This study's research question raises the issue of the paradoxical nature of the Egyptian canon of representation which shows, simultaneously, a certain rigidity in the application of established stylistic and iconographic rules, especially in non-state commissioned art, and evi…
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This dissertation focuses on the dissemination and use of texts originally used in royal pyramids during the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom. As late as the reign of Unas (ca. 2375-2345 BCE), the prominent priesthood at Memphis undertook the task of fixing these…
The Disillusioned Man and His ba is a text of Egyptian wisdom literature, written in hieratic, and found on the recto of Papyrus Berlin 3024, presently housed in the collection of Berlin's Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung. It was probably originally composed during the Mid…
This dissertation is the first detailed description and in-depth analysis of the Middle Kingdom (2055–1650 B.C.) ceramic assemblage from the archaeological site of North Abydos, Egypt. It focuses on the pottery from an area just outside the main temple of the god Osiris, which w…
At the end of the Old Kingdom, collections of religious texts began to be inscribed upon the interior walls of the pyramid tombs of kings and queens. As is now widely recognized, this corpus of texts, called "the Pyramid Texts", constitutes the first stage of the Egyptian mortua…
The bronze statuary of certain non-royal personages is investigated---more specifically, the ancient Egyptian priest. Recent studies of ancient Egyptian bronze sculpture have focussed on royal bronzes (Hill 2004) and bronzes of deities (Gasser 2001); bronze statuary of the priva…
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…
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…
During excavations at the Middle Kingdom settlement site of Kahun Petrie assembled a corpus of over 600 objects (mainly sherds but also a few wooden implements) incised with marks. These are now housed in British Museum, The Petrie Museum and the Manchester Museum, and constitut…