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This book began its life as my doctoral dissertation at the University of
Pennsylvania. Many thanks to my mentors: the members of my committee,
Josef Wegner, David P. Silverman, and Miroslav Bárta, who provided
helpful feedback and support at the early stages of my research,
and Salima
Ikram, who first introduced me to pottery through the North
Kharga Oasis Survey. Ceramics for used in this study’s analyses were augmented
with unpublished materials kindly provided by Dietrich Raue
(then of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Kairo and director of the
Elephantine excavations), Mark Lehner and Anna WodziÅska (the Ancient
Egypt Research Associates, excavations at Heit el-Ghurob), and Lawrence
Berman (the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, materials from Reisner’s Giza
excavations). These unpublished materials rounded out my corpus and
enabled my analyses.
While preparing the manuscript I was employed at two different institutions:
West Virginia University Institute of Technology and Roanoke
College. I am grateful to both institutions for their support of my scholarship.
Funding for revising the manuscript came in part from the West
Virginia Humanities Council, Fellowship number 12028. Roanoke College
funded image permissions through a Faculty Professional Advancement
grant and also provided funding for a research assistant to aid in
the finalization of this manuscript. I am grateful to Thomas Schneider for
accepting this volume into the Culture and History of the Ancient Near
East series and Katie Chin at Brill for her help during the submission and
editing process.
My thanks to the numerous individuals and institutions who provided
permission to reprint their images in this text: the Ancient Egypt Research
Associates, Colin Hope and the Australian Centre for Egyptology, the
Czech Institute of Egyptology, the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut,
Abteilung Kairo, the Egypt Exploration Society, the Institut français
d’archéologie orientale, the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,
Peeters Publishers, the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Teodozja Rzeuska
and IKSIO PAN, and Verlag
der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Also, thanks to Ramadan Hussein for putting me in touch with
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