Boyo Ockinga is an

Egyptologist Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious ...

epigrapher Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

, and

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

of the ancient

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, who holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient History at

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Biography

Ockinga graduated from the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

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with a BA and an MA, and the

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, with a DPhil. Professor Ockinga specialises in the art and language of the Egyptian New Kingdom and has excavated extensively at a variety of locations in

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

, including El Mashayikh (near

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), Awlad Azzaz (near

Sohag Sohag ( , ), also spelled as ''Sawhāj'', ''Suhag'' and ''Suhaj'', is a city on the west bank of the Nile in Egypt. It has been the capital of Sohag Governorate since 1960, before which the capital was Girga and the name of the governorate was ...

Dra Abu el-Naga The necropolis of Draʻ Abu el-Naga' ( ar, دراع ابو النجا) is located on the West Bank of the Nile at Thebes, Egypt, just by the entrance of the dry bay that leads up to Deir el-Bahari and north of the necropolis of el-Assasif. The n ...

, and

Saqqara Saqqara ( ar, سقارة, ), also spelled Sakkara or Saccara in English , is an Egyptian village in Giza Governorate, that contains ancient burial grounds of Egyptian royalty, serving as the necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis. ...

. As such, Prof Ockinga is one of the leading figures in Australian Egyptology and its main organ, the

Australian Centre for Egyptology Naguib Kanawati (born 1941) is an Egyptian Australian Egyptologist and Professor of Egyptology at Macquarie University in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Early life Kanawati was born in Alexandria, Egypt to a Melkite Greek Catholic fami ...

. He is the author of a growing number of scholarly articles, monographs and other publications.

Publications

* "A Note on 2 Samuel 18:18", ''Biblische Notizen'' 31 (1986), pp. 31–34. * "On the Interpretation of the Kadesh Record", ''Chronique d'Égyptologie'' 62 (1987), pp. 38–48. * ''Two Ramesside Tombs at Mashayakh I'', Australian Centre for Egyptology, 1988. * "The Inviolability of Zion: A Pre-Israelite Tradition", ''Biblische Notizen: Betrage zur exegetischen Diskussion'' 44 (1988), pp. 54–60. * Kitchen, K.A. & Ockinga, B., "A Memphite Monument of the Vizier ''T3'' in Sydney", ''Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Abteilung Kairo'' 48 (1992), pp. 99–103, pls 20–21. * ''A Concise Grammar of Middle Egyptian – An Outline of Middle Egyptian Grammar'' (Revised and expanded), Phillip von Zabern Verlag, 1998. * ''A Tomb from the Reign of Tutankhamun at Awlad Azzaz (Akhmim)'', Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1998. * "An Ancient Egyptian Puzzle: Piecing Together the Saqqara Tomb of the Overseer of Craftsmen and Chief Goldworker, Amenemone", ''Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology'' 9 (1998), pp. 73–87. * "Nag' el-Mashayikh – the Ramesside Tombs", ''Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology'' 1 (1990) * "The Tomb of Sennedjem at Awlad Azzaz (Sohag)", ''Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology'' 2 (1991) * "Macquarie University Theban Tombs Project: TT148 Amenemope: Preliminary Report on the 1991/92 and 1992/93 Seasons", ''Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology'' 4 (1993) * "Another Ramesside Attestation of Usemont, Vizier of Tutankhamun", ''Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology'' 5 (1994) * "Hatshepsut's Election to Kingship: the Ba and Ka in Egyptian Royal Ideology", ''Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology'' 6 (1995) * "Macquarie Theban Tombs Project: TT 148 the Tomb of Amenemope", ''Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology'' 7 (1996) * "An Ancient Egyptian Puzzle: Piecing together the Saqqara Tomb of the Overseer of Craftsmen and Chief Goldworker Amenemone", ''Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology'' 9 (1998) * "Theban Tomb 233 – Saroy regains an identity", ''Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology'' 11 (2000), pp. 103–113. * "Excavations at Dra' Abu el-Naga': Report on the Nov–Dec 2000 and Jan–Feb 2002 Seasons", ''Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology'' 13 (2002) * "TT147 – Observations on its Owners and Erasures", ''Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology'' 15 (2004) * Boyo Ockinga and Ian Plant, ''Egyptian Religion – Greek and Latin Sources in Translation'', Equinox, 2007. (hbk), (pbk)

External links

The Australian Centre for Egyptology

"Unlocking the secrets of Ancient Egypt"
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