Introduction (Carolyn Graves-Brown) The Problem of Female Rebirth in New Kingdom Egypt: The Fragm... more Introduction (Carolyn Graves-Brown) The Problem of Female Rebirth in New Kingdom Egypt: The Fragmentation of the Female Individual in Her Funerary Equipment (Kathlyn M Cooney) Queering Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt (Thomas A Dowson) Power on their own: gender and social roles in provincial New Kingdom Egypt (Terence DuQuesne) 'People vs. P. Turin 55001' (Jiri Janak and Hana Navratilova) Breaches of Cooperative Rules. Metaphors and Parody in ancient Egyptian love songs (Renata Landgrafova) Rules of Decorum and Expressions of Gender Fluidity in Tawosret's Tomb (Heather Lee McCarthy) Boasting about Hardness: Constructions of Middle Kingdom Masculinity (R B Parkinson) Queer Egyptologies of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep (Greg Reeder) Did Women 'Do Things' in Ancient Egypt? (Circa 2600-1050 BCE) (Carolyn Routledge) The Bearded Woman and the Queen. The Formation and Transformation of Female Divine Classifiers (Racheli Shalomi-Hen) Gender and Requests in New Kingdom Literature(Deborah Sweeney).
The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume III
The Ramesside period saw the contraction of Egypt’s hegemony in the ancient Mediterranean, extrao... more The Ramesside period saw the contraction of Egypt’s hegemony in the ancient Mediterranean, extraordinary economic contraction and lessening monumental production, and generations of mass migrations, destabilizing Egypt. The period followed Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty, an apex of steady growth, consistent wealth, and high-quality artistic production under able and well-known kings to whom the Ramesside period kings are often compared to their detriment. Should one view the Ramesside period in a different way? Ramesside kings witnessed a steady decline of authority, experiencing palace infighting so intense that it resulted in two civil wars. This period was also punctuated by one of the most devastating social and global apocalypses the Mediterranean and ancient Near East had ever known—the Bronze Age collapse. The fall of the Twentieth Dynasty was part of a larger crisis in economic, political, and climatic systems, not a miscalculation of one or two dynastic families. When the Rames...
An international group of scholars have contributed to Joyful in Thebes Festschrift for the disti... more An international group of scholars have contributed to Joyful in Thebes Festschrift for the distinguished Egyptologist Betsy M. Bryan. The forty-two articles deal with topics of art history, archaeology, history, and philology representing virtually the entire span of ancient Egyptian civilization. These diverse studies present unpublished material or new interpretations of specific issues in Egyptian history, literature, and art history. Abundantly illustrated with photographs and line drawings, the volume also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Bryan's publications.
Cooney's The Cost of Death sets out to establish the social and economic value of funera... more Cooney's The Cost of Death sets out to establish the social and economic value of funerary artifacts (particularly coffins) and how such notions of value were arrived at during Ramesside-period Egypt (12951069 BCE). The funerary artifacts are located at the ...
This discussion will be centered on one ubiquitous and rather simple Egyptian object type – the w... more This discussion will be centered on one ubiquitous and rather simple Egyptian object type – the wooden container for the human corpse. We will focus on the entire 'lifespan' of the coffin – how they were created, who bought them, how they were used in funerary rituals, where they were placed in a given tomb, and how they might have been used again for another dead person. Using evidence from Deir el Medina, we will move through time from the initial agreement between the craftsman and the seller, to the construction of the object by a carpenter, to the plastering and painting of the coffin by a draftsman, to the sale of the object, to its ritual use in funerary activities, to its deposit in a burial chamber, and, briefly, to its possible reuse.
In the Twenty-first Dynasty, ancient Egypt was facing a number of economic, political, and religi... more In the Twenty-first Dynasty, ancient Egypt was facing a number of economic, political, and religious challenges and transformations. To compensate for a lack of imported resources and subsidized incomes, the Egyptian people were robbing and reusing the tombs of their predecessors. Royal coffins and mummies were collected by priests and placed in tomb caches, supposedly for their protection. In this article, the authors show how a detailed material analysis of the coffins in these caches can help reveal the social history of Egypt at this time. The coffins of Queen Henuttawy prove to be a combination of Eighteenth and Twenty-First Dynasty construction and decoration, and may provide insight into the actions of Third Intermediate Period priests. Following these pieces through to their modern excavation and display in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, it is evident that these objects continue to impact lives, acquiring additional layers of history and social significance.
After about 1,000 years of constructing pyramids for royal burials, Egyptians of the New Kingdom ... more After about 1,000 years of constructing pyramids for royal burials, Egyptians of the New Kingdom (ca. 1550-1069 BC) buried their kings in hidden tombs in the so-called Valley of the Kings. As with earlier state building projects, a town was established for the craftsmen working on the royal tomb and their families. The site of this town, Deir el-Medina in western Thebes, is one of the best preserved settlements from ancient Egypt. After the First World War and up to 1951, French archaeologists excavated at the site, under the direction of Bernard Bruyere, and excavations have recently been resumed by Guillemette Andreu of the Louvre Museum.
