Prof. John Tait
Biography
Prof. John Tait (in full, William John Tait) was born in London in 1945. He was schooled in Classics at University College School under Dr John Usher, and went on to read Classics (Literae Humaniores) at Wadham College, Oxford. He then began study for a D.Phil. in Egyptian and Greek papyrology with Dr John Harris and (as supervisor) Professor John Barns (degree conferred 1974). After holding Worcester College’s Laycock Studentship from 1970–1972, he was elected into the Budge Fellowship at Christ’s in 1972. At the same time, he spent the first of several seasons at the Egypt Exploration Society’s long-running excavations in the Sacred Animal Necropolis, North Saqqara, working on the papyrus finds with Professor Harry Smith. The text-editions from his D.Phil. Thesis (A group of Egyptian and Greek papyri from the Fayyum with an essay on the survival of traditional literary forms into the Demotic period) were published in 1977 as Papyri from Tebtunis in Egyptian and in Greek; this work led to an enduring interest in material from the temple of the town site of Tebtunis in the Fayum. He was a member of the International Committee for the Publication of the Carlsberg Papyri (which largely derive from Tebtunis) at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute, Copenhagen, 1989–1998.
In 1976, he first held a Temporary Lectureship in Egyptology in the University of Durham, and then enjoyed several months working under Professor P. W. Pestman for the Zenon Archive Project at the Leids Papyrologisch Instituut. After two years as an Assistant Librarian, University Library Durham, Oriental Section, an appointment followed as Lecturer in Egyptology at Durham. In 1989 his post was transferred under a University Grants Committee scheme to University College London (Lecturer in Egyptology, 1989–1994), and he was appointed Edwards Professor of Egyptology in 1994. After retirement, he has been Emeritus Professor of Egyptology in the UCL Institute of Archaeology from 2010 up to the present.
His current research focuses on aspects of writing and literacy, and on narratological approaches to Demotic texts, including study of the use of the language of the emotions. His work is ongoing in the Egypt Exploration Society project for the publication of papyri from Saqqara (for the EES he was Editor, Texts from Excavations series and member of the Publications Sub-Committee, 1984–2005; Member of the Committee of the Society, 1989– 91; 1993–95; 1998–2000; 2002–2005; Vice-Chairman, 2002–2005; and A Vice President of the Society, 2012– to present). He is also part of a project on material from Rifeh housed in the Petrie Museum at University College London.
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Academic Publications
‘Indexes’ in The legacy of Egypt, 2nd ed.; ed. J. R. Harris, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971, pp. 479–510 (ISBN 0198219121)
Appendixes 3 and 4 in Principles of Egyptian art, by Heinrich Schäfer; edited by Emma Brunner-Traut; translated by John Baines. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1974, pp. 349–351 (ISBN 0198171986)
‘A duplicate version of the Demotic Kufi text’, Acta Orientalia [Copenhagen] 36 (1974), pp. 23–37
Review of Three Demotic papyri in the Brooklyn Museum: a contribution to the study of contracts and their instruments in Ptolemaic Egypt, by R. H. Pierce, Osloae, Universitetsforlaget, 1972 (ISBN 8200087567) — The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 60 (1974), pp. 297–298
‘A fragment of a table of consuls from Tebtunis’, in Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Papyrologists, Oxford, 24–31 July 1974 (Graeco-Roman Memoirs 61), London, Egypt Exploration Society for the British Academy, 1975, pp. 299–304
‘The physical characteristics of the papyri’, in Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Papyrologists, Oxford, 24–31 July 1974 (Graeco-Roman Memoirs 61), London, Egypt Exploration Society for the British Academy, 1975, pp. 262–264
‘The fable of Sight and Hearing in the Demotic Kufi text’, Acta Orientalia [Copenhagen] 37 (1976), pp. 27–44
‘The mountain of lapis-lazuli’, Göttinger Miszellen 20 (1976), pp. 49–54
(With Harry S. Smith) ‘New Demotic literary works from Saqqara’, in First International Congress of Egyptology, Cairo: abstracts of papers, München, Im Auftrag des Beirats, 1976, pp. 115–116
Papyri from Tebtunis in Egyptian and in Greek (Texts from Excavations 3), London, Egypt Exploration Society, 1977 (pp. xvi + 118, 12 plates. ISBN 0856980625)
