Dr Boyo Ockinga
MA Auck., DPhil Tübingen
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Contact Details: Telephone: +61 2 9850 8852 |
Profile
Boyo Ockinga is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient History, Division of Humanities. He studied Ancient History at the University of Auckland (BA 1973; MA 1975) and went on to study Egyptology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany (1976–1983), where he obtained a DPhil in Egyptology in 1983. Before coming to Macquarie in 1984 he was Assistant in the Department of Egyptology, Tübingen (1982–1984). At Macquarie he teaches Egyptology with a focus on philology and religion.
Research Interests
Since 1984 he has conducted regular fieldwork projects in Egypt at a number
of sites – Nag El Mashayikh, Awlad Azzaz (Sohag), Dra Abu El Naga
(Luxor) and Saqqara – working on the epigraphic and archaeological
recording of New Kingdom tombs. Since 1991 he has directed the Macquarie
Theban Tombs Project at Dra Abu El Naga.
Other research interests are Egyptian religion, including a project on Greek
and Roman writers on Egyptian Religion, which he is working on in collaboration
with Dr Ian Plant, and the publication of Egyptian material in Australasian
collections.
Grants Awarded
The archaeological fieldwork mentioned above has received regular support through research grants from The Australian Research Council (ARC), the Macquarie University Research Development Grant scheme (MURDG) and the Rundle Foundation for Egyptian Archaeology. Since 2005 Ockinga is a chief investigator, along with N. Kanawati and C. Kohler, in a five-year ARC Discovery Projects Grant for a study on Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt.
National and International Links
The fieldwork in Egypt is conducted by Ockinga in association with the
Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt as well as with individual Egyptian
scholars, and the research and publication of data recorded is carried out
in association with other international scholars. His research is presented
at international conferences and other institutions.
Publications
Ockinga's bibliography includes over 50 books, book chapters and scholarly articles, of which the following is a selection:
Authored Monographs
Die Gottebenbildlichkeit im alten Ägypten und im Alten Testament
(ÄAT 7) (Wiesbaden, 1984)
(with Y. Al-Masri,) Two Ramesside Tombs at El Mashayikh Part 1
(Sydney, 1988), Part 2 (Sydney, 1990)
A Tomb from the Reign of Tutankhamun at Akhmim, ACE Reports 10
(Warminster, 1997)
Amenemone the Chief Goldsmith. A New Kingdom Tomb in the Teti Cemetery
at Saqqara (Oxford, 2005)
Mittelägyptishe Grundgrammatik (2nd revised ed. Mainz, 2005)
A Concise Grammar of Middle Egyptian (2nd revised ed. Mainz, 2005)
Edited Books
with K. Sowada, Egyptian Art in the Nicholson Museum. Suppl. to
Mediterranean Archaeology (Sydney, 2006)
Edited Chapters in / Contribution to Books, Encyclopaedia Articles
"Hiskiahs Prahlerei. Ein Beitrag zur Interpretation von 2 Könige 20, 12 - 19/Jesaja 39, 1 - 8" in Fontes atque pontes (Festschrift H. Brunner) (Wiesbaden, 1983), pp. 342 - 346.
"Ägyptische Totentexte und Votivinschriften" in Texte
zur Umwelt des Alten Testaments Band II, Religiöse Texte
ed. by C. Butterweck, D. Conrad et al., (Gütersloh, 1988) pp. 506-522;
529-534; 540-554. ISBN3579000691.
"Aegyptiaca in Australasia - I. The Dunedin Stele of Nebentaneb"
in Gegengabe. Festschrift für Emma Brunner-Traut (Tübingen,
1992), pp. 263 - 272.
"Hieroglyphic Texts from Egypt" in Sources for the History
of Cyprus Vol. 2. Near Eastern Texts from the 3. to the 1. Millenium BC.
Institute of Cypriote Studies, CUNY, Albany, ed. by Bernard Knapp (Altamont,
1996) pp. 25 - 33.
"The Saqqara Tomb of the Overseer of Craftsmen and Chief Goldworker,
Amenemone", in M. Barta, J. Krejci, eds., Abusir and Saqqara in
the Year 2000, Archiv Orientalni Supplementa IX (Prague, 2000) pp.
121-132.
Entries on "Ethics and Morality", " Piety" and "Sennedjem"
for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (New York, 2001) vol.
1 pp. 484-487; vol. 3 pp. 44-47 and p.266.
"New Light on the Cairo Statues of Saroy" in Egyptian Museum
Collections around the World. Studies for the Centennial of the Egyptian
Museum, Cairo, ed. by Mamdouh Eldamaty and Mai Trad, (Cairo, 2002)
Vol. II pp. 873-884.
“An 18th Dynasty Inscribed Linen Shroud” in Egyptian Art
in the Nicholson Museum suppl. to Mediterranean Archaeology
ed. K. Sowada and B. Ockinga (Sydney, 2006) pp. 179–189.
