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Evil Egyptian Scripts
Abnormal Hieratic, Demotic and Hieratic Texts and Studies in Honour of Koenraad Donker van Heel
Series: - Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava, Volume: 43
Volume Editor:
Evil Egyptian Scripts comprises twenty-nine articles by colleagues and friends in honour of Koenraad Donker van Heel, University Lecturer in demotic papyrology at the Leiden Papyrological Institute. Donker van Heelâs research interests embrace the study of demotic and hieratic texts and the legal and social history and economy of ancient Egypt, but he is especially renowned as a specialist in abnormal hieratic, widely regarded as the most difficult of all Egyptian scripts. His numerous textual editions and discussions of problematic readings have been enormously influential and contributed to an ever-increasing recognition of the importance of abnormal hieratic for the study of Egypt in the Third Intermediate and Late Periods. The articles in Evil Egyptian Scripts include editions of abnormal hieratic, demotic and hieratic texts, reading problems, discussions of legal, religious and socio-economic issues and onomastic studies. The timespan of the contributions ranges from New Kingdom Deir el-Medina, through the Third Intermediate and Late Periods and into Graeco-Roman Egypt. The volume is profusely illustrated with many previously unpublished images and supplied with detailed indices.
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Cary J. Martin, MA in Egyptology (1978), Birmingham University, is Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, University College London. His research is focused on demotic texts and Late Period and Ptolemaic law and administration. His publications (over 50 books and articles) include Demotic Papyri from the Memphite Necropolis (2009). He is co-editor of Enchoria: Zeitschrift für Demotistik und Koptologie.
Contributors
Tabula gratulatoria
Preface
Bibliography of Koen Donker van Heel (Up to End 2025)
Abbreviated Literature
Text Editions and Re-editions in This Volume
Editorial Notation
1 The Unique Handwriting of P. GEM 66796: âStereotype or Otherwise?â
âHasnaa Abdellatif
2wbn, la mesure comble
âDamien Agut-Labordère
3 Family Matters: Adoption, Brother-Sister Marriage and a Mysterious Royal Decree in Ptolemaic Achmim
âGert Baetens and Mark Depauw
4 Une lettre de condoléances en démotique ancien
âMichel Chauveau
5 A Thrifty Draughtsman at Work?
âRob Demarée
6 Un peu de démotique archaïque
âDidier Devauchelle et Ghislaine Widmer
7 One Manâs Trash Is an Abnormal Hieraticistâs Treasure: an Abnormal Hieratic Account from Sheikh Ê¿Abd el-Qurna
âCharlotte Dietrich and Elena L. Hertel
8 Two New Demotic Oracle Questions from the Tuna el-Gebel Necropolis
âMahmoud Ebeidâ and Mahmoud el-Bokl
9 A Demotic Temple Oath from the Third Regnal Year of Domitian (84 CE): (P. Mich. inv. 2096)
âMarina Escolano-Poveda
10 Ermahnung eines spijbelaar in den Late Egyptian Miscellanies oder Sprachunterricht anhand eines bewegten Wortfeldes (pTurin A VSO 1. 5â2. 2)
âHans-W. Fischer-Elfert
11 Mê£ê£(.nâ¸ê½)-nḫtâ¸f schreibt noch mehr Briefe: O. Ashmolean Museum HO 273 und O. Ashmolean Museum HO 607 mit einigen Bemerkungen zur Handschrift
âMaren Goecke-Bauer
12 The Scribe of the Mat: an Update
âBen Haring
13 P. Dresden 828 Recto 11â13
âFriedhelm Hoffmann
14 Fragment of a Demotic Contract in the Form of a Sandal Sole
âFrancisca A.J. Hoogendijk
15 âWhy Havenât You Called?â A Demotic Letter from the Tomb of Harwa (P. Dem. MAIL 2)
âRichard Jasnow
16 All Quiet at the Western Front? Some Overdue Remarks on Truly Abnormal-(Hieratic) Personal Names, Dogs, the Libyan Wars, Abysses Found in Accounting and the Philological Neglection of Pottery
âRobert Kade
17 The Birth House of Isis at Abydos in the Seventh Century BCE and Beyond
âAnthony Leahy
18 No Striking in the Hereafter! On the Oracle Decree for the Ushebtis of Neskhonsu and Its Possible Implications
âAlexandra von Lieven
19 Two Copies of a Model for a Lease Document: the Demotic Ostraca Athribis 19-36-91/5156Â + 20-36-64/4564 and 19-36-30/1746
âSandra Lippert
20 From Aramaic to Demotic: Papyrus British Museum EA 76274.1
âCary J. Martin
21 Late Cursive HieraticâEarly Demotic Receipts and Ostraca from Medinet Habu
âBrian Muhs and Foy Scalf
22 A Whoremonger or a Bottom? The F-word, Cursing, and Bottom-shaming in an Ancient Egyptian Literary Text (P. Wien KHM ÃS 3877, col. III/3)
âLuigi Prada
23 Ein abnormal-hieratischer oder protodemotischer Brief über ein Bauprojekt (pKöln Inv. 3609)
âJoachim Friedrich Quack
24 ḥnḥn and its Supposed D53 (ðº) Classifier in Demotic pVindob D 6257
âJonny Russell
25 A Roman-Period Horoscopic Ostracon (O. Brooklyn 16.580.579)
âKim Ryholt
26 A Study of Female Personal Names in Graeco-Roman Dime Including Observations on the Practicalities of Using Cross-Gender Names
âMaren Schentuleit
27 A Scribal Palette from the New Kingdom with Ink Inscriptions in Context
âDaniel Soliman (with a section by Grzegorz Nehring)
28 A Saqqara Palimpsest Fragment with Scant Traces of Demotic Narrative
âJohn Tait
29 Ein späthieratischer Brief aus dem nördlichen Oberägypten (P. Duk. Inv. 648)
âGünter Vittmann
Index of Hieratic and Hieroglyphic Words
Index of Abnormal Hieratic Words
Index of Demotic Words
Index of Greek Words
Index of Coptic Words
Index of Words in Other Languages
Index of Sources
Tabula gratulatoria
Preface
Bibliography of Koen Donker van Heel (Up to End 2025)
