Bibliography of Ann Macy Roth
Books
Egyptian Phyles in the Old Kingdom: The Evolution of a System of Social Organization. SAOC 48. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1991.
A Cemetery of Palace Attendants: G 2084–G 2099, G 2230 + 1 and G 2240. Giza Mastabas 6. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1995.
Articles, Chapters, Entries
“Ahhotep II and Amenhotep I.” Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt 99–100 (1977): 10.
“Ahhotep I and Ahhotep II.” Serapis 4 (1977–1978): 31–40.
“Glass.” In Quseir al-Qadim 1978: Preliminary Report, edited by Donald S. Whitcomb and Janet H. Johnson, 144–181. Cairo: Nafeh Press, 1979.
“Maydum” and “Dahshur.” In The Academic American Encyclopedia. Princeton: Areté, 1981.
“A Preliminary Report on a Study of the System of Phyles in the Old Kingdom.” Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt 124 (1983): 30–35.
“Some New Texts of Herihor and Ramesses IV in the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak.” JNES 42 (1983): 43–53.
“Lebenzeichen Thutmosis’ IV,” “Uschebti Thutmosis’ IV,” and “Wurfholzmodel Thutmosis’ IV.” In Ägyptens Aufstieg zur Weltmacht, edited by Eva Eggebrecht, 359–361. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1987.
“The Organization and Functioning of Old Kingdom Royal Mortuary Temples.” In The Organization of Power: Aspects of the Bureaucracy in the Ancient Near East, edited by McGuire Gibson and Robert D. Biggs, 130–140. SAOC 46. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1987.
“The Organization of Royal Cemeteries at Saqqara in the Old Kingdom.” JARCE 25 (1988): 201–214.
“The Test of an Epigraphic Method.” Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt 141 (1988): 7–13.
“Tomb Group of a Woman,” “Model Equipment with a Pesesh-kef,” “Mastaba Chapel of Akh-Meret-Nesut and his Family,” “Slab Stela of Meret-ites II,” “Stela of Ahmose,” “Ancestor Bust,” “Model Coffin,” “The Social Aspects of Death,” “Heart Scarabs,” and “Pesesh-kef Amulets.” In Mummies and Magic: Funerary Arts in Ancient Egypt, edited by Sue D’Auria, Peter Lacovara, and Catharine H. Roehrig, 76–77, 81, 83–87, 94–95, 140–141, 149, 175–186, and 223–225. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988.
“The Bersha Procession: A New Reconstruction.” Journal of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1 (1988): 31–40. (co-written with Catharine H. Roehrig)
“Lid of an Anthropoid Coffin” and “Model Coffin and Shawabti.” In Mummies and Magic: Funerary Arts in Ancient Egypt, edited by Sue D’Auria, Peter Lacovara, and Catharine H. Roehrig, 133 and 136. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988. (co-written with Peter Lacovara)
“The Distribution of the Old Kingdom Title ḫntj-š.” In Akten des vierten internationalen Ägyptologen Kongress, München, 1985, edited by Sylvia Schoske, 177–186. Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur—Beihefte 4. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 1991.
“The Organization and Functioning of the Royal Mortuary Cults of the Old Kingdom in Egypt.” In The Organization of Power: Aspects of Bureaucracy in the Ancient Near East, edited by McGuire Gibson and Robert D. Biggs, 115–122. 2nd Edition. SAOC 46. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1991.
“The psš-kf and the Opening of the Mouth Ceremony: A Ritual of Birth and Rebirth.” JEA 78 (1992): 113–147.
“Fingers, Stars, and the Opening of the Mouth: The Nature and Function of the nṯrwj-Blades.” JEA 79 (1993): 57–79.
“Social Change in the Fourth Dynasty: The Spatial Organization of Pyramids, Private Tombs, and Cemeteries.” JARCE 30 (1993): 33–55.
“The Practical Economics of Tomb Building in the Old Kingdom: A Visit to the Necropolis in a Carrying Chair.” In For His Ka: Essays Offered in Memory of Klaus Baer, edited by David Silverman, 227–240. SAOC 55. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1994.
“Mycerinus.” In The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner. London: Macmillan, 1996.
“Building Bridges to Afrocentrism: A Letter to my Egyptological Colleagues.” Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt 167/168 (September and December 1995): 14–17 and 885–892.
“Building Bridges to Afrocentrism: A Letter to my Egyptological Colleagues.” Republished in The Flight from Science and Reason, edited by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt, and Martin W. Lewis, 313–326. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 775. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1997.