‘Demotic literary texts’, Enchoria 8 (1978), Sonderband, pp. 37–38
‘The offices of the House of Pharaoh’, in Actes du XVe Congrès international de papyrologie, 4e partie: papyrologie documentaire (Papyrologica Bruxellensia 19), Bruxelles, Foundation Égytologique Reine Élisabeth, 1979, pp. 49–50
Editions of Texts 19–20, 25–26, 28, 29, 32, 34–36, 38 (with Willy Clarysse), 40, 45, 47–48, 50, 52–53, 58–59, 64–73, and 75 in Greek and Demotic texts from the Zenon Archive, P.L.Bat. 20; ed. P. W. Pestman, 2v. (Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 20), Leiden, Brill, 1980 (ISBN 9004061134, 9004061150)
Review of The Demotic ostraca in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden; ed. M. A. A. Nur el-Din (Collections of the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden 1), Leiden, Brill, 1974 (ISBN 9004040188) — The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 66 (1980), pp. 186–188
(With Harry S. Smith) ‘Demotic letter’ in Papyri Greek and Egyptian; ed. by various hands in honour of Eric Gardner Turner (Graeco-Roman Memoirs 68), London, Egypt Exploration Society, 1981, pp. 75–79
Review of Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities in the British Museum 3: musical instruments, by R. D. Anderson, London, British Museum Publications Ltd for the Trustees, 1976 (ISBN 0714109193) — The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 67 (1981), pp. 201–202
Various contributions to A guide to the Zenon Archive, P.L.Bat. 21, 2v. (Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 21), Leiden, Brill, 1981 (pp. xx + 748, maps. ISBN 9004063250, 9004063269)
‘A Demotic word-list from Tebtunis: P.Carlsberg 41A’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 68 (1982), pp. 210–227
Game-boxes and accessories from the tomb of Tutꜥankhamūn (Tutꜥankhamūn’s Tomb Series 7), Oxford, Griffith Institute, 1982 (pp. viii + 54, 24 plates. ISBN 0900416343)
Review of Kölner ägyptische Papyri (P.Köln ägypt.), Band 1, by D. Kurth, H. J. Thissen, and M. Weber (Papyrologica Coloniensia 9), Opladen, West-Deutscher Verlag, 1980 (ISBN 3531099124) — Chronique d’Égypte 57/114 (1982), pp. 249–252
Review of Das ptolemäische Ägypten: Akten des Internationalen Symposions, 27.–29. September in Berlin, Mainz am Rhein, Philipp von Zabern, 1978 (ISBN 3805303629) — Bibliotheca Orientalis 39 (1982), col. 78–87
‘The transliteration of Demotic’, Enchoria 11 (1982), pp. 67–76
(with J. David Thomas) ‘Greek dockets’ [appendix to ‘Urkunde über den Verkauf eines Grundstückes aus Dime’, by E. Lüddeckens], in Festschrift zum 100-jährigen Bestehen der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek: Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer (P.Rainer Cent.), Wien, Hollinek, 1983, p. 178 (ISBN 3851191978)
‘A new Egyptian inscription’, Arts of Asia 13,vi (1983), p. 82
(with Harry S. Smith) Saqqara Demotic papyri 1 (Texts from Excavations 7; Excavations at North Saqqara, Documentary Series 5), London, Egypt Exploration Society, 1983 (pp. xv + 225, 17 plates. ISBN 0856980846)
‘A Demotic list of temple and court occupations: P. Carlsberg 23’ in Grammata demotika: Festschrift für Erich Lüddeckens zum 15 Juni 1983, Würzburg, Gisela Zauzich, 1984, pp. 211–233 (ISBN 3924151016)
‘A new fragment of a Ptolemaic priestly decree at Durham’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 70 (1984), pp. 149–150
(with Harry S. Smith) ‘A proposal to undertake tax-administration for a district official’, Enchoria 12 (1984), pp. 43–49
‘Alternative history?’, Durham University Journal 79,i [N.S. 48,i] (1986), pp. 103–106 [Review article concerned with Ancient Egypt: a social history, by B. G. Trigger [et al.], Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983 (ISBN 0521240808)]
‘Guidelines and borders in Demotic papyri’, in Papyrus: structure and usage; ed. M. L. Bierbrier (Occasional Papers 60), London, British Museum, 1986, pp. 63–89 (ISBN 0861590600)
‘Approaches to Demotic lexicography’, in Aspects of Demotic lexicography: Acts of the Second International Conference for Demotic Studies, Leiden, 19–21 September 1984; ed. S. P. Vleeming (Studia Demotica 1), Leuven, Peeters, 1987, pp. 95–108 (ISBN 9789042929012; 9042929014)
Review of Festschrift zum 100-jährigen Bestehen der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek: Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer (P.Rainer Cent.), Wien, Brüder Hollinek, 1983 (ISBN 3851191978) — Enchoria 15 (1987), pp. 219–222
