Evil Egyptian Scripts : Abnormal Hieratic, Demotic and Hieratic Texts and Studies in Honour of Koenraad Donker van Heel / edited by Cary Martin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martin, Cary, editor.

Series:

Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; 43.

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; 43

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Egyptian language--Writing.

Egyptian language.

Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)--Egypt.

Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri).

Egyptian language--Papyri, Demotic.

Egyptian language--Papyri, Hieratic.

Ostraka--Egypt. .

Ostraka.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Abnormal Hieratic, Demotic and Hieratic Texts and Studies in Honour of Koenraad Donker van Heel

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Evil Egyptian Scripts comprises twenty-nine articles by colleagues and friends in honour of Koenraad Donker van Heel, University Lecturer in demotic papyrology at the Leiden Papyrological Institute. Donker van Heel's research interests embrace the study of demotic and hieratic texts and the legal and social history and economy of ancient Egypt, but he is especially renowned as a specialist in abnormal hieratic, widely regarded as the most difficult of all Egyptian scripts. His numerous textual editions and discussions of problematic readings have been enormously influential and contributed to an ever-increasing recognition of the importance of abnormal hieratic for the study of Egypt in the Third Intermediate and Late Periods. The articles in Evil Egyptian Scripts include editions of abnormal hieratic, demotic and hieratic texts, reading problems, discussions of legal, religious and socio-economic issues and onomastic studies. The timespan of the contributions ranges from New Kingdom Deir el-Medina, through the Third Intermediate and Late Periods and into Graeco-Roman Egypt. The volume is profusely illustrated with many previously unpublished images and supplied with detailed indices.

Contents:

Articles

1 The Unique Handwriting of P. GEM 66796: 'Stereotype or Otherwise?' / Hasnaa Abdellatif

2 wbn , la mesure comble / Damien Agut-Labordère

3 Family Matters: Adoption, Brother-Sister Marriage and a Mysterious Royal Decree in Ptolemaic Achmim / Gert Baetens and Mark Depauw

4 Une lettre de condoléances en démotique ancien / Michel Chauveau

5 A Thrifty Draughtsman at Work? / Rob Demarée

6 Un peu de démotique archaïque / Didier Devauchelle and Ghislaine Widmer

7 One Man's Trash Is an Abnormal Hieraticist's Treasure: an Abnormal Hieratic Account from Sheikh ʿAbd el-Qurna / Charlotte Dietrich and Elena L. Hertel

8 Two New Demotic Oracle Questions from the Tuna el-Gebel Necropolis / Mahmoud Ebeid† and Mahmoud el-Bokl

9 A Demotic Temple Oath from the Third Regnal Year of Domitian (84 CE ): P. Mich. inv. 296 / Marina Escolano-Poveda

1 Ermahnung eines spijbelaar in den Late Egyptian Miscellanies oder Sprachunterricht anhand eines bewegten Wortfeldes (pTurin A vso 1. 5-2. 2) / Hans-W. Fischer-Elfert

11 Mꜣꜣ(.n⸗ꞽ)-nḫt⸗f schreibt noch mehr Briefe: O. Ashmolean Museum HO 273 und O. Ashmolean Museum HO 67 mit einigen Bemerkungen zur Handschrift / Maren Goecke-Bauer

12 The Scribe of the Mat: an Update / Ben Haring

13 P. Dresden 828 Recto 11-13 / Friedhelm Hoffmann

14 Fragment of a Demotic Contract in the Form of a Sandal Sole / Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk

15 'Why Haven't You Called?' A Demotic Letter from the Tomb of Harwa (P. Dem. MAIL 2) / Richard Jasnow

16 All Quiet at the Western Front? Some Overdue Remarks on Truly Abnormal-(Hieratic) Personal Names, Dogs, the Libyan Wars, Abysses Found in Accounting and the Philological Neglection of Pottery / Robert Kade

17 The Birth House of Isis at Abydos in the Seventh Century BCE and Beyond / Anthony Leahy

18 No Striking in the Hereafter! On the Oracle Decree for the Ushebtis of Neskhonsu and Its Possible Implications / Alexandra von Lieven

19 Two Copies of a Model for a Lease Document: The Demotic Ostraca Athribis 19-36-91/5156 + 2-36-64/4564 and 19-36-3/1746 / Sandra Lippert

2 From Aramaic to Demotic: Papyrus British Museum EA 76274.1 / Cary J. Martin

21 Late Cursive Hieratic-Early Demotic Receipts and Ostraca from Medinet Habu / Brian Muhs and Foy Scalf

22 A Whoremonger or a Bottom? The F-word, Cursing, and Bottom-shaming in an Ancient Egyptian Literary Text (P. Wien khm äs 3877, col. III /3) / Luigi Prada

23 Ein abnormal-hieratischer oder protodemotischer Brief über ein Bauprojekt (pKöln Inv. 369) / Joachim Friedrich Quack

24 ḥnḥn and its Supposed d53 ( ) Classifier in Demotic pVindob D 6257 / Jonny Russell

25 A Roman-Period Horoscopic Ostracon (O. Brooklyn 16.58.579) / Kim Ryholt

26 A Study of Female Personal Names in Graeco-Roman Dime Including Observations on the Practicalities of Using Cross-Gender Names / Maren Schentuleit

27 A Scribal Palette from the New Kingdom with Ink Inscriptions in Context / Daniel Soliman and Grzegorz Nehring

28 A Saqqara Palimpsest Fragment with Scant Traces of Demotic Narrative / John Tait

29 Ein späthieratischer Brief aus dem nördlichen Oberägypten (P. Duk. Inv. 648) / Günter Vittmann

Back Matter

Index of Sources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-74497-5

9789004744974

OCLC:

1572092755

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004744974 DOI