The Land to its Limits: Borders and Boundary Stelae in Ancient Egypt

• Thesis title in Czech: Až na okraj: Hranice a hraniční stély ve starověkém Egyptě
• Thesis title in English: The Land to its Limits: Borders and Boundary Stelae in Ancient Egypt
• Key words: staroegyptské hranice|hraniční stéla|královské monumenty
• English key words: Ancient Egyptian border|boundary stela|frontier|royal monuments
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2019/2020
• Thesis type: diploma thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Czech Institute of Egyptology (21-CEGU)
• Supervisor: prof. PhDr. Jana Mynářová, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 06.03.2020
• Date of assignment: 06.03.2020
• Administrator's approval: not processed yet
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 10.03.2020
• Date and time of defence: 14.06.2021 09:00
• Date of electronic submission: 08.04.2021
• Date of proceeded defence: 14.06.2021
• Submitted/finalized: committed by student and finalized
• Opponents: doc. PhDr. Mgr. et Mgr. Filip Coppens, Ph.D.
• Award: Thesis was put forward for an award

Guidelines

The focus of this M.A. thesis is a specific type of monument called boundary stelae. The thesis seeks to examine these markers from an archaeological, historical, geographic, epigraphic, iconographic and ideological standpoint. In addition, the wider concept of the frontier and its role in the culture of pharaonic Egypt shall also be explored.

References

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Pt. 5. Smaller tombs and boundary stelae. - 1908
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• Galán, J. M. (1995) Victory and border: terminology related to Egyptian imperialism in the 18th dynasty, Hildesheimer Ägyptologische Beiträge 40, Hildesheim: Gerstenberg.
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• Loeben, C. (2001) “Bemerkungen zursogenannten ‘Kleinen Semna-Stele’ (Berlin 14753)” in: Arnst, C.-B. et al. (eds.) Begegnungen- Antike Kulturen im Niltal: Festgabe für Erika Endesfelder, Karl-Heinz Priese, Walter Friedrich Reineke und Steffen Wenig, Leipzig: Helmar Wodtke und Katharina Stegbauer, pp. 273-284.
• Murnane, W. J. (1995) Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt. Atlanta: Scholars Press.
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• Obsomer, C. (2017) “Sésostris III et la frontière de Semna: une analyse des stèles nubiennes de l'an 16” in: BABELAO 6, pp. 1-38.
• Seidlmayer, S. J. (1999) Pharao setzt die Grenzen: Textanalyse zwischen traditioneller Philologie und elektronischen Medien: eine Ausstellung der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, im Ägyptischen Museum, Berlin-Charlottenburg, 1. Oktober - 31. Dezember 1999, Begleitheft zur Ausstellung. Berlin: Arbeitsstelle Altägyptisches Wörterbuch der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akad. der Wiss, 1999. K-363
• Seidlmayer, S. J. (2000) “Zu Fundort und Aufstellungskontext der großen Semna-Stele Sesostris’ III” in: SAK 28, pp. 233–242.
• Vogel, C. (2011) “This far and not a step further! The ideological concept of Ancient Egyptian boundary stelae” in: Bar, S., Kahn, D. Shirley, J. J. (eds.) Egypt, Canaan and Israel: history, imperialism, ideology and literature. Proceedings of a conference at the University of Haifa, 3-7 May 2009, Leiden; Boston: Brill, pp. 320-341.