Peter Lacovara has worked as a curator, archaeologist, teacher, and ceramicist; this book comprises a series of articles dealing with ceramic studies, urbanism and urban archaeology, funerary archaeology, artefact studies, and the history of Egyptology, and will appeal to scholars and enthusiasts alike.

Peter Lacovara: Archaeologist of Egypt and Nubia, Janet Richards Our Peter, Chester Higgins Bibliography of Peter Lacovara First or Second Intermediate Period? Egyptian or Nubian? How Small Discoveries Might Change Old Interpretations, Bettina Bader Alphabet Soup: Reisner’s Sculptor A and Sculptor B at Giza, Lawrence M. Berman Egyptianizing Art in its Historical Context: The John Stemme Obelisk, Edward Bleiberg A Chocolate “Deffufa”, Charles Bonnet and Dominique Valbelle Howard Carter and the German Dig-House at Luxor, Bob Brier and Ahmed Mansour The Circle Closes: On the Diadem from the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Katja Broschat and Eid Mertah “Inlaid with All Precious Stones”: The Provenance and Function of a Group of Coffin Inlays from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Nicholas Brown A Horse of a Different Color: Eton Myers Collection (ECM) 1631, Betsy Bryan Kushite Salmagundi I: The Path in the Tomb of Tanutamani and Pyramid Text Utterance 670 as a Framework for the Events on the Path, Susan K. Doll A Child Mummy in Cincinnati, Jonathan Elias and Carmen Muñoz Pérez A Fragment of a Round-Topped Alabaster Stela of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten, Marjorie M. Fisher and W. Raymond Johnson Queen Khensa’s Gems: International Diplomacy in Exotic Vessels and Semiprecious Stones in Twenty-Fifth Dynasty Nubia, Jasper Gaunt Theban Tomb 126 with an Addendum on Theban Tomb C7, Andrew Hunt Gordon The Great Dealers: John Cooney’s Recollections of Joseph Brummer, Tom Hardwick A Block from the “Living Ones of the Aten Endure” Kom el-Nana, Melinda Hartwig The Royal Workshops at the Dazzling Aten, Zahi Hawass A Note on the Use of Petrified Wood, Sergej V. Ivanov Propping up the Dead: The Burial of Tabakmut in Tomb MMA 60, Janice Kamrin and Salima Ikram The Date of the Lower Slope Cemetery and the Spatial Development of the Abydos Middle Cemetery: First Insights from the Pottery Analysis, Christian Knoblauch, Mohamed Naguib Reda, and Aisha Mohamed Peter and the Palace City, Mark Lehner   An Old Kingdom Child’s Garment from the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Mimi Leveque and Renée Stein Osiris Statuettes: Votive Offerings in the Temple of Osiris at Abydos, Michelle Marlar  Sur le caractère symbolique des voûtes en chevrons monumentales, Franck Monnier    Lunch with Ricardo Caminos, Susan Osgood  About the Stonecutters of Late Antique Coptos, Laure Pantalacci  The Name and Parentage of Asru, an Egyptian-Kushite Woman in Manchester, Campbell Price New Kingdom Imported Pottery from the Middle Area of Qurna, Luxor, Egypt, Mohamed Naguib Reda The Riqqeh Pectoral, Nicholas Reeves A Piriform Jar from the Cemetery at el-Dakka: Contexts and Contents, Margaret Serpico, Ben Stern, and Denise Doxey Satdjehuty: Notes on an Early Eighteenth Dynasty Burial Assemblage, John H. Taylor  The Northeast Corner Pillar of Weni the Elder’s Tomb: From Discovery to Display in the Sohag Museum, Heather Tunmore, Suzanne L. Davis, Hamada Sadek, Ramadan Kotb, and Caroline Roberts Basketry Quivers from Ancient Egypt, André J. Veldmeijer and Salima Ikram Above or Beside? Some Remarks on the Excavation of the Sanctuary of Heqaib in Elephantine in 1932 and 1946–1947, Cornelius von Pilgrim Nubian Khoiak Festival Rituals at Philae and Meroe, Janice W. Yellin