Documentary texts from the 19th and 20th dynasties : the administration of the Tomb

Abstract

The paper presents part of the work on the corpus module on administrative hieratic from the 19th and 20th dynasties of the project Altägyptische Kursivschriften (AKU). This module includes a more comprehensive study also on palaeographical habits and particularities seen in the texts within the corpus. That comprehensive study will be published elsewhere. The current paper focusses on the so-called ‘necropolis journal’ texts and especially on their form and content. It contains three analyses: the categories of text within the ‘necropolis journal’ corpus, different layouts found within that corpus and the question whether specific categories of text show specific characteristics of layout or even preferred formats.