“Notes and News.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 23 (1937), pp. 262–265 (mentioning George...

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T H E J O U R N A LO F

E G Y P T I A N A R C H A E O L O G Y

VOLUME XXIII

P U B L I S H E D B YT H E E G Y P T E X P L O R A T I O N S O C I E T Y

2 H L N D E S T R E E T , M A N C H E S T E R S Q U A R E , W . 1L O N D O N

1937


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C O N T E N T SP A G E

A F A M I L Y S T E L A IN THE U N I V E R S I T Y M U S E U M , P H I L A DELPHIA ... ... ... ... ... Philippus Miller ... 1

T H E A R T O P T H E T H I R D A N D F I F T H D Y N A S T I E S Kurt Pfliiger 7T H E B R E M N E R - E H I N D P A P Y R U S I I B . 0 . Faulkner 1 0T H E P A I N T I N G S O F T H E C H A P E L O F A T E T A T M E D U M .. . William Stevenson Smith 17N O T E S ONM Y R R H AND S T A C T E .. . .. . .. . .. . A. Lucas .. . .. . 27T H E P A P Y R U S OFK H N E M E M H A B IN U N I V E R S I T Y C O L L E G E ,

LONDON Alan W. Shorter ... 3 4A N A N A L Y S IS OF THE P E T R I E C O L L E C T I O N OF E G Y P T I A N

W E I G H T S A. S. Hemmy 39T H E G E N D E R O F T E N S A N D H U N D R E D S IN L A T E E G Y P T I A N Jaroslav Cerny ... 57T w o P U Z Z L E S OF B A M E S S I D E H I E R A T I C Jaroslav Cerny 60M E P I 2 M 0 2 ANAKEXOPHKOTON: A N A S P E C T OF

T H E R O M A N O P P R E S S I O N IN E G Y P T ... ... ... Naphtali Lewis ... ... 63A N O X Y R H Y N C H U S D O C U M E N T A C K N O W L ED G I NG R E P A Y

MEN T O F A L O A N Phillip H. de Lacy ... 76A D O L F E R M A N, 1 8 5 4 - 1 9 3 7 W. E. Crum 81B I B L I O G R A P H Y : G R A E C O - R O M A N E G Y P T

P A R T I : P A P Y R O L O G Y ( 1 9 3 6 ) - 83P A R T I I : G R E E K I N S C R IP T I O N S ( 1 9 3 5 - 6 ) Marcus N. Tod 106

B I B L I O G R A P H Y : C H R I ST I A N E G Y P T ( 1 9 3 6 ) De Lacy O'Leary ... 11 0L I S T OFA B B R E V I A T I O N S U S E D IN R E F E R E N C E S TO P E R I O D I C A L S , &C 142P R E L I M I N A R Y R E P O R T ON THE E X C A V A T I O N S AT S E S E B I ,

N O R T H E R N P R O V I N C E , A N G L O - E G Y P T I A N S U D A N , 1 9 3 6 - 7 A. M. Blackman .. . 145T H E J U D I C I A L P A P Y R U S OFT U R I N .. . , A. de Buck 152A T O I L E T S C E N E ON A F U N E R A R Y S T E L A OFTHE M I D D L E

K I N G D O M " I . E. S. Edwards ... 165T H E B R E M N E R - R H I N D P A P Y R U S I I I R. 0 . Faulkner 16 6R E S T I T U T I O N OF, AND P E N A L T Y A T T A C H I N G TO, S T O L E N

P R O P E R T Y IN R A M E S S I D E T I M E S Jaroslav Cerny 186T H E E G Y P T I A N C O R R E S P O N D E N C E OF A B I M I L K I , P R I N C E

OF T Y R E W. F. Albright 190S O M E O X F O R D P A P Y R I E. P. Wegener 204


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VI C O N T E N T SN O T E S ON THE B A H R E N , N U W E M I S A H , AND E L - A ' R E G P A G E

O A S E S IN T H E L I B Y A N D E S E R T Anthony de Cosson ... 226B I B L I O G R A P H Y : P H A R A O N I C E G Y P T ( 1 9 3 6 ) Edited by A.M . Blackman 230B R I E F C O M M U N I C A T I O N S 2 58N O T E S AND N E W S 117, 262N O T I C E S OFR E C E N T P U B L I C A T I O N S 125, 266L I S T OFP L A T E S . .. . .. .. . .. . .. . 275L I S T OFI L L U S T R A T I O N S IN THE T E X T 277R E V I E W S AND N O T I C E S OFR E C E N T P U B L I C A T I O N S ( D E T A I L E D L I S T ) 278I N D E X E S

General 279E g y p t i a n and Coptic 2 8 4 , 2 8 6Greek : 286


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NOTES AND N E W SPROF.B L AC KM - 4 ~eing prevented by an other engagem ent from leaving England, o ur Acting FieldDirector a t Sesebi and El-Amiira this w inter is Mr. H. W. Fairman, who is accompanied by XIr.I. E. S. Eda ar ds , of th e D epartment of Eg yptian and A ssyrian Antiquities, British Museum, andMr. David Bell, son of Dr. H. I. Bell.

