunert and Ingelore Hafemann, pp. 243–57. Probleme der Ägyptologie 14. Brill: Leiden.