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The British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt edited by Ian Shaw and Paul Nicholson (British Museum Publications, 1995)
Ancient Egyptian Literature vol. I by Miriam Lichtheim (University of California Press, 1980) The inscriptions of Harkhuf are translated here.
Voices from Ancient Egypt. An Anthology of Middle Kingdom Writings by RB Parkinson (British Museum Press, 1991) This has a good translation of the letters of Heqanakhte, accompanied by commentary.
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 49 (1963), 29-37 RA Caminos translates the letter of Sennefer here.
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 47 (1961), 30-33 by HW Fairman. The coffin-inscription of Kiya was first identified by Fairman.
Tawe the Twin is known to papyrologists, but not to the wider audience that she deserves. The detailed background to her life and her companions can be found in Dorothy Thompson's Memphis under the Ptolemies (Princeton, 1988).
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About the readings
Performed by Jonathan Keeble and Alison Pettitt
Directed by Joanna Green
About the author
John Ray is Herbert Thompson Reader in Egyptology in the University of Cambridge. He has held posts in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum and in the University of Birmingham. His publications have concentrated on the Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods of Egyptian history and he is a regular reviewer on historical and literary themes for the Times Literary Supplement. His book, Reflections of Osiris, was published by Profile Books in the winter of 2001.
