A few items from the EEF
Press report: "Prehistoric museum for Qena"
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/
"Egypt is going to have its first museum for prehistoric relics. (..)
The museum will include 1,400 archaeological treasures,
currently located in the storehouse of the SCA. "
Digitized book from the Oriental Institute Electronic Publications
-- Helen Jacquet-Gordon, Temple of Khonsu, vol. 3: The Graffiti on the
Khonsu Temple Roof at Karnak: A Manifestation of Personal Piety, The
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 2003
(Oriental Institute Publications, Number 123). xxiv, 119 pp., 126 pls. -
pdf-file (40 MB)
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/OIP/123/OIP123.pdf
"Graffiti incised on the roof blocks of the temple of Khonsu at Karnak,
written in the hieroglyphic, hieratic, and Demotic scripts and accompanied
by the outlines of pairs of feet, caught the eye of Champollion and other
early voyagers who succeeded in clambering up onto that part of the roof
still remaining over the colonnade of the first court. Such graffiti have
usually been interpreted as mementos left by ancient visitors passing
through Thebes. A complete survey of all the graffiti on the roof and a
detailed study of the inscriptions, carried out over a considerable period
of time, has revealed the unexpected fact that far from being casual
tourists, it was mostly the priestly personnel of the temple itself whose
graffiti have been preserved there ... The 334 graffiti recorded in the
volume are richly illustrated by photographs and facsimile drawings.
Transliterations, translations, line notes, and commentaries are provided.
The text concludes with general, name, epithet, and title indices."
--NEW ISSUES OF JOURNALS & MAGAZINES---
The latest issue of the journal ERAS (November 2005) has appeared,
with the following article available for free online:
André J. Veldmeijer, "Archaeologically attested cordage. Terminology
on the basis of the material from Ptolemaic and Roman Berenike"
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/eras/edition_7/veldmeijerarticle.htm
"Research on archaeologically attested cordage is still in its infancy and
terminology has been largely adapted from basketry and textile studies,
resulting in much confusion and various ways of describing the different
aspects of cordage. The present paper discusses this terminology and
proposes changes as well as new terms on the basis of research on more
than 9,000 cordage objects from eight years of excavations at Berenike
(Egyptian Red Sea coast)."
Eugene Cruz-Uribe, "Demotic Graffiti from the Wadi Hammamat"
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~gdc/wadilink.htm
"The following links are for photographs of the Demotic graffiti I have
published in JSSEA 28 [, pp. 26-54] (2001) in my article of the same name.
That article includes the transliterations, translations and commentary on a
series of Demotic texts found in the Paneion in the Wadi Hammamat and on the
walls of the quarry east of Paneion."
Online version of: Mahmoud Ezzamel, Accounting and redistribution: The
palace and mortuary cult in the Middle Kingdom, ancient Egypt, in: The
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 59-101 (2002)
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3657/is_200206/ai_n9107467
"This paper examines detailed historical material drawn from primary sources
to explore the role of accounting practices in the functioning of several
key stages of the redistributive economy of the Middle Kingdom, ancient
Egypt."
End of EEF news