Looking beyond the Text

Margaret Geoga, Ph.D. (2020), Brown University, is Assistant Professor of Egyptology at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on ancient Egyptian literature, scribal culture, textual transmission, and reception, both in ancient Egypt itself and in later periods.Aurore Motte, Ph.D. (2018), University of Liège, is a postdoctoral researcher of the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium). She has published on ancient Egyptian language, literature, and paratext. She is currently focusing on the Book of Kemyt.Judith Jurjens, Ph.D. (2024), recently defended her dissertation at Leiden University. Her work focuses on the ancient Egyptian wisdom instruction The Teaching of Khety and its educational context. She has published several articles on the subject..

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of TablesList of ChartsNotes on ContributorsNotes on EditorsIntroductionMargaret Geoga, Aurore Motte and Judith JurjensPart1 Social Contexts1 Investigating Scribal Practice and the Instruction of a Man to His Son at Tell Edfu (TEO131)KathrynE. Bandy2 A Bookish Burial: Kings, Scribes, and the Amduat CatalogJordan Miller3 Identifying Scribes: Piay in the Colophon of P.Chester BeattyIIJudith JurjensPart2 Education and Formation4 Testing the Limits of the Sign: Writing Strategies for Advanced Scribes from the Educational Board BM EA194Amr ElHawary5 A Rare Coptic Legal Exercise: O.TT157 Inv.478/1Rowida AboBakrMohamedFawzyPart3 Writing Mechanics6 Scribal Practice in Heqanakht Letters: Analyzing the Epistolary Formula beyond the ScriptAhmed Osman7 Variability of Scribal Practices in the Copy of Retrograde Texts during the 21st Dynasty (1069–945 BCE)Émil Joubert8 The Life and Scribes of a Late Period Medical Papyrus: Tracing the Composition, Use and Deterioration of Papyrus Brooklyn 47.218.75+.86Juliane UngerPart4 Scribal Materials9 The Effect of the Reed Pen on Demotic Paleography in a Late-Ptolemaic Archive from TebtunisLeah Packard-Grams10 Permanence of Intellectual Creation through the Materiality of Stone: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Egyptian Book CultureChana AlgarvioPart5 Transmission and Reception11 Evidence of Diglossia and Bilingualism in Old Egyptian Mortuary Literature of the Middle KingdomRobertoAntonio DíazHernández12 The Textual History of the Demotic “Prebend of Amun”JacquelineE. Jay13 Infographics in Museums: The Use of Graphic Visual Representations in the Mediation of Textual Content on PapyriSusanne TöpferIndex