Gold of Praise

by Wente, Edward F.; Larson, John A.; Teeter, Emily

• ISBN13: 9781885923097
• ISBN10: 1885923090
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Oriental Inst Pubns Sales

Summary

This Festschrift in honor of Prof. Edward F. Wente contains contributions by forty-three of his colleagues and friends. Contents: Publications and Communications of Edward F. Wente (C. E. Jones); A Monument of Khaemwaset Honoring Imhotep (J. P. Allen); Feuds or Vengeance? Rhetoric and Social Forms (J. Baines); Theban Seventeenth Dynasty (J. von Beckerath); Inventory Offering Lists and the Nomenclature for Boxes and Chests in the Old Kingdom (E. Brovarski); A Case for Narrativity: Gilt Stucco Mummy Cover in the Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, Inv. 27808 (L. H. Corcoran); Opening of the Mouth as Temple Ritual (E. Cruz-Uribe); A Letter of Reproach (R. J. Demaree); Creation on the Potter's Wheel at the Eastern Horizon of Heaven (P. F. Dorman); The Border and the Yonder Side (G. Englund); Enjoying the Pleasures of Sensation: Reflections on a Significant Feature of Egyptian Religion (R. B. Finnestad); Some Comments on Khety's Instruction for Little Pepi on His Way to School (Satire on the Trades) (J. L. Foster); On Fear of Death and the Three bwts Connected with Hathor (P. J. Frandsen); Two Inlaid Inscriptions of the Earliest Middle Kingdom (H. Goedicke); Historical Background to the Exodus: Papyrus Anastasi VIII (S. I. Groll); The Mummy of Amenhotep III (J. E. Harris); Fragmentary Quartzite Female Hand Found in Abou-Rawash (Z. Hawass); Two Stelae of King Seqenenre Djehuty-aa of the Seventeenth Dynasty (H. Jacquet-Gordon); A Marital Title from the New Kingdom (J. J. Janssen); Remarks on Continuity in Egyptian Literary Tradition (R. Jasnow); Ethnic Considerations in Persian Period Egypt (J. H. Johnson); The nfrw-Collar Reconsidered (W. R. Johnson); The Wealth of Amun of Thebes under Ramesses II (K. A. Kitchen); Wie jung ist die memphitische Philosophie auf dem Shabaqo-Stein? (R. Krauss); 'Listening' to the Ancient Egyptian Woman: Letters, Testimonials, and Other Expressions of Self (B. S. Lesko); Some Further Thoughts on Chapter 162 of the Book of the Dead (L. H. Lesko); Royal Iconography of Dynasty 0 (T. J. Logan); The Auction of Pharaoh (J. G. Manning); Semi-Literacy in Egypt: Some Erasures from the Amarna Period (P. Der Manuelian); Vinegar at Deir el-Medina (N. B. Millet); Observations on Pre-Amarna Theology during the Earliest Reign of Amenhotep IV (W. J. Murnane); Zum Kultbildritual in Abydos (J. Osing); Sportive Fencing as a Ritual for Destroying the Enemies of Horus (P. A. Piccione); An Oblique Reference to the Expelled High Priest Osorkon? (R. K. Ritner); The Ahhotep Coffins: The Archaeology of an Egyptological Reconstruction (A. M. Roth); A Litany from the Eighteenth Dynasty Tomb of Merneith (D. P. Silverman); Nag-ed-Deir Papyri (W. K. Simpson); O. Hess = O. Naville = O. BM 50601: An Elusive Text Relocated (M. J. Smith); Celibacy and Adoption among God's Wives of Amun and Singers in the Temple of Amun: A Re-examination of the Evidence (E. Teeter); New Kingdom Temples at Elkab (C. C. Van Siclen III); Menstrual Synchrony and the 'Place of Women' in Ancient Egypt (OIM 13512) (T. G. Wilfong); Serra East and the Mission of the Middle Kingdom Fortresses in Nubia (B. B. Williams); End of the Late Bronze Age and Other Crisis Periods: A Volcanic Cause? (F. J. Yurco).