This volume is a collection of essays presented to George R. Hughes,
Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute, on the
occasion of his seventieth birthday. The articles deal with the art,
history, language, literature, and religion of ancient Egypt,
concentrating especially on the later periods of Egyptian civilization,
which were Professor Hughes' special interest. Contents: The Funerary
Texts of King Wahkare Akhtoy on a Middle Kingdom Coffin ( J. P. Allen );
Two Monuments of the First Intermediate Period from the Theban Nome ( E.
Brovarski ); Shesmu the Letopolite ( M. Ciccarello ); The Oriental
Institute Decorated Censer from Nubia ( C. E. DeVries ); Shipwrecked
Sailor, Lines 184-85 ( M. Gilula ); The Royal Scribe Amenmose, Son of
Penzerti and Mutemonet: His Monuments in Egypt and Abroad ( L. Habachi
); The Dialect of the Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden ( J.
H. Johnson ); The Shortest Book of Amduat? ( L. H. Lesko ); The
Naucratis Stela Once Again ( M. Lichtheim ); Papyrus Harkness ( T. J.
Logan ); On the Accession Date of Akhenaten ( W. J. Murnane ); Ramesseum
Sources of Medinet Habu Reliefs ( C. F. Nims ); The Sothic Dating of the
Twelfth and Eighteenth Dynasties ( R. A. Parker ); Of Myth and Santorin
( R. L. Scranton ); Pashed, the Servant of Amon: A Stelophorous Figure
in the Oriental Institute Museum ( D. P. Silverman ); Cairo Ostracon J.
72460 ( E. Thomas ); A Chronology of the New Kingdom ( E. F. Wente and
C. C. Van Siclen III ); Some Fragmentary Demotic Wisdom Texts ( R. J.
Williams ); Mrs. Andrews and the 'Tomb of Queen Tiyi' ( J. A. Wilson );
Bibliography of George R. Hughes ( J. Eckenfels ).
