“notes and news.” journal of egyptian archaeology 16 (1930), pp. 141–146 (mentioning selim...

7/29/2019 Notes and News. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 16 (1930), pp. 141146 (mentioning Selim Hassan excavations in the Central Field, including the tomb o

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T H E J O U R N A LOF

EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

VOLUME XVI

P U B L I S H E D B YTHE EGYPT EXPLORATION SOCIETY

13 T A V I S T O C K S Q U A R E , W . C . 1L O N D O N

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T H E B R O N Z E S T A T U E T T E O F K H O N S E R D A I S U I NT H E B R I T I S H M U S E U M

M I S C E L L A N E AT H E N U M E R I C A L V A L U E O F A M A G I C A L F O R M U L AF U N E R A R Y D E S I G N S O N P R E D Y N A S T I C J A R SA N E W L E T T E R T O T H E D E A DD I E B I T T E UM E IN K I N D A U F E I N E R G R A B F I G U R

D E S F R U H E N M I T T L E R E N R E I C H E SR E G A R D I N G R E C E I PT S I N T H E Z E N O N A R C H I V E . . .A N O T E O N T H E C O R O N A T I O N R I T E S I N A N C I E N T

E G Y P TT H E S EC R E T C H A M B E R S O F T H E S A N C T U A R Y O F

T H O T HT H E R E L A T I O N S H I P O F A M U N T O Z E U S , A N D H IS

C O N N E X I O N W I T H M E T E O R I T E SS O M E W O O D E N F I G U R E S O F T H E E IG H T E E N T H A N D

N I N E T E E N T H D Y N A S T I E S I N T H E B R I T I S HM U S E U M . P A R T I I . . .

C O S M ET I CS , P E R F U M E S A N D I N C E N S E I N A N C I E N TE G Y P T

T H E T O M B O F A A H M O S E , S U P E R V I S O R O F T H EM Y S T E R I E S I N T H E H O U S E O F T H E M O R N I N G

N O T E S O N C E R T A I N P A S S A G E S IN V A R I O U S M I D D L EE G Y P T I A N T E X T S

A B R O N Z E S T A T U E O F A C A K E - C A R R I E RE G Y P T A N D T H E A E G E A N I N T H E L A T E B R O N Z E A G EB I B L I O G R A P H Y (1927): A N C I E N T E G Y P TB I BL I O G R A PH Y : G R A E C O - R O M A N E G Y P T . A . P A P Y R I

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H. R . Ha l l 1G . P. G. Sob hy 3Cam pbe l l Bonner . . . . . . 6G. D . Hornblow er 10Alan H. Gardiner 19

Sieg fr i ed Scho t t 23W . L . W e s t e r m a n n 2 4

Mi l i t za Ma tth iew 31

F . W. Green 33

G. A . W ainw r ight 35

H. R . Ha l l 39

A. Luca s . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Alan W. Shor ter 54

A y l w a r d M . B l a c k m a n 6 3W i lhe lm Spiege lberg . . . . . . 73J . D . S . Pendleb ury 75Jea n Capart . . . . . . . . . 93

H. J . M. Milne , A. D. Nock, H. I .Bel l , J . G. Milne , N. H. Bay nes ,F . do Zulu eta , M. E. Dicker ,R . M c K e n z i c 1 2 0


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Two M I D D L E K I N G D O M S T A T U E S IN T H E B R I T I S HMU S E U M H. R . Hall 167

T H E R O M A N R E G U L A T I O N OFE X C H A N G E V A L U E SIN E G Y P T : A N O T E J. G. Milne 169

A, M I S C O N S T R U E D P A R T I C L E IN THE P Y R A M I DT E X T S R.O.Faulkner 171

N O T E S ONT H E R I T U A L OFO P E N I N G T H E M O U T H T. J. C. Bal y 173P A P Y R I OFD I O C I I R YS O ST O M A N D M E N A N D E R . . . H. J. M. Milne 187THE STELA O F H E K A - Y E B Hans Jakob Polotsky 194E G Y P T I A N P R E D Y N A S T I C S T O N E V E S S E L S .. A. Lucas 200T H E C E M E T E R I E S OF A B Y D O S - . W O R K OF THE