Mr. 0.H. Myers is again a t Arm ant, directing the Sir Rob ert Blond Exp edition ; his staff includesMr. Joh n G rant MacDonald and four technical assistants recruited in Eg ypt. Dr. H. A. Winkler iscontinuing his photographic survey of t,he High D esert of Up per E gy pt on behalf of Sir Rob ert.Miss Calverley and Miss Broome have not gone out t o A bydos this w inter (see p. 119) , but areactively engaged a t home in the p reparatio n of Vol. rv of The Temple of King Sethos I .An exhibition of antiquities found recently at Armant by the Sir Robert Mond Expedition washeld a t the Institute of Archaeology, Regent's Park, London, from September 1 to 25. The objectson view were of all periods from B adarian t o A rab, and came from the ancient city of Hermonthisan d its temp les, from cemeteries, from a m ound called K6m el-'Abd and from a Coptic hermitage.In addition was shown a very remarkable collection of photographs of rock draw ings and inscrip-tions ranging in d ate from predynastic t o m odern times, take n by Dr . Winkler in the course of hisdesert survey.Under the auspices of ou r Society, Dr. Dora Ro berts is giving a lecture on Janu ary 17 a t the RoyalInstitution on 'Coptic Art,: It s D evelopment and Influence'.Eve r d esirous of effecting such improvements a s are possible in the periodical comm itted t o ourcharge, we introduce with this Part a new feature, 'Brief Communications'. A circular letter onthe subject sent last summer to all contributors brought unanimous encouragement to create asection which, resembling the 'Miszellen', 'Notes', 'Kleinere Beitrage' an d th e like of similar journals,should offer hospitality to comm unications on th e one hand too short to merit th e full status of anarticle, and on the other no t su itable to be incorporated in 'Notes and News'. Contributions shouldnot exceed one page of the Jouv~zaln length (in th e somew hat smaller typ e used for th e new sec tion),and should only in q uite exceptional cases be accompanied by illustrations other t ha n line figures inthe text .Of Indexes. This year th ere are additional ones, of the Egy ptian, C optic, and Greek words dis-

cussed. The first two ar e from the han d of Mr. A. N. Dakin, Fellow of University College, Oxford;th e third is by Miss D. M. Vaughan, the able Indexer of this Jo urn al for seven years past. Theseindexes will appea r annually. Mr. Dakin, who is most kindly sharing the editorial load, has pre-pared an index of Eg yptian and Coptic words discussed in volumes 1-20, which th e world shall haveshortly. It is our inten tion t o publish with vol. 30 wh at me hope will be th e first of a series ofdecennial indexes, similar in scope to those a t th e en d of vol. 20, bu t including the philological indexes.Mr. A lan W. Sh orter has kindly u ndertak en t o deal with reviews (except those on papyrologicalor other Graeco-Roman matte rs) for this Journal in future. Correspondence on this subject shouldbe sent to Mr. Sho rter at his home address, 7 Rotherfield Road, Carshalton, Surrey.

The death of Nora Christina Cobban Griffith, widow of Prof. I?. L1. Griffith, on October 21, ofperitonitis after a n appendectomy, a t th e age of 64, is deeply felt by her many friends in this and


