Description
In this issue:
– An Unnamed Statue of a Vizier – Susanna Thomas investigates a Middle Kingdom statue found in the ‘Karnak Cachette’.
– Egypt at the Crystal Palace – The rise and fall of the Palace and its ‘Egyptian’ Court are described by Birgit Schoer.
– Atum: Creating the World – In the first of a series of articles about Egypt’s gods, Joyce Tyldesley considers this solar deity.
– Egyptology in Liverpool – Some of the fascinating objects in the World Museum, Liverpool and the Garstang Museum.
– Lorenzo Dow Covington – Glenn Marcoe records the work at Giza of a pioneering Egyptologist.
– Monasteries in Ancient Egypt – Muriel O’Shea visits some of the early monastic settlements.
– A Volunteer’s Diary – Patricia Mason describes her experiences helping at an excavation in the South Asasif.
– ARCE in the Egyptian Museum – In the last in a series of articles about the Center’s work, Janice Kamrin, Rachel Mauldin, Elina Nuutinen and Sari Nieminen describe the Registrars’ Training and Database Program in the Cairo Museum.
– Per Mesut: for Younger Readers – Hilary Wilson describes the Forty-Two statements of the Negative Confession.
Plus: News, Reviews, Comment, Diary, and more!
Cover Date: Dec 2011 / Jan 2012, Volume 12 Issue 3