Spelling Variations of Egyptian Collection’s Geographic Entries
Spelling variations of Egyptian archaeological sites and geographic locations is a problematic challenge for the curators and registrars of the Egyptian departments at the majority of U.S. museums whatever the museum type, an art museum or archaeological museum. Sometimes, some of U.S. museums where is a private department of the Egyptian antiquities have Egyptologist or curators who have dug in the field in Egypt as an archaeologist and work directly with the Egyptian collection. Consequently, they are aware the issue and they know that there are multiple spellings for the names of Egyptian archaeological sites and geographic locations. In this case, the museum registrar can refer to them on this spelling. On the contrary, some other U.S. museums where Egyptian collection is a sub department of another principle department, such as the African Art Department, the Ancient Art Department, or Ancient Near Eastern Art Department, the
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Each half was completely different from each other and remained administratively separate for most of its history. Lower Egypt was divided into twenty provinces or nomes while Upper Egypt was divided into twenty-two provinces. consequently, whole Egypt was divided into the forty-two traditional provinces in the ancient time. Each province had an ancient Egyptian name (hieroglyphic name) which changed into Greek or Roman name during the Greek-Roman Period. Hence, the names of the Egyptian places multiple into many different names. If we also add the modern Arabic names that have been launched to places now, this adds more diversity in the names of those sites and places. this variety represents a big challenge for non-specialist in Egyptology and even sometimes cause confusion for the specialists