Review of Die Lehre des Anchscheschonqi (P.BM 10508): Einleitung, Übersetzung, Indices, [by] H. J. Thissen (Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen 32), Bonn, Habelt, 1984 (ISBN 3774921008) — Enchoria 15 (1987), pp. 233–235
(With K. Heinz Kuhn) Review of Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Copte, par W. Vycichl, Leuven, Peeters, 1983 (ISBN 2801701971) — The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 74 (1988), pp. 296–299
Review of Nag Hammadi Codices: Greek and Coptic papyri from the cartonnage of the covers, by J. W. B. Barns, G. M. Browne, and J. C. Shelton (Nag Hammadi Studies, 16), Leiden, Brill. 1981 (ISBN 9004062777) — The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 74 (1988), pp. 299–301
‘Rush and reed: the pens of Egyptian and Greek scribes’, in Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Papyrology, Athens, Greek Papyrological Society, 1988, v. 2, pp. 477–481 (ISBN 960850192X)
(With Anthony F. Harding) ‘“The beginning of the end”: progress and prospects in Old World chronology’, Antiquity 63/238 (1989), pp. 147–152 [Review article concerned with several works]
Review of A glossary of ancient Egyptian nautical titles and terms, by D. Jones, London, Kegan Paul International, 1988 (ISBN 0710302843) — The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration 19,ii, May (1990), p. 177
‘Annexe’ [on Axel Volten’s methods in sorting the Carlsberg papyrus collection], in The Carlsberg Papyri 1: Demotic texts from the collection; ed. P. J. Frandsen (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications 15), Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1991, pp. 13–15 (ISBN 8772891610)
‘A Coptic inscription’, in Hermopolis Magna: buildings of the Roman period, by D. M. Bailey (Excavations at El-Ashmunein 4) (At head of title: British Museum Expedition to Middle Egypt), London, Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press, 1991, p. 63, pl. 112a (ISBN 0714109584)
‘Handlist of published Carlsberg papyri’, in The Carlsberg Papyri 1: Demotic texts from the collection; ed. P. J. Frandsen (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications 15), Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1991, pp. 129–140 (ISBN 8772891610)
‘P. Carlsberg 207: two columns of a Setna text’, in The Carlsberg Papyri 1: Demotic texts from the collection; ed. P. J. Frandsen (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications 15), Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1991, pp. 19–46, pls 1–3 (ISBN 8772891610)
‘P. Carlsberg 230: eleven fragments of a Demotic herbal’, in The Carlsberg Papyri 1: Demotic texts from the collection; ed. P. J. Frandsen (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications 15), Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1991, pp. 47–92, pls 4–6 (ISBN 8772891610)
‘P. Carlsberg 236: another fragment of a Demotic legal manual’, in The Carlsberg Papyri 1: Demotic texts from the collection; ed. P. J. Frandsen (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications 15), Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1991, pp. 93–101, pl. 7 (ISBN 8772891610)
(With K. Heinz Kuhn) ‘Two leaves from a codex from Qasr Ibrim’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 77 (1991), pp. 145–149, pls xiii–xiv
‘Demotic literature and Egyptian society’, in Life in a multi-cultural society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and beyond; ed. J. H. Johnson (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 51), Chicago Illinois, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1992, pp. 303–310 (ISBN 0918986842)
Review of Agatharchides of Cnidus, On the Erythraean Sea; translated and edited by S. M. Burstein (Hakluyt Society, Second Series 172), London, The Hakluyt Society, 1989 (ISBN 090418028X) — International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 21,i (1992), pp. 86–87
‘A Coptic “enquiry” about a delivery of wheat’, in The unbroken reed: studies in the culture and heritage of ancient Egypt in honour of A. F. Shore; ed. C. Eyre, A. Leahy, and L. M. Leahy (Occasional Publications 11), London, Egypt Exploration Society, 1994, pp. 337–342, pl. XL (ISBN 0856981249)
‘Egyptian fiction in Demotic and Greek’, in Greek fiction: the Greek Novel in context; ed. J. R. Morgan and R. Stoneman, London, Routledge, 1994, pp. 203–222 (ISBN 0415085063 (hbk.) 0415085071 (pbk.))