“Egypt and African-Americans: An Egyptologist’s View.” In The Howard Reader: An Intellectual and Cultural Quilt of the African American Experience, edited by Paul Logan, 436–439. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
“Osiris and Isis: An Egyptian Narrative of Re-Creation.” In Broad Sympathy: The Howard University Oral Traditions Reader, edited by Eleanor W. Traylor, Alphonso Frost, and Leota S. Lawrence, 8–16. Needham Heights: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
“Ancient Egypt in America: Claiming the Riches.” In Archaeology Under Fire: Nationalism, Politics, and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, edited by Lynn Meskell, 217–229. London: Routledge, 1998.
“Architecture of the Afterlife: Understanding Egypt’s Pyramid Tombs.” Archaeology Odyssey 1: 2 (Spring 1998): 56–61.
“Buried Pyramids and Layered Thoughts: The Organization of Multiple Approaches in Egyptian Religion.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge, England, 1995, edited by Christopher Eyre, 991–1003. OLA 82. Leuven: Peeters, 1998.
“The Absent Spouse: Patterns and Taboos in Egyptian Tomb Decoration.” JARCE 36 (1999): 37–53.
“The Ahhotep Coffins: The Evolution of an Egyptological Reconstruction.” In Gold of Praise: Studies in Honor of E.F. Wente, edited by Emily Teeter and John A. Larson, 361–377. SAOC 58. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2000.
“Father Earth, Mother Sky: Ancient Egyptian Beliefs about Conception and Fertility.” In Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record, edited by Alison Rautmann, 187–201. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
“Giza Cemetery Project: 2000 Season,” Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt 179 (2000): 6.
“Afrocentrism,” “Opening of the Mouth,” “Work Force,” and “Funerary Ritual.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, vol. 3, edited by Donald B. Redford, 29–32, 519–524, and 575–580. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
“Ancient Egypt in America: Claiming the Riches.” In Archaeology Under Fire: Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, edited by Lynn Meskell, 217–229. 2nd Edition. London: Routledge, 2002.
“Coffin of Ahhotep,” “Vulture Bracelet of Ahhotep,” “Fan of Ahhotep,” “Two Golden Flies of Ahhotep,” and “Mirror of Ahhotep.” In Quest for Immortality: The Hidden Treasures of Egypt, edited by Betsy Bryan and Erik Hornung, 106–109. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2002.
“Funerary Ritual” and “Opening of the Mouth.” In The Ancient Gods Speak: A Guide to Egyptian Religion, edited by Donald B. Redford, 147–154 and 239–298. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
“The Meaning of Menial Labor: ‘Servant Statues’ in Old Kingdom Serdabs.” JARCE 39 (2002): 103–121.
“The Usurpation of Hem-Re: An Old Kingdom ‘Sex-Change Operation.’ ” In Egyptian Museum Collections around the World: Studies for the Centennial of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, vol. 2, edited by Mamdouh el-Damaty and May Trad, 1011–1023. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2002.
“Magical Bricks and the Bricks of Birth.” JEA 88 (2002): 121–139. (co-written with Catharine H. Roehrig)
“Gender Roles in Ancient Egypt.” In A Companion to the Ancient Near East, edited by Daniel C. Snell, 211–218. Carlton: Blackwell, 2005.
“Models of Authority: Hatshepsut’s Predecessors in Power,” “Dagger of Thutmose I,” “Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple at Deir el-Bahri: Architecture as Political Statement,” “False Door of Thutmose I,” “Erasing a Reign,” “Lintel with Recarved Inscriptions,” and “Statue of Ahmose called Ruru.” In Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh, edited by Catharine H. Roehrig, 7–15, 147–151, 156–157, and 277–284. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.
“Little Women: Gender and Hierarchic Proportion in Old Kingdom Mastaba Chapels.” In The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology: Proceedings of the Conference, edited by Miroslav Bárta, 281–296. Prague: Czech Institute of Archaeology, 2006.
“Multiple Meanings in Carrying Chair Scenes.” In Dekorierte Grabanlagen im Alten Reich: Methodik und Interpretation, edited by Martin Fitaenreiter and Michael Herb, 243–253. Internet-Beiträge zur Ägyptologie und Sudanarchäologie 6. London: Golden House, 2006.
“The Representation of the Divine in Ancient Egypt.” In Text, Artifact, and Image: Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion, edited by Gary Beckman and Theodore J. Lewis, 24–37. Brown Judaic Studies 346. Providence: Brown University Press, 2006.
