Daniel M Potter
I am currently an Assistant Curator, Ancient Mediterranean at National Museums Scotland. I joined the museum in 2016 as part of the National Lottery Heritage Fund sponsored 'Revealing Cultures' project, developing a new permanent gallery dedicated to ancient Egypt at the National Museum of Scotland. I have also acted as the lead curator of the touring exhibition 'Discovering Ancient Egypt', which focuses on the history of Egyptology in Scotland. Between 2019-20 I was highly involved in the 'Ancient Egypt and East Asia National Programme', developing sector specific training and schools material related to ancient Egypt, and conducting a review of Egyptian material in Scottish Museums.
I studied for my BA and MA in Oriental Studies (Egyptology) at the University of Liverpool, before going on to complete a PhD at the same institution. My PhD research focused on the Ramesside language used to describe divine interaction, this study was informed by the close analysis of textual sources from varied genres and registers. From these texts I applied the axioms and methods of the pragmatics and cognitive linguistics to examine: the topos of the hand/arm of god, the use of deictic verbs and the used of gm(i) "to find" in these sources in relation to the divine
My other research interests include early Egyptology, John Garstang’s production of archaeological facsimiles and the representation of Ancient Egypt in comics.
before taking on my current role, I worked for two years as a Curatorial Assistant at the Garstang Museum of Archaeology, Liverpool. In this role I worked within a small team to design and develop new museum galleries, displaying artifacts from Egypt, Sudan, Italy, Greece, the UK and South America. Whilst in this post he was able to re-display an Ancient Egyptian mummy for the first time in over 70 years, having previously been evacuated from the museum during the 1941 blitz. The story of the ‘Garstang Mummy’ was taken up by a number of media outlets nationally and internationally.
I have taught a number of courses within the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Liverpool centered on Ancient Egyptian History and Beginner’s Hieroglyphs and has also lectured on a number of topics including: Ancient Egyptian Religion, the History of Archaeology and Roman material culture.
Supervisors: Dr Roland Enmarch and Prof Mark Collier
Phone: 01312474008
Address: Department of World Cultures,
National Museums Scotland,
Chambers Street,
Edinburgh
I studied for my BA and MA in Oriental Studies (Egyptology) at the University of Liverpool, before going on to complete a PhD at the same institution. My PhD research focused on the Ramesside language used to describe divine interaction, this study was informed by the close analysis of textual sources from varied genres and registers. From these texts I applied the axioms and methods of the pragmatics and cognitive linguistics to examine: the topos of the hand/arm of god, the use of deictic verbs and the used of gm(i) "to find" in these sources in relation to the divine
My other research interests include early Egyptology, John Garstang’s production of archaeological facsimiles and the representation of Ancient Egypt in comics.
before taking on my current role, I worked for two years as a Curatorial Assistant at the Garstang Museum of Archaeology, Liverpool. In this role I worked within a small team to design and develop new museum galleries, displaying artifacts from Egypt, Sudan, Italy, Greece, the UK and South America. Whilst in this post he was able to re-display an Ancient Egyptian mummy for the first time in over 70 years, having previously been evacuated from the museum during the 1941 blitz. The story of the ‘Garstang Mummy’ was taken up by a number of media outlets nationally and internationally.
I have taught a number of courses within the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Liverpool centered on Ancient Egyptian History and Beginner’s Hieroglyphs and has also lectured on a number of topics including: Ancient Egyptian Religion, the History of Archaeology and Roman material culture.
Supervisors: Dr Roland Enmarch and Prof Mark Collier
Phone: 01312474008
Address: Department of World Cultures,
National Museums Scotland,
Chambers Street,
Edinburgh
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Egyptian material in Scottish collections. The shabtis’ combination of historical styles, nonsensical inscriptions and material composition
clearly characterize them as modern productions, despite several recent publications identifying them as Roman Period pseudo-shabtis.
This brief communication seeks to address this interpretation and re-establish them as pervasive examples of Egyptian tourist art from the
late nineteenth to early/mid-twentieth centuries.
identity. The presence of Kerman pottery has been used to identify the woman as Nubian, revealing a reluctance to consider the desirability of Nubian material in Egypt. Other items may indicate a more complex entanglement of Kerman-Egyptian culture. As objects from the Ahhotep burial also exhibit Kerman influence, re-examination of these objects may suggest greater shared cultural heritage across the Nile Valley.
group. This is followed by a discussion of the attested individuals.
field of view of the speaker.
Book Reviews by Daniel M Potter
Doctoral Thesis by Daniel M Potter
Museum Exhibitions by Daniel M Potter
#AncientEgyptTour
Bringing together fascinating objects and hidden stories from the collections of National Museums Scotland and museums around the country, this exhibition uncovers how ancient Egypt captivated Scotland over the past 200 years, as it still does today.
Through the intriguing stories of an archaeologist, an astronomer and an artist, Discovering Ancient Egypt brings to life the contribution Scotland has made to Egyptology and reveals important ancient Egyptian collections from across the country.
The exhibition is accompanied by an events programme at each venue giving further opportunities to explore this fascinating subject and your local museum.
Discovering Ancient Egypt has been developed as part of a national programme of activity focused on ancient Egypt and East Asia in support of new galleries which opened at the National Museum of Scotland in February 2019.
Hawick Museum
8 March–2 June 2019
Montrose Museum
8 June–7 September 2019
The Baird Institute, Cumnock
14 September–14 December 2019
Perth Museum and Art Gallery
25 January to 3 May 2020
John Gray Centre, Haddington
16 May to 27 September 2020
The link attached is to the Google StreetView of the gallery.
Papers Presented by Daniel M Potter
Instances of the two lexemes have been gathered from a variety of textual corpora comprised of different genres and language registers dating from the end of the Amarna Period to the Third Intermediate Period. Each instance was analysed using the reflexes of cognitive linguistics and pragmatics in order to create a new model of translation and understanding for these idioms. This analysis shows that though both lexemes have been regularly translated as 'hand', each functions as a separate expression, showing grammatical preferences and appearing in distinct contexts concurrently within a number of sources. This detailed examination of the contextual usage of these lexemes allows for a deeper and more nuanced interpretation of divine interaction in the late New Kingdom.