Sundries in Honour of Torgny Säve-Söderbergh by Rostilav Holthoer; Tullia LindersReview by: Anthony SpalingerJournal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. 22 (1985), pp. 210-211Published by: American Research Center in EgyptStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40000409 .

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210 JARCE XXII (1985)

(ibid., 32) translated this as "Laboratorium(?)." A second possibility, which is problematic, is to read our word as tl h(lt)-wcb hw.t-ntr. Perhaps we are to translate this line on the order of "the chief purification area of the temple." Page 104. ODL 49 v/1: For the name of the father perhaps read Pa-ht.w. Page 107. ODL 266/1: For the name of the husband read Pa-swn.t as found in ODL 43/1 and 44/1. Page 122. ODL 323/3: Perhaps read ob. l.t h It-sp 16 shPl- Page 122. ODL 661/3: For Nht read Ns-tl.wy? Page 155. ODL 92/6: Read perhaps iw nl wrh.w iwt.w. Pages 161-62. ODL 126: This short ostracon is of interest. Perhaps we should compare it to P. Dem. Zenon 4/6-7 which reads mtw.n fly.wnn ly.n sms n I mlc.w . . . , "we will carry them with our liturgies (services) to the places ..." The phrase nl rmt.w nty sms is undoubtedly to be correlated to the Greek imripexeiv, "assistant," as pointed out by Spiegelberg (Rec.Trav. 26 [1904]: 57). In comparison we should note P. Oxyr. 3243 (Oxyr. Pap. 45, 106-7) where we have officials obtaining and delivering supplies for some imripexric; in the desert.

Page 168. ODL 314/2: Read n pi hw(f)npl mr-sn

Imn(f). Page 168. ODL 314/5: Read . . . iw nl wrhw Imn. Page 168. ODL 314/6: Read hnc nl wrh.w. Page 172. ODL 879/2: The reading n pi Ih nl pr[.wf] seems to me to be unlikely. I wonder whether one should read instead, n pi hw chwty, "and the rent," or n pi Ih-htp, "for the endowment," or n pi Ih-lll, "for the vineyard." Page 179. ODL 140/2: Read hd nhy.t(? ). Page 185. ODL 288/3: At the beginning perhaps read wst, "adore." Page 186. ODL 289/2: End of the line read Dhwty- m-hb. Pages 194-95. I wonder whether ODL 570 and 574 are not to be grouped together with ODL 126 (pp. 161-62) on the basis of structure. Page 244. ODL 153/3: I see the traces of a third line: sh. ... Page 248. ODL 671/2: After the name Pa-Mnt we undoubtedly have a title pi sh(?) . . . Page 252. ODL 530 + 533/6: At the beginning of line read irm.

I look forward to the remaining volumes of the publication of the Louvre collection by Devauchelle and encourage continued attention to the publication of other collections of demotic ostraca.

E. Cruz-Uribe Brown University

Sundries in Honour of Torgny Sdve-Soderbergh. Edited by Rostilav Holthoer and Tullia Linders. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, BOREAS 13. Uppsala 1984. Pp. 133.

Egyptology in 1984 witnessed a series of festschrifts to various members of the scholarly community, among which this slender yet very interesting volume takes its place. As with any such collection, the subject of the articles presented is diverse and the orientation varied. The reader who is interested in the develop- ments, personalities, and archaeological premises established during the Nubian Rescue Campaign may turn to W. Y. Adams's brief overview of "Science and Ethics in Rescue Archaeology" (pp. 9-15). Others, whose orientation is towards a more formal philo- logical analysis will find Bierbrier and De Meulenaere's study of a hymn to Taweret on a Deir el Medineh stela (pp. 23-32), a terse and useful treatment that adds much to our understanding of Egyptian poetry in the Ramesside Period. More abstract in presentation are the somewhat parallel studies of Birkstam on the Sun- God and Divine Kingship in Dynasty 18 (pp. 33-42) and Bergman's analysis rubricised under "Congratula- tions" (pp. 17-21). Coptic art is also to be found in this festschrift, in a work by Bjorkman (pp. 43-45) and in Ericsson's study of the Nilotic Mosaic in Palestrina (pp. 55-65). As Adams's contribution summarizes the archaeological explorations in Nubia, so does Vercoutter's more lengthy presentation, "L'Egypte et le Soudan Nilotique" (pp. 115-23). More narrowly Egyptological is the work of Holthoer on "The Hamboula Group Tombs at Khoka" (pp. 73-96), one of the lengthier contributions to this volume, and well worth reading, as the author adds more data to our knowledge of the administration and prosopography of the New Kingdom. Helck's useful and intriguing work on "Heliopolis und die Sonnenheiligtumer" (pp. 67-72) provides a healthy reinterpretation of our extant knowledge about this religious center of the Fifth Dynasty and earlier. It ably supplements the earlier work of Kaiser and Winter on the Fifth Dynasty sun temples. Finally, Robinson provides a useful reenactment and historical overview of the problems and events surrounding the discovery of the Coptic manuscripts (Nag Hammadi Codices and the Bodmer Papyri, pp. 97-114), while Wangsted rounds out the work with a publication of demotic ostraca and a related mummy label from the Victoria Museum, Uppsala, collections (pp. 125-33).

