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Peter F. Dorman
Professor of Egyptology |
Office:
The Oriental Institute
1155 East 58th Street, 220
Chicago, IL 60637
773-702-9533
office hours by appointment
|
Ph.D.,
University of Chicago, 1985.
Teaching at Chicago since 1989. |
Email: p-dorman@uchicago.edu |
SPECIAL
INTERESTS: Egyptian Historiography, Late Egyptian
Chairman, Department of Near Eastern Languages &
Civilizations |
Peter F. Dorman
Professor of Egyptology
Peter Dorman received his PhD. from the University of Chicago
in 1985. For eleven years, from 1977 to 1988, he was a curator in
the Department
of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, where he
assisted
with the Tutankhamun exhibit, the reinstallation of the Egyptian
galleries,
and the publication of the Metropolitan's archival excavation records
from
the 1920s and 1930s. One result of this work was the publication
of
The Tombs of Senenmut: the Architecture and Decoration of Tombs
71
and 353 (1991). Another monograph, the subject of his
dissertation,
was a historical treatment of the life of Senenmut and the chronology
of
the reign of Hatshepsut, which appeared as The Monuments of
Senenmut:
Problems in Historical Methodology (1986).
Dorman returned to the Oriental Institute in 1988, when he was
appointed Field Director of the Epigraphic Survey in Luxor. He
spent nine years heading the epigraphic efforts at Chicago House
at the Temple of Luxor and the Eighteenth-Dynasty temple of Amun at
Medinet Habu. During
this period he edited two folio volumes in the new Reliefs and
Inscriptions
at Luxor Temple series, both published as part of the Oriental
Institute
Publications.
In 1997 he returned to Chicago to teach Egyptian language and history
at the Oriental Institute. His research interests include the
Theban
region and tomb documentation, in particular for the New Kingdom, as
well
as the relation of Egyptian material culture to text and
representation.
He is co-founder of the annual Theban Workshop in conjunction with
Johns
Hopkins University.
In 2002 Dorman published Faces in Clay: Technique, Imagery, and
Allusion in a Corpus of Ceramic Sculpture from Ancient Egypt, a
monograph on canopic jar lids, the phenomenon of ceramic sculpture in
ancient Egypt, and the
potter’s wheel as a metaphor of solar regeneration. His most
recent
research centers on the Metropolitan Museum’s excavation of the intact
burials
of Ramose and Hatnofer, the parents of Senenmut, which he is preparing
for
publication, along with a series of burials and deposits left on the
hillside
below Senenmut’s tomb. He is also editing the first volume of
facsimile
drawings to emerge from the Epigraphic Survey’s woprk on the 18th
Dynasty
temple of Amun at Medinet Habu. Dorman presently serves as the
United
States representative to the International Association of Egyptologists.
Education:
- 1985, Received Ph.D. with honors from University of Chicago
, Department of Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations .
- Dissertation: "The Monuments of Senenmut: Problems in Historical
Methodology"
(for publication, see below).
1970, Received B.A. cum laude in Anthropology (minors in
Psychology and Fine Arts) from Amherst College. - Thesis: "Cycles of Reciprocity in the Context of Dravidian
Kinship."
Selected Publications:
Books
- Faces in Clay: Technique, Imagery, and Allusion in a
Corpus of Ceramic Sculpture from Ancient Egypt.
Münchner Ägyptologische Studien 52. Mainz: von
Zabern, 2002.
- Reliefs and Inscriptions at Luxor Temple Volume 2: The
Facade, Portals, Upper Register Scenes, Columns, Marginalia, and
Statuary in the Colonnade Hall, by the Epigraphic Survey, Oriental
Institute Publications 116. Chicago: The Oriental
Institute, 1998. Coauthor and editor.
- Reliefs and Inscriptions at Luxor Temple Volume 1: The
Festival Procession of Opet in the Colonnade Hall, by the Epigraphic
Survey, Oriental Institute Publications 112. Chicago: The
Oriental Institute, 1994. Coauthor and editor.
- The Registry of the Photo Archives of the Epigraphic
Survey. Oriental Institute Communications 17.
Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1994. Editor.
- Lost Egypt, in three volumes, by the Epigraphic Survey.
Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1992. A series of
photographic portfolios. Coauthor and editor.
- The Tombs of Senenmut at Thebes: The Architecture and
Decoration of Tombs 71 and 353. Publications of the Egyptian
Expedition, vol. 24. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991.
- The Monuments of Senenmut: Problems in Historical
Methodology. Studies in Egyptology series, ed. W. Vivian
Davies. London:
Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1988.
Articles and Reviews
- "Family Burial and Commemoration in the Theban Necropolis," The
Theban Necropolis: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Nigel
Strudwick and John Taylor. London: British Museum Press,
2003, pp. 30-41.
