Kim Ryholt

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Kim Steven Bardrum Ryholt (born 19 June 1970) is a professor of Egyptology at the University of Copenhagen and a specialist on Egyptian history and literature. He is director of the research center Canon and Identity Formation in the Earliest Literate Societies under the University of Copenhagen Programme of Excellence (since 2008) and director of The Papyrus Carlsberg Collection & Project (since 1999).[1][2]

Research

One of his most significant publications is a 1997 book titled The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period c. 1800–1550 B.C.

Turin Canon since the 1959 publication of Alan Gardiner
's Royal Canon of Egypt. It also contains an extensive catalogue of all the known monuments, inscriptions and seals for the kings of this period.

Ryholt is also a specialist on Demotic papyri and literature and has authored numerous books and articles about this subject. In 2011 he discovered the identity of the famous sage king Nechepsos.[5]

Since 2013 he has directed a project on ancient ink as technology.[6]

He has also written a book on antiquities trade with Fredrik Norland Hagen.

Second Intermediate Period

Ryholt's study makes note of numerous recent archaeological finds including the discovery of a new

Antef VII
. He also discusses Ahmose's Unwetterstele document.

The book also argues strongly that the

Seuserenre Bebiankh and Sekhemre Shedwast who are documented in the last surviving page of the Turin Canon rather than minor Hyksos vassal kings in Lower Egypt
, as was generally believed.

Among the most significant discussions is Ryholt's evidence that

13th Dynasty,[7] and a discussion of the foreign origins of the Semitic 13th Dynasty king named Khendjer—whose reign lasted a minimum of 4 years and 3 months based on dated workmen's control notes found on stone blocks from his pyramid complex.[8]

The most controversial conclusion concerns the identity and dating of

'Ammu Ahotepre and Yakbim Sekhaenre
were rulers of the 14th Dynasty is contested by Ben Tor's study of the strata levels of their seals which, in her view, indicate dating to the second half of the Hyksos 15th Dynasty and are not contemporary with the 13th dynasty.

Turin King List

Ryholt is regarded[by whom?] as a major scholar in the study of the Turin King List, having examined the document in person twice; he has published new and better interpretations of this damaged papyrus document in his aforementioned 1997 book and in a ZAS paper titled "The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-list and the Identity of Nitocris",[13] and has published a detailed discussion of the nature of the document.[14] Ryholt reportedly intends to publish his study of the Turin Kinglist in the near future.[citation needed]

Selected publications

  • Ryholt, Kim, and Gojko Barjamovic, eds. (2020). Libraries before Alexandria: Ancient Near Eastern Traditions. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
  • The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800–1550 B.C. (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications. Vol. 20,
    ISBN 87-7289-421-0
    .
  • The Story of Petese son of Petetum, and Seventy Other Good and Bad Stories. (The Carlsberg Papyri. Vol. 4,
    ISBN 87-7289-527-6
    .
  • The Petese Stories II (The Carlsberg Papyri. Vol. 6,
    ISBN 87-635-0404-9
    .
  • Narrative Literature from the Tebtunis Temple Library (The Carlsberg Papyri. Vol. 10,
    ISBN 978-87-635-0780-6
    .
  • (with T. Christiansen) Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections (The Carlsberg Papyri. Vol. 13,
    ISBN 978-87-635-4374-3
    .
  • (with F. Hagen) The Antiquities Trade in Egypt, 1880s–1930s: The H.O. Lange Papers (Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 4, Vol. 8,
    ISBN 978-87-7304-400-1
    .

References

  1. ^ Project poster for The Papyrus Carlsberg Collection & Project online PDF online PDF
  2. ^ "Curriculum vitae". cif.tors.ku.dk. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
  3. ISBN 87-7289-421-0
    ).
  4. ^ Bi Or LVII, January–April 2000, p. 48. This is a review of Ryholt's 463-page book.
  5. ^ Kim Ryholt, "New Light on the Legendary King Nechepsos of Egypt", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 97 (2011), pp. 61-72 online PDF
  6. ^ Project poster for Ancient Ink as Technology online PDF online pdf
  7. ^ see Appendix A of his book.
  8. ^ Ryholt: p. 193.
  9. ^ Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 315, 1999, pp. 47-73.
  10. ^ Ryholt, Kim. "The Date of Kings Sheshi and Yaqubhar and the Rise of the Fourteenth Dynasty." The Second Intermediate Period: Current Research, Future Prospects (edited by M. Maree), 2010, OLA 192, pp. 109-126.
  11. ^ Daphna Ben Tor, The Second Intermediate Period (Thirteenth-Seventeenth Dynasties) Current Research, Future Prospects, (ed: Marcel Maree) 2010, OLA 192, pp. 95. online PDF
  12. ^ Ben Tor, 2010, p. 95.
  13. ^ Ryholt, Kim. "The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-list and the Identity of Nitocris." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 127, 2000, pp. 87–100.
  14. ^ Ryholt, Kim. "The Turin King-List." Ägypten und Levante 14, 2004, pp. 135-155.

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