Egyptian scribes presented their knowledge of foreign geography in an epigraphic corpus known as the Topographical Lists. These lists are an important and often under-utilized source for Egypt’s foreign contacts in the Levant and Africa. As a list of placenames and sometimes also the names of tribes or peoples, they represent an Egyptian geographic encyclopaedia of peripheral regions as transcribed and understood by Egyptian scribes. Copied again and again over centuries, the list of names remain difficult to read, interpret, and map through the myriad copying difficulties and a lack of understanding of their original composition and precise purpose. This analysis addresses a philological and geographical enigma relating to the Levantine northern Topographical Lists, but is indicative of the many philological and geographical problems present in this corpus.

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“北方”地形列表中的平底船

埃及抄写员在称为地形列表的碑文语料库中展示了他们对外国地理的了解。这些名单是埃及在黎凡特和非洲的对外联系的重要来源，但往往未被充分利用。作为地名列表，有时也包括部落或民族的名称，它们代表了埃及抄写员转录和理解的外围地区的埃及地理百科全书。几个世纪以来，由于无数的复制困难以及对其原始组成和精确目的的缺乏理解，这些名字列表仍然难以阅读、解释和映射。该分析解决了与黎凡特北部地形列表相关的语言学和地理之谜，