Current Research in Egyptology 16 (2015)

Christelle Alvarez is a PhD student at the University of Oxford studying the nature and the unusual treatment of Pyramid texts within the evolution and transmission of mortuary literature Solène Klein is a PhD student at the University of Oxford. Her main research interests include Ancient Egyptian funerary beliefs and practices and Egyptian material culture.

“…the approaches to the phenomenon of ‘travel’ – both real and intellectual – are as rich as the life of the ancient Egyptians and I can only add that all the contributions make this book highly recommendable.”

• List of papers presented  List of posters presented Past conferencesForewordEditorial prefaceAcknowledgements1. ‘Now, Voyager’: a preface on the poetics of placeRichard B. Parkinson 2. An epigraphical journey in the pyramid of Ibi: between textual transmission and mistakesChristelle Alvarez 3. Provisioning an Egyptian quarry workforceSarah Doherty 4. ‘That his perfect name may be remembered’: added inscriptions in the tomb of vizier Kagemni at SaqqaraJulia Hamilton 5. Did the ancient Egyptian traveller consider Ha, god of the Western Desert, while traversing his domain?Kata Jasper 6. Between geographical imaginary and geographical reality: Byblos and the limits of the world in the 18th dynastyMarwan Kilani 7. A journey through burial practices: the protection of the viscera in the 21st dynasty (c.1070–945 bce) in ThebesSolène Klein 8. The ancient Egyptian Book of the Moon: Coffin Texts spells 154–160Gyula Priskin 9. Hatshepsut’s expedition to the land of Punt—novelty or tradition?Filip Taterka 10. Travelling in space and time. The ‘west’ and ‘east’ sides of the Harpoon: two geographic divisions of the same nome or two different regions?Elena Tiribilli