Authors:	Motte, Aurore
Title:	Kemit, writing-boards, and palaeographic studies
Online publication date:	23-Aug-2023
Year of first publication:	2022
Language:	english
Abstract:	This paper is conceived as a case study to examine how relevant the Kemit script is for a better understanding of New Kingdom cursive scripts. In this perspective, I concentrate on the wooden tablets that bear extract(s) of this literary letter. After a concise description of each tablet, I consider its layout and its mise-en-texte. I then devote my attention to the recorded handwriting(s). To illustrate this point, I selected five signs: the 𓇋 (M17), 𓅓 (G17), 𓃺 (E34), 𓐍 (Aa1), and the weeping eye-sign with upper lid (D5–6+D9). I compare them with earlier, contemporaneous, and later witnesses of the Kemit written on ostraca or papyrus to provide a diachronic perspective and to draw some preliminary conclusions.
DDC:	490 Andere Sprachen 490 Other languages 930 Alte Geschichte 930 History of ancient world 960 Geschichte Afrikas 960 General history of Africa
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	Externe Einrichtungen
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9267
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Buchbeitrag
Document type specification:	Scientific article
License:	In Copyright
Information on rights of use:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Citation:	Ägyptologische „Binsen“-Weisheiten IV Gülden, Svenja A. Konrad, Tobias Verhoeven, Ursula
Pages or article number:	341 383
Publisher:	Franz Steiner Verlag
Publisher place:	Stuttgart
Issue date:	2022
ISBN:	978-3-515-13333-3
Relations:	is Part of 10.25358/openscience-7159
Appears in collections:	JGU-Publikationen