Notes:
On rare occasions I will post a set of notes from a lecture to this wiki. I will only do this if we failed to get through everything I wanted to in class, or if a substantial portion of the class is out with H1N1. As you will not know in advance which classes will have notes up, this is no excuse for you not to take your own notes in class!
People asked in class about the specific nature of the ka and the ba; below is a short pdf taken from Taylor's Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt (Chicago, 2001) which goes into a little more detail.
-TPL 03/10/09
Taylor2001_18-23.pdfThere were some questions about the Palaeolithic-Badarian/Naqada II lecture; please find the powerpoint below, fully annotated, to clarify some issues.
-TPL 04/10/09
Some sources to get you started on your object paper:
This list is NOT meant to be comprehensive. It is intended to be a first step; you will need to follow footnotes to get more specific references (usually to articles – you’re not going to find many books about specific artifact types). I have copies of many of these in my office if you would like to consult (not borrow – not fair to your fellow students). Because I am giving you a first set of references it is doubly important that you go beyond this and include in your research and citations works that you find on your own, either using the bibliographies of these books or on your own. Again, you are encouraged to run sources by me to make sure they are legitimate if you have the slightest doubt.
General history and art history to help you get contextual background:
Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, edited by Ian Shaw (this has fantastically good bibliography and pays a lot of attention to material culture, so will be of use for archaeological and artistic material).
Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, edited by Kathryn Bard
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, edited by Donald Redford
(either of these is likely to have entries about the object category you’re looking at, and in some cases about specific iconographic elements that will help you describe and define your piece).
The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt, by William Stevenson Smith, revised by William Kelly Simpson
Reading Egyptian Art by Richard Wilkinson
Catalogs or other works specific to periods that may help:
Early Egypt by Jeffery Spencer (if you’re looking at something Predynastic or Early Dynastic)
Egyptian art in the Age of the Pyramids – catalog of a show at the Metropolitan Museum and the first stop for people who are looking at anything Old Kingdom
Pharaohs and Mortals: Egyptian art in the Middle Kingdom – likewise a catalog that should be extremely helpful to anyone looking at things from either the Middle Kingdom or the First Intermediate Period
Format for Citing Museum Wall Texts:
Examples for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the RISD Museum:
Wall text, MFA 8897.NH
Wall text, RISD 3.65.211
Remember to put the citations in parentheses. The general pattern followed is (wall text, Museum abbreviation and accession number). If you use a quotation from wall text that is NOT for your object, be sure to include some kind of brief description of what it is.
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