2025 Spring EGYPT 201A 001 LEC 001

Spring 2025

EGYPT 201A 001 - LEC 001

Middle Egyptian Texts

Funerary Texts

Rita Lucarelli

Jan 21, 2025 - May 09, 2025
Tu, Th
11:00 am - 12:29 pm
Social Sciences Building 275
Class #:32292
Units:4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 3
Enrolled: 5
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 8
Waitlist Max: 2
No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials, and 9 hours of outside work hours.

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Course Catalog Description

The course will be based on the reading, translation, grammatical and philological analysis of Middle Egyptian literary and magical texts. Readings include spells of the ancient Egyptian funerary corpora of the Coffin Texts and Book of the Dead, texts from stelae of the Middle Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom story of Sinuhe.

Class Description

The course will be based on the reading, translation, grammatical and philological analysis of Middle Egyptian funerary texts. Readings include spells of the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts, Book of the Dead, and other texts from mortuary and magical contexts. A special focus will be on the issues of translation of magical texts; the students will be encouraged to compare and discuss different kind of modern translations in the main Western languages used in Egyptology (English, Italian, French and German) and how those translations very often mirror the etic view of the scholarly interpretations of the texts.

Rules & Requirements

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Reserved Seats

Current Enrollment

No Reserved Seats

Textbooks & Materials

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