Current Research in Egyptology II: January 2001 - Paperback

by Ashley Cooke (Editor), Fiona Simpson (Editor)

This volume publishes a selection of nine papers from the 2001 CRE conference held in Liverpool. Written with the aim of fostering the exchange of ideas and presenting new research, the multi-disciplinary papers discuss: the use of the double and triple uraeus in royal iconography (Sally-Ann Ashton); the organisation and mobilisation of Old Kingdom quarry labour forces at Chephren's quarry (Geber el-Asr) Lower Nubia (Elisabeth Bloxham); excavations at Theban tomb KV 39 (Ian Buckley); an Old Kingdom town at Zawiet Sultan (Zawiet Meitin) in Middle Egypt (Nadine Moeller); Egypt and Mycenaean Greece (Georgina Muskett); the age of the Sphinx and the development of the Giza necropolis (Colin Reader); the transition to state society in Egypt (Joanne Rowland); single mother goddesses and divine kingship (Geoffrey Tassie); morphological variations in Egyptian crania (Sonia Zakrzewski) .