For the history component, your work will be assessed against:

1. Appropriate use of primary sources and secondary literature

2. Clarity of oral presentation (Presentation and Discussion)

2. Clarity of argument, structure and expression (Essays).

A marking rubric for the Presentation and Essays is provided on iLearn.

For the language component, your work will be assessed against:

1. Accuracy of transliteration of hieroglyphic texts (weekly preparation, Translation Tests)

2. Accuracy of translation (weekly preparation, Translation Tests)

3. Comprehensiveness and accuracy, employing appropriate linguistic metalanguage, of grammatical commentary (weekly preparation, Translation Tests) - a model is provided on the Unit iLearn site.

Students are required to submit all assessment tasks by the specified date. Submission boxes will be set up in iLearn.

Late Penalty Policy

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply - two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date - and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (inc. weekends) after the original submission deadline.  No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments - e.g. quizzes, online tests.

Important notice on final marks

Please note with respect to the marks you receive for work during the session: that the marks given are indicative only; final marks will be determined after moderation.  See further the note on Results in the Policies and Procedures section below.

Lecture

Time: Wednesday 3-6pm Location: 10 Hadenfeld Ave - 212 Tutorial Room

Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials

There are no required textbooks for the history component of this unit. For the language component, the following are required.

    B.G. Ockinga, A Concise Grammar of Middle Egyptian, 3rd edition (Mainz am Rhein, 2012).

    R.O. Faulkner, A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian (Oxford, 1976).

Extensions and Special Considerations

If you anticipate any difficulty in attending class for a scheduled test it is important that you contact us as early as possible. Please avoid asking for extensions as missing deadlines complicates the work of markers and puts you behind. If you have to ask for an extension or the opportunity to reschedule the date of a test please request it before the deadline, and only request the extension if you face serious crises that can be documented in some way (e.g. with a medical certificate). ‘Getting behind with your work’ or 'I ran out of time’ are not excuses. If you miss a class test due to illness or a serious crisis that can be documented, you can re-schedule and sit the test at a later time. Please see us as soon as possible to organise a time and place to sit a supplementary test.

Special Consideration Policy https://students.mq.edu.au/study/my-study-program/special-consideration

Unit Webpage and Technology Used and Required

Online units can be accessed at: http://ilearn.mq.edu.au/.

PC and Internet access are required. Basic computer skills (e.g. internet browsing) and skills in word processing are also a requirement.

Please consult teaching staff for any further, more specific requirements.

WEEK 1

Lecture: General Introduction

Tutorial:  Allocation of presentation topics

Tasks:

The first tutorial will be a general introduction to the tutorial structure and readings for this unit, an outline of the sources you should be using in your research as well as some general advice on presentation style.

For this week I would like you to get to know the types of online resources available for the Old Kingdom. The internet is a useful source of information, however please be careful of the sorts of sites you use and reference. Think carefully about whether the information you have used is reliable and I would generally stick to sites that are attached to an institution or a museum such as the Giza Archives Project from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. For this week’s task please look up the following archival sites listed below:

• AEB (Annual Egyptological Bibliography- see the Reference desk in the MQ library) www.aebnet.nl
• ETANA (Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives) www.etana.org
• The EEF Guide to Online resources for Ancient Egyptian Texts http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/4482/EEFtexts.html MFA
• Boston – The Giza Archives Project www.gizapyramids.org/code/emuseum.asp

Readings:

The second task for the week involves going to the Macquarie University library and locating these works in the Reference or the Ready Reference section. Please have a browse through these books to see how useful they are for your tutorial presentation:

• B. Porter, R. Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieorglyphic Texts,Reliefs and Paintings, 8 vols. (Oxford, 1927-1952; second edition, J. Málek, 1960).
• W. Helck, W. Westendorff, Lexikon der Ägyptologie, 7 vols (Wiesbaden, 1972).
• D. Redford, (ed), The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egypt, (Oxford, 2001).