S E A S O N 1925-26 H. Frankfort 213T H E O R I G IN OF C E R T A I N C O P T IC G R A M M A T I C A L

E L E ME N T S .. . Alan H. Gardiner 220A N E I G H T E E N T H D Y N A S T Y O S IR I S B R O N Z E . . . H. R . Hall 235A P H A L L I C F I G U R E T N T H E B R I T I S H M U S E U M . . . Alan W. Shorter 236W O R K I N G P L A N F OR A S H R I N E S. R . K Glanville 237N O T E S ONT H E D A T E OFS O M E B U C H I S S T E L A E . . . H. W. Fairman 240T H E T R U N C A T E D P Y R A M I D IN E G Y P T IA N M A T H E

MATICS ... ... ... ... ... Kurt Vogel ... ... ... 242B I B L I O G R A P H Y : C H R I S T I A N E G Y P T (1929-30) ... De Lacy O ' L e a r y 250N O T E S A N D N E W S 141, 256N O T I C E S OFR E C E N T P U B L I C A T I O N S 147, 259L I S T OFP L A T E S 274L I S T OFI L L U S T R A T I O N S IN T H E T E X T 277

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 ST 278I N D E X 279


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NOTES AND NEWS

Members of the E gy pt Ex ploration Society will learn with pleasure th a t the ir President,Mr. Ro ber t Mond, ha s been offered and has accepted th e Honorar y Degree of LL .D. inth e University of Liverpool. Mr. Mond has for many yea rs been closely connected withth e work done by th e U niversity, through its Ins titu te of Archaeology, i n E gy pt andelsewhere in the Near East, and it is therefore peculiarly fitting that this recognition ofhis services to Egyp tology, an d abov e all of his devoted work in the excavation, recordingand preservation of the private tombs at Thebes, should come from Liverpool.The Society re-opened its excavations a t Arm ant shortly before Christmas. The latesta rt of the season was due to t he difficulty of finding an excavator t o t ak e charge, morepartic ularly as none of th e previous year's staff was available. Ev en tua lly Mr. F. W. Greenconsented to direct the expedition, with Mr. 0 . H. Myers as his chief assistant in chargeof th e act ual excavation. The y opened th e work with the help of Mr. H. W. Fairman,who took his Certificate in Archaeology a t Liverpool last summ er, an d have since beenjoined by Mrs. Green, Miss Nora Sc ott an d Mr. Van de Walle, lecturer a t LiBge, whotook p ar t in t he Society's work a t Abydos in 1925-26.The m ain work of th e season up to da te has been th e con tinuation of th e excavationof th e Bucheum, whose limi ts t o th e south-west are now defined. Six new burial-chambers

in that quarter have been excavated, but in every case the sarcophagus was robbed.Two new stelae, one of T iberius in it s original position, ha ve been discovered. At th enorth-west end four new chambers together with their plundered sarcophagi have beendiscovered. Although very li ttle beyond scraps of gold foil, beads an d bones was foundin th e sarcophagi, th e results are rapidly leading to a complete plan of t he Bucheum.Simultaneously with this work several tombs dating from the Earlier IntermediatePeriod to the Roman have been excavated, and although all were robbed a number ofinteresting objects has been recovered, including a considerable quantity of late pottery,which will be important for a corpus.Mr. Mond reached Luxor towards the end of Jan ua ry an d has seen much of th e workin progress. How far the Bucheum is to be left open as a monu ment t o visitors will bedecided after consultation with other excavators now in Egypt.

The lectures announced in our last number as having been arranged for the winter(1929-30) ar e well in progress. The first, b y Dr. Jo hn John son in November on "TheSearch for Lost Litera ture in the R ubbish Heaps of Egypt," drew a large an d appreciativeaudience. H e described in detail the work of exploration an d the successive steps bywhich papyri have been discovered and saved from destruction, from the scientifictre atm en t of cliff-excavation t o th e removal of th e pa pyri which ha d in m any casesbeen employed as wrappings round th e buried mummies. On Feb ruary 5th, under theti tle "Ca ve Ex cav atio n in Pale stine 1928-29," Miss D. A. E. Ga rrod, of New nham College,gave a full account of th e exploration work carried ou t by herself a nd o thers on behalf


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142 N O T E S A N D NEWSof th e British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem . This lecture was delivered in th eaftern oo n an d was also well attend ed. Another afternoon lecture was given byDr. H. J. Plenderleith, of th e British Museum Lab orato ry, on th e "Preservation ofAn tiqu ities from Egypt." Once more th e Council of th e Ro yal Society ha s allowed th electures to be held in its Xeeting-room a t Bu rlington House, a privilege grea tly appreciatedby all who are able to a tte nd them. Other lectures, promised b y Professor Griffith an dMr. Alan W. Sh orter, ha d n ot been delivered a t the tim e of going t o press.

