John TAIT - M.A., D.Phil.

• Professor of Egyptology
• Degree Programme Co-ordinator: M.A. Egyptian Archaeology
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL3009 Intermediate middle Egyptian texts
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL3025 Egyptian scripts
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL2024 Middle Egyptian language and texts
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCLG199 Egyptian writing as material culture
  

Research Interests:

Ancient Egyptian social history; languages, texts, and documents of ancient Egypt (from Early Egypt into the Islamic period)

Recent Publications:

• Clarysse, W., Tait, W., Thompson, D.J. (2006). [Texts] 53, Demotic household record (kat'ethnos) [and] 54, Demotic record of males (kat'ethnos) in Clarysse, W., Thompson, D.J. (ed.) Counting the people in Hellenistic Egypt. Cambridge Classical Studies series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 540-579. ISBN: 052183838X
• Tait, W. (2005). Review of The Heqanakht papyri, by James Allen. Antiquity 79, 464-465
• Tait, J. (2004). "A Papyrus bearing a shrine plan and a Book of the Dead" IN F. Hoffmann and H. J. Thissen (eds) Res severa verum gaudium: Festschrift fr Karl-Theodor Zauzich zum 65. Geburtstag am 8. Juni 2004. Peeters, Leuven: 2004. Pp. 573-582 with Pll.LII-LIV.
• Tait, J. (2003). ‘The “Book of the Fayum”: mystery in a known landscape’, in Mysterious Lands, ed. David O’Connor and Stephen Quirke (Encounters with Ancient Egypt [4]), London, UCL Press, 183–202
• Tait, J. 2003. Introduction “...since the time of the gods”’, Chapter 1 in ‘Never Had the Like Occurred’: Egypt’s view of its past, ed. John Tait (Encounters with Ancient Egypt [7]), London, UCL Press, 1–13
• Tait, J. (2003). ‘The wisdom of Egypt: classical views’, Chapter 2 in The Wisdom of Egypt: changing visions through the ages, ed. Peter Ucko and Timothy Champion (Encounters with Ancient Egypt [5]), London, UCL Press, 23–37
• Tait, J. (2003). ‘Cleopatra by name’. In Cleopatra reassessed, ed. Susan Walker and Sally-Ann Ashton (British Museum Occasional Paper Number 103), London, The British Museum, 3–7
• Tait, J. (2002). Review of "Reflections of Osiris: lives from ancient Egypt", by John Ray, London, Profile Books, 2001 — Egyptian Archaeology 20: 43.
• Tait, J. (2002), (with Andrew Monson) ‘Putting Papyri into Archaeological Context: new insights from Tebtunis, Egypt’, Archaeology International [5], 2001/2: 40-43.
• Tait, J. (2002). ‘Papyri, digitisation, and the web: accessibility and management of collections’, Manuscripta Orientalia 8, ii: 61-67.
• Tait, J. (2001). (With Cornelia Eva Römer) 374. Mummienbegleitbrief in dreifacher Ausfertigung, pp. 131-135. In Kölner Papyri (P. Köln), Band 9, bearbeitet von Michael Gronewald [and others]. Papyrologica Coloniensia, Vol. VII/9. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag.
• Tait, J. (2001). Review of "Libraries in the Ancient World", by Lionel Casson, New Haven, CN & London, Yale University Press, 2001 — Alexandria 13, iii: 193-194.
• Tait, J. (2001). Demotica selecta 2000, Archiv für Papyrusforschung 47, ii: 278-283
• Tait, J & Leach, B, (2000). Papyrus, in P T Nicholson & I Shaw (eds). Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, 227-253. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Tait, J & Jeffreys, D G, (2000). Disability, Madness and Social Exclusion in Dynastic Egypt, in J Hubert (ed). Madness, Disabilty and Social Exclusion, 87-95. London: Routledge
• Tait, J & Thomas, J D, (1998). Greek and Demotic Accounts on a Papyrus at the Bodleian Library Oxford, in The Two Faces of Graeco-Roman Egypt (studies presented to P. W. Pestman), 93-125. Leiden, Brill

Collaborations:

• Carlsberg Papyri Project (Carsten Niebuhr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
• North Saqqara and Memphis projects of the Egypt Exploration Society (London)
• Rifeh Project (with Wolfram Grajetzki and Petrie Museum staff)

Educational Background:

• First degree in Classics
• D.Phil. in Egyptian and Greek papyrology
  

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