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This paper reexamines a fragmentary Aramaic letter from the Yedaniah communal archive in Elephantine. The document, TAD A4.4, tells a tale of intrigue involving burglaries, arrests, and failed diplomacy. Many details of the letter escape us because the text is incomplete, but it is clear that five men and six women from Elephantine were seized at the gate in Thebes. Scholarly treatments have tended to discuss the women's presence at Thebes as an ancillary fact, as if they were merely wives and daughters along with their men on a business trip. This paper analyzes the internal evidence of...
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Abstract : The architectural peculiarities of the Bent pyramid built by Snefru at South Dahshur are the subject of two currents of interpretation. The first one consists in seeing the symbolic and deliberated expression of a duality, and the second one, modifications due to structural problems that occurred during the construction work. This article reviews the archaeological situation by bringing unpublished and additional observations. Some details that have been unnoticed by commentators so far, as well as the pathology of the building, lead to confirm that the builders changed their...
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An article on the Kharga Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert under Achaemenid Persian Rule (i.e. the 27th Dynasty) written for the Encyclopaedia Iranica.
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The destruction of mankind: A transitional literary text* ... Abstract A re-evaluation of the famous New Kingdom text dealing with the rebellion of mankind. Connections to the royal ?King's-Novel" are discussed, and a more accurate dating of the account is presented.
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Settlement excavations within the South Town area of Nubt (Petrie's 'Naqada' site, De Morgan's 'Toukh' site) are discussed. This study is part of an on-going research project.
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