Essays for the Library of Seshat

Janet H. Johnson, Morton D. Hull Distinguished Professor of Egyptology, is internationally known as editor of the Chicago Demotic Dictionary (CDD) project (1976-present), but her publications and interests extend far beyond lexicography. These range from philology and social history to technology and archaeology, including gender studies and marriage, bureaucracy and scribal training, Egyptian grammar of all periods, as well as computer applications to Egyptology and archaeological investigations of the late antique port at Quseir on the Red Sea coast and medieval Luxor. This Festschrift, by twenty-eight colleagues, students, and friends, reflects her wide variety of interests, with topics ranging from the Old Kingdom to Late Antiquity.

• Publications of Janet H. Johnson. John A. Larson, University of ChicagoIntroduction. Robert K. Ritner, University of Chicago1. The ABCs of Painting in the Mid-Eighteenth Dynasty Terminology and Social MeaningBetsy M. Bryan, Johns Hopkins University2. Yellow Is Not a Metaphor for “All [That]’s ‘Fair’ in Love and War”Lorelei H. Corcoran, University of Memphis3. The Camel as a Sethian CreatureFrançois Gaudard, University of Chicago4. A Ptolemaic Grain Account Papyrus (P. Vienna D. 13.534)Richard Jasnow, Johns Hopkins University5. The Syntax and Semantics of the Particle ἰst in the Middle Egyptian TalesJacqueline Jay, Eastern Kentucky University6. An Indurated-Limestone Sphinx Fragment of Nefertiti in the Luxor Temple BlockyardW. Raymond Johnson, University of Chicago7. Were There Legal Form Books, Legal Casebooks, or Case Law in Ancient Egypt?Thomas Logan, Monterey Peninsula College8. State Making, Military Power, and Bureaucracy: Some Thoughts on New Directions in the Study of the History of Bureaucracy in EgyptJoseph G. Manning, Yale University9. “Completamente distrutte”: Réévaluation archéologique de Philadelphie du Fayoum, ÉgypteGregory Marouard, University of Chicago10. Fragments of a Late Roman Doorway at Medinet HabuJ. Brett McClain, University of Chicago11. “Nonsense Burners” and NomadsCarol Meyer, University of Chicago12. The Foundation and Purpose of the Settlement at Lahun during the Middle Kingdom: A New EvaluationNadine Moeller, University of Chicago13. A Loan Contract in Chicago from the Archive of the Theban Choachytes (Second Century BCE)Brian P. Muhs, University of Chicago14. “Greeks” in a Demotic List O. Lips. ÄMUL dem. inv. 1422Franziska Naether, Universität Leipzig15. Converters in Old EgyptianHratch Papazian, University of Cambridge16. Family of Priests in the Theban Tombs of Ahmose and R‘a (TT 121 and 72)Peter A. Piccione, University of Charleston, S. C.17. The Origin of Evil in Egyptian Theological SpeculationRobert K. Ritner, University of Chicago18. Fear of Hieroglyphs: Patterns of Suppression and Mutilation in Old Kingdom Period Burial ChambersAnn Macy Roth, New York University19. An Embalmer’s Bowl with Demotic Inscription (Oriental Institute Museum E9115)Foy Scalf, University of Chicago20. Stela of Tamiw Naming a King Takelot (Liverpool 24.11.81.7)Cynthia May Sheikholeslami, Cairo, Egypt21. Pectorals, Seals, and Seal Cases(?)David P. Silverman, Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania22. Transformation and Justification: A Unique Adaptation of Book of the Dead Spell 125 in P. Louvre E 3452Mark Smith, University of Oxford23. Djedhor Son of Usirwer in the Valley of the KingsSteve Vinson, Indiana University Bloomington, Eugene Cruz-Uribe, Indiana University East, and Jacqueline Jay, Eastern Kentucky University24. The Beginning and End of Coffin Spell 149: A Living Person Approaches the Netherworld TribunalEdward F. Wente, University of Chicago25. Revisiting the Egyptian Memnon: Landscape and Memory in Western ThebesJennifer Westerfeld, University of Louisville26. A Saite Family Burial Assemblage from Nag el-Hassiya in the Kelsey Museum of ArchaeologyT. G. Wilfong, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan27. Security Conditions and Methods in the Middle KingdomBruce B. Williams, University of Chicago28. Eine neue demotische Lebenslehre (Pap. Berlin P. 13605)Karl-Theodor Zauzich