Toponymy on the Periphery

Placenames of the Eastern Desert, Red Sea, and South Sinai in Egyptian Documents from the Early Dynastic Until the End of the New Kingdom
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-36169-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 39, 718 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1210 g

Reihe: Probleme der Ägyptologie

In Toponymy on the Periphery, Julien Charles Cooper conducts a study of the rich geographies preserved in Egyptian texts relating to the desert regions east of Egypt. These regions, filled with mines, quarries, nomadic camps, and harbours are often considered as an unimportant hinterland of the Egyptian state, but this work reveals the wide explorations and awareness Egyptians had of the Red Sea and its adjacent deserts, from the Sinai in the north to Punt in the south. The book attempts to locate many of the placenames present in Egyptian texts and analyse their etymology in light of Egyptian linguistics and the various foreign languages spoken in the adjacent deserts and distant shores of the Red Sea.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Charles Cooper, Julien

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Preface and Conventions

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

Scope

1 Toponymy and Ancient History

1 The Unit of Study: The Placename

2 Toponymy in Egyptology

3 Critical Toponymy and Semantics

4 Toponym Typologies

5 Toponymy, Texts, and Lexicography

6 Etymological Method: The Linguistics of Non-Egyptian Placenames

7 Localisation

2 Proper Nouns and Placenames in the Egyptian Script

1 Toponymic Classifiers: Ordering Egyptian Space

2 Classifier Mechanics

3 The Toponymic Classifier Signs

4 Multiple Determinatives O49, N25, and T14

5 Classifying Foreign Space

3 The Historic, Geographic, and Archaeological Context

1 Egyptians outside Egypt: The Historical and Archaeological Context

2 Zone 1: The Eastern Desert

3 Zone 2: The South Sinai, Edom, and Midian

4 Zone 3: The Southern Atbai and Further Red Sea

5 Conclusion

4 Foreigners on the Periphery: The Language and Phonology of Foreign Names

1 Foreign Ethnica

2 The Linguistic Map of the Red Sea

3 Phono-Graphemic Correspondences

5 Toponymic Databank

1 Areal Toponyms [1–9]

2 Zone 1: The Eastern Desert [9–50]

3 Zone 2: The South Sinai and Edom [51–74]

4 Zone 3: The Southern Atbai and Further Red Sea [75–85]

Excursus I: Diagnostic Resources and the Archaeology of Punt

6 Toponomastica: Toponyms from the Topographical Lists and Execration Texts

1 Egyptian Toponomastica

2 Hapax Toponyms from Toponomastica

7 The Toponyms and Labels of the Turin Map

1 The Map

2 Toponyms and Geographic Labels of the Turin Map [T1-T20]

Excursus II: Toponyms Possibly Located in the Eastern Desert, South Sinai, and Red Sea

8 Geographic Analysis

1 Mapping the Desert and the Sea: Problems of Historical Geography

2 Hierarchies and Allonyms

3 Routes in the Desert and the Sea: Using Placenames to Reconstruct Ancient Routes

4 Toponymy and Archaeology: New Sites in the Desert

5 Placenames as Symbols

6 The Expeditionary Context: The Arrival of Foreign Names in Texts

9 Linguistic Analysis

1 Foreign Languages

2 Orthographic Remarks

3 Morphology and Syntax

4 Toponym Motivation

5 Lexical Opacity and Toponymic Transparency

6 Making Placenames

10 Conclusion

1 Egyptians and Their Placenames

2 Territoriality: Placenames and Sovereignty

3 The Peripheral Toponymy of Egypt: Patterns in Marginal Landscapes and Language Contact

Postscript: A New Puntite Topographical List from Old Dongola

Appendix of Texts

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Julien Charles Cooper, Ph.D. (2016), Macquarie University, is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at Yale University. He has published a number of articles relating to toponymy and Egyptian exploration of distant regions and has conducted fieldwork in the Atbai desert of Sudan.