Index
Aba
62–64
Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage, The
20–21, 64–65, 75
see Admonitions of Ipuwer, The
21
Aesop
81–83, 86–87, 92, 98
Aesop’s fables
81 n. 7, 82, 89
aesthetics
28–29, 31, 37, 40, 54
Akhenaten
5, 24, 26
Akhet
38, 61–63
Amenemhat I
20–21
Amenhotep I
16
animal idioms
87
Ankhmahor
59, 60–63
anthropomorphized animals
3–5, 7 n. 15, 8, 9 n. 1, 10–12, 15–16, 18–21, 23, 26, 28, 36, 41–43, 49, 54–55, 57, 65–67, 70–73, 75, 79–80, 86, 89–97, 100, 103, 105–107, 121, 126, 129, 131, 137–138, 156, 160, 163, 165, 167, 178–179, 181–185
“Agricultural and Food Production Scenes”
66, 97, 146–160
animal musicians
4n6, 18, 18n37, 41, 49, 66–67, 72, 92–93, 161–167
banqueting
3, 39, 43–44, 46, 94, 118
board games
18, 41, 47
“The Boy, Cat, and Mouse”
66n38, 67, 133, 173–175
The Cat and Mouse War
13, 19, 42, 51, 91, 94
“Chariot Riding”
66–67, 140–143
“The Distant Goddess and the Cat/Vulture Fable”
66–67
“Elite Animals and Offering Scenes”
66n38, 66–67, 110–139
“The Hippopotamus and the Crow”
66–67, 176–177
Pastoral
41, 45, 47, 50, 53, 97, 105
“Religious Scenes”
66–67, 144–145
role-reversals
4, 13, 16, 18, 20–21, 41, 90, 92, 97
“Unclear/Miscellaneous”
66–67, 178–189
Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig Papyrus
ix, 3–4, 48–49, 51, 108
aspective
39, 41, 163
Bastet
99
Belly and the Members, The
83, 98
birds
4, 41, 50, 52–53, 67, 70–71, 97, 103, 105, 146, 149–153, 158, 160, 169
Book of the Dead
15, 35
Book of the Heavenly Cow, The
77, 99
British Museum Papyrus
45–48, 51–54, 67, 93, 97, 105–106
Cairo Papyrus
4, 45, 47, 51, 109
canines
4, 13, 15, 18 n. 35, 44–48, 51–53, 93–94, 103, 105–106, 108–109, 111–112, 118–119, 124, 129, 131–132, 134, 136, 139, 144–145, 151, 157, 162–164, 166, 184, 188
canon of proportions
39
caprids
4, 41, 45, 47, 105, 165, 167
cats
4, 8, 12 n. 18, 13, 18–19, 41–47, 49–53, 66–67, 69–70, 73, 91–99, 103, 105–113, 115–119, 121–123, 125, 127–130, 133, 135, 138, 141, 145–150, 152–153, 156, 158, 168–175, 182, 184–185, 189
Cat/Vulture Fable
66–67, 70, 97
comics
8, 58, 64
Contendings of Horus and Seth, The
21, 77–78
Contracts
31–32
craft
28–30
crocodiles
61
daily life scenes
55–56
Deir el-Bahri
98–99
Deir el-Medina
1, 5, 9–12, 14, 16, 20, 22–26, 33 n. 24, 35, 37, 39–41, 74, 75 n. 58, 80, 84, 86, 91–92, 95–96, 98, 99 n. 67, 103, 105
Dispute between the Head and the Stomach
83
Distant Goddess
8, 26, 66–67, 69–70, 72–73, 75, 84, 94, 96–100, 103, 168
donkeys
48–49, 52 n. 63, 90, 108, 159, 180
Doomed Prince, The
70
Duat
61–63
Eloquent Peasant, The
64–65, 75
el-Amarna
5, 23–26
Etana Legend
86, 97
fables
8, 19, 65 n. 34, 66–67, 69–73, 79–84, 86–91, 94, 96–98, 103
Fable of the Fox, The
87
fig tree
84–86
Fox and the Crow
87
foxes
46, 86–90
graffiti
54
Great Pit, The
9–10, 36
Great Tomcat
96
Hare and the Tortoise, The
82
Hathor
71–72, 95, 98–100
hemet
28
hippopotami
4, 36, 61
hippopotamus
15, 36 n. 36, 46, 50–51, 53, 75, 95 n. 55, 106–107
hippopotamus and crow
15, 54
hippotamus and crow
