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Graffiti Quest
Proceedings of the workshop at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, 17 July 2023
Series: - Harvard Egyptological Studies, Volume: 29
In Graffiti Quest, you step into an Egyptian world where walls speak. Ordinary and extraordinary people pen and carve quick insults, political slogans, prayers, and proud declarationsâproof that ancient graffiti makers were just as likely to praise a king as to mock a colleague. This interdisciplinary volume invites you into the conversations sparked at a 2023 workshop, where archaeologists, historians, and epigraphers rethink how people engage with places and spaces. Featuring rare images, unpublished archival material, and fresh case studies, these proceedings offer you new tools and new stories that transform the way we read Egyptâs inscribed past.
Chloé Agar, University of Oxford, is a postdoctoral scholar and outreach specialist researching Coptic hagiography and the Late Antique and Early Islamic history of Egypt; she is also researcher in the Graffiti Gazetteer team.
Niv Allon, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is Associate Curator at the Met. Next to his curatorial work, he has published extensively on written culture of ancient Egypt, including his monograph Writing, Violence and the Military (2019), and two co-authored monographs on Egyptian scribes.
Linda Hulin, University of Oxford, is leading researcher at the School of Archaeology of that university. She specialises in maritime archaeology, the materiality of interregional contact across the eastern Mediterranean, and particularly the Levant, Egypt, Cyprus and Libya.
Hana Navratilova, University of Oxford, is tutor and fellow at Harris Manchester College, specialising in history and epigraphy of Egypt and history of Egyptology.
Tim Penn, University of Reading, is Lecturer in Roman and Late Antique Material Culture at that university. His research interests range from landscape archaeology to ancient board games.
Marina Sartori, Hamburg University and University of Oxford, is a postdoctoral scholar, active in several archaeological missions. She is currently leading the project Understanding Written Artefacts.
Niv Allon, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is Associate Curator at the Met. Next to his curatorial work, he has published extensively on written culture of ancient Egypt, including his monograph Writing, Violence and the Military (2019), and two co-authored monographs on Egyptian scribes.
Linda Hulin, University of Oxford, is leading researcher at the School of Archaeology of that university. She specialises in maritime archaeology, the materiality of interregional contact across the eastern Mediterranean, and particularly the Levant, Egypt, Cyprus and Libya.
Hana Navratilova, University of Oxford, is tutor and fellow at Harris Manchester College, specialising in history and epigraphy of Egypt and history of Egyptology.
Tim Penn, University of Reading, is Lecturer in Roman and Late Antique Material Culture at that university. His research interests range from landscape archaeology to ancient board games.
Marina Sartori, Hamburg University and University of Oxford, is a postdoctoral scholar, active in several archaeological missions. She is currently leading the project Understanding Written Artefacts.
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Figures and Tables
Chronology of Ancient Egypt
Introduction
âChloé Agar and Hana Navratilova
1 From Graffiti to Ready-Made Portraits: Perception of Self in Tomb Decoration
âAlexis Den Doncker
2 Cult Fusion or âSatyros Saved by Sarapisâ: Ptolemaic Elephant-Hunter Dedications in the Temple of Seti I at Abydos
âTim Moller
3 Inscriptional Devices in the Old Kingdom Eastern Desert
âVincent Morel
4 Script Tactics: Khawyâs Rock Inscription in the Valley of the Kings (14.6.183)
âNiv Allon
5 Variation in Sign Forms in New Kingdom Theban Graffiti as Spotted by Digital Methods: What It Can Imply and Its Limitations
âTabitha Kraus
6 A New-Kingdom Inscription in the Chapel of Khuwy at South Saqqara
âHana Vymazalová with contribution by Hana Navratilova
7 Extending, Intercarving, Overcarving: The Augmentation, Appropriation or Obliteration of Graffiti Gameboards
âTim Penn
8 Hieroglyphic, Aramaic, Coptic, and Pictorial Graffiti in the Northern Entrance Passage of the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur: Additions from the Manuscripts of Robert Hay, James Burton, and Flinders Petrie
âLea Rees
Index of Sites
Index of Subjects
Abbreviations
List of Figures and Tables
Chronology of Ancient Egypt
Introduction
âChloé Agar and Hana Navratilova
Part 1 Interactions
1 From Graffiti to Ready-Made Portraits: Perception of Self in Tomb Decoration
âAlexis Den Doncker
2 Cult Fusion or âSatyros Saved by Sarapisâ: Ptolemaic Elephant-Hunter Dedications in the Temple of Seti I at Abydos
âTim Moller
Part 2 Spaces, Surfaces, Hands
3 Inscriptional Devices in the Old Kingdom Eastern Desert
âVincent Morel
4 Script Tactics: Khawyâs Rock Inscription in the Valley of the Kings (14.6.183)
âNiv Allon
5 Variation in Sign Forms in New Kingdom Theban Graffiti as Spotted by Digital Methods: What It Can Imply and Its Limitations
âTabitha Kraus
Part 3 Operational Chains
6 A New-Kingdom Inscription in the Chapel of Khuwy at South Saqqara
âHana Vymazalová with contribution by Hana Navratilova
7 Extending, Intercarving, Overcarving: The Augmentation, Appropriation or Obliteration of Graffiti Gameboards
âTim Penn
8 Hieroglyphic, Aramaic, Coptic, and Pictorial Graffiti in the Northern Entrance Passage of the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur: Additions from the Manuscripts of Robert Hay, James Burton, and Flinders Petrie
âLea Rees
Index of Sites
Index of Subjects
Graffiti Quest is accessible to a broad range of academic and academic-related audiences. Its introduction will provide orientation in state of research and in terminology for students and early-stage researchers, and case studies provide material for early and advanced professionals. Outreach and impact specialists will find a wealth of material to engage with the ancient world in a novel way.