This book comprises twenty-two articles devoted to First Millennium
Egypt, all intended to honour Antony Leahy, whose interest in this
period is well known to scholars of this period. Both archaeology and
philology are represented in this volume as well as studies on history
and material culture. The interlocking interpretation of texts and
objects is also noteworthy. The paper by Karl Jansen-Winkeln re-examines
the question of the Libyan or Egyptian nature/origin/ethnic identity of
the Third Intermediate Period, whilst others are more specific in their
scope. Chronological discussions concerning the order of the kings of
the 25th Dynasty in Egypt and Nubia are presented by Gerard Broekman and
Roberto Gozzoli. Several objects belonging to a king Djehutyemhat are
described by Troy Sagrillo. Statues belonging to the Memphite governor,
chancellor and scribe to the king Horsematuyemhat; the Theban governor
Nesptah A; the admiral Hor, who presumably lived in Tell el Yahudiya;
and the royal tutor Ankhefensenmut from Permanu are discussed by Melanie
Cressent, Frederic Payraudeau, Campbell Price and Oliver Perdu
respectively, with the latter arguing for an identification of Permanu
with Kom Firin. The Theban choachytes of the Third Intermediate Period
are studied by Cynthia Sheikoleslami, whilst Maria Cannata reports on
the remains of an embalmer’s cache from the Saite Period. The minor arts
of the First Millenium BC are addressed by Claus Jurman, who writes on a
number of seals, Julia Budka, who deals with Twenty-fifth Dynasty votive
pottery from Abydos, Benjamin Hinson, who reports on the presence of
bells in First Millennium private tombs, and John Taylor, who discusses
two lost Twenty-second Dynasty Theban cartonnages. Other studies examine
the possibility of a third large Twenty-first dynasty cache at Thebes
(David Aston); the possible location of the tomb of Osorkon III at
Thebes (Michinori Ohshiro); the use of Pyramid texts in Twenty-fifth and
Twenty-sixth Dynasty tombs (Antonio Morales); Saite warfare (Alan Lloyd)
and Thirtieth Dynasty Apis burials (Didier Devauchelle). The volume also
comprises philologically orientated contributions on Glorification Texts
(Martin Bommas) and the Horus Throne in djet and neheh (Stephen
Gregory). The collection of articles is rounded off by Gunter Vittmann’s
account of a previously unpublished letter written in abnormal hieratic
from Amheida in the Dakhleh Oasis.
