Books by Silvia S Nigrelli
Levoča: Modrý Peter, 2023
(Translated from Slovak) “For the very first time, a book-length direct translation of love poetr... more (Translated from Slovak) “For the very first time, a book-length direct translation of love poetry from ancient Egyptian into Slovak has been published. Thus, we can read about the joys and sorrows of the people who lived on both banks of the Nile ca. 3,200 years ago, in this pioneering edition in Slovak. The book contains four longest corpora of the ancient Egyptian love songs, recited and sung in the Ramesside Period of the New Kingdom (Dynasties 19 and 20), when the famous kings Ramesses II and III, among others, ruled Egypt. The direct translation was prepared by the Egyptologist Silvia Štubňová Nigrelli (Brown University, Providence), translated into rhythmic and rhymed versions by the poet and philologist Katarína Džunková (Charles University, Prague), introductions and afterword were written by the Egyptologist Martin Odler (Newcastle University). Ancient Egyptian love poetry counts among the hidden inspiration sources of the well-known Biblical Song of Songs. In the poetry of antiquity, it is one of the largest corpora of the verses written from the point of view of female lyrical subjects. The book is lavishly illustrated with New Kingdom art in the open access, especially from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Museo egizio, Torino.”
Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic: Rethinking the Origins, 2023
By challenging assumptions regarding the proximity between Egyptian and Semitic Languages, Ancien... more By challenging assumptions regarding the proximity between Egyptian and Semitic Languages, Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic provides a fresh approach to the relationships and similarities between Ancient Egyptian, Semitic, and Afroasiatic languages. This in-depth analysis includes a re-examination of the methodologies deployed in historical linguistics and comparative grammar, a morphological study of Ancient Egyptian, and critical comparisons between Ancient Egyptian and Semitic, as well as careful considerations of environmental factors and archaeological evidence. These contributions offer a reassessment of the Afroasiatic phylum, which is based on the relations between Ancient Egyptian and the other Afroasiatic branches. This volume illustrates the advantages of viewing Ancient Egyptian in its African context.
In addition to the editors, the contributors to this collection include Shiferaw Assefa, Michael Avina, Vit Bubenik, Leo Depuydt, Christopher Ehret, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, J. Lafayette Gaston, Tiffany Gleason, John Huehnergard, Andrew Kitchen, Elsa Oréal, Chelsea Sanker, Lameen Souag, Andréas Stauder, Deven N. Vyas, Aren Wilson-Wright, and Jean Winand.
Harvard Egyptological Studies 16, 2022
Professor Allen's contribution to our current understanding of the ancient Egyptian language, rel... more Professor Allen's contribution to our current understanding of the ancient Egyptian language, religion, society, and history is immeasurable and has earned him the respect of generations of scholars. In accordance with Professor Allen's own academic proli city, the present volume represents an assemblage of studies that range among di ferent methodologies, objects of study, and time periods. The contributors speci cally focus on the interconnectedness of text and context in ancient Egypt, exploring how a symbiosis of linguistics, philology, archaeology, and history can help us reconstruct a more accurate picture of ancient Egypt and its people.
