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This Festschrift in honour of Cary J. Martin presents twenty contributions of his friends and colleagues, ranging from articles on Persian and Graeco-Roman Egypt to twenty-two (re-)editions of documentary and literary texts written in Egyptian (Hieroglyphs, Hieratic and Demotic) and Greek. Many of them here published for the first time.

This publication provides a concordance of numbering systems addressing the Early Egyptian=inscriptions (Dyn. 0-3) between different dictionaries.

This volume presents seventeen ostraca and two jar labels from the Egyptian Museum of Cairo with transliteration, translation and commentary.

Theoretical essays on the writing of history, which examine how ancient historical narratives are formed, structured and transmitted, and the problems encountered when using ancient historical sources.

This book examines from a historical materialist perpective, several Old Kingdom state institutions, such as the treasury, the granaries, the king's domain and the vizier. It looks at Old Kingdom society from the early Dynastic period to the Sixth Dynasty, following the development, function and effectiveness of institutions.

The first publication of a large number of photographs from Flinders Petrie's excavations at three sites. Extensive annotation accompanies the photos, providing an extraordinarily detailed account of Petrie's work and finds at these locations.

This publication collects together for the first time all known demotic tombs stelae from the necropolis of Dandara, originally excavated by Flinders Petrie. The stelae can be dated to the early Roman period and are all provided with a translation and commentary. German text.

In many respects, the economy of a society cannot be understood without considering the cultural background.

This is the publication of the 1962 dissertation of Erika Endesfelder on the workmen from Deir el-Medina. The book provides an in-depth view of the organization of the workmen and a summarizing account of the textual sources.

Catalog of bronze figures in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. The museum houses 510 statuettes or fragments of statuettes made of bronze. Most of them represent Egyptian gods, but there are also Hellenistic and Roman figures.

This volume is dedicated to the memory of Erika Endesfelder (1935-2015), until her retirement, professor of Egyptology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Old Kingdom archaeology, Ancient Egyptian economy, Egyptian intercultural relations, papyrology, Ancient Sudan, Coptic studies, and history of Egyptology.

Thirteen essays about ancient Egypt at her position in the ancient and modern world.

This study offers a detailed examination of tomb decoration in New Kingdom Thebes.

A print version of an internet discussion. 9 papers discuss the methodology and interpretation of Ancient Egyptian tomb painting, and its relation to funerary practice. The various elements and themes of tomb decoration are discussed for their significance and are set in their socio-economic context.

A collection of evocative black-and-white pictures of ruined buildings in France. These ruins include churches, town houses, industrial buildings, former civic structures and castles. The text explores their history, the factors behind their ruined state and the relationship between humans and ruins.

German text: This is an in depth study on the 'servant at the place of Truth' Penbuy. He was one of the leading workmen, involved in building the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes. All known monuments are presented.

This book presents the painted decoration of the Theban tomb chapel TT176, belonging to the 'servant of Amun' Userhat. Userhat dates to the mid 18th Dynasty and was a lower official at the Amun's temple at Thebes. His chapel belongs to the smallest examples of its kind still decorated with paintings, some of them of highest quality.

The volumes presents a collection of conference papers on authenticity of antiquities, but also five essays on authenticity in general. Articles include one on fake Egyptian Book of the Dead papyri and one on the Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt and fakes at the beginning of the Twentieth century.

A volume of essays honouring the ongoing career of Professor John Tait, Emeritus Edwards Professor of Egyptology at University College London, and Vice-President of the Egypt Exploration Society, by his friends, colleagues and students.

The aim of this book is to find the link between words and household objects. Using ostraca and papyri from the workmen's village at Deir el-Medina, the author discusses both the kind and relative frequency of furniture and wooden receptacles used in a typical New Kingdom home.

This is a dissertation completed in 1963: "Studies on the iconography of the Meroitic royal family and studies on problems of chronology of the kingdom of Meroe". The work represents the basis of many later works of the author. The book also reviews the chronologies presented by other scholars - notably those of George A.

This is the publication of several coffin fragments, most of them found as drawings in notebooks of old excavations. The book includes a list of published rectangular coffins of the Second Intermediate Period and a discussion of the main text programmes and related religious beliefs.

his collection of studies is dedicated to Professor Fekri A.Hassan.

The Management of Egypt's Cultural Heritage is the second volume in a series of Cultural Heritage Management (CHM) discourses; this ground-breaking series is the first academic collection of papers dedicated to the practice of CHM in Egypt.

The papers of a conference in summer 2017 in Vienna. The contributions focus on Middle Kingdom (about 2000 to 1750 BC) art.

An evaluation of late Middle Kingom and Second Intermediate Period (c. 1850 to 1550 BC) sculpture.

Evaluation of the pan grave pottery, found in Egypt and Nubia.

This book reviews the Egyptological and anthropological bases of Freud's arguments about Moses.

A collection of essays, covering a wide range of topics, from funerary culture up to self conception of Egyptolgy.