On November l l t h , a ll members of the Society were invited to a R eception a t theWellcome Historical Medical Museum in Wigmore Street. I n the absence of D r. Wellcome,Pou nd er an d Director of t h e Museum, who was in America, Dr. C. M. Wenyon, F.R.S.,Director-in-Chief of t h e Wellcome B ure au of Scientific Researc h, received th e guests, whomust have numbered near ly two hundred. Mr. Warren R. Dawson read a paper on"Eg yp tian Medicine," and sho rt speeches were made by Dr. Wenyon, Sir Frederick Ken yon,an d Mr. Rob ert Mond. A cablegram from D r. Wellcome was read, in which he expressedhis regret a t being unable to be present.A11 th e gue sts were enthu siasti c in expressing th eir app recia tion of th e Museum-which is a veritable storehou se of medical appliances, illus tratin g th e histo ry of medicinean d surgery from the earliest times to the present day-and in their thank s40 Dr. Wellcomefor his ho spitality, and t o Mr. Malcolm, th e Conservator, for all th e troub le he had take nin making the necessary arrangements for this most enjoyable evening.Mr. Daw son's pap er h as since been prin ted in Nature, Vol. 124, pp. 776-7, an d in t h eMedical Press, Vol. 179, pp . 436-8.

Visitors t o t he Egy ptian galleries of th e Manchester Museum an d th e British Museumhave doubtless both seen an d admired th e wonderful facsimiles of Theb an tomb -paintingsdue to th e skill an d in du str y of Mrs. de Garis Davies. These form p a rt of a mu ch moreexte nsiv e collection of suc h facsimiles which M rs. Da vies h as m ade o n behalf of D r. AlanGardiner .during th e p ast tw enty years. I n the course of his sta y in E gy pt las t yearMr. John D. Rockefeller, jun., acquired a keen interest in Egyptian colour-work, thefirstfruits of which were the munificent grant which he made to the Egypt ExplorationSociety fo r th e publication of the tem ple of Abyd os (see Jou rnal, x v, 272). This gr an the h as now followed up b y an othe r of similar munificence, which will m ake possible thepublication in th e finest conceivable style of more th an a hu ndr ed of Mrs. Davies' copiesof Eg ypt ian paintings. The work is t o app ear under the auspices of t h e Chicago OrientalInst itute , which, u nder Professor Breasted's untiring leadership, has initiated so manygre at archaeological enterprises. Th e editorship an d th e prep aratio n of th e exp lana toryte x t will be in th e hand s of Dr. Alan Gardin er. All lovers of an cient ar t, as well as allEgyptologists, are being placed under a deep obligation by this grandly conceived under-taking set on foot by our American friends.

Th e work of copying th e tem ple of Seth os I a t Abydos, repor ted upon in the lastnum ber of the Jour nal (p. 272), is progressing well, thou gh th e d ep artu re of Mr. Beazleyon Feb. 1st reduced th e staff t o thre e. I n view of t he widening of our original plansthroug h th e generosity of Mr. Rockefeller and th e arrangemen t with th e Oriental In sti tut eof Chicago, it was decided to include in the first volume not only the religious scenes ofth e seven central chapels b ut also th e accompanying ceiling decorations, door-jambs, etc.


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143OTES A N D NEWSPor this reason it will be no easy task to complete the material for Volume I in thepresent season, though Miss Cdverley writes that this is still her aim and endeavour, andthat she is not without hope.

Dr. Alan Gardiner has been elected a member of the Commission for the greatGerman hieroglyphic dictionary, with the preparation of which he was actively connectedfrom 1902 to 1910.

Mr. H. I. Bell writes :"When in 1895 Mr. H. Martyn Kennard presented to the British Museum a large

number of the Petrie Papyri, certain of those included in the selection could not befound. AS they had mostly been published, and in view of the possibility that theymight be discovered subsequently, provision was made for them when the papyri werenumbered for the Museum inventory, the fact of their disappearance being noted in the'Table of Papyri' in vol. 111 of the Catalogue. The numbers assigned to them were:-505= Petrie 11. 2 (1); 506= Petrie 11. 2 (2); 509= Petrie 11. 3; 510= Petrie 11. 4 (1);511= Petrie 11. 4 (2); 512=Petrie 11. 4 (3); 515= Petrie 11. 4 (6). As the years passedand no trace of the missing papyri was found, the hope of their coming to light faded.It is therefore very gratifying to be able to announce tha t they have a t length re-appeared.They were found a few weeks ago in the offices of a firm to which they had been sentwith a view to their being autotyped.

