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 ).