The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology

Ivana Petrovic, Greece & Rome The editors propose turning away from the 'navel-gazing about the past', asking new questions, changing the theoretical methods, and creating multidisciplinary collaborations! Accordingly, the handbook aims both to provide a survey of the entire study of ancient Egypt and to solve its current problems by offering a range of multidisciplinary perspectives on Egyptology.

Ian Shaw is Reader in Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Liverpool, as well as Visiting Professor in Egyptology at the Northeast Normal University in Changchun, China. He has excavated and surveyed at the cities of Amarna, Gurob and Memphis, the Valley of the Kings, and the ancient quarrying and mining sites of Hatnub, Wadi el-Hudi, Gebel el-Asr, and Wadi Hammamat. His publications include the edited volumes The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (OUP, 2000) and Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (with Paul T. Nicholson; CUP, 2000), as well as The British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (with Paul T. Nicholson; British Museum Press, 1995) and Ancient Egyptian Technology and Innovation: Transformations in Pharaonic Material Culture (Bloomsbury, 2012). Elizabeth Bloxam is currently Visiting Professor in Egyptology at the Northeast Normal University in Changchun, China and has held an Honorary Research Associate post at University College London for the last ten years. Her research interests centre on ancient Egyptian society and technology with a particular focus on the social relationships and organization surrounding resource procurement in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean. She has directed multidisciplinary surveys and excavations in several ancient quarrying and mining sites in Egypt, including a current project in the Wadi Hammamat, and has published widely in international journals including World Archaeology, Journal of Social Archaeology, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, and Archeo-Nil.

Frontmatter List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors 0: Elizabeth Bloxam and Ian Shaw: Introduction: Egyptology in the twenty-first century: an historical curiosity or setting new agendas in multidisciplinary research? I. Egyptology: perspectives on a discipline 1: Andrew Bednarski: The nature and history of Egyptology 2: David Wengrow: Egyptology and cognate disciplines 3: Li Xiaodong: Egyptology in China 4: Florian Ebeling: Reception of ancient Egypt II. The natural environment: studying the macro and micro-level 5: Karl W. Butzer: Landscapes and environmental history of the Nile valley: a critical review and prospectus 6: Claire Malleson: Flora of ancient Egypt 7: Salima Ikram: Ancient Egyptian fauna 8: Elizabeth Bloxam: The mineral world: studying landscapes of procurement III. Archaeological landscapes: surveying, characterizing, and managing 9: David Jeffreys: Mapping and topography 10: Adel Kelany: Recording rock inscriptions: methods and challenges from an Egyptian perspective 11: Elizabeth Bloxam and Adel Kelany: Cultural Heritage Management in Egypt: community-based strategies, problems, and possibilities 12: Ana Tavares: Methods of site survey and excavation in Egypt IV. Material culture 13: Paul T. Nicholson: Introduction: studying materials and technology 14: Ian Shaw: Settlement archaeology and the contextualization of domestic artefacts 15: Bettina Bader: Ancient Egyptian pottery 16: Jan Picton, Janet Johnstone, and Ivor Pridden: Textiles 17: Aidan Dodson: Funerary equipment 18: Regine Schulz: Seals and scarabs 19: Salima Ikram: Mummies and physical anthropology 20: Corinna Rossi: Ancient Egyptian architecture 21: Campbell Price: Statuary 22: J. Brett McClain: Relief sculpture V. Egypt and its neighbours: revisiting cross-border relationships 23: Robert Morkot: Africa south of Egypt 24: Linda Hulin: The Libyans 25: Carolyn Routledge: Western Asia 26: Jacke Phillips: The Aegean VI. Egyptian history: exploring sources and interpretative frameworks 27: Stan Hendrickx: The Predynastic period 28: Ludwig D. Morenz: The Early Dynastic Period 29: Nigel Strudwick: The Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period 30: Wolfram Grajetzki: The Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period 31: Colleen Manassa Darnell: The New Kingdom 32: David A. Aston: The Third Intermediate Period 33: Tony Leahy: Egypt in the Late Period 34: Khaled Essam Ismail: The Ptolemaic and Roman periods VII. Society and culture: textual and iconographic approaches 35: Wolfram Grajetzki: National administration 36: Christopher J. Eyre: Local administration 37: Sandra Lippert: Law 38: Morris L. Bierbrier: Genealogies 39: Susanne Bickel: Gods, mythology, and cosmology 40: Richard Wilkinson: Symbolism and religious iconography 41: Alexandra von Lieven: Theology 42: Eltayeb Abbas: Funerary beliefs and practices VIII. Scripts and philology 43: Andreas Stauder: Scripts 44: Julie Stauder-Porchet: Lexicography 45: Sami Uljas: Grammar 46: Andreas Stauder: History of the Egyptian language IX. Textual genres: current positions and future directions 47: Jacqueline E. Jay: Orality and literacy in ancient Egypt 48: Ronald J. Leprohon: Historical texts 49: Denise Doxey: Autobiographical' texts 50: Bill Manley: Literary texts 51: John Gee: Socio-economic texts 52: Annette Imhausen: Mathematical texts 53: Rune Nyord: Texts for healing and protection 54: Deborah Sweeney: Letters 55: Richard Jasnow: Demotic texts 56: Terry Wilfong: Coptic texts 57: John Coleman Darnell: Rock art, rock inscriptions, and graffiti 58: Olaf E. Kaper: Ptolemaic and Roman temple texts 59: Ian S. Moyer: Greek and Latin sources X. Museology and conservation 60: Campbell Price: Museum collections 61: Maher A. Eissa and Ashraf el-Senussi: Egyptian museums and storehouses 62: Deborah Schorsch: Conservation in Egyptological museum collections Endmatter Index