About
Huw Twiston Davies is a lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Manchester.
The main focus of his research is the composition, copying, transmission, and development of ancient Egyptian literary and religious texts from the New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BC). He completed his PhD on the transmission of the Instruction of Ani and the Instruction of Amenemope at the University of Liverpool in 2018, under the supervision of Professor Christopher Eyre and Dr Roland Enmarch.
From 2018 to 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Leiden University, working on the NWO-VIDI funded project, “The Walking Dead: The Making of a Cultural Geography at Saqqara” (Feb 2018 – Apr 2021). He was also a Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Manchester in 2020-2021.
From January 2016 until February 2017 , he was a Curatorial Assistant at the Garstang Museum of Archaeology at the University of Liverpool, where in addition to other duties, he was project curator for the exhibitions Meroë: Africa’s Forgotten Empire (May-Sep 2016), and The Book of the Dead: Passport through the Underworld (May 2017 – Sep 2018). Education
2013 – 2017 PhD Egyptology, University of Liverpool
Thesis Title: “”It is filled with an assortment”: The Transmission of the Instruction of Ani and the Instruction of Amenemope”
2011-2012 MA Egyptology, Unviersity of Liverpool
Thesis title: “Deus, Deus Meus: Contexts of ntr in Middle Kingdom Literature”
2007-2010 BA (Hons) Oriental Studies (Egyptology), University of Liverpool Publications
Peer-reviewed articles:
Twiston Davies H.P.R. & Nielsen N. (2019), Garstang Stela E.31 and the Family of Iy at Abydos, Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 146(1): 69-81.
Preliminary analysis of papyri and ostraca (with Daniel Soliman), in
del Vesco, P., Greco, C., Muller, M., Staring, N., and Weiss, L., ‘Current Research of the Leiden-Turin Archaeological Mission in Saqqara: Preliminary Report on the 2019 Season’, Rivista del Museo Egizio 4, 63-90.
Book chapters:
Twiston Davies H.P.R. (2019), The Harpists’ Songs at Saqqara: Transmission, Performance, and Contexts. In: Staring N., Twiston Davies H., Weiss L. (Eds.) Perspectives on Lived Religion, Practices – Transmission – Landscape. Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities no. 21 Leiden: Sidestone Press. 97-129.
Staring N.T.B., Twiston Davies H.P.R. and Weiss, L.V. (2019), Introduction. In: In: Staring N., Twiston Davies H., Weiss L. (Eds.) Perspectives on Lived Religion, Practices – Transmission – Landscape. Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities no. 21 Leiden: Sidestone Press. 7-13.
Edited volumes:
Staring N.T.B., Twiston Davies H.P.R. & Weiss L.V. (2019), Perspectives on Lived Religion: Practices – Transmission – Landscape Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities no. 21. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
Book Reviews:
Kubisch, S., and Rummel, U. (eds), “The Ramesside Period in Egypt, Studies into Cultural and Historical Processes of the 19th and 20th Dynasties. Proceedings of the International Symposium held in Heidelberg, 5th to 7th June 2015”, in
Review of Biblical Literature, March 2020.
Conference Reports:
Staring, N.T.B., Twiston Davies, H.P.R. and Weiss L.V. (2018), ‘The Walking Dead: The Making of a Cultural Geography, 07.11.2018 – 09.11.2018 Leiden’, in: H-Soz-Kult, 01.12.2018
Staring, N.T.B. and Twiston Davies, H.P.R. (2019), ‘The Walking Dead II: The Making of a Cultural Geography, 29.1.2019 – 01.10.2019 Cairo’, in H-Soz-Kult, 31.10.2019
Popularising articles:
Twiston Davies, H.P.R. (2019), ‘Zingen voor de doden, Het lied van de harpenaar in het Nieuwe Rijk’, in
Ta-Mery, Magazine voor vrienden van het oude Egypte, Jaargang 12, 2019-202, pp. 26-33. (Dutch-language, translated by Nicky van de Beek).
Twiston Davies, H. “Signs of Life in the City of the Dead”, in
Saqqara Newsletter 18, pp. 68-76
Projects
Team member of the research project The Walking Dead at Saqqara: The Making of a Cultural Geography, 2018-2021. Memberships
International Association of Egyptologists, 2022-
