The Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period still attract
relatively little research in comparison with other periods of Ancient
Egyptian history. This volume aims to fill a gap, and to promote further
research into the early second millennium BC. The volume presents a
collection of studies by different authors focusing on a variety of
aspects of the archaeological record. Several papers present new
excavation reports and hitherto unpublished objects. Other topics
include the dating of the local governors at Byblos, the transmission of
offices in the period, the characteristic "magical wands" or Apotropaia,
burials of royal women, and particular groups of stelae, with a new date
proposed for a small but well-known corpus of wooden stelae from Thebes.
Together these researches build on the range of approaches presented in
Middle Kingdom Studies volume 1.