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Papers presented at Current Research in Egyptology XIII and not included in this volume (in alphabetical order)
Khufus Second Boat Project, Difficulties and Wishes
Afifi Rohim Afifi
Chief Inspector of Antiquities of the Giza Plateau
Who or What is Werethekau? A problematic inscription (UC 16639)
Ahmed Mekawy Ouda
University of Cairo
Late Period Regionalism in Ancient Egypt: A comparative analysis of 25th and 26th dynasty coffins from Thebes and Akhmim
Allison Williams
University of Liverpool
Cry and Silence: Rethinking the nature of the man-god communicative language in ancient Egypt
Amr Omar
American University in Cairo
HALF AN ITERU ONWARD! The Mycenaean Brigade at Amarna: Egypt, the Aegean and Late Bronze Age warfare
Alexandros Giannakoulas
University of Oxford
Paper-rock Stelae and Sacred Landscapes in the Eastern Desert during the Ramesside Period
Anna Garnett
University of Liverpool
Egyptian Imitations of Mycenaean Stirrup Jars
Birgit Schiller
University of Berlin
The Garstang project: An integrated collections review
Claire Ollett
University of Liverpool
The Sphinx: Evolution of a concept
Colin Reader
Independent Researcher
Coping with Uncertainty: The use of faith in New Kingdom Egypt
Daniel Potter
University of Liverpool
The Encircling Protection of Horus
David Lightbody
University of Glasgow
Bushes, Undergrowth: The word fnw in Egyptian texts
Flavie Deglin
University of Lille III Charles-de-Gaulle
Control of the Wild as Elite Funerary Activity in the Predynastic
Francis Lankester
University of Durham
Royal Festivals in Cultural Memory Studies
Gabrielle Heffernan
University of Birmingham
Analysis of the Early Dynastic Naqada Royal Tomb Assemblage
Hayley Meloy
University of Liverpool
Greek or Egyptian, Please Make up your Mind: Ptolemy II multi-cultural presentations
Heba Abd El Gawad
University of Durham
Technological Innovations in the 2nd Mill.BC in Egypt: A theoretical model for the use and distribution of new technologies and materials
Heike Wilde
University of Heidelberg
Too Many Bilbils in New Kingdom Egypt? Implications of documentation and publication of early excavations in Egypt
Henning Franzmeier
University of Berlin
The Vernacular of the Letters to the Dead
Julia Hsieh
Yale University
The Late Shabti Group of Iufaa
Jurgen van Oostenrijk
Independent Researcher
All Made Up? A re-examination of the function of the cosmetic spoons
Katherine Howley
Brown University
Identifying and Recording the Book of the Dead in the Second Pillared Hall of the Tomb of Karakhamun
Kenneth Griffin
University of Swansea
A Tale of Two Suppressions: Reinterpreting Papyrus Mayer A and the So-called War of the High Priest during the Reign of Ramesses XI
Kim Ridealgh
University of Swansea
Mehet-ouret in the Royal Funerary Texts
Loriane Bussien
University of Geneva
Innovative Strength of Middle Kingdom Tomb Decoration The Meketre Project
Lubica Zelenkova Hudakova
University of Vienna
A Survey of Some Unpublished Roman Demotic Papyri in the Collection of the Austrian National Library, Vienna
Luigi Prada
University of Oxford
What is the Tale of Woe?
Luke McGarrity
University of Birmingham
The Lion in Pre-and Early Dynastic Egypt Power and glory?
Lyn Stagg
Independent Researcher
The Stela of Nebet-Kebeny CG 34117
Maha Yehia
University of Menofiya
Dates and Precursors of the Opet Festival
Masashi Fukaya
University of Oxford
Votive Shabtis of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty
Meg Gundlach
University of Swansea
New Discoveries from the Middle Kingdom
Mohammed Youssef Ali
Chief Inspector of Dashur and Lisht
The Ears Stelae Chronological Partition: For a new understanding of the personal piety development
Nathalie Toye
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
Beyond the Grave: New kingdom tombs at Saqqara, Egypt, as shrines of cultural memory
Nico Staring
University of Leiden
Amarna Erasures in Theban Tombs and the Question of Monotheism
Paal Steiner
University of Bergen
Did Min Really Need All Those Lettuces?
Pauline Norris
University of Manchester
Cultural Hybridity as a Model for Cultural Change in New Kingdom Nubia: A reassessment of Egypto-Nubian relations
Paul van Pelt
University of Cambridge
The Perception of (Real) Place in the Middle Kingdom Coffin Texts
Peter Robinson
Independent Researcher
Tomb Security in the Early Dynastic Period
Reg Clark
University of Swansea
The Role and Position of Old Kingdom Royal Women in Times of Power Transition
Reinert Skumsnes
Independent Researcher
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back? Our understanding of the Egyptian verbal system
Rob Persson
University of Oxford
The Recorded Solar Eclipse of Nectanebo I
Rosalind Park
Independent Researcher
Kerma Culture? Regional variation in the funerary practice of Bronze Age Nubia c. 25001500BCE
Ruth Humphreys
University of Leicester
The Khopesh: a New Kingdom saga of trade, interconnectivity and adaptation of technology
Sarah Shepherd
University of Exeter
The Role of the Iwn-mwt.f in the New Kingdom Monuments of Thebes
Steven Gregory
University of Birmingham