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Robert K. Ritner Rowe Professor of Egyptology 2019–2021 PhD, University of Chicago, 1987 Taught at UChicago 1987–1991, 1996–2021 |
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Robert K. Ritner Egyptology Collection
- View books from Robert K. Ritner's personal library donated to Rice University.
Select Publications
- 2022: Ritner, Robert K. "Jubilating Baboons and the Bes Pantheos." In One Who Loves Knowledge: Festschrift in Honor of Richard Jasnow, edited by Betsy Brian, Mark Smith, Tina DiCerbo, and Marina Escolano-Poveda, pp. 335–44. Material and Visual Culture of Ancient Egypt 6. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2022.
- 2021: Ritner, Robert K. "Confronting and Uniting with Divinity in Ancient Egypt." In Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds, edited by Eleni Pachoumi, pp. 74–94. Ancient Philosophy and Religion 7. Leiden: Brill, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004502529_005
- 2021: "The God Kothos." Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 67:1 (2021): 138–145. https://doi.org/10.1515/apf-2021-0009
- 2020. "Erotica from Roman Egypt: A Demotic Magical Spell to Induce Lovesickness." Oriental Institute News & Notes 246 (Summer 2020): 4–9. Co-authored with Foy Scalf.
- 2020. "The 'God' Ptiris and the Curses of Philae." In Guardian of Ancient Egypt: Studies in Honor of Zahi Hawass, edited by Janice Kamrin, Miroslav Bárta, Salima Ikram, Mark Lehner, and Mohmed Megahed, volume III, pp. 1359–1370. Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, 2020.
- 2019. "Anubis, Archer Figures, and Demotic Magic." Göttinger Miszellen 259 (2019), 185–212. Co-Authored with Foy Scalf.
- 2019: "Egyptian New Kingdom Evidence for the Chronology of Alalakh"
- 2014: "Public Response to Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham"
- 2014: "Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham"
- 2012: "The Statue of Liberty and its Ties to Egypt," a note composed for the installation of Danh Vo's “We the People" replica fragment at the Oriental Institute Museum, September - December 2012
- 2012: Apology by E. Teeter regarding errors in "Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt” concerning "The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice" (SAOC 54)
- 2011: An Eternal Curse upon the Reader of These Lines
- 2009: Reading the Coffin of Meresamun
- 2008: Some Problematic Bipartite Nominal Predicates in Demotic
- 2008: "Oriental Institute Museum Notes No. 15: A Coptic Lintel from Qustul." JNES 67, 107-116.
- 2007: "Ptolemy IX (Soter II) at Thebes”
This article was presented on October 14, 2006 at the Seventh Chicago-Johns Hopkins Theban Workshop and is published in the volume, Perspectives on Ptolemaic Thebes. - 2006: Tutankhamun for the Twenty-first Century: Modern Misreadings of an Ancient Culture
- 2006: "The Cardiovascular System in Ancient Egyptian Thought." JNES 65, pp. 99-109.
- 2005: The Lost Land of Nubia: Egypt’s Southern Neighbor in Africa
- 2003: "'The Breathing Permit of Hôr among the Joseph Smith Papyri." JNES 62, pp. 161-180.
- 2001: Cleopatra In Chicago
- 2000: "Innovations and Adaptations in Ancient Egyptian Medicine." JNES 59, pp. 107-117.
- 1998: Practical Egyptian Magical Spells - Presented at the 1998 Oriental Institute Annual Dinner
- 1998: Egypt under Roman Rule: The Legacy of Ancient Egypt
- 1996: "Texts, Storms, and the Thera Eruption." JNES 55, pp. 1-14, co-authored with Karen Polinger Foster.
- 1994: "An Unusual Offering Table in Dallas." EVO 17, pp. 265-273.
- 1992: "Implicit Models of Cross-Cultural Interaction: A Question of Noses, Soap, and Prejudice." In Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond, edited by Janet H. Johnson, pp. 283–290. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 51. Chicago: Oriental Institute.
- 1990: "O. Gardiner 363: A Spell Against Night Terrors." JARCE 27, pp. 25-41.
- 1986: "The Site of the Wild Bull-Hunt of Amenophis III." JEA 72, pp. 193-194.
- 1985: "Anubis and the Lunar Disc." JEA 71, pp. 149-155.
- 1984: "A Uterine Amulet in the Oriental Institute Collection." JNES 43, pp. 209-221.
