Conference Proceedings
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 25 (March 2020)
Special Issue: Demon Things: Ancient Egyptian Manifestations of Liminal Entities
Edited by Kasia Szpakowska
Contents
- Introduction Kasia Szpakowska
- Underworld Demons in the Decoration of the Large Late Period Shaft Tombs at Abusir Ladislav Bareš
- Disease Demons in Mesopotamia and Egypt: Sāmānu as a Case Study Susanne Beck
- The Anatomy of a Coffin Text Demon Zuzanna Bennett
- Liminal Deities in the Borderlands: Bes and Pataikos in Ancient NubiaErin E. Bornemann and Stuart Tyson Smith
- The Bꜣw of Taweret: Vindictiveness (and Forgiveness) of the Hippopotamus Goddess Sabrina Ceruti
- The Guardians of Menekhibnekau: Chapter 144 of the Book of the Dead in the Shaft Tomb of Menekhibnekau at Abusir Renata Landgráfová
- Liminal Sources of Dangerous Powers: A Case of the Black Ram Nika Lavrentyeva and Ekatarina Alexandrova
- Baba and the Baboon Demons Rita Lucarelli
- The Impact of the Manifestation of Demoniacal Winds on Terrestrial Life: The Role of Demon Gangs in Dispersing the Iꜣdt-rnpt El Zahraa Megahed
- Symbolae Sacrae: Symbolic Formulae for Protection and Adoration within the Quarries of Gebel el-Silsila Maria Nilsson
- A Particular Depiction of Anubis from the Tomb of the Sculptor Nakhtamun (TT 335): Is Anubis a Demon? Arnaud Quertinmont
- The Maned Hippopotamus at Lahun: Identifying Homes and Names Stephen Quirke and Campbell Price
- The Slaughterers: A Study of the Ḫꜣ.tyw as Liminal Beings in Ancient Egyptian Thought Danielle Sass
- Ghosts and Ancestors in a Gender Pespective Renata Schiavo
- Fear and Loathing at Amarna: A Case Study of the Development of Sacred Objects in Response to Communal Anxiety Kasia Szpakowska
Articles
Lucarelli, Rita. 2010. “Demons (Benevolent and Malevolent).” In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, edited by Jacco Dieleman and Willeke Wendrich. Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles.
– Online Egyptological Bibliography 258677
Lucarelli, Rita. 2010. “The Guardian-Demons of the Book of the Dead.” British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 15: 85–102.
– ISAC Research Archives Catalog Record 617660ad-39bd-4f6d-8a25-4ae033f79c27
– Online Egyptological Bibliography 161213
Lucarelli, Rita. 2011. “Demonology during the Late Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Periods in Egypt.” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 11: 109–125.
– ISAC Research Archives Catalog Record 9bb3d8c8-eca9-4934-aa92-37fdbbe7a9a5
– Online Egyptological Bibliography 166188
Lucarelli, Rita. 2012. “Towards a Comparative Approach to Demonology in Antiquity: The Case of Ancient Egypt -and Mesopotamia.” Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 14: 11–26.
– ISAC Research Archives Catalog Record 2d93254e-fc9e-486d-ba33-29411fdcad77
– Online Egyptological Bibliography 203958
Lucarelli, Rita. 2012. “The So-Called Vignette of Spell 182 of the Book of the Dead.” In Herausgehen am Tage. Gesammelte Schriften zum altägyptischen Totenbuch, edited by Rita Lucarelli, Marcus Müller Roth, and Annik Wütrich, 79–91. Studien zu Altägyptischen Totentexten 17. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz.
– ISAC Research Archives Catalog Record 70d0048a-00d8-4eef-bea7-27988babcc74
– Online Egyptological Bibliography 187506
Lucarelli, Rita. 2015. “The Inhabitants of the Fourteenth Hill of Spell 149 of the Book of the Dead.” In Weitergabe: Festschrift für die Ägyptologin Ursula Rößler-Köhler zum 65. Geburtsag, edited by L. D. Morenz and A. El Hawary, 275–291. Göttinger Orientforschungen IV. Reihe: Ägypten 53. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
– ISAC Research Archives Catalog Record e9842408-cc4d-4452-ae42-dd5546af24f0
– Online Egyptological Bibliography 223806
Lucarelli, Rita. 2015. “Ancient Egyptian Demons: The Evidence of the Magical and Funerary Papyri of the New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period.” In Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists. Vol. 1: University of the Aegean, Rhodes, 22-29 May 2008, edited by Panagiotis Kousoulis and Nikolaos Lazaridis, 1187–1194. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 241. Leuven: Peeters.
