An Occurrence of Iron in the IV Dynasty

THE JOURNAL OF

Egyptian Archaeology VOLUME 28

PUBLISHED BY

THE EGYPT EXPLORATION SOCIETY 2 H I N D E STREET, MANCHESTER SQUARE, L O N D O N , W. 1

1942

CONTENTS PAGE EDITORIAL FOREWORD

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T H E BATTLE OF MEGIDDO

R . O . Faulkner

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A N O L D K I N G D O M LETTER CONCERNING THE CRIMES OF C O U N T

SABNI

Paul C. Smither

A N EGYPTIAN T E X T I N GREEK CHARACTERS

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W. E . Crum

T H E M Y T H OF HORUS AT E D F U — I I

A.

M.

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Blackman

H . W . Fairman P.

GISS.

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AND THE Constitutio

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H . I.

Antoniniana

NUBIANS I N THE T O M B OF AMUNEDJEH

and

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Bell

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From Notes by N . M .

Davies

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A BILINGUAL DEDICATION FROM ALEXANDRIA

Marcus N . T o d

A N OCCURRENCE OF IRON I N THE FOURTH D Y N A S T Y

Dows

Dunham

William J . Young NORMAN DE GARIS DAVIES

Alan H . Gardiner

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and

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BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS: Notes on Seagoing Ships by Percy E. Newberry, p. 6 4 ; T h e Inverted J . Use D . S.ofPENDLEBURY S. the R. K . Glanville . . . R.6S. 1 'Imy by J . Gwyn Griffiths, p. 6 6 ; Geometric Series and Rhind Papyrus by Williamson, p. 6 7 ; T h e Duration of the Fifteenth Dynasty according to the Turin Papyrus by Richard A. Parker, p. 6 8 ; An Epitaph from Hermopolis by T . C. Skeat, p. 6 8 ; Bricks as BirthStool by W . E. Crum, p. 6 9 . REVIEWS OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS :

G. D., Osiris and His Rites (Man, 1 9 3 7 , Nos. 1S6 8c 200); Osiris and the Fertility-rite (Man, 1 9 4 1 , No. 7 1 ) .

Hornblower,

Reviewed by J. Gwyn Griffiths

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Materials used at the Embalming of King TuWankh-amun (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Papers No. 10) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

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Alan H . Gardiner

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Die religidsen Texte auf dem Sarg des ... .-• ... ••• ••• •••

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Battiscombe Gunn

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Winlock,

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E.,

Sander-Hansen,

Anchnesnefribre

C . E.,

LIST OF Plate I

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