JOURNAL

of the
American Research Center in Egypt

VOLUME 51

2015

Published by
THE AMERICAN RESEARCH CENTER IN EGYPT
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Iman R. Abdulfattah George T. Scanlon 1925–2014 1

Matthew Douglas Adams In the Footsteps of Looters: Assessing the Damage from the 2011
Looting in the North Cemetery at Abydos 5

Peter Lacovara, An Egyptian Mummy of the Late Old Kingdom in the Michael C.
Salima Ikram, Carlos Museum, Emory University 65
Bob Brier,
Margaret Leveque,
and Renée Stein

Andreas Winkler Third Time’s the Charm? A Document from the Reign of Claudius
and the Councillor Priests, Redux 75

Kevin M. Cahail A Family of Thirteenth Dynasty High Officials: New Evidence

from South Abydos 93

Josef Wegner and Royal Funerary Equipment of a King Sobekhotep at South Abydos:
Kevin Cahail Evidence for the Tombs of Sobekhotep IV and Neferhotep I? 123

Jack A. Josephson and Naqada IId: The Birth of an Empire 165

Günter Dreyer

Jacquelyn Williamson Kingship, Writing, Organized Religion Alone before the God:
Gender, Status, and Nefertiti’s Image 179

Enas Fares Yehia Prince Mohammed Ali after the July Revolution 1952 and the
Journey of Searching for the Lost 193

Colin Reader The Meidum Pyramid 203

Kelly-Anne Diamond The Function and Structure of the dmD(y)t “Myth” 225

Jennifer Hellum In Your Name of Sarcophagus: The “Name Formula” in the

Pyramid Texts 235

Engy El-Kilany and What Lies Under the Chair! A Study in Ancient Egyptian
Heba Mahran Private Tomb Scenes, Part I: Animals 243

Dina El Gabry A Late Middle Kingdom Private Stela of the Priests of Hathor
(Cairo Museum CG 20780) 265

Rasha Metawi An Interesting New Kingdom Stela from Thebes Cairo Museum
(CG 34045) 277

Karen Margaret Bryson Some Year Dates of Horemheb in Context 285

Amr Gaber A Case of Divine Adultery Investigated 303

Jennifer Cromwell One Week in January: A Register of Men from Late Antique Egypt 329

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Brief Communications 351

Stefan Bojowald. Der ägyptische Lautwandel zwischen n und a anhand neuer Beispiele 351
Marco Chioffi and Giuliana Rigamonti. A New Interpretation of n mrw.t on the Lids of the
Sarcophagi of Ankhmahor Called Sesi, Khenet(i)ka Called Ikhekhi, and Kaiaperu 354
W. Benson Harer, Jr. The Marijuana Myth in Ancient Egypt 356

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Book Reviews 359

Martin Fitzenreiter, Christian E. Loeben, Dietrich Raue, and Uta Wallenstein, eds., Gegossene
Götter. Metallhandwerk und Massenproduktion im alten Ägypten (Robert Steven Bianchi) 359
Barbara Mendoza, Bronze Priests of Ancient Egypt from the Middle Kingdom to the Graeco-Roman
Period (Robert Steven Bianchi) 361
Jill L. Baker, The Funeral Kit: Mortuary Practices in the Archaeological Record (Jane A. Hill) 362
Marilina Betrò, ed. Ippolito Rosellini e gli inizi dell’Egittologia: Disegni e manoscritti originali della
Spedizione Franco-Toscana in Egitto (1828–29) dalla Biblioteca Universitaria di Pisa (Beth Ann Judas) 364
John Romer, A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid (Jane A. Hill) 367
R. C. Steiner, Early Northwest Semitic Serpent Spells in the Pyramid Texts (Antonio J. Morales) 368
Jason Thompson, Wonderful Things. Vol. 1: From Antiquity to 1881 (Melinda G. Nelson-Hurst) 372
Sameh Iskander and Ogden Goelet, The Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos. Vol. 1: Wall Scenes—
Part 1, Exterior Walls and Courts & Part 2, Chapels and First Pylon (Anthony Spalinger) 373