Introduction (Carolyn Graves-Brown) The Problem of Female Rebirth in New Kingdom Egypt: The Fragm... more Introduction (Carolyn Graves-Brown) The Problem of Female Rebirth in New Kingdom Egypt: The Fragmentation of the Female Individual in Her Funerary Equipment (Kathlyn M Cooney) Queering Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt (Thomas A Dowson) Power on their own: gender and social roles in provincial New Kingdom Egypt (Terence DuQuesne) 'People vs. P. Turin 55001' (Jiri Janak and Hana Navratilova) Breaches of Cooperative Rules. Metaphors and Parody in ancient Egyptian love songs (Renata Landgrafova) Rules of Decorum and Expressions of Gender Fluidity in Tawosret's Tomb (Heather Lee McCarthy) Boasting about Hardness: Constructions of Middle Kingdom Masculinity (R B Parkinson) Queer Egyptologies of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep (Greg Reeder) Did Women 'Do Things' in Ancient Egypt? (Circa 2600-1050 BCE) (Carolyn Routledge) The Bearded Woman and the Queen. The Formation and Transformation of Female Divine Classifiers (Racheli Shalomi-Hen) Gender and Requests in New Kingdom Literature(Deborah Sweeney).
The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume III
The Ramesside period saw the contraction of Egypt’s hegemony in the ancient Mediterranean, extrao... more The Ramesside period saw the contraction of Egypt’s hegemony in the ancient Mediterranean, extraordinary economic contraction and lessening monumental production, and generations of mass migrations, destabilizing Egypt. The period followed Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty, an apex of steady growth, consistent wealth, and high-quality artistic production under able and well-known kings to whom the Ramesside period kings are often compared to their detriment. Should one view the Ramesside period in a different way? Ramesside kings witnessed a steady decline of authority, experiencing palace infighting so intense that it resulted in two civil wars. This period was also punctuated by one of the most devastating social and global apocalypses the Mediterranean and ancient Near East had ever known—the Bronze Age collapse. The fall of the Twentieth Dynasty was part of a larger crisis in economic, political, and climatic systems, not a miscalculation of one or two dynastic families. When the Rames...
An international group of scholars have contributed to Joyful in Thebes Festschrift for the disti... more An international group of scholars have contributed to Joyful in Thebes Festschrift for the distinguished Egyptologist Betsy M. Bryan. The forty-two articles deal with topics of art history, archaeology, history, and philology representing virtually the entire span of ancient Egyptian civilization. These diverse studies present unpublished material or new interpretations of specific issues in Egyptian history, literature, and art history. Abundantly illustrated with photographs and line drawings, the volume also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Bryan's publications.
Cooney's The Cost of Death sets out to establish the social and economic value of funera... more Cooney's The Cost of Death sets out to establish the social and economic value of funerary artifacts (particularly coffins) and how such notions of value were arrived at during Ramesside-period Egypt (12951069 BCE). The funerary artifacts are located at the ...
This discussion will be centered on one ubiquitous and rather simple Egyptian object type – the w... more This discussion will be centered on one ubiquitous and rather simple Egyptian object type – the wooden container for the human corpse. We will focus on the entire 'lifespan' of the coffin – how they were created, who bought them, how they were used in funerary rituals, where they were placed in a given tomb, and how they might have been used again for another dead person. Using evidence from Deir el Medina, we will move through time from the initial agreement between the craftsman and the seller, to the construction of the object by a carpenter, to the plastering and painting of the coffin by a draftsman, to the sale of the object, to its ritual use in funerary activities, to its deposit in a burial chamber, and, briefly, to its possible reuse.
In the Twenty-first Dynasty, ancient Egypt was facing a number of economic, political, and religi... more In the Twenty-first Dynasty, ancient Egypt was facing a number of economic, political, and religious challenges and transformations. To compensate for a lack of imported resources and subsidized incomes, the Egyptian people were robbing and reusing the tombs of their predecessors. Royal coffins and mummies were collected by priests and placed in tomb caches, supposedly for their protection. In this article, the authors show how a detailed material analysis of the coffins in these caches can help reveal the social history of Egypt at this time. The coffins of Queen Henuttawy prove to be a combination of Eighteenth and Twenty-First Dynasty construction and decoration, and may provide insight into the actions of Third Intermediate Period priests. Following these pieces through to their modern excavation and display in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, it is evident that these objects continue to impact lives, acquiring additional layers of history and social significance.
After about 1,000 years of constructing pyramids for royal burials, Egyptians of the New Kingdom ... more After about 1,000 years of constructing pyramids for royal burials, Egyptians of the New Kingdom (ca. 1550-1069 BC) buried their kings in hidden tombs in the so-called Valley of the Kings. As with earlier state building projects, a town was established for the craftsmen working on the royal tomb and their families. The site of this town, Deir el-Medina in western Thebes, is one of the best preserved settlements from ancient Egypt. After the First World War and up to 1951, French archaeologists excavated at the site, under the direction of Bernard Bruyere, and excavations have recently been resumed by Guillemette Andreu of the Louvre Museum.
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