- "The Biographical Inscription of Ptahshepses: A Newly
Identified Fragment," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 88 (2002
[2003]), pp.
95-110.
- Selected entries: "Epigraphy," "Rekhmire," "Senenmut," in
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Edited by Donald
Redford. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- "Hatshepsut: Wicked Stepmother or Joan of Arc?" Oriental
Institute News and Notes, no. 168, Winter 2001, pp. 1-6.
- "Creation on the Potter's Wheel at the Eastern Horizon of
Heaven," article for Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in
Honor of Edward F. Wente. SAOC 58. Edited by Emily Teeter
and John Larson. Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1999, pp.
83-99.
- "Thebes, Senenmut Monuments," in The Encyclopedia of the
Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. Edited by Kathryn Bard.
London and New York: Routledge, 1999, pp. 819-22.
- "A Fragment of Relief from the Tomb of Senenmut (TT 71),"
Iubilate conlege: Studies in Memory of Abdel Aziz Sadek Part I
=Varia Aegyptiaca 10 (1995 [1997]), pp. 83-89.
- "The Epigraphic Survey," in The Oriental Institute Annual Report
1989-1990. Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1989, 10-17;
and
subsequent reports: OIAR 1990-1991 (1991), 11-18; OIAR
1991-1992 (1993), 42-55; OIAR 1992-1993 (1993), 28-40; OIAR
1993-1994 (1994), 16-26; OIAR 1994-1995 (1995), 32-42; OIAR
1995-1996 (1996), 43-54; OIAR 1996-1997 (1997), 38-48.
- "Two Tombs and One Owner," in Thebanische
Beamtennekropolen. Studien zur Archäologie und
Geschichte Altägyptens 12. Edited by J. Assmann, E, Dziobek,
H. Guksch, and F. Kampp. Heidelberg: Heidelberger
Orientverlag, 1994, pp. 141-54.
- "A Note on the Royal Repast at the Jubilee of Amenhotep III," in
Hommages à Jean Leclant, Bibliotheque d'étude
106/1. Edited by Catherine Berger, Gisèle Clerc, and
Nicholas Grimal. Cairo: Institut Français
d'Archéologie Orientale, 1994, pp. 455-70.
- "Senenmout, un homme d'état hors du commun," (translated
from English) in La reine Hatshepsout. Vie et mort d'un pharaon.
Dossiers d'archéologie et d'histoire. No. 187 (November,
1993) Dijon: Éditions Faton, pp. 110-15.
- "Additional Name Stones of Senenmut," coauthored with Eberhard
Dziobek, Göttingen Miszellen 119 (1990), 7-12.
- "Salvaging Egypt's Records," Egyptian Archaeology 2 (1992), 29-31.
- Review of Arielle P. Kozloff, and Betsy M. Bryan, with Lawrence
Berman, Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World.
Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992), forthcoming in
American Journal of Egyptology.
- "Inscriptions of the Model Coffins of Bener and
Wahnoferhotep," Appendix I in Dieter Arnold, The Cemeteries of
Lisht Vol. I: The Pyramid of Senwosret I. Publications of
the Egyptian Expedition, vol. 22. New York, Metropolitan Museum
of Art, 1988, 147-149.
- Foreword to The Glory of Ancient Egypt, a reprint edition of
selected plates from the antiquities volumes of Description de
l'Égypte. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus Reprints, 1988,
vii-viii.
- "Senimen and Senenmut,: A Question of Brothers," Varia
Aegyptiaca 3 (1987): 127-134. Coauthored with Catharine
Roehrig.
- "Eine Statuette des Senenmut," in Ägyptens Aufstieg zur
Weltmacht, exhibition catalogue of the Roemer-Pelizeaus Museum
Hildesheim (Mainz: von Zabern, 1987), 158.
- "Egypt," introduction to Egyptian section in Egypt and the
Ancient Near East. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and
Fukataka Information Publishers, 1987. French and Japanese
translations.
- "Twenty-Four Amarna Reliefs," Recent Acquisitions
1985-1986. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986, 6-7.
- Review of Christine Meyer, Senenmut: eine
prosopographische Untersuchung (Hamburg, 1982), in Bibliotheca
Orientalis 42 (1985), 295-302.
- Egyptian Art, reprinted from Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, Winter 1983/1984. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
1984. Coauthored with Edna R. Russmann, Christine Lilyquist.
- "Akhenaton Holding an Olive Branch," Notable Acquisitions
1981-1982.
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982, 6.
- "Shawabty of Akhenaton,"Notable Acquisitions 1981-1982. New
York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982, 6-7.
- "Recumbent Ibex," Notable Acquisitions 1979-1980. New
York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, 11-12.
- "A Revolution in Egyptian Art," Connaissance des Arts, October
1980, 58-65.
