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
In Toponymy on the Periphery, Julien Charles Cooper locates and analyses many placenames found in Egyptian texts relating to the Eastern Desert and Red Sea regions.
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.
Author(s): Julien Charles Cooper
Series: Probleme Der Ägyptologie, 39
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 736
City: Leiden
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface and Conventions
Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
Scope
Chapter 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
5.1. Epistemological Issues in Ancient Toponymy
5.2. Toponyms and Genre
6. Etymological Method: The Linguistics of Non-Egyptian Placenames
6.1. Semantic Patterns in Marginal Toponymy
7. Localisation
Chapter 2. Proper Nouns and Placenames in the Egyptian Script
1. Toponymic Classifiers: Ordering Egyptian Space
2. Classifier Mechanics
3. The Toponymic Classifier Signs
3.1. N25 [hills] [foreign-land]
3.2. O49 [egyptian-place]
3.3. T14/T15 [foreign] [foreigner]
3.4. N35a and N36 [water]
4. Multiple Determinatives O49, N25, and T14
5. Classifying Foreign Space
Chapter 3. The Historic, Geographic, and Archaeological Context
1. Egyptians outside Egypt: The Historical and Archaeological Context
2. Zone 1: The Eastern Desert
2.1. The Inhabitants of the Eastern Desert
3. Zone 2: The South Sinai, Edom, and Midian
3.1. The Sinai Nomads
3.2. Midian and the Hejaz
4. Zone 3: The Southern Atbai and Further Red Sea
4.1. Egypt’s Gateway to the Red Sea: Harbour Sites in the Eastern Desert
4.2. Egyptians and the Red Sea
4.3. The Archaeology of the Southern Red Sea: The Atbai, Eritrea, and Tihama
5. Conclusion
Chapter 4. Foreigners on the Periphery: The Language and Phonology of Foreign Names
1. Foreign Ethnonyms
1.1. Eastern Desert Dwellers (Nḥs.y, Mḏꜣ.y, I҆wn.tyw)
1.2. Asiatics of the Sinai and Edom (I҆wn.tyw, Mnṯ.yw, ꜥꜣm.w, Šꜣs.w)
1.3. People of the Red Sea (Gnbtw, Pwnt.yw)
2. The Linguistic Map of the Red Sea
2.1. Eastern Sudanic Languages, Meroitic, and Nile Cushitic
2.2. Beja and the Eastern Desert
2.3. Semitic Languages in the South Sinai and Edom
2.4. The Language(s) of Punt
3. Phono-Graphemic Correspondences
3.1. The Nature of ꜣ in African Loanwords before the New Kingdom
Chapter 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 1: Diagnostic Resources and the Archaeology of Punt
1. ꜥnt.w/ꜥnd.y and the Botanic Identity of Egyptian Fragrances
2. snṯr ‘incense’ and mnnn ‘bitumen’
3. nbw wꜣḏ ꜥmw ‘gold and malachite of Amu’
4. msdm.t ‘galena’
5. kꜣ-km ‘obsidian (?)’
6. hbny ‘ebony’
7. ti҆-šps
8. šs(ꜣ).yt/ẖs(ꜣ).yt
9. Exotic Fauna
10. The Archaeological Punt
Chapter 6. Toponomastica: Toponyms from the Topographical Lists and Execration Texts
1. Egyptian Toponomastica
1.1. Geographic Issues
1.2. Phonetic Issues
2. Hapax Toponyms from Toponomastica
2.1. The Punt List [86–100]
2.2. The Wetenet List [101–113]
2.3. The Medja List [114–119]
2.4. The New List of Louvre A18 [120–129]
2.5. The New I҆kyt-List of Ramesses II
2.6. The Execration Texts
Chapter 7. The Toponyms and Labels of the Turin Map
1. The Map
2. Toponyms and Geographic Labels of the Turin Map [T1–T20]
Excursus 2: Toponyms Possibly Located in the Eastern Desert, South Sinai, and Red Sea
1. ꜥꜣ-ꜥn
2. I҆r.ty-m-ḥb
3. Ḫꜣs.t-ꜥyn
4. Kwšw
5. Ṯꜣꜥw
6. Knzt
7. Mi҆w
8. I҆rm
9. Wnšk and Ḥwꜥ
10. Šn-ꜥꜣ-sk
11. Other Shasu Placenames in Edom
Chapter 8. Geographic Analysis
1. Mapping the Desert and the Sea: Problems of Historical Geography
1.1. The Eastern Desert and Atbai
1.2. The South Sinai and Gulf of Aqaba
1.3. The Further Red Sea and the Southern Atbai
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
Chapter 9. Linguistic Analysis
1. Foreign Languages
2. Orthographic Remarks
2.1. Classifiers and Orthography
3. Morphology and Syntax
3.1. Deverbatives and Toponyms
3.2. Toponymic Clauses
3.3. Compound Generic Placenames
3.4. Dropping Generics in Placenames
4. Toponym Motivation
4.1. The Referent Features of Toponyms
4.2. Generics and Geomorphology
5. Lexical Opacity and Toponymic Transparency
6. Making Placenames
Chapter 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
Indices
Index of Coptic, Demotic, and Greek Languages
Index of Semitic Languages
Index of Ethiosemitic Languages
Index of Cushitic Languages
Index of Nilo-Saharan Languages
Index of Other Languages
Index of Biblical Passages
Index of Egyptian Transliterations
Index of Subjects
Index of Names
