Projects

ISAC Museum Demotic Ostraca Online

Online publication and research tool in digital humanities for the collection of nearly 1,000 Demotic ostraca in the ISAC Museum.

ISACM Demotic Ostraca Project Publications

Jacqueline E. Jay and Foy D. Scalf. “Three Demotic Silver Accounts from the ISAC Museum Collection.” In A Master of Secrets in the Chamber of Darkness: Egyptological Studies in Honor of Robert K. Ritner Presented on the Occasion of His Sixty-Eighth Birthday, edited by Foy D. Scalf and Brian P. Muhs, pp. 151–165. Studies in Ancient Civilizations 3. Chicago: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, 2024.
Brian P. Muhs and Foy Scalf. “Making a Living Off the Dead: Body Brokers in Ptolemaic Egypt.” Oriental Institute News & Notes 251 (2022), 16–19.
Brian P. Muhs, Foy D. Scalf, and Jacqueline E. Jay. The Archive of Thotsutmis, son of Panouphis: Early Ptolemaic Ostraca from Deir el Bahari (O. Edgerton). Oriental Institute Publications 146. Chicago: Oriental Institute, 2021.
Foy Scalf. “An Embalmer’s Bowl with Demotic Inscription (Oriental Institute Museum E9115).” In Essays for the Library of Seshat: Studies Presented to Janet H. Johnson on the Occasion of Her 70th Birthday, edited by Robert K. Ritner, pp. 311–323. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 70. Chicago: Oriental Institute, 2017.
Foy Scalf. “Resurrecting an Ibis Cult: Demotic Votive Texts from the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago.” In Mélanges offerts à Ola el-Aguizy, edited by Fayza Haikal, pp. 361–388. Bibliothèque d’Étude 164 (Cairo: IFAO, 2015), 361–388.
Foy Scalf and Jacqueline Jay. “Oriental Institute Demotic Ostraca Online (OIDOO): Merging Text Publication and Research Tools.” In Acts of the Tenth International Congress of Demotic Studies, edited by Mark Depauw and Yanne Broux, pp. 243–261. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 231. Leuven: Peeters, 2014.
Foy Scalf and Jacqueline Jay. “Accounting for Life in Ptolemaic and Roman Thebes: Online Access to Ancient Archives.” Oriental Institute News & Notes 200 (Winter 2009), 13–17.

Egyptian Book of the Dead

Using data science to study the transmission of ancient religious literature across 2,500 years of history.

Egyptian Book of the Dead Project Lectures

Foy Scalf. “Assemblage Theory and Remix Culture in the Book of the Dead.” 10th Annual Birmingham Egyptology Symposium: Works in Progress in Egyptology.

Egyptian Book of the Dead Project Publications

Foy Scalf. “Assemblage Theory and Remix Culture in the Book of the Dead.” Birmingham Egyptology Journal 10 (2023–24), 1–21.