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R. B. Parkinson: Publications
Books and monographs (including children’s books):
1991 The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant. Oxford: Griffith Institute.
Revised reprint: 2005.
___ Voices from Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Middle Kingdom Writings. London: British
Museum Press; Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Reprint: 2004.
1993 epigrapher: M. Bierbrier, Hieroglyphic Texts 12. London: British Museum Press.
1995 with S. Quirke, Papyrus. Egyptian Bookshelf; London: British Museum Press.
Re-issued (trans. B. Marty): Papyrus: Écrire dans l’Égypte ancienne. Kitab Tabulae 6;
Arles: Atelier Perrousseaux 2010.
1997 The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940–1640 BC. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Awarded a British-Kuwait Friendship Society Literary Award by the British Society
for Middle Eastern Studies: 1998.
Issued as Oxford World Classics: 1999.
1998 epigrapher: M. Collier and B. Manley, How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs. London:
British Museum Press.
1999 Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment. London: British Museum Press;
Berkeley: University of California Press.
2002 Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt: A Dark Side to Perfection. Athlone
Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies; London and New York: Continuum
Press.
Re-issued: London: Equinox 2010.
2003 Pocket Guide to Egyptian Hieroglyphs. London: British Museum Press; New York: Barnes
and Noble.
2005 The Rosetta Stone. British Museum Objects in Focus series; London: British Museum
Press.
___ (translator) with John Nunn, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: Hieroglyph Edition. London:
British Museum Press.
2008 The Painted Tomb-Chapel of Nebamun. London: British Museum Press; Cairo: American
University in Cairo Press.
2009 Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories. Chichester and Malden, MA:
Wiley-Blackwell.
2010 Hunefer and His Book of the Dead. London: British Museum Press.
___ The Book of the Dead of Hunefer: A Pull-out Papyrus. London: British Museum Press.
2012 The Ramesseum Papyri. Online Research Catalogue; britishmuseum.org/research/
online_research_catalogues.aspx.
___ The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant: A Reader’s Commentary. Lingua Aegyptia Studia
Monographica 10; Hamburg: Widmaier Verlag.
___ with L. Baylis, Four 12th Dynasty Literary Papyri (Pap. Berlin P. 3022–5): A Photographic
Record. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
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2013 A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity across the World. London: British Museum
Press; New York: Columbia University Press. French edition (trans.M. Pieroni), Le
monde gay: une brève histoire illustrée.Rennes: Editions Ouest-France
(britishmuseum.org/samesexdesireandgenderidentity).
in preparation:
Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs. London: British Museum Press (for 2014).
The Tale of Sinuhe: A Reader’s Commentary (two volumes). Hamburg: Lingua Aegyptia
Studia Monographica.
Articles:
1991 ‘Teachings, Discourses and Tales from the Middle Kingdom’. In S. Quirke (ed),
Middle Kingdom Studies, 91–122. New Malden: SIA.
___ ‘Images of Death: Interpreting the “Dialogue between a Man and his Ba”’. In Sixth
International Congress of Egyptology: Abstracts of Papers, 318–9. Turin: Organizing
Secretariat.
1992 ‘The Date of the “Tale of the Eloquent Peasant”’. Revue d’Egyptologie 42, 167–77.
___ ‘Literary Form and the Tale of the Eloquent Peasant’. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 78,
163–78.
___ with S. Quirke, ‘The Coffin of Prince Herunefer and the Early History of the Book
of the Dead’. In A. B. Lloyd (ed.), Studies in Pharaonic Religion and Society in Honour of J.
Gwyn Griffiths, 37–51. London: Egypt Exploration Society.
___ with S. Quirke, ‘An Egyptian Bronze Figure: The Goddess Wadjyt from the King
Bequest’. National Art Collections Fund Review … 1992, 52–6.
___ Sections on texts in S. Quirke and A. J. Spencer (ed.), The British Museum Book of
Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press. Re-issued 2007 and subsequently.
1993 ‘Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep: Lovers or Twins?’. KMT 4.3, 3.
