Mark Smith (Egyptologist)
Mark Joseph Smith (* 1951 ) is a British Egyptologist .
Life
He is Professor of Egyptology at Oxford University and Lady Wallis Budge Fellow in Egyptology at University College (Oxford) . His research interests are Egyptian religion and Egyptian language and texts, especially demotic.
Fonts (selection)
- The mortuary texts of Papyrus BM 10507 . London 1987, ISBN 0-7141-0937-1 .
- The Liturgy of Opening the Mouth for Breathing . Oxford 1993, ISBN 0-900416-62-9 .
- On the Primaeval Ocean . Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-7289-646-9 .
- Harkness Papyrus (MMA 9/31/7) . Oxford 2005, ISBN 0-900416-84-X .
- Traversing Eternity: Texts for the Afterlife from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt . Oxford 2009, ISBN 0-19-815464-X .
- Following Osiris: Perspectives on the Osirian Afterlife from Four Millennia . Oxford 2017, ISBN 0-19-958222-X .
literature
- Richard Jasnow, Ghislaine Widmer (Ed.): Illuminating Osiris. Egyptological studies in honor of Mark Smith . Atlanta 2017, ISBN 1-937040-74-7 .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smith, Mark |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Smith, Mark Joseph (full name); Smith, Mark J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Egyptologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |