Julia Carol Harvey was born in Bristol, UK on 22 June 1962 and grew up in Celbridge, near Dublin. She studied Egyptology at Durham (1979–82) and Heidelberg (1982–84), then earned her PhD at University College London with A Typological Study of Egyptian Wooden Statues of the Old Kingdom (1994; published Groningen/Leiden 2001). She participated in fieldwork in Egypt, joining missions of the EES at Memphis, the EES-Leiden Museum in the New Kingdom Necropolis at Saqqara, and the Brooklyn Museum in the Temple of Mut, South Karnak.
In 2001 she joined the staff of the Language Centre at Groningen University, becoming the head of their Translation and Correction Service, a busy job which left her preciously little time for research. She nevertheless wrote a number of articles on Egyptian wooden statues, mainly of the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period, and continued to work on the documentation of several hundreds of Middle Kingdom wooden statues which she had put together as a result of visiting museum collections around the world during her PhD research and later. These extensive files are now held by the Egyptological Seminar of the Freie Universität Berlin, see → www
For many years she was a much loved teacher of Egyptology courses for the Senioren Academie ('University of the Third Age') in Groningen and often took her students on guided tours to Egypt.
Julia Harvey died on 8 August 2019 after a year-long battle against cancer.
Julia Harvey at work in the Mut Temple, February 2010.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. "Cataloguing Wooden Statues from Ancient Egypt", in: David
W. Reed (ed.), Spirit of Enterprise: The 1990 Rolex Awards
(Bern, 1990), 211–213.
published under the name Julia Carol Van Dijk.
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2. "Some Notes on the Wooden Statues from the Tomb of Nakht at
Assiut", in:
GM 116 (1990), 45–50.
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3. "A Late Middle Kingdom Wooden Statue from Assiut in the Walters
Art Gallery", in:
Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 49/50 (1991–1992), 1–6.
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4. A Typological Study of Egyptian Wooden Statues of the Old
Kingdom. PhD thesis University College London, 1994. [see No. 9 below]
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5. "The Typology of Old Kingdom Wooden Statues", in: C. Eyre (ed.) Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge 3–9 September 1995. Abstracts of Papers (Oxford 1995), 80–81.
6. "De typologie van houten beelden uit het Egyptische Oude Rijk", in:
Phœnix 43/3 (1997), 126–137.
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7. "Some Remarks on the Wooden Statues from Nezlet Batran", in: Jacobus van Dijk (ed.), Essays on Ancient Egypt in Honour of Herman te Velde. Egyptological Memoirs 1 (Groningen, 1997), 171–181.
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8. "Old Kingdom Wooden Statues: Stylistic Dating Criteria", in
Christiane Ziegler (ed.): "L'art de l'Ancien Empire
égyptien. Actes du colloque organisé au Musée du Louvre par le
Service culturel les 3 et 4 avril 1998 (Paris, 1998), 335–379.
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9. Wooden Statues of the Old Kingdom: A Typological Study.
Egyptological Memoirs, 2 (Groningen, Styx Publications/Leiden, Brill, 2001).
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10. "Wood Sculpture", in: D. B. Redford (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt Vol. 3 (New York, 2001), 246–250.
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11a. "Squatting figure from a boat model", in: Carol A.R. Andrews
and Jacobus van Dijk (ed.), Objects for Eternity. Egyptian
Antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection (Mainz am
Rhein, 2006), 53.
11b. "Wood and Woodworking", in: idem, 54–55.
11c. "Torso of a man", in: idem, 56–57.
11d."Statue of Tjeteti", in: idem, 60–63.
11e."Statue of an unknown man" ,in: idem, 64–65.
11f. "Appendix D: Drawings of stone vessels", in: idem, 270–274.
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12. "Continuity and Collapse: Wooden Statues from the End of the
Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period", in: Miroslav
Bárta (ed.),
The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Proceedings of the
Conference held in Prague, May 31–June 4, 2004 (Prague, 2008), 157–166.
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13. "Wooden Statuary", in Willeke Wendrich (ed.): UCLA
Encyclopedia of Egyptology (Los Angeles, 2009),
[1]–[8].
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14. Review of: M. Fitzenreiter & M. Herb (Hrsg.), Dekorierte
Grabanlagen im Alten Reich. Methodik und Interpretation. IBAES
VI (London, 2006), in: BiOr 66/5-6 (September-November 2009),
559–564.
