Ostracon

Description

Limestone ostracon inscribed with 31 lines of hieratic text in ink praising the king as he appears on the war-chariot, inked on both sides (15 on recto, 16 on verso): Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, probably Thebes, New Kingdom, c.1279-1153 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.319

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Ostracon

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

19th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Limestone

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Rhind, Alexander Henry, 1833 - 1863
Rhind Collection

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

A. Erman, 'Hieratische Ostraka', ZAS 18 (1880), pp. 93-6.

W. R. Dawson & T. E. Peet, 'The So-Called Poem on the King’s Chariot', Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 19 (1933), pp. 167-74.

B. Manley, 'The King of Egypt Upon His Chariot, a Poem (Ostracon NMS A.1956.319)', Cosmos 24 (2008), pp. 107-118.

C. Manassa, 'The Chariot that Plunders Foreign Lands: "The Hymn to the King in His Chariot"' in Chasing Chariots: Proceedings of the first international chariot conference (Cairo 2012), Eds. A. J. Veldmeijer & S. Ikram.

Bill Manley (2014) 'A Very Bright Poet, a Long Time Ago: considerations of language, meaning and the mind during the Bronze Age'. In A Good Scribe and an Exceedingly Wise Man: Studies in Honour of W.J.Tait edited by A.M. Dodson, J.J. Johnston and W.Monkhouse. GHP Egyptology 21.

Pietri, Renaud (c. 2015) 'The Chariot in egyptian mind' PhD thesis at Montpellier University and the Ecole du Louvre .

Margaret A. 1899. Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh, PSAS 33, p.514

Schulman, Alan R. 1986a. The So–called Poem on the King’s Chariot Revisited. Part I, JSSEA 16 (1), 19–35.

Schulman, Alan R. 1986a. The So–called Poem on the King’s Chariot Revisited. Part I, JSSEA 16 (1), 19–35.

Hofmann, Ulrich. 1989. Fuhrwesen und Pferdehaltung im Alten Ägypten, Bonn.

Popko, Lutz. 2012. Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, oEdinburgh 916, Streitwagenhymnus (https://aaew.bbaw.de/tla/servlet/GetTextDetails?u=guest&f=0&l=0&tc=537&db=0)

Gardiner 52.1–5; MSS.31.79.3–8. Checklist of transcribed hieratic documents in the archive of the Griffith Institute, (http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4higaros.html).

Peet 1.156–8. Checklist of transcribed hieratic documents in the archive of the Griffith Institute, (http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4hipee.html).

Potter, D. M. 'National Museums Scotland: New Kingdom Hieratic Texts in Edinburgh', in A. Fanciulli, K. Gabler, M. Landrino, M. Müller, R. Pietri, St. Polis, N. Sojic, S. Töpfer & St. Unter (eds.), New Kingdom Hieratic Collections around the World. Part 1, Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège, 2023 (= Aegyptiaca Leodiensia 13.1).

Warburton, D.A. (2009). Time and Space in Ancient Egypt. The importance of the creation of abstraction. In 'Being in Ancient Egypt. Thoughts on Agency, Materiality and Cognition, Edited by R. Nyord and A. Kjolby, pp 83-95. Oxford. BAR International.

Hoch, J.E (1994) Semetic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Quirke, S.J (2004) Egyptian Literature 1800 BC. Questions and Readings. London: Golden House Publications.

Quirke, S.J. (1992). Ancient Egyptian Religion. London: British Museum Press.

On display

national museum of scotland »
level 5 »
world cultures, ancient egypt rediscovered