Also worth trying to order from the publisher is a new large-format paperback with text in French titled Abou Simbel et Les Temples de Nubie by François Xavier Héry and Thierry Enel (Edisud, 1994); it is beautifully illustrated with color renderings of the temples on their original sites by Nineteenth Century artist David Roberts and others. This same publisher also offers a two-volume boxed set by the same authors containing L'Universe de lÉgypte Revealé par Bonaparte and L'Universe de l'Égypte Ressucité par Champollion. In the same vein there is now available a beautifully produced "book" composed of thirty color "postcards" of plates from Description de l'Égypte (Taschen, 1995).
Not new, and also in French, but definitely noteworthy is L'Égypte Restitueé: Sites et Temples de Haute Egypte by S. Aufrere, J.-Cl. Golvin and J.-Cl. Goyon (Editions Errance, 1991). The volume has excellent color plates and detailed reconstructions of Upper Egypt's major temple-sites as they appeared in their heyday.
Two new titles in the University of Texas paperback series "Egyptian Book Shelf" are Papyrus by Richard Parkinson and Stephen Quirke and Boats by Dilwyn Jones.
New publications announced in the latest packet of "goodies" received from the Egypt Exploration Society in London include: Hathor Rising: The Serpent Power of Ancient Egypt by Alison Roberts (Northgate Books) and Ancient Nekhen: Garstang in the City of Hierakonpolis by Barbara Adams, which finalizes the report of John Garstang's 1905-1906 work at Hierakonpolis (SIA Publishing, which also offers some backlist titles at a reduced price for EES members).
Just released by the EES itself is The Unbroken Reed: Studies in the Culture and Heritage of Ancient Egypt in Honor of A.F. Shore, which includes various articles of linguistic, historical and archaeological subjects by colleagues of the late Professor Shore (see obit in KMT, spring '95), ranging from the Old Kingdom to the medieval period. The EES has also now published the latest volume of Graeco-Roman Memoirs, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Volume LX.
Magazines
The January/February 1995 issue of bimonthly Minerva magazine
contains a
short article on a recent find of a silver statuette of the lion-headed goddess
Sekhmet in the excavations by a Swedish team at Tell Abu al Kharza in the
Jordan Valley. The same issue also has a lengthy and very favorable review by
Robert Bianchi of the Metropolitan Museum's recent mini-exhibit,
"Pharaoh Gifts: Stone Vessels from Ancient Egypt." Minerva's March/April
1995
issue
reports on the possible threat to the Nubian temples which were moved to the
shores of Lake Nasser (Wadi es Sebua, Dakka and Amada) and made accessible
to tourists with the introduction of Lake cruises between Aswan and Abu
Simbel.
In the same issue, under "Auction Reports," it is noted that a two-thirds
life-size basalt head of Amenhotep III recently sold at Christie's London for
£ 65,300; and at Bohams, London, a Twenty-second Dynasty polychrome
cartonnage coffin of the Lady of the House Djedmontuiuesankh went at the
hammer for £ 16,000.
In an article titled "Alexander's Tomb...Not!" in the May/June 1995 issue of bimonthly Archaeology, Ptolemaic scholar Robert Bianchi completely "debunks" the recent highly publicized find of the Macedonian conqueror's "tomb" at Siwa Oasis by self-styled Alexander authority Liani Souvaltzi. Bianchi argues that the "discovery" was a well-orchestrated political move by Souvaltzi to fulfill a "prophecy" that, if a Greek secured Alexander's body, Greece would no longer be forced to share the designation of their province of Macedonia with Skopje, a province of the former Yugoslavia.
The March/April 1995 Biblical Archaeology Review has an excellent article by well-regarded British Egyptologist Kenneth A. Kitchen titled "The Patriarchal Age: Myth or History?" in which he offers his view - based on various ancient Egyptian and other Near Eastern sources - that, if they lived at all, the patriarchs of Israel should be dated to the first half of the Second Millennium B.C. (the Middle Bronze Age). BAR's 20th Anniversary May/June 1995 issue features a lengthy and interesting article titled "Did the Ark Stop at Elephantine?" by Besalel Porten, which discusses the possibility that the Ark of the Covenant, taken from Solomon's Temple in the Seventh Century B.C., was temporarily placed in a Jewish temple , perhaps especially built to house it, known to have been on the island of Elephantine at the First Cataract in Egypt during the Sixth-Fifth centuries B.C.
Film and Television
Hot flash! If you missed the recent over-blown megabucks "Stargate" film, it is
now available on video. So run, don't walk, to your nearest rental outlet (make
it a "Blockbuster night").
