Texts from the Pyramid Age

by Strudwick, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9781589831384
• ISBN10: 1589831381
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-18
• Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xi
List of Texts	xiii
Series Editor's Foreword	xxv
Preface	xxvii
Chronological Table	xxix
Map of Egypt	xxxiii
Abbreviations	xxxv
Introduction	1	(64)
Preliminary Remarks	1	(3)
Range of Material Presented	1	(1)
Selection and Presentation Criteria	2	(2)
Previous Work on Old Kingdom Texts	4	(3)
Collections and Translations of Large Bodies of Old Kingdom Material	4	(1)
Translations of Egyptian Literature in English incorporating Some Old Kingdom Texts	5	(1)
The Study of Old Kingdom Texts	6	(1)
Historical Matters	7	(10)
Outline	7	(3)
Dating Events in the Old Kingdom	10	(1)
Methods of Dating Years	10	(2)
Sed Festivals	12	(1)
The Different Seasons	13	(1)
Royal Names	14	(2)
Dating Private Monuments	16	(1)
Literary and Linguistic Aspects of Old Kingdom Texts	17	(7)
The Importance of Context	17	(2)
Are the Texts Herein ``Literature''?	19	(1)
Are the Texts in Verse or Prose?	19	(1)
Old Kingdom Egyptian and Its Characteristics	20	(1)
Phonetics	21	(1)
Writing	22	(1)
Grammar	23	(1)
Scripts	24	(1)
Particular Points of Translation	24	(9)
Grammar	25	(1)
Second Tenses	25	(1)
The Infinitive	26	(1)
Titles	26	(1)
Honorific Titles	26	(2)
Administrative Titles	28	(1)
Priestly Titles	28	(1)
``King's Son'' or ``King's Daughter''	29	(1)
Other Issues	30	(1)
imakhu	30	(1)
hem	31	(1)
The Offering Formula	31	(1)
Egyptian Nomes	32	(1)
Pyramid Names	33	(1)
Principal Types of Text Translated in This Volume	33	(24)
Historiographic Texts	34	(1)
Temple Texts	35	(1)
Inscriptions Set Up by or on Behalf of Kings	36	(1)
Rock Inscriptions	36	(1)
Royal Decrees	37	(2)
State Administrative Texts	39	(1)
Texts from the Tombs of Officials	40	(1)
Standard Formulaic Inscriptions in Tombs	40	(1)
More Unusual Types of Text in Tombs, Other Than Biographies	41	(1)
Private (Auto)biographical/Commemorative Texts from Tombs	42	(5)
Captions	47	(1)
Miscellaneous Texts from Tombs	48	(1)
Private Legal Texts	48	(2)
Private Administrative Texts	50	(1)
Texts of Women	50	(1)
Graffiti	51	(2)
Expedition Inscriptions	53	(1)
Builders' or Quarry Marks	54	(1)
Letters	55	(2)
A Final Word	57	(1)
Conventions	57	(8)
Annals and Lists of Kings	65	(16)
Texts from Temples	81	(16)
Royal Decrees	97	(32)
Objects Bearing Royal Names	129	(4)
Rock Inscriptions of Kings and Expedition Leaders	133	(20)
Quarry and Constructional Marks and Phyle Texts	153	(8)
Graffiti	161	(4)
State Administrative Texts	165	(10)
Letters	175	(10)
Private Legal Texts	185	(24)
A Selection of Offering Formulae and Titles	209	(8)
Appeals to the Living and Warnings to Evildoers and the Uninitiated	217	(22)
Commemorative and Dedicatory Texts	239	(12)
Texts relating to Payment of Workmen and Tomb Acquisition	251	(10)
Biographical Texts from the Memphite Region	261	(66)
Biographical Texts from the Provinces	327	(52)
Texts of Women	379	(22)
Captions to Tomb Scenes	401	(22)
Miscellaneous Texts from Tombs and Objects in Tombs	423	(14)
Addendum	437	(6)
List of Sources	443	(22)
Bibliography	465	(38)
Glossary	503	(8)
Indexes	511	(8)
Names of Kings	511	(1)
Names of Persons (excluding Kings)	511	(3)
Sites of Origin	514	(1)
Objects in Museums	515	(4)
Cross-reference List of Tomb Text Types	519	(2)
Concordance of Texts in Urkunden I	521