Dr Angela McDonald
- Senior Lecturer (Classics)
telephone:
ext.4381
email:
Angela.McDonald@glasgow.ac.uk
Classics, Room 319, 65 Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8LP
Publications
2024
McDonald, A. (2024) Panther, panther, burning (not so) bright... The impact of iconicity on sign identity, evolution and obsolescence in the Pyramid Texts. In: Cervelló Autuori, J. and Orriols, M. (eds.) Signs, Language, and Culture. The Semograms of the Pyramid Texts between Iconicity and Referential Reality. Brill: Leiden. (Accepted for Publication)
McDonald, A. (2024) Putting intentions in their place: materialising meaning through spatial dynamics in Appeals to the Dead. In: Zamacona, C. G. (ed.) Variablilty in the Earlier Egyptian Mortuary Texts. Series: Harvard Egyptological Studies. Brill: Leiden, pp. 82-116. ISBN 9789004677975 (doi: 10.1163/9789004677982_005)
2023
McDonald, A. and Mills, A. (2023) The Hieratic collection in The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. In: Fanciulli, A., Gabler, K., Izak, J., Landrino, M., Müller, M., Pietri, R., Polis, S., Sojic, N., Töpfer, S. and Unter, S. (eds.) New Kingdom Hieratic Collections From Around the World. Part 2. Series: Aegyptiaca Leodiensia (13.2). University of Liege: Liege. (Accepted for Publication)
2021
McDonald, A. (2021) Les mollusques de l’Égypte antique hors de leur coquille = Coaxing the molluscs of ancient Egypt out of their shells. Egypte, Afrique et Orient, 2, pp. 3-14.
2020
McDonald, A. (2020) Emotions. UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, 1(1),
Kemp, V., McDonald, A., Brock, F. and Shortland, A. (2020) LA-ICP-MS analysis of Late Bronze Age blue glass beads from Gurob, Egypt. Archaeometry, 62(1), pp. 42-53. (doi: 10.1111/arcm.12501)
McDonald, A. (2020) The evolution of the animal voice in the Egyptian new kingdom. In: Schmalzgruber, H. (ed.) Tierrede in Antiker Literatur - Animal Speech in Ancient Literature. Series: Kalliope - Studien zur griechischen und lateinischen Poesie. Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg.
McDonald, A. (2020) Write Your Own Egyptian Hieroglyphs. British Museum Press. ISBN 9780520252356
2017
Kemp, V., McDonald, A. and Shortland, A.J. (2017) Ancient biographies: trace element analysis to investigate provenance and transportation mechanisms of Late Bronze Age glass. Archaeological and Environmental Forensic Science, 1(2), pp. 161-174. (doi: 10.1558/aefs.37121)
2014
McDonald, A. (2014) Die Prinzipien der Klassifizierung im Altägyptischen. By Eliese-Sophia Lincke. Göttinger Orientforschungen IV, Reihe Ägypten 38: Classification and Categorization in Ancient Egyptian 6. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2011. Pp. xiv + 159, pls 18, figs (in text) 18. ISBN 978 3 447 059008. Price €38 / sFr 66. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 100(1), pp. 514-519. (doi: 10.1177/030751331410000134)[Book Review]
McDonald, A. (2014) Animals in Egypt. In: Campbell, G. L. (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life. Series: Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 441-460. ISBN 9780199589425
McDonald, A. (2014) Goldwasser, O. Prophets, Lovers and Giraffes. Wor(l)d Classification in Ancient Egypt. Lingua Aegyptia, 12, pp. 235-244. [Book Review]
2013
Frood, E. and McDonald, A. (Eds.) (2013) Decorum and Experience: Essays in Ancient Culture for John Baines. Griffith Institute Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780900416927
2012
McDonald, A. (2012) Review of: Cannuyer, C., 'La girafe dans l'Égypte ancienne et le verbe sr: étude de lexicographie et de symbolique animalière'. Bibliotheca Orientalis, 69(3-4), pp. 226-233. [Book Review]
McDonald, A. and Coupar, S. A. (2012) The Egyptological afterlife of Colin Campbell. Egyptian Archaeology, 40, pp. 21-24.
2010
McDonald, A. (2010) Review of: C. Ragazolli, 'Éloges de la ville en Égypte ancienne: histoire et littérature'. Lingua Aegyptia, 18, pp. 307-310. [Book Review]
McDonald, A. and Coupar, S. (2010) 'Painting a world beyond human ken': the Reverend Colin Campbell’s Theban tomb facsimiles in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. Scottish Society for Art History Newsletter, 34, pp. 6-8.