(With Stephen G. J. Quirke) ‘Egyptian manuscripts in the Wellcome Collection’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 80 (1994), pp. 145–158, pls 13–27
‘Some aspects of the Demotic Self-Dedication Texts of the Ptolemaic Period’, in Acta Demotica: Acts of Fifth International Conference for Demotists, Pisa, 4th–8th September 1993, Pisa, Giardini, 1994, p. 281 (ISBN 8842702633)
‘Some notes on Demotic scribal training in the Roman Period’, in Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrologists, Copenhagen, 23–29 August, 1992; collected by A. Bülow-Jacobsen, Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1994, pp. 188–192 (ISBN 8772892641)
(With Jeremy A. Black) ‘Archives and libraries in the ancient Near East’, in Civilizations of the ancient Near East; J. M. Sasson, Editor in Chief, 4v., New York, Scribners, 1995, v. 4, pp. 2197–2209 (ISBN 0684192799)
‘Demotic Literature’, in Civilizations of the ancient Near East; J. M. Sasson, Editor in Chief, 4v., New York, Scribners, 1995, v. 4, pp. 2239–2241 (ISBN 0684192799)
‘Theban magic’, in Hundred-Gated Thebes: Acts of a Colloquium on Thebes and the Theban Area in the Graeco-Roman Period; ed. S. P. Vleeming (Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 27), Leiden, Brill, 1995, pp. 169–182 (ISBN 9004103848)
‘Demotic literature: forms and genres’, in Ancient Egyptian literature: history and forms; ed. A. Loprieno (Probleme der Ägyptologie 10), Leiden, Brill, 1996, pp. 175–187 (ISBN 9004099255)
‘Egypt, ancient, XI: Writing and books’, in The dictionary of art; ed. J. Turner, 34v., London, Grove, 1996, v. 10, pp. 1–7 (ISBN 1884446000)
‘Egypt, ancient, XVI, 11: Maps and plans’, in The dictionary of art; ed. J. Turner, 34v., London, Grove, 1996, v. 10, pp. 62–64 (ISBN 1884446000)
‘Garden, II, 2: Egypt’, in The dictionary of art; ed. J. Turner, 34v., London, Grove, 1996, v. 12, pp. 66–67 (ISBN 1884446000)
‘Papyrus’, in The dictionary of art; ed. J. Turner, 34v., London, Grove, 1996, v. 24, pp. 87–89 (ISBN 1884446000)
(With K. Heinz Kuhn) Thirteen Coptic acrostic hymns from M574, a manuscript of the Pierpont Morgan Library, Oxford, Griffith Institute, 1996 (pp. vii + 162. ISBN 0900416661)
‘Aspects of Demotic education’, in Akten des 21. Internationalen Papyrologenkongresses; herausgegeben von B. Kramer, W. Luppe, H. Maehler, G. Poethke (Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, Beiheft 3), 2v., Stuttgart und Leipzig, Teubner, 1997, v. 2, pp. 931–938 (ISBN3815475368)
(With J. David Thomas) Review of Il Processo di Hermias e altri documenti dell’archivio dei Choachiti (P. Tor. Choachiti): Papyri greci e demotici conservati a Torino e in altre collezioni d’Italia, by P. W. Pestman (Catalogo del Museo egizio di Torino, Serie prima, Monumenti e testi 6), Torino, Ministero Per i Beni Cultruali e Ambientali, Soprintendenza al Museo delle Antichità Egizie, 1992 — The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 83 (1997), pp. 248–251
‘Rifeh papyri’, Friends of the Petrie Museum Newsletter, 17 (Winter 1997–98), p. 3.