WEEK 2

Lecture: Development of Royal Architecture: Dynasties 1-6

Translation: Old Kingdom Text

Tasks:

This week visit a few museum/university websites and have a look through the collection for Old Kingdom artefacts:

• Louvre Museum www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York www.metmuseum.org
• Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk also the Griffith Institute www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/Griffith
• Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk
• University of Halle – Lepsius Project http://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/

Reference Works:

This week I would like you to read brief outlines of the Old Kingdom in:

• D. Redford, (ed) The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egypt, (Oxford, 2001), 585-605.
• B. G. Trigger, B. J. Kemp, D. O’Connor, A. B. Lloyd, Ancient Egypt: A Social History (Cambridge, 1983), 71-112.
• M. Lehner, The Complete Pyramids, (London, 1997), 72-137.
• M. Verner, The Pyramids : The mystery, culture and science of Egypt's great monuments / translated from the German by Steven Rendall, (New York, 2001), 174-234.

WEEK 3

Lecture: Decoration of Royal Complexes: Dynasties 1-6

Translation: Old Kingdom text

Reference Works:

• E. Edel and S. Wenig, Die Jahreszeitenreliefs aus dem Sonnenheiligtum des Königs Ne-user-re (Berlin, 1974).
• H. Frankfort, Kingship and the Gods: A Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion as the Integration of Society and Nature (Chicago, 1948).
• D. O'Connor and D. P. Silverman, Ancient Egyptian Kingship (Leiden, 1995).
• H. Goedicke, Die Stellung des Konigs im Alten Reich (Wiesbaden, 1960).
• G. Jéquier, Le monument funéraire de Pepi II, 3 vols (Cairo, 1936-40).
• B. E. Shafer, (ed.) Temples of Ancient Egypt, (London, 2005), 31-63.
• M. Verner, The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments, translated from the German by Steven Rendall (New York, 2001), 174-234.

WEEK 4

Lecture: Development of Elite Tomb Architecture: Dynasties 1-6

Translation: Old Kingdom Text

Reference Works:

• A. Dodson, S. Ikram, The Tomb in Ancient Egypt (London, 2008), 78-124.
• N. Kanawati, The Tomb and Beyond: Burial Customs of Egyptian Officials (Warminster, 2001).
• W. S. Smith, Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt, 3rd edition, (New Haven, 1998).
• G. A. Reisner, A History of the Giza Necropolis I (Cambridge, Mass., 1942).

WEEK 5

Lecture: Decoration of Elite Tombs: Dynasties 1-6.

Translation: Old Kingdom text

Tutorial Topic 1: Elite tomb decoration solely served to display the everyday life activities of their tomb owners.

Reference Works:

• A. McFarlane and A.-L. Mourad (eds), Behind the Scenes: Daily Life in Old Kingdom Egypt (Oxford, 2014).
• Y. Harpur, Decoration in Egyptian Tombs of the Old Kingdom: Studies in Orientation and Scene Content (London, 1987).
• N. Kanawati, The Tomb and Beyond: Burial Customs of Egyptian Officials (Warminster: c2001).
• N. Kanawati et al., Mereruka and His Family, Parts I-III (Oxford, 2004-2011).
• I. Shaw and P. Nicholson, The British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (London, 2002), 10-11.
• W. S. Smith, A History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom (New York, 1978).

WEEK  6

Lecture: Decoration of the Burial Chamber

Translation: Old Kingdom Text

Tutorial Topic 2: The wives of top officials of the Old Kingdom could hold important official and religious roles in society.

Reference Works:

• A.O. Bolshakov, Man and his Double in Egyptian Ideology of the Old Kingdom (Wiesbaden, 1997).
• K. Daoud, 'Animate Decoration and Burial Chambers of Private Tombs during the Old Kingdom: New Evidence from the tomb of Kairer at Saqqara', Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée 40.1, (2005), 107-127.
• N. Kanawati, ‘Polygamy in the Old Kingdom of Egypt?‘, SAK 4 (1976), 149-160.
• N. Kanawati, Decorated Burial Chambers of the Old Kingdom (Cairo, 2010).
• K. McCorquodale, Representations of the Family in the Egyptian Old Kingdom (Oxford, 2013).
• G. Robins, Women in Ancient Egypt (Harvard, 1993).
• W. K. Simpson, ‘Polygamy in Egypt in the Middle Kingdom‘, JEA 60 (1974), 100-105.
• A.M.J. Tooley, Egyptian Models and Scenes (Princes Risborough, 1995).

WEEK 7

Lecture: Mereruka and King Teti

Translation: Old Kingdom Text

Tutorial Topic 3: The rise of the solar cult in the 5^th Dynasty diminished the power of the king.

