Egyptology in Australia and New Zealand 2009 : Proceedings of the conference held in Melbourne, September 4th-6th

16 papers from the 'Egyptology in Australia and New Zealand' Conference held in Melbourne, September 4th-6th 2009.

Contents: A History of Egyptology at Monash University, Melbourne (C.

Hope); 1) Trade and Power: The Role of Naqada as a Trading Centre in Predynastic Egypt (J.

Cox); 2) Antecedents to the Ptolemaic Mammisis (V. Crown); 3) Ptolemaic 'Black Ware' from Mut el-Kharab (J.

Gill); 4) The Decorative Program of the Amarna Rock Tombs: Unique Scenes of the Egyptian Military and Police (E.

Healey); 5) The Use of Myth in the Pyramid Texts (J.

Hellum); 6) The Application of Cladistics to Early Dynastic Egyptian Ceramics: Applying a New Method (A.

Hood & J. Valentine); 7) Searching for an Oasis Identity: Dakhleh Oasis in the Third Intermediate Period (C.

Hubschmann); 8) Ambiguous Images: The Problems and Possibilities of Analysing Rock-art Images in the Egyptian Western Desert (D.

James); 9) The Ruler of Kush (Kerma) at Buhen during the Second Intermediate Period: A Reinterpretation of Buhen Stela 691 and Related Objects (C.

Knoblauch); 10) On Interpreting the Meaning of Amulets and Other Objects using the Frog Motif as an Example (J.

Kremler); 11) Administrative Control of Egypt's Western Oases during the New Kingdom: A Tale of Two Cities (R.

Long); 12) It Really is Aha: Re-examining an Early Dynastic Ink Inscription from Tarkhan (L.

Mawdeley); 13) Invisible History: The First Intermediate Period in United Kingdom (UK) Museum Exhibitions (M.

Pitkin); 14) The Inscriptions of Hatshepsut at the Temple of Semnah: An Art-historical and Epigraphic Re-appraisal (A.

Shackell-Smith); 15) Characterisation and Legitimisation in the Doomed Prince (D.

Stewart); 16) The Typology of 26th Dynasty Funerary Figurines (S.

Volk).