This volume of collected studies takes stock of most recent developments in Egyptology and the Digital Humanities, considering future directions for the application of new technologies in Egyptology. ...The book presents the results of an international conference held in 2019 at Indiana University – Bloomington, in which Egyptologists and digital humanists with interest in Egyptology gathered in 2019 to present current projects in 3D modeling, virtual and augmented reality, game technology, digital pedagogy, database projects, computational and corpus linguistics and E-publications. Those projects, along with a selection of others that were not presented in Bloomington, are now described and discussed in this volume.
Vinson examines H. Rider Haggard's novel, She: A History of Adventure. The novel begun with one simple idea: an immortal woman inspired by an immortal love. In this novel, Haggard drew inspiration ...from many quarters--Ayesha owes major aspects of her layered personality to five female characters from two ancient compositions: a Greek-language novel from the Roman period, Heliodorus's Aithiopika, or "Ethiopian Story," and an Egyptian-language ghost story from the Ptolemaic period, conventionally called "The First Tale of Setne Khaemwas" or "First Setne."
"First Seine" concerns a magic book produced by Thoth, Egypt's god of writing; it comprises a primary narrative, an embedded story, and a unifying ending. In the lost beginning of the primary ...narrative, Setne will have learned of the Book and will have entered the Memphite tomb of Naneferkaptah, a long-dead magician and prince, in search of it. The preserved text begins with Setne already in the tomb, where the ghost of Naneferkaptah's sister/wife Ihweret has begun to narrate the story of Naneferkaptah's own theft of the Book from Thoth. Ihweret's benign role in "First Setne" may resonate with Isis as mother/sister/spouse, but Isis is a complex figure, especially in Late- and Greco-Roman-period theology. Here, the overall structure of the tale that would appear to neatly balance the "earthly" and "cosmic" aspects of the basic Egyptian rebellion/punishment/resolution theological model, with the inner story resonating with the Osiris-Isis myth, is examined.
The biological dynamics of hepatitis C virus (HCV) viremia in uremic patients with chronic infection have not been fully characterized. We prospectively studied fluctuations of HCV-RNA in sera from ...52 patients with end-stage renal disease who were undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (HD) and had chronic HCV infection. We measured HCV viremia monthly over the course of 13 months with the branched-chain DNA (bDNA) signal amplification assay and prospectively analyzed liver function, expressed by monthly serum aspartate (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) determinations. We observed three different patterns of HCV viremia: (1) patients persistently positive by bDNA assay (persistent viremia; 23 of 52 patients; 44%), (2) individuals with alternatively positive and negative results (intermittent viremia; 17 of 52 patients; 33%), and (3) patients persistently negative by bDNA assay (12 of 52 patients; 23%). The HCV viral load over the follow-up was greater among patients with persistent compared with intermittent viremia (persistent, 31.7 × 10
5 Eq/mL; range, 6.3 × 10
5 to 16.03 × 10
6 Eq/mL versus intermittent, 10.4 × 10
5 Eq/mL; range, 1.1 × 10
5 to 9.4 × 10
6 Eq/mL;
P = 0.0001). In addition, patients with persistent viremia had over time greater AST and/or ALT activities than the intermittent group (AST: persistent, 26.5 IU/L; range, 9.6 to 73.7 IU/L versus intermittent, 21.3 IU/L; range, 8 to 56.8 IU/L;
P = 0.001 and ALT: persistent, 14.7 IU/L; range, 3.7 to 57.9 IU/L versus intermittent, 10.9 IU/L; range, 2.3 to 52.1 IU/L;
P = 0.001). In the group with persistent viremia, the mean difference between maximum and minimum values of HCV-RNA observed in each individual patient was 2.09 ± 0.7 natural logarithm (Log
n ) and in intermittent viremic patients, 1.55 ± 1 Log
n (
P = 0.045). The HCV load at study entry (19.4 × 10
5 Eq/mL) was rather low and did not change versus the end of follow-up in all patients (
P = not significant NS). In the entire group, the fluctuations in HCV-RNA levels over time between and within individuals were not significant (
P = NS). No difference in variability of HCV-RNA values over time between patients infected with different HCV genotypes was seen. In conclusion, three different patterns of HCV viremia in HD over time were assessed; one third of viremic patients had intermittent viremia, and those patients had less HCV-RNA, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and aminotransferase activity than did patients with persistent HCV load. Larger fluctuations in HCV RNA levels occurred in patients with persistent than with intermittent HCV viremia. However, the viremic HCV load was low and relatively stable over a 13-month follow-up in our population. Studies with longer observation periods are warranted to understand fully the natural history of HCV in these immunosuppressed individuals.
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