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15. "Two Old Kingdom Wooden Statues in a Private Collection in the Netherlands",
in: Vivienne Gae Callender, Ladislav Bareš, Miroslav Bárta, Jiří Janák, Jaromír Krejčí (ed.), Times, Signs and Pyramids. Studies in Honour of Miroslav Verner on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (Prague, 2011), 157–172.
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16. "The Lady Ikuy", in: Jacobus van Dijk (ed.), Another Mouthful of Dust. Egyptological Studies in Honour of Geoffrey Thorndike Martin. OLA 246 (Leuven/Paris/Bristol CT, 2016), 221–231.
17. "The Eyes Have It. A Nude Female Statue in Barcelona", in: Camilla Di Biase-Dyson & Leonie Donovan (ed.), The Cultural Manifestations of Religious Experience. Studies in Honour of Boyo G. Ockinga (Münster, 2017), 45–52.
18. "Old Kingdom Wooden Statues and Beyond", in:
Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz, Edyta Kopp & Dániel Takács (ed.), 'The
Perfection that Endures...'. Studies on
Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology (Warsaw, 2018),
175–176.
[summary of an illustrated lecture given during a symposium
at the University of Warsaw, July 2014]
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Julia presenting her last lecture, Warsaw, July 2014.
19. "Shared adventure",
in: Olaf Kaper, Lara Weiss, Pieter ter Keurs & Vivian Baan (ed.),
Liber Amicorum Martino Raven decies mille ob strenuam
felicemque antiquitatum aegyptiarum oblatus contentionem
(Leiden, 2018), 56–58.
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Translations
Over the years Julia was involved in the translation or correction of hundreds of scholarly books and articles and it would be impossible (and pointless) to list them all here. These are some of the most significant books she had a major hand in, including some Egyptological titles:
– Helena A. van Bemmel, Dvārapālas in Indonesia. Temple guardians and acculturation. Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia, 13 (Rotterdam/Brookfield, A.A. Balkema, 1994).
– Harco Willems, The Coffin of Heqata (Cairo JdE 36418). A Case Study of Egyptian Funerary Culture of the Early Middle Kingdom. OLA 70 (Leuven, Peeters, 1996).
– Hans D. Schneider et al., Life and Death under the Pharaohs. Egyptian Art from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands. [Catalogue of a traveling exhibition in Australia and New Zealand, 1997–99] (Perth, Western Australian Museum, 1997).
– C.G. Brouwer, Al-Mukhā. Studies on the Maritime Economic History of a Yemeni Emporium. 3 Vols. (Amsterdam, D'Fluyte Rarob, 1997–2010).
– C.G. Brouwer, Dutch-Yemeni Encounters. Activities of the United East India Company (VOC) in South Arabian Waters since 1614. A Collection of Studies. (Amsterdam, D'Fluyte Rarob, 1999).
– Liuwe H. Westra, The Apostles' Creed. Origin, History, and Some Early Commentaries. Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia, 43 (Turnhout, Brepols, 2002).
– C.L. Temminck Groll et al., The Dutch Overseas: Architectural Survey. Mutual heritage of four Centuries in three Continents (Zwolle, Waanders, 2002) [with George Hall].
– Justin A. Kroesen and Regnerus Steensma, The Interior of the Medieval Village Church (Louvain/Paris/Dudley, MA, Peeters, 2004) [with Margaret Kofod].
– Kees Schuyt and Ed Taverne, 1950: Prosperity and Welfare. Dutch Culture in a European Perspective, 4 (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan/Assen, Royal Van Gorcum, 2004) [with Bettina Lewis].
– Victor M. Schmidt, Painted Piety. Panel Paintings for Personal Devotion in Tuscany, 1250–1400 (Florence, Centro Di, 2005).
– Carol A.R. Andrews and Jacobus van Dijk (ed.), Objects for Eternity. Egyptian Antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection (Mainz am Rhein, 2006).
– Anneke de Vries (ed.), Voyages of Discovery in the Collections of Huis Bergh ('s-Heerenberg, Stichting Huis Bergh, 2008).
– Ben van den Bercken and Willem van Haarlem, Eternal Egypt. Allard Pierson Museum Series, 3 (Zwolle, W Books/Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum, 2013).
Uniterms
At the Groningen University Language Centre Julia founded the international education terminology database Uniterms. It is now online (→ www) and the Language Centre has dedicated it to her memory.
Abbreviations
| BiOr | Bibliotheca Orientalis |
| GM | Göttinger Miszellen. Beiträge zur ägyptologischen Diskussion |
| OLA | Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta |