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Book chapters by Silvia S Nigrelli
In the House of Heqanakht: Texts and Context in Ancient Egypt. Studies in Honor of James P. Allen, 2022
Table of contents, preface, bio of James P. Allen with his list of publications
Papers by Silvia S Nigrelli
Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 2017
Standing in stark contrast to the relative wealth of evidence about royal and temple based oracle... more Standing in stark contrast to the relative wealth of evidence about royal and temple based oracles, there is little to give us some notion of the analogous oracular practices of private religion during the New Kingdom of Egypt. The surviving documentation suggests that private individuals could approach their gods for oracular advice during festival processions. However, based on the Deir el-Medina materials, I argue that in addition to processional oracles, chapel oracles were employed by the villagers as well, if not more largely by common people in ancient Egypt. At Deir el-Medina, the former was given by the patron of the village, the deified king Amenhotep I, and was employed in an official setting in order to solve legal disputes. In contrast, the less documented chapel oracles, which could be perhaps delivered by deities other than Amenhotep I, concerned mostly mundane affairs. In both cases, however, oracles were mediated by the priests servicing the gods. This paper seeks to bring together and examine two sorts of evidence that are usually dealt with separately. Firstly, it provides an analysis of the available written testimonies on oracular ostraca found at Deir el-Medina, and discusses their textual significance by showing who the petitioners were, what kind of questions they asked and what the structure of the questions was. Secondly, it examines the archaeological remains of the chapels connected with oracles at Deir el-Medina and the role of the “brotherhood” of priests associated with them. I conclude with some remarks about the mechanics of the chapel oracles in connection with the modalities of their reception and the status of belief and faith. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5913/jarce.53.2017.a013
Lingua Aegyptia - Journal of Egyptian Language Studies, 2019
The earliest stage of the ancient Egyptian language attested in writing, i.e., Old Egyptian, had ... more The earliest stage of the ancient Egyptian language attested in writing, i.e., Old Egyptian, had two productive causative mechanisms that increase the valency of verbs: morphological (mono-clausal) and periphrastic (bi-clausal). The former is characterized by the prefix s-, while the latter employs the lexical causative verb rḏj ‘give’ followed by a complement clause. Despite the fact that both causative strategies have been known to scholars since the inception of the study of the ancient Egyptian language, any systematic or comprehensive study of Egyptian causative verbs is lacking. This paper thus aims to provide a new insight into the Old Egyptian morphological and periphrastic causatives by examining their syntactic as well as semantic properties. The results of this analysis show which types of verbs have a preference for which of the two causative strategies and demonstrate the semantic differences between the morphological and periphrastic causative types. Furthermore, this ...
BRILL eBooks, Nov 22, 2022
Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt , 2017
Göttinger Miszellen, 2016
PhD dissertation by Silvia S Nigrelli
Thesis by Silvia S Nigrelli
BA thesis, University of Livepool, UK
MA thesis, Leiden University, NL
Organized Conferences by Silvia S Nigrelli
The Department of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University is delighted to invite you to th... more The Department of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University is delighted to invite you to the interdisciplinary workshop Rethinking the Origins which will take place on April 13-15, 2018 at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World (RI Hall 108, 60 George Street, Providence, RI 02912). If you would like to attend this event, we would appreciate it if you registered for the workshop by sending an email with your name and dietary restrictions to [email protected] by April 10, 2018 at the latest.
Rethinking the Origins: the Departure of Ancient Egyptian as a Branch from the Afroasiatic Family is a workshop that seeks to gather world-leading experts on the Ancient Egyptian, Semitic and other Afroasiatic languages, as well as historical linguists in order to discuss an issue that has never been properly addressed in such an interdisciplinary environment: the real position of ancient Egyptian in the Afroasiatic language family. The workshop aims to explore language-specific questions from a phonological, lexical, and morpho-syntactic point of view in order to engage scholars in a linguistic debate on the origins of the earliest codified languages of Africa and the Near East. The main research question concerns the necessity for a new internal classification of the Afroasiatic languages with respect to the position of ancient Egyptian inside this family. In fact, could Pre-Egyptian be the sister, rather than a daughter, of the Proto-Afroasiatic language?
The Department of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University is proud to co-sponsor Rethinking the Origins workshop with the Department of Early Cultures, the Department of Classics, the Department of Middle East Studies, the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), and ARCE New England. The main organizers of the workshop are Silvia Štubňová ([email protected]) and Victoria Almansa-Villatoro ([email protected]). Please send any inquiries directly to them.