Abbreviated Literature
Text Editions and Re-editions in This Volume
Editorial Notation
Articles
1 The Unique Handwriting of P. GEM 66796: âStereotype or Otherwise?â
âHasnaa Abdellatif
2wbn, la mesure comble
âDamien Agut-Labordère
3 Family Matters: Adoption, Brother-Sister Marriage and a Mysterious Royal Decree in Ptolemaic Achmim
âGert Baetens and Mark Depauw
4 Une lettre de condoléances en démotique ancien
âMichel Chauveau
5 A Thrifty Draughtsman at Work?
âRob Demarée
6 Un peu de démotique archaïque
âDidier Devauchelle et Ghislaine Widmer
7 One Manâs Trash Is an Abnormal Hieraticistâs Treasure: an Abnormal Hieratic Account from Sheikh Ê¿Abd el-Qurna
âCharlotte Dietrich and Elena L. Hertel
8 Two New Demotic Oracle Questions from the Tuna el-Gebel Necropolis
âMahmoud Ebeidâ and Mahmoud el-Bokl
9 A Demotic Temple Oath from the Third Regnal Year of Domitian (84 CE): (P. Mich. inv. 2096)
âMarina Escolano-Poveda
10 Ermahnung eines spijbelaar in den Late Egyptian Miscellanies oder Sprachunterricht anhand eines bewegten Wortfeldes (pTurin A VSO 1. 5â2. 2)
âHans-W. Fischer-Elfert
11 Mê£ê£(.nâ¸ê½)-nḫtâ¸f schreibt noch mehr Briefe: O. Ashmolean Museum HO 273 und O. Ashmolean Museum HO 607 mit einigen Bemerkungen zur Handschrift
âMaren Goecke-Bauer
12 The Scribe of the Mat: an Update
âBen Haring
13 P. Dresden 828 Recto 11â13
âFriedhelm Hoffmann
14 Fragment of a Demotic Contract in the Form of a Sandal Sole
âFrancisca A.J. Hoogendijk
15 âWhy Havenât You Called?â A Demotic Letter from the Tomb of Harwa (P. Dem. MAIL 2)
âRichard Jasnow
16 All Quiet at the Western Front? Some Overdue Remarks on Truly Abnormal-(Hieratic) Personal Names, Dogs, the Libyan Wars, Abysses Found in Accounting and the Philological Neglection of Pottery
âRobert Kade
17 The Birth House of Isis at Abydos in the Seventh Century BCE and Beyond
âAnthony Leahy
18 No Striking in the Hereafter! On the Oracle Decree for the Ushebtis of Neskhonsu and Its Possible Implications
âAlexandra von Lieven
19 Two Copies of a Model for a Lease Document: the Demotic Ostraca Athribis 19-36-91/5156Â + 20-36-64/4564 and 19-36-30/1746
âSandra Lippert
20 From Aramaic to Demotic: Papyrus British Museum EA 76274.1
âCary J. Martin
21 Late Cursive HieraticâEarly Demotic Receipts and Ostraca from Medinet Habu
âBrian Muhs and Foy Scalf
22 A Whoremonger or a Bottom? The F-word, Cursing, and Bottom-shaming in an Ancient Egyptian Literary Text (P. Wien KHM ÃS 3877, col. III/3)
âLuigi Prada
23 Ein abnormal-hieratischer oder protodemotischer Brief über ein Bauprojekt (pKöln Inv. 3609)
âJoachim Friedrich Quack
24 ḥnḥn and its Supposed D53 (ðº) Classifier in Demotic pVindob D 6257
âJonny Russell
25 A Roman-Period Horoscopic Ostracon (O. Brooklyn 16.580.579)
âKim Ryholt
26 A Study of Female Personal Names in Graeco-Roman Dime Including Observations on the Practicalities of Using Cross-Gender Names
âMaren Schentuleit
27 A Scribal Palette from the New Kingdom with Ink Inscriptions in Context
âDaniel Soliman (with a section by Grzegorz Nehring)
28 A Saqqara Palimpsest Fragment with Scant Traces of Demotic Narrative
âJohn Tait
29 Ein späthieratischer Brief aus dem nördlichen Oberägypten (P. Duk. Inv. 648)
âGünter Vittmann
Index of Hieratic and Hieroglyphic Words
Index of Abnormal Hieratic Words
Index of Demotic Words
Index of Greek Words
Index of Coptic Words
Index of Words in Other Languages
Index of Sources