___ with L. Schofield, ‘Akhenaten’s Army?’. Egyptian Archaeology 3, 34–35.
1994 with L. Schofield, ‘Of Helmets and Heretics: A Possible Egyptian Representation of
Mycenean Warriors on a Papyrus from el-Amarna’. Annual of the British School at
Athens 89, 157–70.
1995 ‘“Homosexual” Desire and Middle Kingdom Literature’. Journal of Egyptian
Archaeology 81, 57–76.
___ with L. Schofield, ‘Painted Manuscripts from el-Amarna (EA 74100–74102)’. In
W. V. Davies and L. Schofield (ed.), Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant, 125–6. London:
British Museum Press.
1996 ‘Individual and Society in Middle Kingdom Literature’. In A. Loprieno (ed.), Ancient
Egyptian Literature: History and Forms, 137–55. Probleme der Ägyptologie 10; Leiden:
Brill.
___ ‘Types of Literature in the Middle Kingdom’. In A. Loprieno (ed.), Ancient Egyptian
Literature: History and Forms, 297–312. Probleme der Ägyptologie 10; Leiden: Brill.
___ ‘Khakheperreseneb and Traditional Belles Lettres’. In P. Der Manuelian (ed.), Studies in
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Honour of William Kelly Simpson II, 646–54. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts.
‘On a Proposed Survival of the “Lebensmüder” into the Christian Era’. Chronique
d’Egypte 71 (fasc. 142), 389–92.
‘The Text of Khakheperreseneb: New Readings of British Museum EA 5645, and an
Unpublished Ostracon’. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 83, 55–68.
‘A Re-identified Fragment from the Tomb of Ibi (TT 36)’. Journal of Egyptian
Archaeology 83, 222–3.
with J. Baines, ‘An Old Kingdom Record of an Oracle? Sinai Inscription 13’. In J. van
Dijk (ed.), Essays on Ancient Egypt in Honour of Herman Te Velde, 9–27. Egyptological
Memoirs 1; Groningen: Styx Publications.
with L. Schofield, ‘A Painted Papyrus from Amarna’. In J. Phillips (ed.), Ancient Egypt,
the Aegean, and the Near East: Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell, 401–6. Austin:
Van Siclen Books.
‘Reading Ancient Egypt’. British Museum Magazine 34, 12–15.
‘The Dream and the Knot: Contextualizing Middle Kingdom Literature’. In G.
Moers (ed.), Definitely: Egyptian Literature. Proceedings of the Symposium “Ancient Egyptian
Literature: History and Forms” Los Angeles, March 24–26, 1995, 63–82. Lingua Aegyptia
Series Monographica 2; Göttingen: Seminar für Ägyptologie und Koptologie.
‘Two New “Literary” Texts on a Second Intermediate Period Papyrus? A Preliminary
Account of P. BM EA 10475’. In J. Assmann and E. Blumenthal (ed.), Literatur und
Politik im pharaonischen und ptolemäischen Ägypten: Vorträge der Tagung zum Gedenken an
Georges Posener 5.–10. September 1996 in Leipzig, 177–96. Bibliothèque d’étude 127;
Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale.
‘Two or Three Literary Artefacts: EA 41650/47896, and 22878–9’. In W. V. Davies
(ed.), Studies in Egyptian Antiquities: A Tribute to T. G. H. James, 49–57. British Museum
Occasional Paper 123; London: British Museum Press.
‘Sinuhe Speaks Again’. Egyptian Archaeology 16, 44.
‘Imposing Words: The Entrapment of Language’. In A. Gnirs (ed.), Reading the
Eloquent Peasant: Proceedings of the International Conference Held at the University of
California, Los Angeles, March 27–30, 1997, 27–51. Lingua Aegyptia 8.
‘The Teaching of King Amenemhat I at el-Amarna: EA 57458 and 57479’. In A. Leahy
and J. Tait (ed.), Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honour of H. S. Smith, 221–6. Occasional
Publications 13; London: Egypt Exploration Society.
‘Eloquent Peasant’. In D. B. Redford (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt I,
469–70. New York: Oxford University Press.
‘Hordjedef ’. In D. B. Redford (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt II, 124.
New York: Oxford University Press.
‘Ipuur’. In D. B. Redford (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt II, 182. New
York: Oxford University Press.
