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Demotic Papyrology I

Course
2021-2022

Admission requirements

Knowledge of Middle and Late Egyptian, and preferably also hieratic. Knowledge of Coptic is not required but helpful.

Description

Introduction to the Demotic script and language, and to the main tools to decipher Demotic papyri and ostraca. Reading of published Demotic documentary and literary texts.

Course objectives

Being a first introduction to the Demotic script, this course aims to acquaint students with various documentary and literary Demotic sources, as well as with the available literature. Students will be expected to critically assess the publications that will be used. The second aim will be for students to read a number of published Demotic texts, correctly identifying and addressing philological and palaeographical problems, and to test their ability to analyse and understand Demotic sources in the broad context of Late Period and Ptolemaic Egypt.

Timetable

The timetables are available through My Timetable.

Mode of instruction

Seminar

Assessment method

Attendance, preparation and participation in the discussion of the Demotic sources treated in class (30%) and final written exam (70%). Resit after consultation with lecturer.

Reading list

S.P. Vleeming, Inleiding tot het Demotische Schrift: Het Demotische Schrift, Leiden 1988
J.H. Johnson, Thus Wrote 'Onchsheshonqy - An Introductory Grammar of Demotic (online)

Registration

This has to be filled out by the key-user of the department.

Enrolment through uSis is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available in [English])http://hum.leiden.edu/students/study-administration/usis-english.html) and Dutch

Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs

Registration Contractonderwijs

Contact

  • For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.

  • For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office: Arsenaal

Remarks

This class requires motivated students.