Jorke Grotenhuis’ research is primarily concerned with variation within the Ancient Egyptian language, and how this variation can be used to aid the understanding of Ancient Egypt. To this end, his primary focus is on the Middle Kingdom mortuary corpus of the Coffin Text, with some additional forays into mortuary texts from other periods and temple inscriptions from the Graeco-Roman period in Egypt. In addition, he has a keen interest in digital humanities and how this can be used to advance the field by using methods from other disciplines. For the last two years, he has been performing research into the classifier system of the Coffin Texts, as part of the Archeomind Lab, using the iClassifier research tool. At the NINO, he intends to work with newly rediscovered images of Coffin Text material from the de Buck archives.
He has been involved in several projects in Egyptology. He is a member of the Thot Sign List project at the University of Liège, the working group responsible for the recent expansion of the hieroglyphic repertoire in Unicode, a member of the Archeomind Lab at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, an editorial assistant for the journal Hieroglyphs, a member of the working group for the common system of transliteration in Egyptology and a collaborator in the Semi-automatic transcription and transliteration of ancient Egyptian project at the Universidad de Alcalá.
Research Interests
Digital Humanities, variation, mortuary texts, hieroglyphs, cursive hieroglyphs, regionality, chronology, Middle Egyptian.
Education and Background
2022-2024: Postdoctoral scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IASH 2-year fellowship)
2021-2022: Postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.
Recent Publications:
Forthcoming: Jorke Grotenhuis, A man or a god? Interpreting the first-person singular in the coffin of the overseer of the treasury wx-Htp (MMA 12.182.132a,b). JEA.
Forthcoming: Jorke Grotenhuis, Digitizing Seth. Digital Approaches to Sethian Classification in the Coffin Texts. Hieroglyphs.
Forthcoming: Visualisation of regional variation in the Coffin Texts: A case study of spell 75, ICYE 2019 proceedings.
Dmitry Nikolaev, Jorke Grotenhuis, Haleli Harel and Orly Goldwasser, Classifier identification in Ancient Egyptian as a low-resource sequence-labelling task. 2024. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.00475.
Jorke Grotenhuis, First-Person Singular Stative Endings in the Coffin Texts: The Case for Regional Conditioned Variation, in: Zamacona (ed.), Variability in the Earlier Egyptian Mortuary Texts, 2024, p. 269-303.
Jorke Grotenhuis, Brilliant Corruptions: Scribal Influence on Variation in the Coffin Texts, ZAeS 150 (2), 2023.
2021: PhD Langues, lettres et traductologie, Egyptology at the Université de Liège.
2014: MA Classics and Ancient Civilizations, Egyptology at Leiden University.
2013: BA Egyptian Language and Culture at Leiden University.