A GOOD SCRIBE AND AN EXCEEDINGLY WISE MAN Studies in Honour of W. J. Tait

A GOOD SCRIBE AND AN

EXCEEDINGLY WISE MAN Studies in Honour of W. J. Tait

edited by

A. M. DODSON J. J. JOHNSTON &

W. MONKHOUSE

Demotic Consultant

C. J. MARTIN

GHP Egyptology 21 

Contents

Preface vii  W.J. Tait: a life in Egyptology ix  W.J. Tait: a bibliography to 2013 x List of Abbreviations 

New Evidence for Prince Ahmose (Sapair)

Carol Andrews … 1 

Limestone and Plaster Royal Sculpture of the Late and Ptolemaic Periods in the Fitzwilliam Museum

 Sally-Ann Ashton…7 

A Demotic Tax List from the Thebaid

W. Clarysse, C.J. Martin &  D.J. Thompson…25 

L’alphabet des oiseaux (O. dém. DelM 4-2).

Didier Devauchelle…57 

De Lacy O’Leary: Copticist, historian of the ancient eastern church and flawed cleric of the Anglican Church

Aidan Dodson &  M.J. Crossley  Evans…67

The Contribution of the Coptic Fragments from de Lagarde’s Catenae in evangelia Aegyptiacae quad  supersunt to our Understanding and Interpretation of Certain of Eusebius of Caesarea’s Quaestiones ad  Stephanum et ad Marinum 

Carol Downer…89

The Tomb of Khnumhotep at Rifeh

Wolfram Grajetzki…99 

A Gazelle, a Lute Player and Bes: three ring bezels from Amarna

Carolyn Graves-Brown…113 

Pastophoros

Friedhelm Hoffmann &  Joachim Friedrich Quack…127 Jaroslav

Jaorslav Černý  and his work at Deir el-Medîna

Jac. J. Janssen† &  Rosalind M. Janssen … 157 

Rewriting History: Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Night of Counting the Years

John J. Johnston … 167 

Some Ramesside Exotica

K.A. Kitchen … 177 

The Egyptian Attitude to the Persians

Alan B Lloyd … 185 

A Very Bright Poet, a Long Time Ago: considerations of language, meaning and the mind during the Bronze Age Correspondence from the Necropolis: two demotic letters from the Sacred Animal 

Necropolis, North Saqqara

Cary J. Martin, H.S. Smith &  Sue Davies … 213 

Landholders, Rents and Crops in a Ptolemaic  Village: P. Heid. Dem. inv. 46

Andrew Monson … 229 Scribal Practice and an Early Dynastic Stone Vessel Inscription: Material and Aesthetic Implications

Kathryn Piquette … 241  

Visions of Gods: P. Vienna D 6633–6636, a fragmentary pantheon in a demotic dream book

 Luigi Prada … 251 

A Fragment from the Beginning of Papyrus Spiegelberg (P. Carlsberg 565)

Kim Ryholt … 271 

Preparing for an Excavation: the 1909-10 EEF season at Abydos

Patricia Spencer … 279

Logistische Probleme im Aussenposten

Heinz-Josef Thissen … 291 

The Sale of a Female Donkey

J. David Thomas … 301 

Go Figure: metaphor, metonymy and the practice of translation in the ‘First Tale of Setne Khaemwas’

Steve Vinson … 305  

A White Wall is a Fool’s Paper

 S.P. Vleeming … 323