A number of ancient Egypt-themed television programs were broadcast in North America this past spring and should be noted. It you missed them the first time around, most of the TV cable-channels frequently rerun their programming, so it pays to watch the listings. On the Discovery Channel was a half-hour offering called "The Puzzle of the Pyramids" narrated by sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clark, which was interesting, except that it attempted to cover too much: from Zahi Hawass commenting on his new finds of workers tombs on the Giza Plateau, to Bob Laudermilk's pyramid block-lifting "machine," to a remote-control robot's discovery of a so-called "chamber" in an air shaft leading off the "Queen's Chamber" of the Pyramid of Khufu, to Robert Bauval talking about his Osiris/Orion constellation theory of the alignment of the Great Pyramid.
The Learning Channel (TLC) did a new one-hour program on the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" (different from the four-part series reported in the last "FTR"). This was a well-done presentation with excellent recreations, the Pyramids and the Pharos Lighthouse being given about ten minutes each. The same channel offered "Karnak on the Nile" and "Pyramids and the Cities of the Pharaohs" in their "Ancient Journeys" series. The first was a one-hour documentary on the French Archaeological Mission's work at the Karnak temple-complex over many years, interspersed with computer graphics of the Amen temple in its various stages of development. The second dealt with the Giza monuments, Memphis, Thebes, Abu Simbel, Alexandria and modern Cairo, and was also well-done.
TLC also aired a three-part series called "Return to Egypt," which included a repeat of "Karnak on the Nile," followed by "The Great Pyramid" and "Cleopatra: The Last Pharaoh." The pyramid segment was a 1992 Japanese-produced documentary with excellent graphics and on-site photography, which explored the whys, wherefores and hows of building pyramids (much of it based on the small Japanese "experimental" pyramid built in the desert near Giza). The Cleo-bio was German produced, with cleverly inserted footage and stills from early-Hollywood silent films (Theda Bara vintage) and the Colbert and Taylor epic portrayals from the '30s and '60s. There was interesting footage of the excavation of a column inscribed "Temple of Caesarion" and of underwater exploration of what may have been Cleopatra's palace (scores of pillars, a stairway and remains of a sphinx could be seen). Much of the program relied on Plutarch's writings, but Bob Bianchi had some things to say, as well!
Again on TLC, one of a half-hour series on "Ancient Warriors" was devoted to "Soldiers of Pharaoh" and dwelt on the expulsion of the Hyksos from Egypt by King Ahmose. Somebody in the TLC research department messed up on this one, however, as it was stated that Hyksos King Apophis wrote to Egyptian King Ahmose to complain about the latter"s noisy pet hippopotami at Thebes (while every student of New Kingdom history knows very well that the letter of complaint was sent to Ahmose's father, Seqenenre Tao II, and that it was Tao who began the war of liberation against the "foreign rulers"). While almost all of these television programs are to be commended for their excellent on-site camerawork, reconstructions, use of old-movie footage and stills, and scenes of daily life in modern Egypt, nonetheless they, unfortunately, all too often contain glaring misstatements. And I do wish the narrators would refer to the builders of the Giza pyramids by their Egyptian names rather than as Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinus!
Last but not least in the video department, Ted TurnerÕs TNT Channel came up a winner in April with its four-hour/two-evenings broadcast of "Joseph," the third installment of an ongoing TNT dramatic series on the Old Testament patriarchs (earlier programs dealt with the lives of Abraham and Jacob). Director Roger Young made Egypt (Morocco, actually) look intriguingly mysterious and menacing, and the cast was generally quite good, especially Ben Kingsley as Potiphar. Leslie Ann Warren gnawed the scenery in her read of Potiphar's wife (great wig, though!), but her attempted seduction, in an imaginary ancient Egyptian hot-tub, no less , of the virtuous and bewildered Joseph (played in the buff by a wide-eyed Paul Mercurio) bordered on softcore porn and was a hoot for those of us with fond memories of Anne Baxter's seductress in "The Ten Commandments"!
The New York Post critic gave "Joseph" four stars, saying it may be the best Bible epic ever made. I'm not so sure of that, especially after watching the Easter-evening rerun of "The Ten Commandments"; but I readily admit the end was particularly touching- when Joseph finally revealed himself to his brothers.
Museum News and Exhibits
Abroad
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology of University College
London
(usually open only Monday to Friday) announced two Saturday-morning
openings (in March and May) of the museum and its bookstore. The first
Saturday opening also featured a lecture by Stephen Quirke of the
British
Museum, who spoke on "King, Priest and Rat Catcher." The second Saturday
hosted Harry Smith (president of the Friends of the Petrie Museum),
whose
topic was "Saqqara: Cults and Catacombs."
While speaking at a recent meeting of a group called "American Friends of the British Museum" in New York City, keeper of that institution's Department of Egyptian Antiquities, W. Vivian Davies, reportedly stated that the famed Rosetta Stone - which everyone has always thought to be carved from basalt - proved upon a recent cleaning by the Museum's conservation department to actually be of Aswan pink granite!
