God’s words in Asyut – a paleography of the incised monumental hieroglyphs of the First Intermediate Period and the Twelfth Dynasty

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Jochem Kahl
• Subject Area: Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
• Term: from 2021 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 467364929

Since 2003, the Egyptian-German joint mission “The Asyut Project” has been conducting archaeological fieldwork on Gebel Asyut al-gharbi in the necropoleis of the ancient city of Asyut in Middle Egypt. The epigraphic survey of the inscriptions in the nomarchs’ tombs of the Assiuti late First Intermediate Period and the 12th Dynasty (Tombs I, III, IV, V) was part of the project “The ancient Egyptian necropolis at Asyut – documentation and interpretation” financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The present paleographic study compiles the hieroglyphs from these well dated tombs and describes the techniques of inscribing the tomb walls. The paleography offers a precisely dated and regionally anchored set of the shape of hieroglyphs for Egypt during the 21st and 20th centuries BCE.

• DFG Programme: Publication Grants