Moving Beyond Gender Bias

Ancient Egyptian culture is very well documented.¹ Its long history spans at least three millennia, and more if we consider cultural survivals into the Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique periods. Thousands of hieroglyphic inscriptions survive on temple and tomb walls, on stone slab stelae, and on various sorts of funerary equipment (offering tables, coffins and sarcophagi, canopic jars, and shabti figurines, to name a few). In addition to these religious texts, thousands of other texts dealing with various aspects of daily life survive on ostraca and papyrus fragments. Comprising administrative texts, personal letters, legal documents, tax receipts, and a myriad