‘Ahwere, the magician’s wife’ and ‘Setna Khaemwese succumbs to desire for Tabubu’ [two passages translated from Demotic Egyptian], in Women and society in Greek and Roman Egypt: a sourcebook; ed. J. Rowlandson, Cambridge, University Press, 1998, pp. 333–335, 363–365 (ISBN 0521582121 (hbk.), 0521588154 (pbk.))
‘Dicing with the gods’, in Egyptian religion, the last thousand years: studies dedicated to the memory of Jan Quaegebeur; ed. W. Clarysse, A. Schoors and H. Willems, 2v. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 84), Leuven, Peeters, 1998, v. 1, pp. 257–264 (ISBN 9042906693)
(With J. David Thomas) ‘Greek and Demotic accounts on a papyrus at the Bodleian Library Oxford’, in The two faces of Graeco-Roman Egypt: Greek and Demotic and Greek-Demotic texts and studies presented to P. W. Pestman (P.L.Bat. 30); ed. A. M. F. W. Verhoogt and S. P. Vleeming (Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 30), Leiden, Brill, 1998, pp. 93–125 (ISBN 900411226X)
‘Demotica selecta 1998’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung 45,ii (1999), pp. 209–213
‘How to read the hieroglyphs?’, in Studies on ancient Egypt in honour of H. S. Smith; ed. A. Leahy and J. Tait (Occasional Publications 13), London, Egypt Exploration Society, 1999, pp. 317–319 (ISBN 0856981516)
(With Martin Andersen and Bente Holmen) ‘Palaeographical and codicological notes to supplement Erichsen’s edition of the Copenhagen Fayumic manuscript of Agathonicus: P. Carlsberg 300’, Enchoria 25 (1999), pp. 1–19, pls 1–16
‘Demotica selecta 1999’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung 46,ii (2000), pp. 277–284
(With David Jeffreys) ‘Disability, madness and social exclusion in Dynastic Egypt’, in Madness, disability, and social exclusion: the archaeology and anthropology of ‘difference’; ed. J. Hubert (One World Archaeology 40), London and New York, Routledge, 2000, pp. 87–95 (ISBN 0415230020)
‘P. Carlsberg 433 and 434: two versions of the text of P. Spiegelberg’, in The Carlsberg Papyri 3: a miscellany of Demotic texts and studies, with contributions by J. F. Quack, K. Ryholt, M. Smith, W. J. Tait, [and] K.-T. Zauzich; ed. P. J. Frandsen [and] K. Ryholt (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications 22), Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000, pp. 59–82, pls 11–13 (ISBN 8772895470)
‘P. Carlsberg 450–5: fragments of Demotic word-lists’, in The Carlsberg Papyri 3: a miscellany of Demotic texts and studies, with contributions by J. F. Quack, K. Ryholt, M. Smith, W. J. Tait, [and] K.-T. Zauzich; ed. P. J. Frandsen [and] K. Ryholt (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications 22), Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000, pp. 83–93, pl. 14 (ISBN 8772895470)
(With Bridget Leach) ‘Papyrus’ in Ancient Egyptian materials and technology; ed. P. T. Nicholson and I. Shaw, Cambridge, University Press, 2000, pp. 227–253 (ISBN 052145257)
‘Demotic Literature’, in The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Egypt; ed. D. B. Redford, 3v. Oxford, University Press 2001, v. 1, pp. 378–381 (ISBN 0195102347)
‘Demotic literature in the Petrie Museum’, in Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia, Firenze, 23-29 agosto 1998; a cura di Isabella Andorlini [and others], 3v., Firenze, Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli”, 2001, v. 2, pp. 1229–1233 (ISBN 8887829217)
‘Demotica selecta 2000’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung 47,ii (2001), pp. 278–283
‘Exuberance and accessibility: notes on written Demotic and the Egyptian scribal tradition’, in Essays and texts in honor of J. David Thomas; ed. T. Gagos and R. S. Bagnall (American Studies in Papyrology 42), (Michigan), American Society of Papyrologists, 2001, pp. 31–39, pls 1–3 (ISBN 0970059132)
