This volume in honour of Mohamed el-Bialy offers 22 contributions by his friends and colleagues. The articles deal with a wide range of topics that include unpublished objects and texts as well as results of the most recent field research
Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano, Ph.D. M.Phil., Universidad de Jaén, is lecturer of Ancient History and heads the archaeological excavations in the necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa (Aswan, Egypt). His current research is focused on the provincial administration of Egypt during the Old and Middle Kingdoms.Cornelius von Pilgrim, Dr. Phil., is director of the Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt in Cairo. He has published many contributions on Egyptian Archaeology, including a fundamental study on domestic architecture at Elephantine in the Second Millennium BC. He has been conducting excavations at Elephantine since 1986 and is director of the Joint Swiss-Egyptian Archaeological Mission at Syene.