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NOTES AND NEWS oth er countries. As some memorial to her in these pages, we canno t do better t ha n transcribe anotice by Mr. N. de G. Davies, one of her closest friends, which appeared in The l' i m i o f October 25 :'She was the dau ght er of Surgeon-Major Jam es Macdonald, of Aberdeen, a nd sister of Sir RonaldMacdonald. A visit to Eg yp t in 1906 interested her in th at coun try's past, and, having become apupil of Griffith a t Oxford for a sho rt time, she married him in 1909. Thenceforward she spen t herlife in devo ted co-operation with him in all his archaeological an d linguistic enterprises an d in hiscamp aigns in Eg ypt , Nubia, an d th e S udan in 1910-13, 1923, 1929, an d 1930. Since his dea th in1934 her life was consecrated with th e utmo st devotion to su perintend ing and herself labo uring a tall th e unfinished p rojects of her husband in th e sam e spirit of e xac t scholarship th a t marked hiswork. Two volumes of Demotic Gra$ti of the Dodecaschoenzis, all th e 7 0 plates of which are b y herconscientious ha nd, appeared this year, an d three other undertak ings of considerable scope ar ewell under way. She was indefatigable in spending time a nd mon ey on this work, in supp ortingfurther excavations at Firka and Kawa in the Sudan in connexion with the Oxford UniversityExcav ations in Nubia (founded by Prof. Griffith in 1910), in assisting the E gy pt E xploratio nSociety, and in keeping up to dat e th e splendid Egyptological library a t Sandridge, Boars Hill,which now passes b y trust-dee d t o th e Ashmolean Museum.'B ut if this activ ity was the adm iration of her wide circle of friends a t home an d abroad, it washer hospitality and goodness, her wide sympathies, sense, humour, and courage that gained theirlove. She was working determinedly t o th e last and ignoring th e remonstrances of her friends andof her me ntal an d bodily forces. For t h e first time she is really a t rest.'

Mrs. Griffith, by her will, has added her considerable fortune to her husband's as a bequest t o theUniversity of Oxford for the creation of an Archaeological Institute, attached to the AshmoleanMuseum, which will contain t he Griffith Library, and rooms for teaching a nd research in Egy pto-logy, an d also accommodation for oth er branches of th e archaeology of th e Near Eas t. Building willbegin very soon, and i t is expected t ha t th e new In stitu te will be completed b y th e end of 1938.Meanwhile the lib rary will remain a t th e Griffiths' house (which has also been bequeathed t o th eUniv ersity), Sandridge, Boars Hill, Oxford, and will be open t o accredited readers. It is earnestlyhoped that those who have hitherto presented their works, whether books or offprints, to this, thefinest private Egyptological library in existence, will continue to do so, and thus contribute tomaking Oxford an important centre of Egyptological activity.

Dr. H. I. Bell kindly sends us th e following lines:'The Fifth International Congress of Papyrology was held at Oxford from the 30th August toth e 3rd Sep tember last, the h ead-qu arters being a t St. John 's College. The absence of ProfessorWilcken was a great disappointment to th e Comm ittee, as to all concerned, and it was much re-gret ted also th a t Professors Sch uba rt, Medea Norsa, and Calderini, a nd one or two others who hadannounced their intention of being present were prevented from attending ; bu t there was a goodatte nda nce , 161 out of over 175 who had enrolled being present. The weather was for th e most pa rtfavourable, and th e Congress was much enjoyed by all who took pa rt in it. Foreign membersparticularly appreciated the opportunity of staying in college and thus seeing English Universitylife from the inside.'The proceedings began on the Monday evening with a reception by the Warden of WadhamCollege, as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, in th e Bshm olean M useum, kindly thrown open for t h e occasionby th e Keeper. This was followed on Tuesday evening bv a Government reception in th e Ha ll ofTh e Queen's College. The guests were received by Sir Step hen Gaselee, K.C.M.G., representingthe Foreign Office. For Wednesday afternoon an excursion by charabanc to the Cotswolds hadbeen arranged, the Roman villa at Chedworth (where Miss 11. V. Taylor kindly explained th etopography of th e site), and th e town of Burford being visited ; this was enjoyed by a large party.On Thursday The Queen's College generously entertained th e Congress a t a Garden P a rt y ; and onWednesday evening th e garden fron t of St . John's College mas flood-lit, refreshmen ts being providedin th e cloisters.'The Bodleian Lib rary a rrang ed a special exhibition of pap yri an d grant.ed free admission to


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NOTES AND NEWS members. Similar facilities were accorded by t h e libraries of Merton, Queen's, Corpus Christi, andSt. Jo hn's Colleges, and an exhibition of papyri was also opened a t the British Museum.'Ma ny interesting papers were read, and Mr. Colt on T hurs day evening gave a lante rn lecture,which was much appreciated, on his excavations in southern Palestine. A t the final meeting, onFriday, i t was decided tha t the ne xt Con ess should be held a t Vienna in 1939. A generous offerby the Bondation $gyptologique Reine lf%sabeth t o publish th e proceedings was accepted so faras was compatible with th e facts th at arrangements had already been made for the publication ofseveral communications elsewhere and that some members did not wish to publish their papers,which were of a provisional an d temporary natu re only. The projected volume will contain th efull tex t of such papers as are available with brief summaries of th e others an d notifications of thepublications in which they are to appear.'Th e Com mittee is much inde bted to all who helped, in particular t o th e authorities of St. Joh n'sCollege, The Queen's College, the Ashmolean Museum, and the Bodleian Library.'

