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
- 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
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