D’Auria Sue H. (ed.) Offerings to the Discerning Eye. An Egyptological Medley in Honor of Jack A. Josephson

Brill, 2010. — xxx, 362 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 38). — ISSN: 1566-2055; ISBN: 978-90-04-17874-8.Egyptologist Jack A. Josephson, a writer and researcher in the tradition of the “gentleman scholar,” has achieved broad recognition as an authority in Egyptian art history. His lucid investigative analyses have probed and redefined the limits of inquiry, expanded research parameters, and broadened perspectives, emphasizing the undeniable contributions of art history in an intra-disciplinary framework.
This volume of collected essays is dedicated to Josephson by distinguished friends and colleagues, a select roster including eminent, established scholars in the field of Egyptology and rising stars of the younger generation. Josephson views Egyptian art history as a critical but neglected area of study, and is a strong proponent of its reinstatement in the academic curriculum as an essential component in the formation of new cadres. The quality of the articles in this Egyptological medley is a tribute to the honoree and an affirmation of the esteem of his peers, while the range of subjects and variety of themes addressed reflect the degree to which he has, in his own scholarship, undertaken to implement his ideal.Magda Saleh. Preface.
Magda Saleh. Jack A. Josephson: A Biographical Narrative.
Diane Bergman. Bibliography of Jack A. Josephson.
Matthew Douglas Adams and David O’Connor. The Shunet el-Zebib at Abydos: Architectural Conservation at One of Egypt’s Oldest Preserved Royal Monuments.
Dieter Arnold. Earthquakes in Egypt in the Pharaonic Period: The Evidence at Dahshur in the Late Middle Kingdom.
Dorothea Arnold. Foreign and Female.
Kathryn A. Bard and Rodolfo Fattovich. Recent Excavations at the Ancient Harbor of Saww (Mersa/Wadi Gawasis) on the Red Sea.
Edward Bleiberg. Reused or Restored? The Wooden Shabti of Amenemhat in the Brooklyn Museum.
Andrey Bolshakov. Persians and Egyptians: Cooperation in Vandalism?
Bob Brier. The Great Pyramid: The Internal Ramp Theory.
Betsy M. Bryan. Amenhotep III’s Legacy in the Temple of Mut.
Günter Dreyer. Eine Statue des Königs Dewen aus Abydos?
Mamdouh Eldamaty. Die leeren Kartuschen von Akhenaten.
Richard Fazzini. Aspects of the Mut Temple’s Contra-Temple at South Karnak, Part II.
Erica Feucht. A God’s Head in Heidelberg.
Rita E. Freed. Reconstructing a Statue from a Head.
G.A. Gaballa. The Stela of Djehutynefer, Called Seshu.
Ogden Goelet, Jr. Observations on Copying and the Hieroglyphic Tradition in the Production of the Book of the Dead.
Tom Hardwick. A Group of Art Works in the Amarna Style.
W. Benson Harer, Jr. Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Ancient Egypt.
Melinda Hartwig. The Tomb of a hety-e, Theban Tomb 116.
Zahi Hawass. A Head of Rameses II from Tell Basta.
Salima Ikram. A Pasha’s Pleasures: R.G. Gayer-Anderson and his Pharaonic Collection in Cairo.
Sameh Iskander. Merenptah’s Confrontations in the Western Desert and the Delta.
T.G.H. James. A Contemplation of the Late Period.
Peter Jánosi. “He is the son of a woman of Ta-Sety...”—The Offering Table of the King’s Mother Nefret (MMA 22.1.21).
Nozomu Kawai. Theban Tomb 46 and Its Owner, Ramose.
Peter Lacovara. A Unique Sphinx of Amenhotep II.
Sarwat Okasha. Rameses Recrowned: The International Campaign to Preserve the Monuments of Nubia, 1959-68.
Paul F. O’Rourke. Some Thoughts on τὸ ὕδωρ of Thales and τὸ ἄπειρον of Anaximander.
William H. Peck. Mapping the Temple of the Goddess Mut, Karnak: A Basis for Further Exploration.
Elena Pischikova. The Dog of Karakhamun.
Donald B. Redford. The Second Pylon of the Temple of Ba-neb-djed at Mendes.
Gerry D. Scott, III. Four Late Period Sculptures in the San Antonio Museum of Art.
Hourig Sourouzian. News from Kom el-Hettan in the Season of Spring 2007.
Rainer Stadelmann. The Prince Kawab, Oldest Son of Khufu.
Paul Edmund Stanwick. New Perspectives on the Brooklyn Black Head.
Emily Teeter. A “Realistic” Head in the Oriental Institute Museum (OIM 13952).
Nancy Thomas. Transformation of a Royal Head: Notes on a Portrait of Nectanebo I.
Jacobus van Dijk. A Cat, a Nurse, and a Standard-Bearer: Notes on Three Late Eighteenth Dynasty Statues.
Kent R. Weeks. The Theban Mapping Project’s Online Image Database of the Valley of the Kings.
Christiane Ziegler. The Tomb of Iahmes, Son of Psamtikseneb, at Saqqara.
Alain Zivie. The “Saga” of ‘Aper-El’s Funerary Treasure.