Studies in Egyptian Antiquities: A Tribute to T.G.H. James

Abstract

• A collection of 15 wide-ranging papers on Egyptology brought together in honour of Harry James' 75 birthday (retired Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities). Contents: Badari Grave Group 569 (Reneé Friedman); Observations on some Egyptian sarcophagi in the British Museum (A J Spencer); Both mummies as Bakshish (Joyce M Filer); Djehutyhotep's Colossus inscription (W V Davies); Painted relief from El-Bersheh (Andrew Middleton); Three Stelophorous statuettes (Hassan Selim); Two or three literary artefacts (R B Parkinson); Burial assemblage of Henutmehyt (John H Taylor); New light on Egyptian prosthetic medicine (Nicholas Reeves); The boar, the ram-headed crocodile and the lunar fly (Carol Andrews); The last books of the dead? (Stephen Quirke); Oceanus in porphyry (Donald M Bailey); Saqadi (Derek Welsby); The Acquisition by the British Museum of antiquitites discovered during the French invasion of Egypt (M L Bierbrier); Not the travel journal of Alessandro Ricci (Patrick Usick).