– ISAC Research Archives Catalog Record 56f46248-b4ee-487a-b21a-f8086deff166
– Online Egyptological Bibliography 233955
Lucarelli, Rita. 2017. “Gods, Spirits, Demons of the Book of the Dead.” In Book of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt, edited by Foy D. Scalf, 127–136. Oriental Institute Museum Publications 39. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
– ISAC Research Archives Catalog Record 0c3a4e61-b198-4273-908c-88d5090a141f
– Online Egyptological Bibliography 255114
Lucarelli, Rita. 2017. “Sarcophagus Fragment with Divine Guardian.” In Book of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt, edited by Foy D. Scalf, 196–197. Oriental Institute Museum Publications 39. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
– ISAC Research Archives Catalog Record d7701380-c480-4287-8764-fdbe1d808d43
Lucarelli, Rita. 2023. “‘When Everything Is Human, the Human Is an Entirely Different Thing …’ Animal Powers in the Ancient Egyptian Demonic Imagery and Beyond.” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 23: 56–68.
– ISAC Research Archives Catalog Record 81525ac6-f545-46e8-8881-5814f8c91fbd
– Online Egyptological Bibliography 321690
Lucarelli, Rita. 2023. “Gods and Demons in the Book of the Dead.” In The Oxford Handbook of The Egyptian Book of the Dead, edited by Rita Lucarelli and Martin A. Stadler, 421–432. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press.
– ISAC Research Archives Catalog Record 464239e8-15bd-40d8-bf38-ce1050d276e9
– Online Egyptological Bibliography 316744
Lucarelli, Rita. 2024. “Doorscapes of the Netherworld and Their Guardians: A Humanist Geographical and Anthropological Perspective.” In A Matter of Religions: Gods and People in Ancient Egypt. Studies presented to Marilina Betrò, edited by Gianluca Miniaci, Christian Greco, Paolo Del Vesco, Mattia Mancini, and Cristina Alù, 81–89. Pisa: Pisa University Press.
– ISAC Research Archives Catalog Record 8b600609-b2a2-4004-a7c6-89e79fb8b8c1
– Online Egyptological Bibliography 337726
Sartini, Bruno, and Rita Lucarelli. 2024. “Towards a Semantic Representation of Egyptian Demonology: Requirements and Benchmark Study.” In Semantic Digital Humanities 2024: Proceedings of the First International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities (SemDH 2024), edited by Oleksandra Bruns, Andrea Poltronieri, Lise Storke, and Tabea Tietz. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3724. Aachen: Sun Site Central Europe.
– ISAC Research Archives Catalog Record 2d93254e-fc9e-486d-ba33-29411fdcad77
Szpakowska, Kasia. 2009. “Demons in Ancient Egypt.” Religion Compass 3 (5): 799–805.
– ISAC Research Archives Catalog Record ae4b1d48-5429-4f33-9635-46c7cafaf81f
– Online Egyptological Bibliography 213097
Szpakowska, Kasia. 2011. “Demons in the Dark: Nightmares and other Nocturnal Enemies of Ancient Egypt.” In Panagiotis Kousoulis (ed.), Ancient Egyptian Theology and Demonology: Studies on the Boundaries between the Divine and Demonic in Egyptian Magic, edited by Panagiotis Kousoulis, 63–76. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 75. Leuven: Peeters.
– ISAC Research Archives Catalog Record 7340aa8e-6861-4356-9f0b-a5f903600207
– Online Egyptological Bibliography 166307
Szpakowska, Kasia. 2013. “Demons, Pharaonic Egypt.” In Encyclopedia of Ancient History, edited by Roger S. Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B. Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine R. Huebner, 2023–2025. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.
– ISAC Research Archives Catalog Record 4bc535b3-c9fa-4a34-9ef6-26586bb2471c
Szpakowska, Kasia. 2016. “Feet of Fury: Demon Warrior Dancers of the New Kingdom.” In Rich and Great: Studies in Honour of Anthony J. Spalinger on the Occasion of His 70th Feast of Thoth, by Spalinger, Anthony J., 313–323. edited by Renata Landgráfová and Jana Mynářová, 313–323. Prague: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts.
– ISAC Research Archives Catalog Record 409ad426-08f8-4e9f-98a6-1124096ad05c
– Online Egyptological Bibliography 241775
Lecture and Podcast Videos
April 2, 2019
Rita Lucarelli | Magic and Demonology in Ancient Egypt
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
January 13, 2021
Rita Lucarelli | Demons in Ancient Egypt
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
April 10, 2021
Redeeming Demons: Coopting Demonic Forces for Good in Ancient Egypt
Kasia Szpakowska, Rita Lucarelli, Joshua A. Roberson, Bryan Kraemer
Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, Bowers Museum, and American Research Center in Egypt, Orange County