The newsletter of The Southampton HOTEP Ancient Egypt Society Issue 49: Quiz Edition 2020 Hello Everyone. What eventful times we’re living through! I hope you are all keeping safe, healthy and happy, or as much as circumstances will allow. I’m sure some of you will be feeling deprived of your monthly Egyptology fix, but you will understand why we have had to cancel the rest of our current season. Even allowing for an easing of lockdown restrictions we have to accept that things will not be back to normal, or perhaps a new In-house entertainment. Tomb of Anherkhau normal, for a long while. We have already been told that Oasis Academy, Lordshill, will not be open for business at least until Now’s the time to get your scribe’s September. At present, we are planning to equipment and a sheet of papyrus to write have some sort of relaunch then but we on, and perhaps a nice glass of wine or a can’t give any further details yet. Of course, bottle of artisan beer (or soft drink of your we will keep you informed through email choice), and settle back to have a go at the and this newsletter but, in the meantime, following. There’s no prize as this is just a I’ve put together this bumper quiz edition of diversion from the harsh realities of Hotep to keep you going. The answers to many of the questions can be found by isolation. The answers will be published in trawling our website, especially looking the next Hotep. back through the folder of past issues of Have fun! Hotep, or using some of the suggested links to other websites. Hilary Wilson Suggested exercise routine? Tomb of Antefoker. Scribe of the goose census, Tomb of Nebamun WHERE? B C A D E Where is it? F Out of Egypt. 5: The home town of Elvis Presley. Give the Egyptian place names of the following non-Egyptian locations. 6: Former cotton town, between Glasgow and Loch Lomond. 1: A town at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. 7: Space craft launched in 2004 to investigate a Comet Churyumov- 2: A Greek city, birthplace of Heracles. Gerasimenko. 3: The planet reached through the Stargate 8: The lander module of 7: in the 1994 film of that name. 4: Part of the name of a Winchester school. WHO? A B C Can you identify these F D former speakers ? E A Name Within Names The initial letters of the names given by the 6: Surname of British archaeologist, following clues can be rearranged to spell particularly associated with the excavation the name of another person who was very of early royal tombs at Saqqara. influential in the Egyptological world. 7: Surname of the American archaeologist, 1: The two first names of Flinders Petrie, excavator of the Giza workmen’s the ‘Father of Egyptology’. settlement. 2: First and surnames of the founder of the 8: Surname of the British Egyptologist and KNH Centre at the University of Manchester. specialist in Amarnan art, former Keeper of Art and Archaeology at the Royal Scottish 3: First and surnames of the Pakistani-born Museum, Edinburgh. female Professor of Egyptology at the American University of Cairo. 9: First name of the fiction-writing alter-ego of American Egyptologist, Barbara Mertz. 4: First name of the founder of the Egyptian Service des Antiquitiés, later known as the Once you have found the name, for a bonus Supreme Council of Antiquities. point, what is the title of that person’s most famous book? 5: First and surnames of the British Egyptologist, author of recent books on Sethi I and Ramesses III. WHAT? A B D E C What are the common names given to these typically Egyptian artefacts or symbols? F WHEN? Odd One Out Which of these pharaohs takes the middle Which is the interloper in each of these position when they are arranged in quartets? chronological order of their reigns? 1: cow, lioness, hippo, vulture Ramesses VI, Djoser, Merenptah, Psamtik I, 2: jackal, hawk, lion, baboon Amenemhet III, Nectanebo I, Horemheb, Khufu, Sheshonq II, Ahmose II, Akhenaten 3: Irem, Amurru, Kush, Wawat 4: Coptos, Sais, Tanis, Bubastis 5: Sobekneferu, Hatshepsut, Nefertari, Tausert 6: red, white, blue, gold 7: finger, palm tree, tadpole, lily leaf 8: Anhur, Atum, Aten, Amun Abydos King List, British Museum Word Grid What does it mean? The answers to the following clues can be For what is each of these hieroglyphs or fitted into in the odd columns of the 11 x 8 hieroglyphic groups (below) an abbreviation grid as indicated. The numbers in brackets and where might you find them all together? indicate the number of letters in each answer but you will have to decide where the words start. The correct placement will allow you to complete the single across clue which fits in the blue row. a) b) c) d) 1: Temple of Hathor (8) e) f) g) h) 3: Egyptian lucky colour (5) 5: Lake of Mut’s Theban Temple (6) 7: Moon-god of Karnak (6) 9: Preferred stone for obelisks (7) 11: Owner of the ‘grapevine tomb’ (8) Until we meet again! Across clue: Island city (11) 1 3 5 7 9 11 We hope these puzzles and questions will keep you entertained, at least for a little while. The answers will be published in the next edition of Hotep. .