The diversity to be found in this volume reflects the manifold interests of T. Save-Soderbergh himself: Egyptology, Nubian studies, Coptic religion and art. Fortunately the editors have kept the length of each contribution to a minimum, thus controlling the

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BOOK REVIEWS 211

relatively unhomogeneous material base so that the festschrift does not reach an unwieldy size. The reader will find that the title to the work is a true description of the whole. The reviewer would also like to take note of the orientation of the editors themselves, in that each contributor was a close colleague or friend of Save- Soderbergh. I feel that the book thus aptly and ably reflects more personally upon the individual honored than is often the case. It should be noted that an earlier volume in the Ada Universitatis Upsaliensis Boreas series, no. 6, also was in honor of Professor Save- Soderbergh (1974); and care must be taken not to confuse that volume with this one. The continuing esteem in which Professor Save-Soderbergh is held by the Egyptological community should not be passed over. This latest collection is well worth obtaining.

Anthony Spalinger University of Auckland

Livre du Centenaire 1880-1980. Edited by J. Vercoutter. Pp. xlvii + 521, lvii pls. Institut franchise d'archeologie orientale du Caire, 1980.

The love affair between French scholarship and Ancient Egypt began, of course, almost a century before the establishment of the French Archaeological Institute in Cairo, when the demi-brigades of the newly created French Republic under the command of General Bonaparte invaded Egypt. Actually there were two French armies, that of the soldiers and that of the savants, the scholars who recorded the wonders of both the Egypt contemporary with themselves and the Egypt of the past, the Egypt of the pharaohs. It was from this second army, of course, that Egyptology was born; and from that time on the names of French scholars figured prominently in it, first as individuals, and since 1880 as members of the IFAO. Just as distinguished scholars are honored with festschrifts by their colleagues, friends, and students on reaching a certain birthday, usually the 70th or 80th, so also it is customary to celebrate the key or milestone anniversaries of institu- tions, such as a centennial, as is the case with the volume under review. In fact, the IFAO commemorated its century of formal existence with two festschrifts, the Livre du centenaire, which is volume 104 of the series MIFAO, and the Bulletin du centenaire which appeared in the following year as a supplement to BIFAO, volume 81. Either, by itself, would have been a fitting volume to honor the occasion; together they comprise a magnificent tribute to the work and activities of the French Archaeological Institute in Cairo. The Livre du centenaire contains 41 essays grouped under the four rubrics: I. Egyptology;

II. Demotic, Coptic, and Christian Egypt; III. Greek; and IV. Islamology. The first and fourth of these headings are further subdivided into 1) Studies and 2) Documents. Egyptology consists of 18 essays; Demotic, Coptic, and Christian Egypt has 5 contribu- tions, Greek 7, and Islamology 10. The 41st article, which does not readily lend itself to any of the general headings, is simply classified as Miscellaneous. While it is obvious that there is more than something for everyone who is interested in Egypt, inasmuch as I am an Egyptologist I shall confine my main remarks to various of the essays dealing with that discipline.

G. Andreu, "Sobek compare a un policier" (pp. 3-7), reviews the evidence for the title sl-pr "policeman," adding to it two additional documents from the Late Period, the second of these being from a hymn dedi- cated to Sobek at Kom Ombo in which the god is described as "like a policeman who interrogates with a lash," from which the author then attempts to investigate what the relation between the policeman and the cult of Sobek may have been.

P. Barguet, "La cour de temple d'Edfou et le cosmos" (pp. 9-14), examines the concrete and symbolic repre- sentations on the columns in the court of the Edfu temple in order to determine if there is any underlying rationale and comes to the convincing conclusion that two aspects of the totality of Egypt are simultaneously represented on the temple's columns: physically by its material products and cosmically by its deities.

Madame Desroches-Nablecourt, "Isis, Sothis, - le chien, la vigne- et la tradition millenaire" (pp. 15-24), investigates the iconography of a gravid dog, attested from the Protodynastic Period through the New King- dom. She interprets these as a form of Sothis about to give birth to the Sun and relates this to the New Kingdom representations of the queen as this god. Ultimately in the Late Period this concept receives its final iconographic form, that of a female riding on the back of a canine.

J.-C. Goyon, "Note pour servir a la conaissance des procedes tinctoriaux de l'ancienne Egypte" (pp. 25-35), devotes his attention to a primarily philological examination of the material from which the red of the insiyt-cloth was made. He also examines hrwt, which yielded successively a red and then a blue or green color and then studies the plants from which these materials were derived. N.-Ch. Grimal, "Bibliotheques et propoganda royale a l'epoque ethiopienne" (pp. 37- 48), first sums up what is known about libraries in ancient Egypt and then studies the great stele of Piye (Cairo JE 48862 + 47086-89), showing what Middle Egyptian and Late Egyptian texts were drawn upon to furnish sentences and phrases in the Piye inscription. This in turn suggests what the holdings of the libraries which were available to the author(s) of the latter may

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