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Local variation in the Coffin Texts:A case study of sentence structure in spell 75
Jorke Grotenhuis
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Local variation in spell 75
• Coffin texts and terminology
• Local variation
• Method
• Results
• Future
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Coffin text and terminology
Willems, Harco. 1988. Chests of life: a study of the typology and conceptual development of Middle Kingdom standard class coffins. Mededelingen en Verhandelingen van het Vooraziatisch-EgyptischGenootschap "Ex Oriente Lux" 25, Leiden.
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Coffin text and terminology
Buck, Adriaan de. 1935. The Egyptian Coffin Texts I: texts of spells 1-75. Oriental Institute Publications 34. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Coffin text and terminology
• Text in de Buck (CT1, 378a, B2L)
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Coffin text and terminology
• Text in de Buck (CT1, 378a, B2L) • Outer coffin of gwA (BM EA 38039)
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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?partid=1&assetid=1613030935&objectid=129018
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Local variation
• Personal preference or local variation?
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Local variation
• Personal preference or local variation?
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Beni Hassan, tomb of Amenemhat, hall, north wall, register 1 (Newberry, plate 315)
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Why Coffin Texts?
• Large corpus
• Multiple witnesses from the same and different locations
• Well published by de Buck
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Method
• Encoding a database
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Method
• Encoding a database
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Method
• Encoding a database
• Create analysis files
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Method
• Encoding a database
• Create analysis files
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Method
• Encoding a database
• Create analysis files
• Spells as proteins
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Method
• Encoding a database
• Create analysis files
• Spells as proteins
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Method
• Encoding a database
• Create analysis files
• Spells as proteins
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Method
• Encoding a database
• Create analysis files
• Spells as proteins
• Visualization
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Method
• Encoding a database
• Create analysis files
• Spells as proteins
• Visualization
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Schweitzer, Simon D. 2013. Dating Egyptian literary texts: lexical approaches. In Moers, Gerald, Kai Widmaier, Antonia Giewekemeyer, Arndt Lümers, and Ralf Ernst (eds), Dating Egyptian literary texts, 177-190. Hamburg.
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Spell 75
• 24+1 witnesses• 8 witnesses from Deir el-Bersheh
• 8 witnesses from Meir (+1 unpublished, courtesy of Tobias Konrad, Mainz)
• 3 witnesses from Asyut
• 1 witness from Beni Hassan
• 1 witness from Gebelein
• 1 witness from Aswan
• 1 witness from the Theban area
• 1 witness from Saqqara
• 191 phrases
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Spell 75
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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
S1C
S2C
S14C
T3C
B3C
B1Bo
B1C
B2L
B1P
B6C
B7C
M3C
M20C
B4C
M4C
M5C
M6C
M23C
M28C
M-Ann
Sq5C
G1T
A1C
BH2C
Damage to the witnesses
Number of partial lacunae Number of lacunae Undamaged entries
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Results
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Results
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Results
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Results
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Sesostris II – Sesostris III
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Results
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Results
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Results
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Late 11th dynasty – early 12th
dynasty.
Incised cursive
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Results
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Results
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Amenemhat I – Amenemhat II
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Results
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Results
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Amenemhat I – Amenemhat II
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Results
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Results
• There are many fuzzy borders
• There seem to have been 3 major variations of this spell
• There seem to have been at least two workshop traditions in Bersheh
• Meir has a common ground between the witnesses
• The coffins from Aswan and Gebelein seem to share a common origin
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Future
• Analyzing more spells using the same method, and comparing the results
• Analyzing the verbal system used in the spells
• Analysis of spelling of verbal forms
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