Museum News and Exhibits
in the United States
On April 22, in the Becker-Colonna Gallery of San Francisco State
University, a
preview reception was held for an exhibit titled "Ancient Egypt in the Sutro
Egyptian Collection: Legacy of Andreina Becker-Colonna." The exhibition was
a
tribute to the late Dr. Becker-Colonna, who taught at San Francisco
State for
many years and was a founder of the University's Department of Classics and
Classical Archaeology. In 1968 she was instrumental in bringing the Sutro
Egyptian Collection to SFSU. Millionaire businessman Adolph Sutro
was
a city
father of San Francisco in the late-Nineteenth Century.
At the Dallas Museum of Art, "Eternal Egypt III: Ancient Nubia" is the third installment of a long-term loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which includes a monumental tomb stela, blue-faience vessels, weapons, stone vases, ivories, jewelry and a large group of Nubian royal ushabtis. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has mounted its own new long-term special exhibition called "Facing Eternity: Mummy Masks from Ancient Egypt," which includes masks of both wood and cartonnage, dating from the Old Kingdom to the Roman period and drawn from the permanent collection of the Museum and several private collections.
The Harvard Semitic Museum in Cambridge, Massachussets, has opened an exhibit (which runs through December 1995) titled "The Pyramids and the Sphinx: 100 Years of American Archaeology at Giza." Celebrating the work of Harvard archaeologist George A. Reisner in the early part of the century, and the current work at the Giza Plateau by American archaeologist Mark Lehner, the exhibit includes excavated artifacts and photographs and drawings documenting their finds.
The Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's traveling exhibition, "Ancient Nubia: Egypt's Rival in Africa", which includes over 300 objects in stone, bronze, inlaid wood and faience, with a wide range of jewelry in gold, amethyst, shell and faience, was at the Rochester Museum and Science Center from February 3 - April 30. The next venue is Washington, D.C.
In New York the Metropolitan Museum's new special exhibit, "An Ancient Egyptian Bestiary: Animals in Ancient Egypt," opened on April 12 (postponed from March 14, which was reported in the spring '95 "FTR") and will run through October 15. See page 14 this issue for my review of the show.
Lectures and Symposia Abroad
A series of talks on current archaeological research and discoveries in the
Middle East was given at the Museé du Louvre, Paris, from
December 1994
through February 1995. Egypt-focused lectures included "The Egyptian
Collections in the Hermitage" by A.O. Bloshakov on January 9, and
"Rescue
Archaeology in the Northern Sinai" by D. Valbelle on February 6.
The Second International Congress on Mummy Studies was held in Cartagena, Columbia, from February 6-10, 1995. In the session titled "History of Mummification," Dr. Bob Brier (Long Island University) and Ronald Wade (University of Maryland Medical School) presented the first scientific report on their research in which they mummified a human cadaver in the ancient Egyptian manner. Dr. A. Rosalie David (Manchester Museum) then presented an overview of the goals and achievements of the Manchester Mummy Project.
KMT has just received the January/February Newsletter of the Egyptological Society of Ireland, which reported on lectures at the Society's five 1994 and January 1995 meetings. Not reported in the winter '94/'95 "FTR" (our first mention of this society) was a lecture on January 19, 1994, by Ciaran Branigan on "Distinguished Roman Visitors to Egypt," and the same lecturer on September 21, 1994, speaking on "The Nile in Antiquity." The ESI January 1995 lecture was given jointly by John and Enda Gallagher, who showed a video tape of daily life in modern Luxor, and also views of Karnak and the west bank monuments (compiled from the Gallagher's nine visits to Egypt).
The ESI Newsletter also included two short articles, one titled "Germanicus in Egypt" (Tiberius's nephew) and "Animals of Ancient Egypt." In addition there was a two-paragraph reference to KMT by the Society secretary, David Breslin, in which he informed ESI members about the Journal and mentioned the "FTR" reference to the Society. Breslin said he is now a KMT subscriber and that interested members should contact him for more information (we certainly do appreciate the plug!).
The Egypt Exploration Society's "Calendar of Events" for 1995-1996 includes an announcement from the Bloomsbury Summer School in Egyptology regarding their summer program of one-week courses. The week of July 17-21 offers two choices: "Ancient Egypt: From Pyramids to Ptolemies" and "The Hieroglyphs and Language of Ancient Egypt." For July 24-28, the choices are "Life and Death in Ancient Egypt" or "Ancient Egypt and the Wider World." These Bloomsbury courses are illustrated and include gallery talks in the British Museum and "hands on" experience at the Petrie Museum, plus social events.
As to upcoming EES lectures, it should be noted that the location for W. Vivien Davies's previously reported lecture on June 28 ("New Evidence from Tombs of the Early-Eighteenth Dynasty at El Kab") has been changed to the Darwin Theatre, University College London, Gower Street. The lecture will be followed by a buffet supper (admission by ticket only) in the gardens of Gordon Square (weather permitting; otherwise at University College London).