"They are now incorporated in the Museum collection. As already remarked, mostof them were published in the Petrie volume, but there are two or three unpublishedfragments. Mr. C. C. Edgar, who hastily examined several of them on a recent visit t othe Museum, has made some improvements in the texts."

Mr. W. R. Dawson writes:"Referring to the interesting bronze figure of Bes carrying a child described and

figured by Dr. Hall in the Journal (xv, 1, with P1, i), it is interesting to note that theMacGregor Collection contained a small bronze statuette in which the position isreversed-Bes, instead of carrying, is carried. The god is mounted astride on the neckof an achondroplastic dwarf. The object is Lot 1310 in Sotheby's Sale Catalogue of theMacGregor Collectiort (1922) (p. 171 and PI. xxxv), but no indication of age or provenanceis there given."

We have received the following from Dr. H. R. Hall:"On p. 159 of Jourfial, xv, Miss M. L. Tildesley writes that the anthropoid coffin of

Mut-em-mennu, No. 6703 in the British Museum, and the Roman female mummy 6704found near (not in it), are both 'assigned by the British Museum to the Roman period,''little doubt ' having been 'entertained that they belonged together.' This is no longercorrect, nor has it been so for the past year or two. Whether this mummy was reallyfound near the coffin or not I do not know, but they certainly do not belong together,for while the mummy is Roman, as Miss Tildesley rightly says, the coffin is as clearly ofthe Nineteenth Dynasty (less probably the Twentieth), to which period also such a nameas Mut-em-mennu belongs. The two objects have been separated in the exhibition casesfor some time past.

"On p. 284 M. cern5; notes tha t of the workman 'PenEb the British Museum has two


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144 N O T E S A N D N E W Sstelae offered to Mersegert, Nos. 272 and 273' (Hierogl. Texts in the B.M., v, PI. 42, an dVII, P1. 28). H e goes on to say ' th e publication has mis-read the name of th e dono r ashri 8s.t m Set M3r.t x-,but i t i s ce r ta in tha t x- is to be read. ' I agree, butM. c e r n ~ ; ives the impression th at the name was mis-read on b oth occasions of itspublication, whereas it is only in regard to No. 273 (H. T., v ~ r , 1. 28) t ha t t h i s i s t hecase. I n 272 (H. T., v, P1. 42) the name was correctly given a s xu.M. cernj . hasimplicitly corrected th e d ates of t hese stelae, which i t is interesting to find belong t o th elate Nineteenth, not Eighteenth, Dynasty."

We learn that Professors Lake and Blake, who a year or two ago brought back fromSinai the famous inscriptions in the proto-Semitic script, are now engaged in anothersh ort expedition t o Seriibit el-Khildim, where t,hey hope t o find more ma terial of th e samekind. They are accompanied by Professor Butin, who edited th e te xt s found on th eprevious occasion.

Th e excavations of th e Eg yptia n University in th e neighbourhood of th e Gizah Sphinx,un de r t,he leadership of Selim B& yHasan , have met wit h imm ediate success. The mostimp ortan t find is th a t of the tomb of a noble of th e Fifth Dy nast y called Raw%. Theto m b h as tw o galleries giving access to a n um ber of serdabs, abo ut six large a nd fo urteensmall. Th e portion of t he to m b so far laid bare is 120 metres long an d from 20 t o 40 metreswide, and contains over sixty chambers, including the serdabs. No fewer than fortysta tue s of th e owner were found ; of these thre e on ly are in tac t, cu t o ut of a single blockof sandstone. The others are mutilated or completely broken up. No burial-chamber hasas yet been found.Beside this tom b is a smaller mastabah-tomb belonging to an oth er member of th e samefamily. I n t he sarcophagus of this tom b lay a necklace consisting of a bou t three thousandbead s of g old an d lapis lazuli.

We announce with very grea t regret the dea th of Jamieson B. Hu rry , M.D., whichtook place on Feb. 13th. Dr. H urr y had m ade his name known to Eg yptologists by hisadmirable monograph on Imhotep, which went into a second edition shortly before hisdeath.