45, 50–51, 66, 176
Instruction of Amenemhat, The
22
Kemyt
22
King Khufu and The Magicians
64
lions
4, 16, 18, 45–46, 48–49, 86–87, 90–91, 102, 105–106, 108, 182
literacy
39
love songs
84, 86, 93, 99–100
Lukasa memory boards
68–69
ma‘at
16, 61
Medamoud
72–73, 91
Magician Hihor, The
71
Medinet Habu
13, 42
Meretseger
1
mice
4, 8, 12 n. 18, 13, 15–16, 18–19, 41–47, 51–52, 66 n. 38, 67, 73, 91–94, 97, 103, 106–111, 113–114, 116–118, 120–123, 126–128, 130, 133, 135, 137, 140–144, 161, 169, 173–175, 182
“Master of Animals”
90
military scenes
56, 64, 94
mythological constellations
76–79
mythology
8, 21, 26, 56–57, 67, 69, 76–78, 84, 86–87, 95–98, 103
narrative
5 n. 10, 7–8, 14, 19, 22–23, 27, 55–62, 64–65, 67–69, 73, 75–76, 79–80, 84 n. 17, 87 n. 29, 88, 91–92, 97–98
culminating scene
58
cyclic method
58
frame
8, 67, 71, 75
linear
7, 59
micro-structure
68
monoscenic
79
monoscenic method
58, 64, 75
simultaneous method
58
visual narratives
57
Nebamun
41–42
Nefertari
41
New Year’s Festival
84, 98, 100
Nubia
99
oral storytelling
5, 19, 66, 68, 76, 80, 90
ostraca
ix, 1, 3–5, 7 n. 15, 9–13, 15–16, 18, 20, 22–23, 26–28, 31, 33, 36–37, 39, 41–45, 47, 51–54, 56, 65–70, 73–76, 79–80, 91, 93–97, 100, 103, 110, 118–119, 133–134, 145, 152, 154, 156, 160, 163–164, 166–167, 169–175, 178, 181, 185, 189
apprenticeship
10
as drafts
1, 51, 54
as storytelling aids
98
as votives
1, 10, 36, 98, 100, 103
figured
1, 3 5, 7 n. 15, 8–12, 23, 26, 33, 36, 39, 41–44, 46, 53–55, 65–66, 70, 73, 79, 92–94, 96–98
textual
1, 9–11, 22, 26, 31, 35–37, 68, 70, 73–74, 81, 100, 115
Ox and the Horse, The
86, 88
papyrus
3–5, 7–8, 13, 18–23, 26–28, 33, 35–37, 41–43, 45–52, 54–56, 65, 67–70, 74–76, 79–80, 91, 93–95, 97, 99 n. 69, 100, 103, 105–109, 165, 173–174
Papyrus Lansing
74
parody
12, 15 n. 31, 16, 42, 74, 94, 182
pomegranate tree
84–86
primates
4, 26, 72, 96
baboons
4, 67, 69, 71–72, 94–96
monkeys
4 n. 6, 49, 96
Prophecies of Neferty, The
20–21, 64–65, 75
Prophecy of the Lamb, The
70
Pyramid Texts
60–61
rabbits
86–87, 89
Rameses V
16
Rameses VI
16
RamesseS III
14
Ramesses V
21
Ramesseum
13–14, 42
Re
96, 99
Roman de Renart
87
satire
4, 8, 12–13, 15–16, 18–19, 21, 92
Satire of the Trades, The
22
scribal education
10, 22, 75
Sekhmet
99
Sennedjem
40
Serabit el-Khadim
99
shalmu
29
Shipwrecked Sailor, The
65, 70
Snake and the Eagle, The
86, 97
Songs of the Orchard, The
84, 86, 100
spanking scenes
74
St. Thomas Aquinas
32
Sumerian contest literature
83–84, 87 n. 30, 98, 100 n. 71
Swallow and the Sea, The
71
sycamore tree
84–86, 99
Tamarisk and the Palm, The
84, 86
Tefnut
67, 69, 73, 84, 94–99, 168, 170
Tell Halaf
91
Temple of Dakka
96
Temple of Hathor, Philae
71
Thoth
67, 69, 94–98, 168, 170
Thutmose III
15
Thutmosis (sculptor)
25, 98 n. 64
Timna
99
Turin Papyrus
4, 12 n. 18, 13, 15 n. 31, 21, 27, 35, 42, 45, 49–54, 65 n. 34, 67, 94, 100
Turin Strike Papyrus
15
Valley of the Kings
5, 9, 11–12, 16, 25
Valley of the Queens
5, 9 n. 1, 25
zoomorphism
15, 95–96, 99