The Chair of Egyptology in the University of Berlin, vacant since the death of Kurt Sethe inJul y 1934, has a t last been filled. Prof. He rma nn Grapow, to whom we offer our congratu lations,was appointed to this position last October.

Other new s from Germ any will be received with m ixed feelings. On December 1Prof. HermannRan ke vacated th e Chair of Egyptology a t Heidelberg. H e is succeeded by Prof. Siegfried Schott.We are informed th at Prof. Ran ke will carry on his private work a t Munich, on his return fromMadison, Wis., where he is to te ach an d lectu re for a sem ester as Visiting Professor in Archaeologyt o th e University of Wisconsin. Professor Georg Steindorff, who has m ost ably edited th e Zeit-schrift fu r iigyptischeSprache und Altertumskunde for forty-th ree yea rs pas t (wi th Erm an , 1895-1906,since then as full editor), has recently found i t necessary to resign his direction of th at journal. Thenew editor will be Pro f. Walther W olf, whose name has appeared o n th e title-page as assistant since1935.

A t th e end of O ctober th e following were dismissed from th e Antiquities De partm ent of theEgyp tian Government: Mr. Walter B. Em ery, who replaced the lat e C. M. Fir th a t VakkFirah, andhas been excavating a very important First-Dynasty cemetery there; M. J.-P. Lauer, whoseadmirable work, during the last ten years, in the restoration and technical study of the buildingsforming the Step Pyram id complex is well known ; Prof. Gustav e JQ quier, who since 1924 has beenexcavating and publishing with notable success the pyramids and tombs of South Vakkirah ; andM. Henri G authier, formerly Secretary General of th e De partm ent, th e scholar to whom we owe th eLivre des rois d'Egypte, the Dictionmire des noms giographiques, and many other valuable works.We understand th at, after representations m ade to th e Egyp tian Government by the British an dFrench Embassies, Messrs. Emery an d Lauer have been reinstated tem por arily ; we earnestly hopethat their contracts will be renewed, and that M. JBquier will also be able to resume his work,for otherwise th e result can only be a deplorable diminution of th e archaeological activ ity of t heEgyptian Government.

Dr. Heinrich Balcz, Haizingergasse 19, Vienna 18, an d Dr. Egon Ritte r v. Komorzynski, Wah -ringerstrasse 160, Vienna 18, announce t h at in the beginning of 1938 they will bring out th e firstnumb er of a new mon thly periodical, Archiv fiir b$yptische ArchaoZcgie, which will con tain sh or tarticles, communications regarding field activities, reports from museums, societies an d othe r insti-tutio ns, an d also personal and literary news. Contributions, which should if possible not exceed tentypewritten sheets, may be in German, English, French, or Italian; authors will receive ten off-prints. Each p art will contain abou t 25 pages ; the annual subscription will be 30Au strian schillings,the price of a single pa rt 3 schillings. We wish the new ven ture all success, and shall watch withinterest the progress of an Egyptological monthly.


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NOTES AND NEWS The R om an periodical O rientalia, having acquired a foun t of Dr. Gardiner's hieroglyphic type ,is now in a greatly improved position to publish articles on Egy ptia n m atters.We have pleasure in publishing the following announcement by the Bavarian Academy of

Sciences :'Die Friedrich Marxstiftung bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Miinchen,Neuhauserstrasse 51 setzt einen P reis von 1.500 RM au s fiir die beste Be arbeitung des Gegenstandes:'Die Stellung der Eingeborenenbevolkerung im staatliche n Leben A egyptens zur Ptolemiierzeit.''Frist bis zum 1. April 1940.'We offer our congratulations to Prof. G. A. Reisner, who attained his seventieth birthday onNovember 5. We learn th a t the occasion was celebrated with fitting ceremony a t Harva rd Cam p,Gizah Pyramids, by the entire personnel, native and other, of the Harvard-Boston Expedition,who presented t he 'Mudir' with a gold repeater watch.'And these Danish sentences have th e solemn bea uty of Assyrian prose a t its best.' From arecent review in Zeitschr. f. Orientforschu~tg. Fortunate Assyriologists, to be able to make such astatement !

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