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Bibliography

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Introduction

  • Abd el Gawad, Heba, Margaret Maitland, and Alice Stevenson. Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage. 2019-2022.
  • Fauvelle, François-Xavier. The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages. Princeton, 2018.
  • Seland, Eivind Heldaas. A Global History of the Ancient World: Asia, Europe and Africa Before Islam. Routledge, 2021.
  • Stevenson, Alice. Scattered Finds: Archaeology, Egyptology and Museums. UCL, 2019.

Death

  • Depauw. “Notes on Transgressing Gender Boundaries in Ancient Egypt.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 130.2 (49-59). 2003.
  • Casini, Emanuele. “Remarks on Ancient Egyptian Cartonnage Mummy Masks from the Late Old Kingdom to the end of the New Kingdom,” in Julia M. Chyla et al. (ed). Current Research in Egyptology (56-73). Oxbow, 2016.
  • Gilbert, Michelle. “Bura Funerary Urns: Niger Terracottas: An Interpretive Limbo?” African Arts 53.1 (66-75). 2020.
  • Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt. Art Institute of Chicago.
  • Riggs, Christina. “Facing the Dead: Recent Research on the Funerary Art of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt.” American Journal of Archaeology 106.1 (85-101). 2005.
  • Riggs, Christina. The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion. OUP, 2005.
  • Ślusarska, Katarzyna. “Faces from the Past: face urns of the Pomeranian culture and an idea of humans in the early Iron Age,” in Schwarzberg, Heiner and Valeska Becker (ed.). Bodies of Clay: Prehistoric Humanized Pottery (213-230). Oxbow, 2017.
  • Walker, Susan. Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits in Roman Egypt. Routledge, 2000.
  • Wegner, Jennifer Hauser. “Headrests in Glencairn’s Egyptian Collection: Practicality and Protection.” Glencairn Museum News, 2018.
  • Wegner, Mary-Ann Pouls. “Anthropoid Clay Coffins of the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in Egypt and the Near East: A Re-Evaluation of the Evidence from Tell el-Yahudiya,” in Timothy P. Harrison et al. (ed.). Walls of the Prince: Egyptian Interactions with Southwest Asia in Antiquity (292-315). Brill, 2015.

Disability

  • Dasen, Veronique. Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt and Greece. OUP, 1993.
  • Draycott, Jane and Emma-Jayne Graham (ed.), Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future. Routledge, 2017.
  • Morris, Alexandra." Let that Be Your Last Battlefield: Tutankhamun and Disability," Athens Journal of History 6.1 (53-72). 2020.
  • Morris, Alexandra, and Debby Sneed. “A Brief Guide to Disability Terminology and Theory in Ancient World Studies.” SCS Blog, 2021.
  • Nanoglou, Stratos. “A Miniature World: Clay models and figurines in south-east Europe,” in Chris Fowler et al (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe (621-637). OUP, 2015
  • Silverblank, Hannah, and Marchella Ward. “Why Does Classical Reception Need Disability Studies?” Classical Receptions Journal 12.4 (502-530). 2020.
  • Talalay, Lauren. Deities, Dolls, and Devices: Neolithic Figurines From Franchthi Cave, Greece. IUP, 1993.
  • Trentin, Lisa. The Hunchback in Hellenistic and Roman Art. Bloomsbury, 2015.

Transformation

  • Collon, Dominique. First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East. British Museum Publications, 1987.
  • Felton, Debbie (ed.). The Oxford Handbook to Monsters in Classical Myth. OUP, 2023 (forthcoming).
  • Gloyn, Liz. Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture. Bloomsbury, 2019.
  • Mittman, Asa and Peter Dendle (ed.). The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous. Routledge, 2012.
  • She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400-2000 B.C. Morgan Library, 2023.