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Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology

Joshua A. Roberson, Ph.D.

Joshua Roberson

Associate Professor of Art History
Assistant Director

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 2007


Address:
Department of Art and Design
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202 Art & Communication Bldg.
Memphis, TN 38152-3140

E-mail:
Joshua.Roberson@Memphis.edu

Telephone:
901.678.3895

Dr. Roberson is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Design and a member of the Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology at the 糖心vlog蜜桃. He teaches Egyptian language and offers courses on ancient Egyptian literature, history and archaeology.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Egyptian language and religion; cosmology, cosmography, and mortuary literature; cryptography; seals and seal impressions; digital epigraphy; and 3D modelling of objects and spaces.

PUBLICATIONS:

Monographs and other books:

  • A Teaching Grammar of Middle Egyptian. Atlanta: Lockwood press, 2025.
  • Ancient Egypt鈥擭ew technology, co-edited with Rita Lucarellia and Steve Vinson. Harvard Egyptological Studies 17. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023.
  • Lexicon of Ancient Egyptian Cryptography of the New Kingdom, Enigmatic Writing in the Egyptian New Kingdom vol. 2, Zeitschrift f眉r 盲gyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde Beiheft 12, 2. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
  • Ramesside Inscriptions: Historical and Biographical, vol. IX. Wallasey, UK, Abercromby Press, 2018.
  • The Awakening of Osiris and the Transit of the Solar Barques: Royal Apotheosis in a Most Concise Book of the Underworld and Sky. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis vol. 262. Freibourg, Vandehoeck & Rupprech, 2013.
  • The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Earth. Brown University, Wilbour Studies in Egypt and Ancient Western Asia vol. 1.  Atlanta, Lockwood Press, 2012.
  • "The seal impressions."  In Guillaume Charloux, Rapha毛l Angevin, Sylvia Marchand, Herv茅 Monchot, Agn猫s Oboussier, Joshua Roberson, and H茅l猫ne Virenque, Le parvis du temple d'Opet 脿 Karnak. Exploration arch茅ologique (2006鈥�2007), Travaux du Centre franco-茅gyptien d'茅tude des temples de Karnak, Biblioth猫que g茅n茅rale 41 (Cairo 2012), 125-144.


Select Articles:

  • 鈥淪yntactic and Modal Markers (鈥淧articles鈥�) in the Texts of the Shabaqo Stone,鈥� in Brian Muhs and Foy Scalf, eds., A Master of Secrets in the Chamber of Darkness: Egyptological Studies in Honor of Robert K. Ritner, Presented on the Occasion of His 68th Birthday, Studies in Ancient Cultures 3 (Chicago: University press, 2024), 261鈥�276.
  • 鈥淭he Iconicity of the Vertical in Egyptian Cosmological (Con-)Texts,鈥� in Ilona Zsolnay, ed., Seen Not Heard: Composition, Iconicity, and the Classifier Systems of Logosyllabic Scripts, Oriental Institute Seminars 14 (Chicago: Oriental Institute, 2023), 31鈥�62.
  • 鈥淭he 鈥楯ackal Hymn of the West鈥� in the Book of the Night,鈥� in A. Stauder and D. Klotz, eds., Enigmatic Writing in the Egyptian New Kingdom. Revealing, Transforming, and Display in Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Zeitschrift f眉r 盲gyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde Beiheft 12, 1 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 149鈥�194.
  • 鈥淎 Brief Excursus on the Mechanisms of Cryptographic Sign Substitution,鈥� in A. Stauder and D. Klotz, eds., Enigmatic Writing in the Egyptian New Kingdom. Revealing, Transforming, and Display in Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Zeitschrift f眉r 盲gyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde Beiheft 12, 1 (Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter, 2020), 141鈥�148.
  • 鈥淲hose Error Anyway? Epigraphic and Orthographic Variation in a Book of the Earth as Evidence for Multiple Master Documents in the Sarcophagus Chamber of Ramesses VI,鈥� Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 55 (2019): 161鈥�171.
  • 鈥淭锚te-脿-t锚te: Some Observations and Counter-Arguments Regarding a Contentious Phonological Value,鈥� Lingua Aegyptia 26 (2018): 185鈥�202.
  • "Chapter 21: The Royal Funerary Books." In K. Weeks and R. Wilkinson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings (Oxford 2016, in press).
  • "A New Nautical Idiom for Hoisting Sails (in the Underworld)?" In G枚ttinger Miszellen, 233 (2012), 43鈥�50
  • "The Trampled Foe: Two New Examples of a Rare Amuletic Form." In Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 96 (2010), 219鈥�222.
  • "Observations on the so-called 'sw s岣弇=f,' or Middle Egyptian Proclitic Pronoun Construction." In Z. Hawass and J. Wegner (eds.), Millions of Jubilees: Studies in Honor of David P. Silverman (SASAE 39, vol. 2, Cairo 2010), 185鈥�205.
  • "A Solar Litany from the Tomb of Ramesses IX" In Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 45 (2009), 227鈥�232.
  • "Inside or at Home? An Observation on Syntax in the Serpent's Prophesy, Shipwrecked Sailor 167鈥�69." In G枚ttinger Miszellen, 222 (2009), 51鈥�55.
  • "The Early History of "New Kingdom" Netherworld Iconography: A Late Middle Kingdom Apotropaic Wand Reconsidered." In D.P. Silverman, W.K. Simpson, and J. Wegner (eds.), Archaism and Innovation: Studies in the Culture of Middle Kingdom Egypt (New Haven 2009), 427鈥�445
  • "The Rebirth of the Sun: Mortuary Art and Architecture in the Royal Tombs of New Kingdom Egypt." In Expedition, 50/2 (2008), 14鈥�25.
  • "An Enigmatic Wall from the Cenotaph of Seti I at Abydos." In Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 43 (2007), 93鈥�112.


Field Projects:

  • Since 2014, Dr. Roberson has served as the seal-impressions analyst for the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo (DAIK) expedition Lebenswirklichkeiten - Eine Synthese von Arch盲ologie und Naturwissenschaften ("Realities of Life - A Synthesis of Archaeology and the Natural Sciences"), at , Egypt.