(With Bridget Leach) ‘Papyrus’, in The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Egypt; ed. D. B. Redford, 3v. Oxford, University Press 2001, v. 3, pp. 22–24 (ISBN 0195102347)
Review of Libraries in the Ancient World, by Lionel Casson, New Haven, CN & London, Yale University Press, 2001 (ISBN 0300088094) — Alexandria 13,iii (2001), pp. 193–194
‘Setna Khaemwese Cycle’, in The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Egypt; ed. D. B. Redford, 3v. Oxford, University Press 2001, v. 3, pp. 271–272 (ISBN 0195102347)
(With Cornelia E. Römer) ‘374. Mummienbegleitbrief in dreifacher Ausfertigung’, in Kölner Papyri (P. Köln), Band 9; bearbeitet von Michael Gronewald [and others] (Papyrologica Coloniensia Vol. VII/9), Wiesbaden, Westdeutscher Verlag, 2001, pp. 131–135 (ISBN 3531099507)
(With Geoffrey Roper) ‘Coptic typography: a brief sketch (Koptische Typographie: Eine kurze Skizze)’, in Middle Eastern languages and the print revolution: a cross cultural encounter (Sprachen des Nahen Ostens und die Druckrevolution: Eine interkulturelle Begegnung); ed. E. Hanebutt-Benz, D. Glas, G. Roper, Westhofen, WVA-Verlag Skulima, 2002, pp. 118–121 (ISBN 3936136025) —also published in Arabic
‘The Demotic text’ [part of ‘An inscribed pedestal from the Temple of Tutu’, by R. S. Bagnall and K. A. Worp, with a note by J. Tait], in Dahlen Oasis Project: preliminary reports on the 1994–1995 to 1998–1999 field seasons; ed. C. A. Hope and G. E. Bowen (Dakhleh Oasis Project: Monograph 11), Oxford, Oxbow, 2002, pp. 49–51 (ISBN 1842170708)
‘A note on Demotic inscriptions from the Temple of Tutu’, in Dakhleh Oasis Project: preliminary reports on the 1994–1995 to 1998–1999 field seasons; ed. C. A. Hope and G. E. Bowen (Dakhleh Oasis Project: Monograph 11), Oxford, Oxbow, 2002, pp. 297–298 (ISBN 1842170708)
‘Papyri, digitisation, and the web: accessibility and management of collections’, Manuscripta Orientalia 8,ii (2002), pp. 61–67
(With Andrew Monson) ‘Putting papyri into archaeological context: new insights from Tebtunis, Egypt’, Archaeology International [5] (2001–2002), pp. 40–43
Review of Reflections of Osiris: lives from ancient Egypt, by J. Ray, London, Profile Books, 2001 (ISBN1861973632) — Egyptian Archaeology 20 (2002), p. 43
‘The “Book of the Fayum”: mystery in a known landscape’, in Mysterious lands; ed. D. O’Connor and S. Quirke (Encounters with Ancient Egypt), London, UCL Press, 2003, pp. 183–202 (ISBN 1844720047)
‘Cleopatra by name’, in Cleopatra reassessed; ed. S. Walker and S.-A. Ashton (Occasional Papers 103), London, The British Museum, 2003, pp. 3–7 (ISBN 0861591038)
‘Introduction — “...since the time of the gods”’, in ‘Never had the like occurred’: Egypt’s view of its past; ed. J. Tait (Encounters with Ancient Egypt), London, UCL Press, 2003, pp. 1–13 (ISBN1844720071)
‘The wisdom of Egypt: classical views’, in The wisdom of Egypt: changing visions through the ages; ed. P. Ucko and T. Champion (Encounters with Ancient Egypt), London, UCL Press, 2003, pp. 23–37 (ISBN1844720055)
‘A Papyrus bearing a shrine plan and a Book of the Dead’, in Res severa verum gaudium: Festschrift für Karl-Theodor Zauzich zum 65. Geburtstag am 8. Juni 2004; ed. F. Hoffmann and H. J. Thissen (Studia Demotica 6), Leuven, Peeters, 2004, pp. 573–582, pls LII–LIV (ISBN 9042914769)
Review of The secret lore of Egypt: its impact on the West, by E. Horning, Cornell University Press, 2001 (ISBN 0801438470) — Egyptian Archaeology 24 (2004), pp. 41–42
Review of The Heqanakht papyri, by J. P. Allen, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002 (ISBN 1588390705) — Antiquity 79 (2005), pp. 464–465