Adolf Erman's delightful book, Mein Werden und rnein Wirken, is a noteworthy prooft h a t a ma n can be a n Eg yptologist an d yet write simple, straightforw ard, intelligibleprose, a fac t which on e is occasionally inclined t o dou bt. It is not surprising to findE rm an himself expressing his gratitu de t o those who in his childhood impressed on himth e impo rtance of style in writing. Th e whole book is fascinating, an d it i s ha rd to sayw ha t is most attrac tive, th e romantic histo ry of th e earlier generations of t h e Erm anfam ily, th e pictures-not all favourable-of distinguished Egyp tologists and Curators ofMuseums, or th e accounts of trav el in Eg yp t an d of th e developm ent of th e gre atGerman m useums. Dr. Erm an is all too modest abo ut his own achievements, an d astranger to Egyptology might read his reminiscences withou t realizing in th e least howmuch the science owes to his genius, his devotion and his untiring patience.


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NOT E S AND NEWS 145Several writers on kindred studies have been kind enough to send us copies of th eirbooks, which we regret we ca nno t review, owing t o lack of space. Am ong these wenotice C. L . Woolley's The Sumerians (Oxford, 1928) an d C. J. Gadd's History andM on um en ts of U r. It is ind icativ e of how muoh is yet to be learnt about ear ly

Mesopotamia th at these two books are in complete disagreement both as t o th e age ofthe ear ly royal tom bs of Ur and a s to th e nationali ty of i ts ear liest inhab itants .J. Garstan g's T he Hittite Em pire is a new edition of a well kn own book, which hasbeen almos t completely re-written in th e light of recent discoveries, and in pa rticular ofthe trans lations so far issued of th e Boghaz Ke ui archives.R. W. Rogers's A History of Ancient Persia is a scholarly and comprehensive historyby one who is already known t o orientalists by h is History of Assyria and Babylonia.With regard to the writ ing 4% discussed by Dr. cernj. in his article on an ostracondated in the Renaissance (whm miwt) , Journal , xv, 198, Dr . Cernj . now notes that thisform is used in the London Medical Papyrus, 6 . 1 a n d 8. 13. This pap yru s is assigned

by Moller in A.Z., LVI, 42, t o t he reign of Tu trank ham iin, an d, if thi s is correct, th ewriting in question, previously know n only from th e ostracon an d from a tex t of Sethos I,goes back a t least to the end of th e Eighteenth D ynasty .Th e official date s of appearan ce of t he Jo urn al are now May 1s t an d November 1 st.The dates, it will be seen, have been advan ced each by a mon th, owing to th e im-possibility of gett ing proofs read and returned in tim e for an October issue while autho rsare scattered during th e Sum mer Vacation. Articles intend ed for publication in a nynum ber sh ould be s en t in, if possible, before th e appearan ce of t h e previous num ber, an da t la test within a mo nth of this .Those who so kindly consent to review books for us now receive with the book anot e of th e da te on which their review should be in th e E ditor 's hands. It will savea great deal of annoying correspondence if they will do their utmost to conform to thedate given, or, on finding this to be impossible, write at once suggesting a later date.Will authors please note th at the Jo urnal has no fount of hiera t ic or demotic typ e,an d th a t consequently all hieratic an d demotic groups in articles have t o be reproducedby th e making of wh at is technically known as a zinco. To make a good zinco i t isnecessary to have a clear bold outline written in d ead black (In dian in k) on white paper.All such groups should th erefore be draw n in this way on a s epa rate sheet of paper an dmarked with the scale a t which they are to be reproduced; each should be given a

number indicating its position in the letterpress.Many au thors s ti l l cause unnecessary trouble and expense by fa il ing t o conform t oour conven tions with regard t o references, especially in citing periodicals. These shouldbe c ited by their volume number , not their year ; if i t be thought necessary t o ad d theyear it should be placed in round b rackets after the volume number. The words volume(vol.) an d page (p. or pp.) should normally be omitted . This Jo ur na l should be quotedas Journa l, not J .E .A.Among recent and much quoted books A. H. Gardiner 's Egyptian Grammar shouldbe given as Gardiner, Eg. Gramm., and the new German Hieroglyphic Dictionary asWb. d. aeg. Spr.Journ. of Egypt. Arch, XVI . 19


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146 NOTES AND NEWSI n futu re th e Zeitschrift fur Qyptische Sprache, hith erto cited as Zeitschr. f . ag. Xpr.,will, in th e interests of economy and in conform ity with contin ental usage, be abbreviatedinto A.Z.The Library Com mittee wishes t o call the attentio n of m embers t o th e fact th a tthere are in the Library a few duplicate volumes which can be purchased by members.Th e Secretary will send lists of these books with prices m arke d t o any would-bepurchas ers. No prin ted catalogue of t he L ibrary exists, bu t lists of recent acquisitionsare to be printed in the Annual Rep ort for the benefit of m embers not residing in townand unable to consult the Library catalogue.

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