‘Papyrus Westcar’. In D. B. Redford (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt III,
24–5. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
‘Sinuhe’. In D. B. Redford (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt III, 292. New
York: Oxford University Press.
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___ with E. Miller, ‘Reflections on a Gilded Eye in “Fowling in the Marshes” (British
Museum EA 37977)’. In W. V. Davies (ed.), Colour and Painting in Ancient Egypt, 49–52.
London: British Museum Press.
___ ‘Curator’s Choice’. Archaeology Odyssey Nov/Dec 2001, 12.
2003 ‘The Missing Beginning of The Dialogue of a Man and His Ba: P. Amherst III and the
History of the “Berlin Library”’. Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 130,
120–33.
___ ‘Textes ou poèmes? Quelques perspectives nouvelles sur les texts littéraires du
Moyen Empire’. Égypte, Afrique et Orient 31, 41–52.
___ ‘Ancient Egyptian Beauty’ [report on Nebamun research project]. British Museum
Magazine 45, 15–17.
___ ‘Ancient Egypt, c. 3000–c. 30 BC’. In M. J. Cohen and J. Major (ed.), History in
Quotations: Reflecting 5000 years of World History, 7–15. London: Cassel.
___ with P. Usick, ‘A Note on the “Berlin Library” and The British Museum’. GM 197,
93–7.
2004 ‘The History of a Poem: Middle Kingdom Literary Manuscripts and Their
Reception’. In G. Burkard et al. (ed.), Kon-Texte: Akten des Symposiums “Spurensuche –
Altägypten im Spiegel seiner Texte” München 2. bis 4. Mai 2003, 51–63. Ägypten und Altes
Testament 60; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
___ ‘The Discourse of the Fowler: Papyrus Butler verso (P. BM EA 10274)’. Journal of Egyptian
Archaeology 90, 81–111.
2005 ‘An Egyptian Feast’ [report on Nebamun research project]. British Museum Magazine
53, 11.
___ ‘Among the Temples of Millions of Years’. In E. MacTavish, Made in Egypt, 59–62
[art exhibition catalogue]. Canterbury: E. L. C. MacTavish.
2006 ‘“No One is Free From Enemies”: Voicing Opposition in Literary Discourse’. In H.
Felber (ed.), Feinde und Ausführer: Konzepte von Gegnerschaft in ägyptischen Texten besonders
des Mittleren Reiches, 11–31. Abhandlungen der Sächsischen Akademie der
Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philolgisch-historische Klasse 78.5; Leipzig: S. Hirzel.
___ ‘Sinuhe’s Dreaming(s): The Texts and Meanings of a Simile’. In K. Szpakowska (ed.),
Through a Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams, and Prophecy in Ancient Egypt, 145–73. Swansea:
The Classical Press of Wales.
2007 ‘Une cantilène de Pantaour: Marguerite Yourcenar and Middle Kingdom Literature’.
In T. Schneider and K. Szpakowska (ed.), Egyptian Stories: A British Egyptological Tribute
to Alan B. Lloyd, on the Occasion of his Retirement, 301–8. Alter Orient und Altes
Testament 347; Münster: Ugarit.
___ with D. Franke, ‘A Song for Sarenput: Texts from Qubbet el-Hawa Tomb 36’. In Z.
A. Hawass and J. Richards (ed.), The Archaeology and Art of Ancient Egypt: Essays in
Honor of David B. O’Connor II, 219–235. Cahier, supplément aux Annales du service des
antiquités de l’Égypte 36; Cairo: Conseil Suprême des Antiquités.
___ with R. J. Demarée, ‘The Text of Khakheperreseneb: An Addendum’. JEA 93, 270.
2008 ‘“Boasting about Hardness”: Constructions of Middle Kingdom Masculinity’. In C.
Graves-Brown (ed.), ‘Don Your Wig for a Happy Hour’: Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt,
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115–42. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
‘The Painted Tomb-chapel of Nebamun’. Egyptian Archaeology 33, 21–4.
with P. Usick, ‘The History of the Nebamun Wall-paintings: An Archival
Investigation’. In A. Middleton and K. A. Uprichard (ed.), The Nebamun Wall Paintings:
Conservation, Scientific Analysis and Display at the British Museum, 5–15. London:
Archetype Publications.
with R. Richards, ‘Experience Relived’ [report on Nebamun gallery project]. British
Museum Magazine 61, 7.
