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| Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde | |
|---|---|
| Title | Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde |
| Discipline | Egyptology |
| Language | German |
| Abbreviation | ZÄS |
| Publisher | Verlag Gebrüder Harrassowitz |
| Country | Germany |
| History | 1864–present |
| Frequency | Annual/Periodic |
Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde is a long-running German scholarly journal focusing on Egyptology, Ancient Egypt, and related studies in Near Eastern studies. Founded in the nineteenth century, the journal has published research by scholars associated with institutions such as the University of Leipzig, the University of Berlin, the University of Munich, the University of Bonn, and the British Museum. It has appeared alongside parallel periodicals like Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, and Revue d'Égyptologie.
The journal was established in 1864 during an era of increased activity at centers such as the German Archaeological Institute, the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, and the Prussian Academy of Sciences, with early editors connected to figures like Karl Richard Lepsius, Wilhelm Spiegelberg, and Gustav Seyffarth. Through the late nineteenth century the periodical intersected with expeditions led by Giovanni Belzoni, Heinrich Brugsch, and Flinders Petrie, and later reflected the influence of scholars from the University of Strasbourg, the University of Tübingen, and the University of Heidelberg. In the twentieth century contributors included academics associated with the Oriental Institute (Chicago), the University of Oxford, the University of Vienna, and the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, surviving disruptions such as the First World War, the Second World War, and the realignments following the Treaty of Versailles and the Cold War.
The journal publishes articles on topics ranging across material culture, inscriptions, and languages connected to Ancient Egypt and neighboring polities like Nubia, Kush, Canaan, and Levantine archaeology. Subjects include philological studies of Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian, Demotic, and Coptic, editions of papyri comparable to finds from the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and analyses of monuments such as the Pyramids of Giza, the Temple of Karnak, and the Valley of the Kings. Interdisciplinary work has considered contacts with civilizations attested in archives like the Amarna letters and with material from sites including Deir el-Bahri, Abu Simbel, and Meroë. The journal has also treated iconography related to deities such as Ra, Amun, Osiris, and Isis and funerary texts like the Book of the Dead.
Editorial leadership has historically been drawn from university chairs and museum curators at institutions including the University of Leipzig, the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, the University of Würzburg, and the German Archaeological Institute. The publisher has been linked to firms such as Verlag Gebrüder Harrassowitz and distribution through academic channels in Leipzig, Berlin, and Wiesbaden. Issues contain peer-reviewed articles, necrologies for figures like Adolf Erman and Petrie-era contemporaries, and reviews of monographs published by presses including Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Brill. The journal's periodicity and format have adapted to changes in scholarly communication influenced by organizations such as the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and by conferences like the International Congress of Egyptologists.
Prominent contributors over the journal's history include scholars associated with the University of Leipzig such as Gustav Maspero, with the University of Berlin such as Adolf Erman, and with the University of Munich such as Karl Richard Lepsius-era successors; later contributors include figures linked to the British Museum like Wallis Budge, to the Oriental Institute (Chicago) like James Henry Breasted, and to the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale such as Jean-François Champollion-influenced philologists. Seminal articles have treated texts comparable to the Papyrus Westcar, inscriptions from Abydos, and linguistic work related to hieroglyphs, hieratic, and demotic script. The journal has published important editions and commentaries that intersect with finds from excavations at Saqqara, Amarna, and Thebes and with comparative studies involving Hittite and Sumerian sources.
The periodical has been regarded as a central venue in German-language Egyptology alongside anglophone journals like the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology and francophone periodicals such as the Revue d'Égyptologie, shaping debates on chronology, philology, and archaeology among communities at the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, the Egypt Exploration Society, and university departments across Europe and North America. Its articles have informed museum catalogues at institutions like the British Museum, the Louvre, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and have been cited in monographs by publishers such as Brill, Routledge, and De Gruyter. Critical reception has engaged controversies involving chronology debates comparable to those surrounding Manetho and methodological shifts influenced by scholars tied to the Oriental Institute (Chicago) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Back issues and selected articles have been digitized by libraries and archives at the Universität Leipzig, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Bodleian Library, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and appear in catalogues used by projects such as the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae and databases maintained by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Digital availability has enabled access for researchers affiliated with the University of Oxford, the University of Chicago, the Universität Hamburg, and the University of Vienna and integration with resources like the Online Egyptological Bibliography and the Trismegistos portal.
Category:Academic journals Category:Egyptology journals Category:German-language journals