2009
McDonald, A. (2009) The curiosity of the cat in hieroglyphs. In: Magee, D., Bourriau, J. and Quirke, S. (eds.) Sitting beside Lepsius: Studies in honour of Jaromir Malek at the Griffith Institute. Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta (185). Peeters: Leuven, pp. 361-380. ISBN 9789042921719
2008
McDonald, A. (2008) The Ancient Egyptians: Their Lives and their World. British Museum Press: London. ISBN 9780714131153
McDonald, A. (2008) Aprende A Escribir Jeroglificos: Nombres, Saludos, Insultos, Refranes. Oniro: Barcelona. ISBN 9788497543354
McDonald, A. (2008) Hieroglyphen schreiben leicht gemacht: Grüsse, Redensarten, Namen, Flüche. Theiss: Stuttgart. ISBN 9783806221954
2007
McDonald, A. (2007) A metaphor for troubled times: the Seth deity determinative in the first intermediate period. Zeitschrift für Ägyptologie, 134, pp. 26-39.
2004
McDonald, A. (2004) The British Museum Pocket Dictionary of Ancient Egyptian Animals. British Museum Press: London. ISBN 9780714130224
McDonald, A. (2004) De l'inferiorite ala perturbation. L'oiseau du 'mal' et la categorisation en Egypte ancienne. By Arlette David. Classifying the Divine. Determinatives and Categorization in CT 335 and BD 17. By Racheli Shalomi-Hen. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 90(1), pp. 225-230. (doi: 10.1177/030751330409000116)[Book Review]
2002
McDonald, A. (2002) An evil influence? Seth’s role as a determinative, particularly in letters to the dead. Lingua Aegyptia, 10, pp. 283-291.
2000
McDonald, A. and Riggs, C. (Eds.) (2000) Current Research in Egyptology, 2000. Series: BAR International Series. Archaeopress: Oxford. ISBN 9781841712079
McDonald, A. (2000) Tall tails: The Seth animal reconsidered. In: McDonald, A. and Riggs, C. (eds.) Current Research in Egyptology, 2000. Series: BAR international series (909). Arcaheopress: Oxford, pp. 75-81. ISBN 9781841712079
Articles
McDonald, A. (2021) Les mollusques de l’Égypte antique hors de leur coquille = Coaxing the molluscs of ancient Egypt out of their shells. Egypte, Afrique et Orient, 2, pp. 3-14.
McDonald, A. (2020) Emotions. UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, 1(1),
Kemp, V., McDonald, A., Brock, F. and Shortland, A. (2020) LA-ICP-MS analysis of Late Bronze Age blue glass beads from Gurob, Egypt. Archaeometry, 62(1), pp. 42-53. (doi: 10.1111/arcm.12501)
Kemp, V., McDonald, A. and Shortland, A.J. (2017) Ancient biographies: trace element analysis to investigate provenance and transportation mechanisms of Late Bronze Age glass. Archaeological and Environmental Forensic Science, 1(2), pp. 161-174. (doi: 10.1558/aefs.37121)
McDonald, A. and Coupar, S. A. (2012) The Egyptological afterlife of Colin Campbell. Egyptian Archaeology, 40, pp. 21-24.
McDonald, A. and Coupar, S. (2010) 'Painting a world beyond human ken': the Reverend Colin Campbell’s Theban tomb facsimiles in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. Scottish Society for Art History Newsletter, 34, pp. 6-8.
McDonald, A. (2007) A metaphor for troubled times: the Seth deity determinative in the first intermediate period. Zeitschrift für Ägyptologie, 134, pp. 26-39.
McDonald, A. (2002) An evil influence? Seth’s role as a determinative, particularly in letters to the dead. Lingua Aegyptia, 10, pp. 283-291.