‘Images of Ancient Egypt’ [report on Nebamun gallery project]. World of Antiques
and Art 76, 109–12.
‘The Tomb Paintings of Nebamun in the British Museum’. Ancient Egypt 51, 34–41.
Translated as ‘La capilla funeraria de Nebamón’, Revista de archeología 331, 14–19.
‘“Follow the Happy Day”: The Tomb-chapel of Nebamun’. Bereavement Care 28.3,
20–4.
with N. Spencer, ‘The Teaching of Amenemhat at Amara West’. Egyptian Archaeology 35,
25–7.
(trans. C. Ragazzoli) ‘La mort de la poésie: l’histoire des Mémoires de Sinouhé’. Bulletin de
la Société Française d’Egyptologie 176, 7–29.
‘A Life Before the Afterlife’. Guardian and Observer supplement 6.11.2010, The Ancient
World: Egypt, 4–11 (guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/nov/06/ancient-world-egypt).
with B. Leach, ‘Creating Borders: New Insights into Making the Papyrus of Ani’.
BMSAES 15 (britishmuseum.org/research/online_journals/bmsaes/issue_15/
leach_and_parkinson.aspx).
‘Why Do We Read Ancient Egyptian Literature?’ [Honoris Causa Lecture, New
Bulgarian University]. The Journal of Egyptological Studies 3, 62–6.
‘A Papyrus from the House of Life at Akhetaten’. Egyptian Archaeology 38, 42–3.
with Tamás Bács, ‘Wall-paintings from the Tomb of Kynebu at Luxor’. Egyptian
Archaeology 39, 41–3.
‘What “Makes The Gun Go Off ”?: The Role of the Voice in Two Middle Kingdom
Poems’. In E. Meyer-Dietrich (ed.), Laut und Leise: Der Gebrauch von Stimme und Klang
in historischen Kulturen, 13–35. Reihe Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften 7;
Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
(trans. L. Manniche) ‘En kort historisk oversigt over Fortaellingen om Sinuhe’. Papyrus
34.2, 4–13.
(trans. T. Rocha de Silva) ‘Gabando-se de sua virilidade: construçōes da
masculinidade no média império’. In Métis: História & Cultura 10.20, 35–68
[translation of 2008].
‘The Tale of Sinuhe’ (translation). In M. Puchner et al. (ed.), The Norton Anthology of
World Literature A, 60–76. New York and London: W. W. Norton and Co.
‘A “Great Unrecorded History”: Presenting LGBT History in a Museum for the
World’: lgbtialms2012.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/richard-parkinson-british-museumlondon.html#more [web publication of conference key-note speech].
‘Winning Words Spoken at the British Museum’:
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‘Spaces for Interpretation’. In S. N. Henriques and J.-M. Loecke, Spatial Murmuring:
Migration of Spaces and Idea and Ideas, 25–6. Winterbourne: Papadakis.
‘Performances: The Tale of Sinuhe’ [online publication of video of part of staged
recital].
britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/the_ramesseum
_papyri/performance_tale_of_sinuhe.aspx.
‘The Diversity of Human Desire’. The British Museum Magazine 76, 52–3.
‘Reading an Ancient Egyptian Poem’.
http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2013/09/19/reading-an-ancient-egyptian-poem.
in press:
‘Sailing Past Ellsinore: Interpreting the Materiality of the Middle Kingdom Poetic
Corpus’. In G. Moers et al. (ed.), Dating Egyptian Literary Texts. Lingua Aegyptia
Studia Monographica 11; Hamburg: Widmaier Verlag.
‘Libraries in Ancient Egypt, c. 2600–1600 BC’. In K. Ryholt and G. Barjamovic (ed.),
Libraries Before Alexandria: The Ancient Near Eastern Traditions. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
in preparation:
with N. Spencer, ‘The Teaching of Amenemhat I at Amara West: Egyptian Literary
Culture in Upper Nubia’.