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The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient cultures records. All hieroglyphic texts are composed of images, and large-scale figural imagery in temples and tombs is often accompanied by texts. Epigraphy and palaeography are two distinct, but closely related, ways of recording, analyzing, and interpreting texts and images. This Handbook stresses technical issues about recording text and art and interpretive questions about what we do with those records and why we do it. It offers readers three key things: a diachronic perspective, covering all ancient Egyptian scripts from prehistoric Egypt through the Coptic era (fourth millennium BCE-first half of first millennium CE), a look at recording techniques that considers the past, present, and future, and a focus on the experiences of colleagues. The diachronic perspective illustrates the range of techniques used to record different phases of writing in different media. The consideration of past, present, and future techniques allows readers to understand and assess why epigraphy and palaeography is or was done in a particular manner by linking the aims of a particular effort with the technique chosen to reach those aims. The choice of techniques is a matter of goals and the records work circumstances, an inevitable consequence of epigraphy being a double projection: geometrical, transcribing in two dimensions an object that exists physically in three; and mental, an interpretation, with an inevitable selection among the objects defining characteristics. The experiences of colleagues provide a range of perspectives and opinions about issues such as techniques of recording, challenges faced in the field, and ways of reading and interpreting text and image. These accounts are interesting and instructive stories of innovation in the face of scientific conundrum.

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The Oxford Handbook of
Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography
The Oxford Handbook of
Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography

Edited by

Vanessa Davies

and

Dimitri Laboury

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Oxford University Press 2020

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020930581

ISBN 9780190604653

ebook ISBN 9780190083731

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Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America

Contents

Introduction
Vanessa Davies and Dimitri Laboury

Form, Layout, and Specific Potentialities of the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Script
Pascal Vernus

The Content of Egyptian Wall Decoration
Niv Allon

The Egyptian Theory of Monumental Writing as Related to Permanence or Endurance
Boyo G. Ockinga

The Historical Record
Peter J. Brand

Egyptian Epigraphic Genres and Their Relation with Nonepigraphic Ones
Julie Stauder-Porchet and Andras Stauder

Designers and Makers of Ancient Egyptian Monumental Epigraphy
Dimitri Laboury

Audiences
Hana Navratilova

The Materials, Tools, and Work of Carving and Painting
Denys Allen Stocks

Recording Epigraphic Sources as Part of Artworks
Gabriele Pieke

When Ancient Egyptians Copied Egyptian Work
Tams A. Bcs

When Classical Authors Encountered Egyptian Epigraphy
Jean Winand

Interpretations and Reuse of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Arabic Period (TenthSixteenth Centuries ce )
Annette Sundermeyer

The Reception of Ancient Egypt and Its Script in Renaissance Europe
Lucie Jirskov

The Epigraphy of Egyptian Monuments in the Description de lgypte
ric Gady

The Rosetta Stone, Copying an Ancient Copy
Ilona Regulski

The Epigraphic Work of Early Egyptologists and Travelers to Egypt
Lise Manniche

Karl Richard Lepsius and the Royal Prussian Expedition to Egypt (18421845/6)
Christian E. Loeben

Nineteenth-Century Foundations of Modern Epigraphy
Virginia L. Emery

Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Scientific Developments in Epigraphy
Vanessa Davies

How to Publish an Egyptian Temple?
Claude Traunecker

Epigraphic Techniques Used by the Edfu Project
Dieter Kurth

The So-Called Karnak Method
Christophe Thiers

The Chicago House Method
J. Brett McClain

Typical, Atypical, and Downright Strange Epigraphic Techniques
William Schenck

Online Publication of Monuments
Willeke Wendrich

Tradition and Innovation in Digital Epigraphy
Krisztin Vrtes

3D Scanning, Photogrammetry, and Photo Rectification of Columns in the Karnak Hypostyle Hall
Jean Revez

An Assessment of Digital Epigraphy and Related Technologies
Peter Der Manuelian

Practical Issues Concerning Epigraphic Work in Tombs and Temples
Hanane Gaber

Graffiti
Chiara Salvador

Practical Issues with the Epigraphic Restoration of a Biographical Inscription in the Tomb of Djehuty (TT 11), Dra Abu el-Naga
Andrs Diego Espinel

Palaeographic Interpretation in the Wake of a Logic of Writing-Imagery as Applied to the Formative Phase of Writing in the Pre- and Early Dynastic Periods
Ludwig Morenz

Reading, Editing, and Appreciating the Texts of Greco-Roman Temples
Laure Pantalacci

History of Recording Demotic Epigraphy
Jan Moje

Aspects of the Relationships between the Community of Sheikh Abd al-Qurna and Ancient Egyptian Monuments
Andrew Bednarski and Gemma Tully

The Significance of Medium in Palaeographic Study
Dimitri Meeks

Hieroglyphic Palaeography
Frdric Servajean

Methods, Tools, and Perspectives of Hieratic Palaeography
Stphane Polis

Carved Hybrid Script
Mohamed Sherif Ali

Cursive Hieroglyphs in the Book of the Dead
Rita Lucarelli

Some Issues in and Perhaps a New Methodology for Abnormal Hieratic
Koenraad Donker van Heel

Demotic Palaeography
Joachim Quack , Jannik Korte , Fabian Wespi , and Claudia Maderna-Sieben

Issues and Methodologies in Coptic Palaeography
Anne Boudhors

Digital Palaeography of Hieratic
Svenja A. Glden , Celia Krause , and Ursula Verhoeven

Hieratic Palaeography in Literary and Documentary Texts from Deir el-Medina
Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert

First, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to Stefan Vranka, our editor at Oxford University Press and a figure ubiquitous in the field of the ancient Mediterranean world, for his constant support as we worked on this Handbook. His enthusiasm for the project and his realization of the great need for it was clear from our very first meeting. Sarah Svendsen, John Veranes, and Alexia Sereti, also of Oxford University Press, provided us with much assistance along the way. At the beginning of the project, Georgia Irby generously shared her expertise after having recently edited a large collected volume. We dodged a few issues that we would not have foreseen except for her advice. A number of people helped us in our early stages, including Terry Wilfong, Betsy Bryan, Glenn Godenho, Joyce Tyldesley, Ray Johnson, Violaine Chauvet, Simon Connor, Hughes Tavier, and Stphane Polis. Many of the authors in this Handbook shared their time with us, discussing issues related to the web side of this project, including Ginger Emery, Chiara Salvador, Hanane Gaber, and Jan Moje. On a sad note, one of our intended authors, Brian Curran, died after a long illness. In terms of scholarship, he has left a great legacy in art history, Classics, and Egyptology, and his passing is a great loss for all three fields. At the Egypt Exploration Society, Carl Graves and Brigitte Balanda were so helpful when Vanessa visited there to research her chapter. Other colleagues who assisted us during this process include JJ Shirley, Carol Redmount, Ben Porter, Ron Hendel, and Michael Nylan. Warm thanks are due also to Serge Rosmorduc for allowing free access to JSesh, his invaluable word processor for hieroglyphic texts. Finally, we gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the American Research Center in Egypt. Generous support from their Antiquities Endowment Fund enabled us to include in this publication color images, which are vital to illustrate the points made by the authors.

Mohamed Sherif Ali is Lecturer Professor, Department of Egyptology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitt Bonn, Associate Professor of Egyptology, Cairo University
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