Reference Works:

• P. Duell, The Mastaba of Mereruka, 2 vols (Chicago, 1938).
• N. Kanawati, Mereruka and King Teti: The Power Behind the Throne (Cairo, 2007).
• N. Kanawati,  Mereruka and His Family, Parts 1-3 (Oxford, 2004- 2011).
• S. Quirke, The Cult of Ra: Sun-worship in Ancient Egypt (London, 2001).
• B. E. Shafer, (ed.) Temples of Ancient Egypt, (London, 2005).
• R. Shalomi-Hen, ‘The dawn of Osiris and the dusk of the sun-temples: religious history at the end of the Fifth Dynasty’, in P. der Manuelian and T. Schneider (eds), Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom: Perspectives on the Pyramid Age (Leiden, 2015), 456-469.

WEEK 8

Lecture: Conspiracy in the Egyptian Palace

Translation: Old Kingdom Text

Tutorial Topic 4: Officials of the Old Kingdom only rose to prominent positions if they were members of the royal family.

Reference Works:

• K. Baer, Rank and Title in the Old Kingdom (Chicago, 1960).
• H. Junker, Giza, vol. 5.: Die Mastaba des Snb und die umliegenden Gräber (Vienna and Leipzig,1941).
• N. Kanawati, Governmental Reforms in Old Kingdom Egypt (Warminster, 1980).
• N. Kanawati, Conspiracies in the Egyptian Palace: Unis to Pepy I (London, 2003) 138-157.
• N. Kanawati, Mereruka and King Teti: The Power Behind the Throne (Cairo, 2007), 13-27.
• N.C. Strudwick, Administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom (London, 1985).

WEEK 9

Lecture: Two Old Kingdom Officials: Weni and Djau

Translation: Old Kingdom Text

Tutorial Topic 5: The adoption of royal funerary practices by the elite towards the end of the Old Kingdom should be understood as a ‘democratisation of the afterlife’.

Reference Works:

• J.P. Allen, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (Atlanta 2005).
• C.J. Eyre, 'Weni's Career and Old Kingdom Historiography', in C.J. Eyre, A. Leahy and L. Montagno Leahy (eds.), The Unbroken Reed (London, 1994), pp. 107-124.
• R. O. Faulkner (trans.), The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (Oxford, 1969).
• H. M. Hays, ‘The death of the democratisation of the afterlife’, in N. Strudwick and H. Strudwick (eds), Old Kingdom. New Perspectives: Egyptian Art and Archaeology 2750-2150 BC (Oxford, 2011), 115-130.
• E. Hornung, Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many (trans. J. Baines, London and New York, 1982).
• N. Kanawati, Deir el-Gebrawi. Volume III: The Southern Cliff (Oxford, 2013).
• M. Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 1, The Old and Middle Kingdoms (Berkeley, 1975).
• J. Richards, 'Text and Context in late Old Kingdom Egypt: The Archaeology and Historiography of Weni the Elder', JARCE 39, (2002), 75-102.
• N.C. Strudwick, Texts from the Pyramid Age (Atlanta, 2005).

WEEK 10

Lecture: The Rise of the Provincial Governor

Translation: Old Kingdom Text

Reference Works:

• K. Baer, Rank and Title in the Old Kingdom (Chicago, 1960).
• N. Kanawati, Governmental Reforms in Old Kingdom Egypt (Warminster, 1980).
• N. Kanawati & J. Swinton, Egypt in the Sixth Dynasty: Challenges and Responses (Wallasey, 2018).
• N.C. Strudwick, Administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom (London, 1985).

WEEK 11

Lecture: The Fall of the Old Kingdom

Translation: Old Kingdom Text

Reference Works:

• K. Baer, Rank and Title in the Old Kingdom (Chicago, 1960).
• M. Baud, Famille royale et pouvoir sous l'Ancien Empire égyptien, 2 vols. (IFAO, 2nd edn. Cairo, 2005).
• H. Goedicke, 'The Death of Pepy II-Neferkare", SAK 15, (1988), 111-121.
• F. Hassan, 'Droughts, Famine and the Collapse of the Old Kingdom', in Z. Hawass and J. Richards (eds.), The Archaeology and Art of Ancient Egypt (Cairo, 2007), pp. 357-377.
• N. Kanawati, Governmental Reforms in Old Kingdom Egypt (Warminster, 1980).
• M. Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 1, The Old and Middle Kingdoms (Berkeley, 1975).

WEEK 12

Translation: Old Kingdom Text