Table of Contents

Preface Bibliography Katarina Arias Kytnarova Broken for the afterlife Depositional and post-depositional processes in the shaft of Princess Sheretnebty's husband Johannes Auenmuller Society and iconography On the sociological analysis of iconographic programs of Old Kingdom elite tombs Martina Bardoňová Grain storage in the Old Kingdom Relation between an object and its image Miroslav Barta and Hana Vymazalova Created for eternity Statues and serdabs in the late Fifth Dynasty tombs at Abusir South Vivienne Gae Callender The art and artifice of the hieroglyphs of Akhmim in the Old Kingdom Sherine El Sebaie Vanquishing the beast Hippopotami hunting scenes in Old Kingdom tombs Laurel Flentye The Giza Necropolis: early influences Meidum, Dahshur, and Saqqara Florence Dunn Friedman The names of Menkaure Roman Gundacker The names of the kings of the Fifth Dynasty according to Manetho's Aegyptiaca Julia Harvey Old Kingdom wooden statues and beyond Marie Peterkova Hlouchova The god Weneg and the wng-plant in the Old Kingdom Colin A Hope, Amy J Pettman, and Ashten R Warfe The Egyptian annexation of Dakhleh Oasis New evidence from Mut al-Kharab Mohamed Ismail Khaled Old Kingdom royal funerary domains: a question of usurpation? Alejandro Jimenez-Serrano The governors of Elephantine and their funerary complexes in Qubbet el-Hawa at the end of Sixth Dynasty Naguib Kanawati A unique burial of a father and a son Niankhpepy the Black and Pepyankh the Black, at Meir Yukinori Kawae, Yoshihiro Yasumuro, Ichiroh Kanaya and Fumito Chiba 3D reconstruction and interpretation of the 'Cave' of the Great Pyramid: an inductive approach Jaromir Krejčí Archaeological exploration of the mastaba of count Kakaibaef in Abusir (Tomb AC 29) Agnese Kukela and Valdis Seglins The pyramids at Dahshur The necessary innovations before pyramids' construction at Giza Miral Lashien The art in the tomb of Pepyankh the Middle Innovation or copying? Maksim A Lebedev A new Old Kingdom painting from the Eastern Necropolis at Giza Remi Legros Decrets de la necropole royale de Pepy Ier Riccardo Manzini On planning the apartments of the pyramids Mohamed Megahed New ankh-giving scenes from the pyramid complex of Djedkare Karol Myśliwiec The 'Dry Moat': a new project Věra Novakova Old Kingdom stone sarcophagi as indicators of social change Christoffer Theis Eyes, false doors and Pyramid Text 534 1266-1267 Elizabeth Thompson Residing in the provinces The art and architecture of the Old Kingdom cemetery at Tehna in Middle Egypt Miroslav Verner Sahure: rethinking the pyramid complex Joris van Wetering The Early Dynastic royal cemetery at Saqqara PLATES I-CIII