(With Willy Clarysse and Dorothy J. Thompson) Editions of Texts 53 and 54 in Counting the people in Hellenistic Egypt, by W. Clarysse and D. J. Thompson, in collaboration with U. Luft, B. Mandilaris, G. Poethke, R. Scholl, and J. Tait (Cambridge Classical Studies), 2v., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, v. 1, pp. 540–579 (ISBN 052183838X)
‘Foreword’, in More usefully employed: Amelia B. Edwards, writer, traveller, and campaigner for ancient Egypt, by B. Moon (Occasional Publications 15), London, Egypt Exploration Society, 2006, p. xv (ISBN 0856981699)
‘Peter and Encounters with Ancient Egypt’ [contribution to an appreciation of Peter Ucko], Archaeology International 10 (2006/2007), p. 9
‘Were there gamesters in Pharaonic Egypt?’, in Ancient board games in perspective: papers from the 1990 British Museum colloquium, with additional contributions; ed. I. L. Finkel. London, The British Museum Press, 2007, pp. 46–53 (ISBN 9780714111537)
‘Anger and agency: the role of the emotions in Demotic and earlier narratives’, in ‘Being in ancient Egypt’: thoughts on agency, materiality and cognition: proceedings of the seminar held in Copenhagen, September 29–30, 2006; ed. R. Nyord and A. Kjølby (BAR International Series 2019), Oxford, Archaeopress, 2009, pp. 75–82 (ISBN 9781407305943)
‘Pa-di-pep tells Pharaoh the story of the condemnation of Djed-her: fragments of Demotic narrative in the British Museum’, Enchoria 31 (2008/2009), pp. 113–143, pls 12–13
‘“He did its like”: some uses of repetition in Demotic narrative fiction’, in From Illahun to Djeme: papers presented in honour of Ulrich Luft; ed. E. Bechtold, A. Gulyás, and A. Hasznos (BAR International Series 2311), Oxford, Archaeopress, 2011, pp. 279–285 (ISBN 9781407308944)
(With Fredrik Hagen, John Johnson, Wendy Monkhouse, Kathryn Piquette, and Martin Worthington) ‘Introduction’, in Narratives of Egypt and the ancient Near East: literary and linguistic approaches; ed. F. Hagen, J. Johnson, W. Monkhouse, K. Piquette, J. Tait, and M. Worthington (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 109), Leuven, Peeters, 2011, pp. xiii–xxxvi (ISBN 9789042922075)
‘The sinews of Demotic narrative’, in Narratives of Egypt and the ancient Near East: literary and linguistic approaches; ed. F. Hagen, J. Johnson, W. Monkhouse, K. Piquette, J. Tait, and M. Worthington (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 109), Leuven, Peeters, 2011, pp. 397–410 (ISBN 9789042922075)
‘Comparing structures in the Greek Novel and Demotic narrative’, in Actes du 26e Congrès international de papyrologie, Genève, 16–21 août 2010; ed. Paul Schubert (Recherches et Rencontres: publications de la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Genève 30), Genève, Droz, 2012, pp. 739–745
‘The reception of Demotic narrative’, in Ancient Egyptian Literature: Theory and Practice; ed. R. Enmarch and V. Lepper (Proceedings of the British Academy 188), London, British Academy, 2013, pp. 251–260 (ISBN 9780197265420) [acts of the conference Ancient Egyptian Literature: Theory and Practice (Oxford 2006)]
‘Uniconsonantal signs and patterns of change: exploring the orthography of the Demotic script’ in Aspects of Demotic orthography: acts of an International Colloquium held in Trier, 8 November 2010; ed. S. P. Vleeming (Studia demotica 11) Leuven Paris Walpole MA, Peeters, 2013, pp. 127–143 (ISBN 9789042929012)
Review of Egypt in England, by Chris Elliott, London, English Heritage, 2012 (ISBN 9781848020887) — Egyptian Archaeology 43 (2013), 43–44
Review of Walk like an Egyptian in Kensal Green Cemetery, by Cathie Bryan, London, The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery, 2012 (ISBN 9780957204928) — Egyptian Archaeology 43 (2013), 44