For the full schedule and more information, please visit:
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Conference Presentations by Silvia S Nigrelli
NACAL Annual Meeting, Paris, France
ARCE Annual Meeting, Alexandria, Virginia
AOS Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
SSEA Scholars' Colloquium, Toronto, Canada
ARCE Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona
SSEA Scholars' Colloquium, 2016
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In addition to the editors, the contributors to this collection include Shiferaw Assefa, Michael Avina, Vit Bubenik, Leo Depuydt, Christopher Ehret, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, J. Lafayette Gaston, Tiffany Gleason, John Huehnergard, Andrew Kitchen, Elsa Oréal, Chelsea Sanker, Lameen Souag, Andréas Stauder, Deven N. Vyas, Aren Wilson-Wright, and Jean Winand.
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Thesis by Silvia S Nigrelli
Organized Conferences by Silvia S Nigrelli
Rethinking the Origins: the Departure of Ancient Egyptian as a Branch from the Afroasiatic Family is a workshop that seeks to gather world-leading experts on the Ancient Egyptian, Semitic and other Afroasiatic languages, as well as historical linguists in order to discuss an issue that has never been properly addressed in such an interdisciplinary environment: the real position of ancient Egyptian in the Afroasiatic language family. The workshop aims to explore language-specific questions from a phonological, lexical, and morpho-syntactic point of view in order to engage scholars in a linguistic debate on the origins of the earliest codified languages of Africa and the Near East. The main research question concerns the necessity for a new internal classification of the Afroasiatic languages with respect to the position of ancient Egyptian inside this family. In fact, could Pre-Egyptian be the sister, rather than a daughter, of the Proto-Afroasiatic language?
The Department of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University is proud to co-sponsor Rethinking the Origins workshop with the Department of Early Cultures, the Department of Classics, the Department of Middle East Studies, the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), and ARCE New England. The main organizers of the workshop are Silvia Štubňová ([email protected]) and Victoria Almansa-Villatoro ([email protected]). Please send any inquiries directly to them.
For the full schedule and more information, please visit:
https://www.brown.edu/academics/egyptology/news/2018-02/workshop-rethinking-origins-departure-ancient-egyptian-branch-afroasiatic-family
Conference Presentations by Silvia S Nigrelli
In addition to the editors, the contributors to this collection include Shiferaw Assefa, Michael Avina, Vit Bubenik, Leo Depuydt, Christopher Ehret, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, J. Lafayette Gaston, Tiffany Gleason, John Huehnergard, Andrew Kitchen, Elsa Oréal, Chelsea Sanker, Lameen Souag, Andréas Stauder, Deven N. Vyas, Aren Wilson-Wright, and Jean Winand.
https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/58508?contents=toc-50344
Rethinking the Origins: the Departure of Ancient Egyptian as a Branch from the Afroasiatic Family is a workshop that seeks to gather world-leading experts on the Ancient Egyptian, Semitic and other Afroasiatic languages, as well as historical linguists in order to discuss an issue that has never been properly addressed in such an interdisciplinary environment: the real position of ancient Egyptian in the Afroasiatic language family. The workshop aims to explore language-specific questions from a phonological, lexical, and morpho-syntactic point of view in order to engage scholars in a linguistic debate on the origins of the earliest codified languages of Africa and the Near East. The main research question concerns the necessity for a new internal classification of the Afroasiatic languages with respect to the position of ancient Egyptian inside this family. In fact, could Pre-Egyptian be the sister, rather than a daughter, of the Proto-Afroasiatic language?
The Department of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University is proud to co-sponsor Rethinking the Origins workshop with the Department of Early Cultures, the Department of Classics, the Department of Middle East Studies, the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), and ARCE New England. The main organizers of the workshop are Silvia Štubňová ([email protected]) and Victoria Almansa-Villatoro ([email protected]). Please send any inquiries directly to them.
For the full schedule and more information, please visit:
https://www.brown.edu/academics/egyptology/news/2018-02/workshop-rethinking-origins-departure-ancient-egyptian-branch-afroasiatic-family