Books
McDonald, A. (2020) Write Your Own Egyptian Hieroglyphs. British Museum Press. ISBN 9780520252356
McDonald, A. (2008) The Ancient Egyptians: Their Lives and their World. British Museum Press: London. ISBN 9780714131153
McDonald, A. (2008) Aprende A Escribir Jeroglificos: Nombres, Saludos, Insultos, Refranes. Oniro: Barcelona. ISBN 9788497543354
McDonald, A. (2008) Hieroglyphen schreiben leicht gemacht: Grüsse, Redensarten, Namen, Flüche. Theiss: Stuttgart. ISBN 9783806221954
McDonald, A. (2004) The British Museum Pocket Dictionary of Ancient Egyptian Animals. British Museum Press: London. ISBN 9780714130224
Book Sections
McDonald, A. (2024) Panther, panther, burning (not so) bright... The impact of iconicity on sign identity, evolution and obsolescence in the Pyramid Texts. In: Cervelló Autuori, J. and Orriols, M. (eds.) Signs, Language, and Culture. The Semograms of the Pyramid Texts between Iconicity and Referential Reality. Brill: Leiden. (Accepted for Publication)
McDonald, A. (2024) Putting intentions in their place: materialising meaning through spatial dynamics in Appeals to the Dead. In: Zamacona, C. G. (ed.) Variablilty in the Earlier Egyptian Mortuary Texts. Series: Harvard Egyptological Studies. Brill: Leiden, pp. 82-116. ISBN 9789004677975 (doi: 10.1163/9789004677982_005)
McDonald, A. and Mills, A. (2023) The Hieratic collection in The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. In: Fanciulli, A., Gabler, K., Izak, J., Landrino, M., Müller, M., Pietri, R., Polis, S., Sojic, N., Töpfer, S. and Unter, S. (eds.) New Kingdom Hieratic Collections From Around the World. Part 2. Series: Aegyptiaca Leodiensia (13.2). University of Liege: Liege. (Accepted for Publication)
McDonald, A. (2020) The evolution of the animal voice in the Egyptian new kingdom. In: Schmalzgruber, H. (ed.) Tierrede in Antiker Literatur - Animal Speech in Ancient Literature. Series: Kalliope - Studien zur griechischen und lateinischen Poesie. Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg.
McDonald, A. (2014) Animals in Egypt. In: Campbell, G. L. (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life. Series: Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 441-460. ISBN 9780199589425
McDonald, A. (2009) The curiosity of the cat in hieroglyphs. In: Magee, D., Bourriau, J. and Quirke, S. (eds.) Sitting beside Lepsius: Studies in honour of Jaromir Malek at the Griffith Institute. Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta (185). Peeters: Leuven, pp. 361-380. ISBN 9789042921719
McDonald, A. (2000) Tall tails: The Seth animal reconsidered. In: McDonald, A. and Riggs, C. (eds.) Current Research in Egyptology, 2000. Series: BAR international series (909). Arcaheopress: Oxford, pp. 75-81. ISBN 9781841712079
Book Reviews
McDonald, A. (2014) Die Prinzipien der Klassifizierung im Altägyptischen. By Eliese-Sophia Lincke. Göttinger Orientforschungen IV, Reihe Ägypten 38: Classification and Categorization in Ancient Egyptian 6. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2011. Pp. xiv + 159, pls 18, figs (in text) 18. ISBN 978 3 447 059008. Price €38 / sFr 66. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 100(1), pp. 514-519. (doi: 10.1177/030751331410000134)[Book Review]
McDonald, A. (2014) Goldwasser, O. Prophets, Lovers and Giraffes. Wor(l)d Classification in Ancient Egypt. Lingua Aegyptia, 12, pp. 235-244. [Book Review]
McDonald, A. (2012) Review of: Cannuyer, C., 'La girafe dans l'Égypte ancienne et le verbe sr: étude de lexicographie et de symbolique animalière'. Bibliotheca Orientalis, 69(3-4), pp. 226-233. [Book Review]
McDonald, A. (2010) Review of: C. Ragazolli, 'Éloges de la ville en Égypte ancienne: histoire et littérature'. Lingua Aegyptia, 18, pp. 307-310. [Book Review]
McDonald, A. (2004) De l'inferiorite ala perturbation. L'oiseau du 'mal' et la categorisation en Egypte ancienne. By Arlette David. Classifying the Divine. Determinatives and Categorization in CT 335 and BD 17. By Racheli Shalomi-Hen. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 90(1), pp. 225-230. (doi: 10.1177/030751330409000116)[Book Review]
Edited Books
Frood, E. and McDonald, A. (Eds.) (2013) Decorum and Experience: Essays in Ancient Culture for John Baines. Griffith Institute Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780900416927
McDonald, A. and Riggs, C. (Eds.) (2000) Current Research in Egyptology, 2000. Series: BAR International Series. Archaeopress: Oxford. ISBN 9781841712079
Supervision
- Stone, Emma Elizabeth Porter
The Use and Transportation of Amber in the Egyptian New Kingdom: Connecting International Late Bronze Age Trade and Cultural Identities