Review of Receipts, scribes, and collectors in early Ptolemaic Thebes (O. Taxes 2), by B. P. Muhs (Studia Demotica 8), Leuven, Paris and Walpole MA, Peeters, 2011 (ISBN 9789042924314) — Journal of Hellenic Studies 133 (2013), pp. 250–251
‘On the singularity of Wenamun’, in Decorum and experience: essays in ancient culture for John Baines; ed. Elizabeth Frood and Angela McDonald, Oxford, Griffith Institute, 2013, pp. 72–76 (ISBN 9780900416927)
‘Casting about for the raison d’être of Demotic narrative fiction’, in Acts of the Tenth International Congress of Demotic Studies, Leuven, 26–30 August 2008; ed. Mark Depauw and Yanne Broux (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 231), Leuven, Peeters, 2014, pp. 319–329 (ISBN 9789042930087)
‘May Pharaoh listen to the story! Stories-within-stories in Demotic fictional narrative’, in Lotus and Laurel: studies on Egyptian language and religion in honour of Paul John Frandsen; ed. Rune Nyord and Kim Ryholt (CNI Publications 39), Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2015, pp. 391–401 (ISBN 9788763542081)
‘A Coptic account of wine on an amphora’, in Charisterion per Revel A. Coles: trenta testi letterari e documentari dall’Egitto (P.Coles); a cura di Guido Bastianini, Nikolaos Gonis, Simona Russo (Edizioni dell’Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli» 4), Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2015, pp. 154–164, Tavola XXXI (ISBN 9788866558262 (print); ISBN 9788866558279 (online))
(With Irene Bald Romano, Christina Bisulca, Pearce Paul Creasman, Gregory Hodgins, and Tomasz Wazny) ‘An ancient Egyptian senet board in the Arizona State Museum’, Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, 145, i (2018), pp. 71–85
‘A date with Usimaꜥrēꜥ’, in Hieratic, Demotic, and Greek studies and text editions: of making many books there is no end: Festschrift in honour of Sven P. Vleeming (P. L. Bat. 34); ed. Koenraad Donker van Heel, Francisca A J Hoogendijk, and Cary J Martin (Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 34), Leiden; Boston, Brill, 2018, pp. 157–161; Plate 33 (ISBN 9789004345713)
‘Foreword’, in The Enlightenment rediscovery of Egyptology: Vitaliano Donati’s Egyptian expedition, 1759–62, by Angela Scattolin Morecroft, London and New York, Routledge, 2018, pp. xvii–xviii (ISBN 9781409447771 (hbk); ISBN 9781315616131 (e-book))
‘Issues in the dating of Saqqara papyri’, in New approaches in Demotic Studies: Acts of the 13th International Conference of Demotic Studies; ed. Franziska Naether (Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, Beihefte 10), Berlin; Boston, De Gruyter, 2019, pp. 295–302 (ISBN 9783110662535)
‘A Demotic onomatological fragment from North Saqqara’, in Text editions of (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin, and Coptic: Some people love their friends also when they are far away: Festschrift in honour of Franscisca A. J. Hoogendijk (P. L. Bat. 37); ed. Joanne Vera Stolk & Guus A. J. C. van Loon (Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 37), Leiden; Boston, Brill, 2021, pp. 28–32 (ISBN 9789004438644; 9789004439009 (e-book))
‘Examining the exploitation of the emotions in Demotic Egyptian letter-writing’, in Unveiling emotions III: arousal, display, and performance of emotions in the Greek World; ed. Angelos Chaniotis (Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien 63) Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021, pp. 231–242 (ISBN 978-3-515-12950-3 (Print); ISBN 978-3-515-12952-7 (e-book))
Other publications: If applicable (e.g. any books or articles for a non-academic audience, blog posts, etc).
‘The rules of senet’, New Scientist No 1748/1749 (22/29 December 1990), pp. 48–49