Egypt
Archaeogate Egittologia
See the above for more.
- Searching For Fragments Of An Astronomical Ceiling
Egypt Exploration Society With photos. Professor Sarah Symons of the Integrated Science Programme & Dept. of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University, Hanilton, Ontario recently visited the Society's London offices to study some of the unpublished...
- Rollston’s Reflections On The Fragmentary Ophel Tablet
Rollston Epigraphy (Christopher Rollston) With comments included. Rollston’s Reflections on the Fragmentary Cuneiform Tablet from the Ophel: A Critique of the Proposed Historical Context Introduction In IEJ 60 (2010): 4-21 a cuneiform tablet (written...
- More Re Akkadian Tablet Found In Jerusalem
Science Daily The fragment found at the Ophel is believed to be contemporary with the some 380 tablets discovered in the 19th century at Amarna in Egypt in the archives of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), who lived in the 14th century B.C.E. The archives...
- Book Review: Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Peter C. Nadig) K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5, Setnakht, Ramesses III and Contemporaries. Malden, Mass./Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. ISBN 9780631184317. The Liverpudlian Egyptologist and...
- Oldest Writing
During an excavation in Jerusalem just south of the walls of the old city a clay chip from a 3400 year old clay tablet covered in cuneiform script has shown the importance of that city in the late Bronze age. Researchers from Hebrew University...
Egypt
Sad News: Professor Sarah Groll
Archaeogate Egittologia
My gratitude to Helen Strudwick for letting me know the sad news that Professor Sarah Groll passed away on 15th December 2007. A notice on the Archeogate includes a short obituary by Dr Deborah Sweeney:
Professor Sarah Israelit Groll, one of the key figures in our understanding of the Egyptian language during the Ramesside period, died early in the morning of Saturday, December 15th, in Jerusalem,
shortly before her 82nd birthday.
Sarah was born in Tel Aviv in 1925, but lived most of her life in Jerusalem. She was one of a select group of students taught by the fabled Hans-Jakob Polotsky, and every summer travelled to Oxford to study Ramesside texts with Professor Jaroslav Cerny. By applying Polotsky's rigorous structuralist methodology to Cerny's documentary corpus, she enlarged and codified our knowledge of the Ramesside
verbal system.
She published her findings in her works Non-Verbal Sentence Patterns in Late Egyptian (1967), The Negative Verbal System of Late Egyptian (1970), and (based on the earlier grammar of Jaroslav Cerny) A Late Egyptian Grammar (1975). She also edited several collections of articles on Egyptological topics.
In 1972 Sarah Groll founded the Department of Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which became an international centre for the study of Ramesside texts.
See the above for more.
- Searching For Fragments Of An Astronomical Ceiling
Egypt Exploration Society With photos. Professor Sarah Symons of the Integrated Science Programme & Dept. of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University, Hanilton, Ontario recently visited the Society's London offices to study some of the unpublished...
- Rollston’s Reflections On The Fragmentary Ophel Tablet
Rollston Epigraphy (Christopher Rollston) With comments included. Rollston’s Reflections on the Fragmentary Cuneiform Tablet from the Ophel: A Critique of the Proposed Historical Context Introduction In IEJ 60 (2010): 4-21 a cuneiform tablet (written...
- More Re Akkadian Tablet Found In Jerusalem
Science Daily The fragment found at the Ophel is believed to be contemporary with the some 380 tablets discovered in the 19th century at Amarna in Egypt in the archives of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), who lived in the 14th century B.C.E. The archives...
- Book Review: Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Peter C. Nadig) K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5, Setnakht, Ramesses III and Contemporaries. Malden, Mass./Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. ISBN 9780631184317. The Liverpudlian Egyptologist and...
- Oldest Writing
During an excavation in Jerusalem just south of the walls of the old city a clay chip from a 3400 year old clay tablet covered in cuneiform script has shown the importance of that city in the late Bronze age. Researchers from Hebrew University...