An Evident Desideratum in Egyptian Lexicography: Comments on some Obscure Passages in the Coffin Texts and the Instructions of Amenemhat. Issue 1 (January 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sokolova, Marina
• Is Part Of: Journal of Egyptian archaeology. Volume 101:Issue 1(2015)
• Page Start: 153
• Page End: 175
• Publication Date: 2015-01
• Subjects: Egypt -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Antiquities; Egypt; Archäologie; Ägypten; Égypte -- Antiquités -- Périodiques; 6.140; Periodicals; Zeitschrift; Online-Publikation; Electronic journals; 932.005
• DOI: 10.1177/030751331510100108
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0307-5133

Abstract

It has been over 50 years since the publication of the final volume of the Coffin Texts in 1961, but one of the most extensive corpora of Egyptian texts is far from having been investigated with the degree of attention and accuracy it deserves. The scrutiny of the Coffin Texts can enlarge knowledge of Egyptian lexica, as these texts allow not only to refine the meanings of some words that have not been accurately defined yet, but even to reveal new words unattested in modern dictionaries. The examples in the first part of this article substantiate the point. Furthermore, the corpus of the Coffin Texts provides clues to some complicated passages in well-known texts. This is demonstrated in the second part of the article for the Instructions of Amenemhat.