The Second Intermediate Period model coffin of Teti in the British Museum (EA 35016)
This article publishes the model coffin British Museum EA 35016 bought in 1868 from the Robert J. Hay collection. It belongs to a military official called Teti and dates to the Second Intermediate Period. Its style of decoration with the high number of text columns on the long sides follows closely the full-scale coffins of the period found at Thebes and other places in Upper Egypt. The inscriptions with different spells spoken by gods are quite garbled but also have parallels on coffins of about the same period.
The Egyptian Inscriptions at Jebel Dosha, Sudan
Pending a more detailed survey of the site, I offer here, with the permission of NCAM, a few preliminary observations, with special reference to the Egyptian inscriptions.
Little women: gender and hierarchic proportion in Old Kingdom mastaba chapels
In an initial attempt to investigate what variations in comparative scale meant to the ancient Egyptians who created and viewed Egyptian art, I have considered the limited case of the wife represented with her husband in reliefs and paintings in his tomb chapel.
The Administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom The Highest Titles and their Holders
The purpose of this book is to study a group of the highest civil administrative titles of the Old Kingdom from the standpoint of the memphite region.
Sexual Peculiarities of the Ancient Greeks and Romans
This study looks at ancient Greek and Roman sexual practices from the point of view of their (implied) differences from modern western practices. There are eight major themes: sex and status, the ubiquity of sex, the body, body modification, violence and pain, having sex, viewing sex, and transgressions.
"Lost City" of Tanis Found, but Often Forgotten
The treasures found in the ‘lost city’ of Tanis rival those of King Tut’s. Yet for more than six decades the riches from its rulers’ tombs have remained largely unknown.
One accident too many?
Presentation of a skeleton discovered in the Sudan in the 1996/7 season of the Northern Dongola Reach Survey, sponsored by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society, in a small Kerma period cemetery (P37), south of Kawa. This skeleton exhibits an unusually interesting range of injuries, which are listed and discussed.
A question of authenticity and date: Roman copies and Ptolemaic originals
Egyptian-style sculptures from the Roman period are often dismissed as modern forgeries on account of their unusual proportions and stylised features. This article considers the Imperial Roman fashion of using Egyptian and Egyptianising sculptural representations concentrating on three statues of questionable authenticity.
The Middle Kingdom Stelae Publication Project
Presentation of a new project to publish 176 Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period stelae of non-royal origin in the British Museum. The example of stela EA 226 is presented so that the format to be adopted may be examined.
Some aspects of the non-royal afterlife in the Old Kingdom
Though textual evidence is meager, the difference between royal and non-royal funerary architecture clearly reflects two different visions of the afterlife. The tombs of the elite