Ancient Egyptian Scribes

A Cultural Exploration

Hana Navratilova, Niv Allon (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-8395-6 (ISBN)

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The modern view of the ancient Egyptian world is often through the lens of a scribe: the trained, schooled, literate individual who was present at many levels of Egyptian society, from a local accountant to the highest echelons of society. And yet, despite the wealth of information the scribes left us, we know relatively little about what underpinned their world, about their mentality and about their everyday life.

Tracing ten key biographies, Ancient Egyptian Scribes examines how these figures kept both the administrative life and cultural memory of Egypt running. These are the Egyptians who ran the state and formed the supposedly meritocratic system of local administration and government. Case studies look at accountants, draughtsmen, scribes with military and dynastic roles, the authors of graffiti and literati who interacted in different ways with Pharaohs and other leaders. Assuming no previous knowledge of ancient Egypt, the various roles and identities of the scribes are presented in a concise and accessible way, offering structured information on their cultural identity and self-presentation, and providing readers with an insight into the making of Egyptian written culture.

Niv Allon is Assistant Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Hana Navratilova is an egyptologist and author of The Visitors' Graffiti of Dynasties XVIII and XIX in Abusir and Northern Saqqara (2007).

Credit list
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
1. Introduction: Exploring the Social Figure of the Scribes
2. Prologue - Writing Tools and Hands
3. Counting Grain and Painting Palette: The Tomb of Paheri at Elka
4. Senenmut: life at court
5. Writing History in Djahi: Tjanuni, the Military Scribe
6. Amenemhat: Anger and Graffiti
7. Tutankhamun’s Palettes: No King is a Scribe
8. Rising through the Ranks: Haremhab and The Case of a Scribal Palette
9. Dedia, the Memory Maker, and His Workers
10. Inena: The Elusive Copyist
11. Good Scribe - Bad Scribe: Papyrus Anastasi I and The Battle of Scribes
12. Djehutimose Tjaroy: Scribe in Times of Change
Epilogue
Glossary
Chronology
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Egyptology
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4725-8395-7 / 1472583957
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-8395-6 / 9781472583956
Zustand	Neuware