“Twisted Kilts: Variations in Aspective Representation in Old Kingdom Mastaba Chapels.” In Old Kingdom, New Perspectives: Egyptian Art and Archaeology 2750–2150 B.C., Proceedings of the Fourth Conference in Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology, May 2009, edited by Nigel Strudwick and Helen Strudwick, 234–243. Oxford: Oxbow, 2011.
“Objects, Animals, Humans, and Hybrids: The Evolution of Early Egyptian Representations of the Divine.” In The Dawn of Egyptian Art, edited by Diana Craig Patch, 194–201. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012.
“The Sakkarah Expedition.” In Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East, edited by Jack Green, Emily Teeter, and John A. Larson, 39–44. OIMP 34. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2012.
“Representing the Other: Non-Egyptians in Pharaonic Iconography.” In A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art, edited by Melinda K. Hartwig, 155–174. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
“Upper Egyptian Heliopolis: Thebes, Archaism, and the Political Ideology of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.” BES 19 (2015): 537–552.
“Fear of Hieroglyphs: Patterns of Suppression and Mutilation in Old Kingdom Burial Chambers.” In Essays for the Library of Seshat: Studies Presented to Janet H. Johnson on the Occasion of her 70th Birthday, edited by Robert K. Ritner, 291–310. SAOC 70. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2017.
“Gender Roles in Ancient Egypt.” In A Companion to the Ancient Near East, edited by Daniel C. Snell, 87–96. 2nd Edition. Hoboken: John Wiley, 2020.
“The Mapping of Landscape in Old Kingdom Mastaba Chapels.” In Weseretkau “Mighty of Kas”: Papers in Memory of Cathleen A. Keller, edited by Deanna Kiser-Go and Carol A. Redmount, 151–166. Columbus: Lockwood, 2023.
“Political Patterns in Pyramid Placement: Why Old Kingdom Pyramids Are Where They Are.” In In the House of Heqanakht: Text and Context in Ancient Egypt. Studies in Honor of James P. Allen, edited by M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, Silvia Štubňová Nigrelli, and Mark Lehner, 134–151. HES 16. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
Translations
Hieroglyphs without Mystery. Translation and adaptation of Hieroglyphen ohne Geheimnis, by Karl-Theodor Zauzich. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. Published concurrently by Thames & Hudson under the title Discovering Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Practical Guide.
Reviews
Review of Governmental Reforms in the Old Kingdom, by Naguib Kanawati. JNES 42 (1983): 154–155.
Review of In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Egypt during the Old Kingdom, by Jaromir Malek. JNES 48 (1989): 56–57.
Review of Mastabas et hypogées d’Ancien Empire: le problème de la datation, by Nadine Cherpion. JNES 53 (1994): 55–58.
Review of Die Opferformel des Alten Reiches unter Berücksichtigung einiger später Formen, by Günter Lapp. JNES 53 (1994): 147–148.
Review of Das Doppelgrab der Königinnen Nebet und Khenut, by Peter Munro. Bibliotheca Orientalis 53 (1996): 421–425.
Review of Pharaohs and Pyramids: A Guide through Old Kingdom Egypt, by George Hart. JNES 55 (1996): 66–68.
“Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History.” Review of Black Athena Revisited, edited by Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy MacLean Rogers. American Historical Review (1997): 493.
Review of Das Kind im alten Ägypten, by Erika Feucht. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 41 (1998): 118–121.
Review of Le mastaba d’Akhethetep: une chapelle funéraire de l’Ancien Empire, by Christiane Ziegler. CdE 73 (1998): 295–298.
Review of Untersuchungen zu Idu II, Giza: Ein interdisziplinäres Projekt, edited by Bettina Schmitz. JNES 59 (1999): 43–47.
Review of How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself, by Mark Collier and Bill Manley. Review of Middle East Studies 34 (2000): 89–90.
Review of Österreich vor den Pyramiden: Die Grabung Hermann Junkers im Auftrag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien bei der Großen Pyramide in Giza, by Peter Janosi. Bibliotheca Orientalis 58 (2001): 105–106.
Review of The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife, by Erik Hornung. Journal of the American Oriental Society 123 (2003): 394–395.
Review of The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara II: The Tomb of Ankhmahor, by Naguib Kanawati and Ahmad Hassan. JNES 63 (2004): 145–148.
Review of Die Wanddarstellungen im Grab des Mehu in Saqqara, by Hartwig Altenmüller. JNES 63 (2004): 142–145.