"Osiris and the Great Serpent in TT 148: Innovations in Funerary Iconography
and Texts in the 20th Dynasty" in Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert/Karola
Zibelius-Chen (eds.): "Von reichlich ägyptischem Verstande".
Festschrift für Waltraud Guglielmi = Philippika VIII. Marburger
altertumskundliche Abhandlungen, hrg. v. Joachim Hengstl, Kai Ruffing u.
Orell Witthuhn (Wiesabden: Harrassowitz, 2006) pp. 91–102.
"Use, Reuse, and Abuse of 'Sacred Space': Observations from Drac Abu
el-Nagac" to appear in Sacred Space and Sacred Function in Ancient
Thebes ed. P. Dorman and B. Bryan, (Chicago, 2007) pp. 139–162.
Articles in scholarly journals
"ro'š wezanab kippah we'agmon in Jes 9,13 und
19,15" in Biblische Notizen 10 (1979), 31 - 34.
"An Example of Egyptian Royal Phraseology in Psalm 132" in Biblische
Notizen 11 (1980), 38 -42.
"Einige Bemerkungen zur Inschrift des Jehumilk aus Byblos" in
Die Welt des Orients 12 (1981), 70 - 72.
"Zum Fortleben des 'Amarna Loyalismus' in der Ramessidenzeit"
in Die Welt des Orients 14 (1983), 207 - 215.
"The Burden of Kha`keperre`sonbu" in JEA 69 (1983), 88
- 95.
"On the Interpretation of the Kadesh Reliefs" in Chronique
d'Egypte 62 (1987), 38 - 48.
"The Inviolability of Zion - A pre-Israelite Tradition?" in Biblische
Notizen 44 (1988) 54- 60.
"A First Intermediate Period Stele at Nag' el Mashayikh" in Göttinger
Miszellen 105 (1988), 77 - 81.
"Nagc El Mashayikh - The Ramesside Tombs" in The Bulletin
of the Australian Centre for Egyptology 1 (1990), 77 - 84.
"The Tomb of Sennedjem at Awlad Azzaz (Sohag)" in The Bulletin
of the Australian Centre for Egyptology 2 (1991), 81 - 89.
"New Light on Tutankhamun. The Tomb of Sennedjem at Awlad Azzaz, Sohag"
in Sixth International Congress of Egyptology. Abstracts of Papers
(Turin, 1991), pp. 310 - 311.
(with K.A. Kitchen), "A Memphite Monument of the Vizier T3 in Sydney"
in Mitteilungen des Deutschen Arch. Instituts Abteilung Kairo 48
(1992) pp 99 - 103; pls. 20 - 21.
"Macquarie University Theban Tombs Project: TT 148 Amenemope: Preliminary
Report on 1991/92 and 1992/3 Seasons" in The Bulletin of the Australian
Centre for Egyptology 4 (1993), 41 - 50.
"ti.t Sps.t and ti.t Dsr.t in the Restoration Stele of Tutankhamun"
in Göttinger Miszellen 137 (1993), 77. "tit shepset and tit djesret
"Another Ramesside Attestation of Usermont, Vizier of Tutankhamun"
in The Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology 5 (1994),
61-66.
"Hatshepsut's election to kingship: the ba and ka in Egyptian Royal
Ideology" in The Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology
6 (1995) 89-102.
"Macquarie Theban Tombs Project TT 148 the Tomb of Amenemope. Report
on the 1994/1995 and 1996/1996 Seasons" in Bulletin of the Australian
Centre for Egyptology 7 (1996) 65-73.
"The Tradition History of the Martha/Mary Pericope in Luke 10.38-42",
Ancient History in a Modern University, Vol 2 Early Christianity,
Late Antiquity and Beyond ed. by T. Hillard, R. Kearsley, C.E.V.Nixon
& A. Nobbs (Eerdmans, 1998) pp. 93-97.
"An Ancient Egyptian Puzzle: Piecing together the Saqqara Tomb of the
Overseer of Craftsmen and Chief Goldworker, Amenemone" in Bulletin
of the Australian Centre for Egyptology 9 (1998) 73-87.
"Theban Tomb 233 – Saroy regains an Identity" in Bulletin
of the Australian Centre for Egyptology 11 (2000) 103 – 113,
Pls. 22-24.
"Excavations at Drac Abu el-Nagac: Report on the Nov-Dec 2000 and Jan-Feb
2002 Seasons" in Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology
13 (2002), 135-147.
"TT 147 – Observations on its Owners and Erasures" in Bulletin
of the Australian Centre for Egyptology 15 (2004) 121–129.
"The stele and offering table of the mayor of Heliopolis, Menkheper,
in the Classics Museum, University of Adelaide" in Journal of Egyptian
Archaeology 91 (2005)
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