The topic of the dissertation is a study on the Ramesseum Dramatic Papyrus, a document that was discovered together with other papyri and funerary objects in a late Middle Kingdom tomb in Ramses II's funerary temple on the West bank of Luxor. The thesis will cover an analysis of…
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This dissertation is concerned with the site of Kom el-Nana, an Amarna period structure excavated by Barry Kemp in the Southern Suburb of the ancient city of Tell el-Amarna. Professor Kemp's excavations in the 1980s and 1990s unearthed a quantity of stone fragments that preserve…
New Kingdom occurs in ancient Egypt and is loosely based upon historical figures and events involving the rulers Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III circa 1480-1479 B.C. Prince Tuthmosis returns to Thebes and threatens the regency of Queen Hatshepsut, who is unwilling to let her stepso…
Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African-American intellectuals have made claims about the past in their literary works and this analysis primarily makes use of the literary works of Frances Harper and W. E. B. Du Bois and offers an archaeological theoretical applica…
This study is a methodical investigation of the ancient Egyptian priesthood appearing in the Memphite elite tombs of the Old Kingdom. The iconographic specifics of figures having singular priestly titles, or any hierarchical and gender variations of the same titles, were collect…
This study investigated persuasive strategies used in ancient Egypt and ancient China. In an effort to attain a better understanding of the utilization of persuasive tools from these two ancient societies, this study was completed by examining Ptahhotep's Maxims from Egypt and L…
Chapter 1: Using a novel combination of administrative and proprietary data from 2007 to 2011 on King County, WA (metro Seattle), I estimate the effect of owner-occupants' home equity on their probability of sale and, indirectly, mobility. I exploit plausibly exogenous variation…
The site of South Abydos was home to royal mortuary complexes of both the late Middle, and New Kingdoms, belonging to Senwosret III and Ahmose. Thanks to both recent and past excavations, both of these royal establishments are fairly well understood. Yet, we lack a clear picture…
A corpus of 217 wooden statues dating from the Egyptian Old Kingdom is examined and discussed in detail. 127 statues have been dated to individual reigns within the Old Kingdom and are placed in chronological order (Catalogue A). They form the basis of a chronological feature li…
This thesis explores the extent to which archaeobotany can contribute to the largely historically-based discussion of the role monasteries played in the Late Antique (4th - 7th centuries AD) agricultural economy in Egypt. The archaeobotanical assemblage collected from the excava…
The picture of Pharaonic crops and agricultural practice has been, for the most part, a limited and over-simplified portrayal. Several factors, including an over-confidence in the artistic and textual records, as well as certain taphonomic considerations of the generally well-pr…
Over fifty kings ruled in a period between 150 and 170 years during Dynasty XIII in ancient Egypt; some rulers held the throne for only a few years. This study reviews the chronological sequence of these kings and their means of legitimization and succession. It also examines th…
Human stature is simply defined as the height of a human body in an upright position. The ultimate stature can be obtained from the total addition of vertical length of several bones from the skeleton. Some of these bones are long bones, like femur and tibia; most of the bones t…
Among the vast number of texts to have survived from ancient Egypt, the corpus of literary tales forms one of the most well-known and extensively studied groups. Thus far, however, analyses of the tales have focused on individual texts and language phases without examining the r…
This dissertation discusses the corpus of Pyramid Texts copies recorded on the walls of the burial chambers of the Saite shaft-tombs in the Memphite and Heliopolitan cemeteries. Selections of Pyramid Texts spells were revived as part of the widespread process of Archaism in the …
In 1854, a radical interpretation of ancient Egypt was unveiled at the Sydenham Crystal Palace. Designed by Owen Jones (1809-74) and Joseph Bonomi (1796-1878), the Egyptian Court at Sydenham was a bold synthesis of Egyptian architecture, sculpture, and sacred writing in brick, p…