A Master of Secrets in the Chamber of Darkness: Egyptological Studies in Honor of Robert K. Ritner Presented on the Occasion of His Sixty-Eighth Birthday

Editor(s): Foy D. Scalf, Brian P. Muhs.

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Studies in Ancient Cultures 3

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Robert Kriech Ritner (May 5, 1953–July 25, 2021) was the Rowe Professor of Egyptology at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago. His trendsetting scholarship revolutionized our views of ancient Egyptian religion and helped launch a renaissance in the study of magic in the ancient world. In this volume, twenty-seven of Robert K. Ritner’s closest friends, colleagues, and students have come together to honor him by presenting the latest groundbreaking research in Egyptology and beyond.

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Acknowledgments
Preface
The Master of Secrets: Robert K. Ritner. Foy D. Scalf and Brian P. Muhs
Publications of Robert K. Ritner. Foy D. Scalf and Brian P. Muhs
The Ritner Stela. Megaera Lorenz and Mary Szabady

Black Magic (Woman). Solange Ashby
An Additional Layer of Complexity: Northern and Southern Warets in Middle Kingdom Administration. Kathryn E. Bandy
Hieroglyphs of Value across the Great Green. Karen Polinger Foster
Seth the Gleaming One. François Gaudard
"Destructive Flame," "Dazzling Beauty," and "Source of Enlightenment"—Royal Light Terminology and Metaphor from the New Kingdom to the Late Period. Katja Goebs
The "Libyan Family" at Kawa: Fashion as a Political Statement of Taharqo. Aleksandra Hallmann
A Version of Book of the Dead Spell 99 in Demotic (P. Dem. MAIL 1). Richard Jasnow
Three Demotic Silver Accounts from the ISAC Museum Collection. Jacqueline E. Jay and Foy D. Scalf
Assorted Observations on Inheritance in Ancient Egypt. Janet H. Johnson
Akhenaten and the Opening of the Mouth Ritual? An Enigmatic Karnak Talatat Block Found at Luxor Temple. by W. Raymond Johnson
A Portal for Isis of Djeme. J. Brett McClain
Sur quelques passages de la Stèle de la tempête d’Ahmosis. Pierre Meyrat
A Group of Three Human Figurines from Tell Edfu. Nadine Moeller
A Note on the Meeting Places of Egyptian Associations. Ian S. Moyer
Alterity, Amalgamation, and Royal Identity in Early Egypt. Hratch Papazian
Once Again the Boatmen’s Joust: A Study in Ritual and Symbolic Action. Peter A. Piccione
Syntactic and Modal Markers (“Particles”) in the Texts of the Shabaqo Stone. Joshua A. Roberson
The Transmission of Magical Texts at Deir el-Medina: A Hieratic Copy of a Horus Cippi Text on Ostracon ISACM E17008. Foy D. Scalf and Brian P. Muhs
Spells on the Interior of the Headboard of the Coffin of Ahanakht and Connections with Chapters from the Book of the Dead. David P. Silverman
Merenptah’s Israel, His Shasu Militiamen, His Copper Caravan Route, and the Watering Stations Bearing His Name at Kadesh-barnea and Me-nephtoah: Part One. Richard C. Steiner
The Inscribed Clay Cobra Figurines of Abydos: Protecting the Reawakening of Osiris. Kasia Szpakowska
Three Demotic Ostraca from Dakhla Oasis (Mut 30/2, 30/15, and 42/12). Günter Vittmann
The Twenty-Second Dynasty Coffin of a Chantress in the Pure Foundation of Ptah: A Glimpse into Priestly Society in Libyan-Period Memphis. Jennifer Houser Wegner
New Light on the Mayors and Ruling Family of Wah-Sut. Josef Wegner
"I Interrogated the Arabs of the Desert": Local Interlocutors in the Egyptological Research of Claude Sicard, 1712–1726. Jennifer Westerfeld
The Last Buchis Bull(s) of Armant: Notes on the End of an Indigenous Animal Cult in Late Roman Egypt. Terry G. Wilfong
New Observations on the Cryptographic Text of Pinudjem I at Medinet Habu. Jonathan Winnerman