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology will be held July 12 at 6:00 p.m. in the lecture theater of the British Museum. Admission is free, but tickets are only available from the Museum's Department of Egyptian Antiquities. The featured speaker will be Prof. Jan Quaegebeur, who will present "Hercules in Egypt: Roman Power and Egyptian Belief." The lecture will be followed by a colloquium (July 13 and 14) titled "Portraits and Masks: Burial Customs in Roman Egypt" (fee required; details from the BM Department of Antiquities).
A five-day conference, After Akhenaten, conducted by Dr. Clive Broadhurst, will be held in Cardiff from July 10-14. The fee is &163 90 and accommodation (additional charge) is available. Further details may be had from the Department of Continuing Education, the University of Wales, 38 Park Place, Cardiff CF1 3BB.
The Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt (based in Derbyshire) presented J. Thompson Rowling on April 15, who spoke on "Medicine and Diseases in Ancient Egypt." Scheduled for June 17 is Prof. K.A. Kitchen, speaking on "Ramesses II"; George Hart holds forth on "Gods and Myths in Ancient Egypt" on August 12 and Carol Andrews on "Amulets of Ancient Egypt" on September 9.
A newly formed society, The Poynton Egypt Group, will have monthly meetings on the last Friday of each month and visits to museums or places with Egyptian connections. Details of lectures and venues can be obtained from the Secretary, 9 Wayside Drive, Poynton, Cheshire SK12.
On July 20 and 21, a conference titled Conservation of Ancient Egyptian Materials II, organized by the Archaeology Section of UKIC and under the auspices of IAP Summer Schools, will take place in London at the Institute of Archaeology. For full information contact the Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H OPY.
And just a reminder...July 5 to 8, 1995, is the four-day conference at Kingston Lacy in Dorset titled "William John Bankes and the Ancient World" (see "FTR" winter '94-'95); July 16 to 19, 1995, are the dates for the conference Travellers in Egypt at Collingwood College, Durham; and, finally, the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists is scheduled in Cambridge from September 3 through 9, 1995 (see "FTR" spring 1995 for information on the last two).
Lectures and Symposia
in the United States
A new group to report on is the Egyptian Study Society of the Denver
Museum
of Natural History, which recently forwarded its brochure and 1995 schedule of
lectures (free except where noted). On January 17 David Pepper
discussed "The
Second Intermediate Period"; February 21 featured Frank Petree and
Alice
Gemmell, who showed a video titled "The ESS Coffin Project," dealing
with
the
process of constructing and painting a mummiform coffin; speaker for March
21 was Dr. Thomas Brown, whose subject was his "Discovery of the
World's
Oldest Road" (see "FTR" for spring '95); on April 18 Judy Greenfield, a
conservator at the Rocky Mountain Conservation Center , discussed her
work in
"Archaeological Conservation," both in-house and on location; and on May 13,
Dr. Robert Chadwick of Quebec discussed "Egypt and Mesopotamia:
Ancient
Rivals, Ancient Friends."
Scheduled to speak to the ESS on June 5 was Dr. Daniel Polz of UCLA, who reported on his work at Dra Abu el Naga "In Search of the 17th Dynasty Tombs" (nominal fee); and slated for July 18 is Floyd Chapman, an art historian who will speak on his "Recreations of Ancient Egyptian Wall Paintings." The ESS annual picnic will be held in August in lieu of a speaker. The lecture for September 12 will be given by Dr. Mark Lehner, who will talk on his work at the Giza Plateau (limited to 250 people and nominal fee). This certainly seems to be an active group and well worth joining if you're an Egyptophile in the Denver area!
There's always lots of news from the very active American Research Center in Egypt/Southern California chapter. Their museum trip planned for this past March was unfortunately canceled, but there were two March events which were not previously reported in "FTR": on March 13 Joel Malter, an expert on ancient materials and techniques, and on ancient coins, discussed "Lapis Lazuli in the Ancient World and Its Use in Ancient Egyptian Amulets"; and on March 26 Prof. John Baines (Oxford University) spoke on "The Position of Myth in Literature" and Dr. Richard Parkinson (British Museum) shared his ideas on "The Individual in Ancient Egyptian Literature."
On April 23 Dr. Fayza Haikal (American University in Cairo) spoke to the ARCE/SC group on "Egyptian Women: Ancient and Modern Comparative Views." Dr. Haikal gave the same lecture as the keynote address at the ARCE annual meeting in Atlanta (April 29) and as the annual lecture for the ARCE/New York chapter (May 4). She gave a second lecture to ARCE/ SC on April 25 titled "Egypt's Eastern Gate: The Fortresses of El Qantara Region and Other Recent Excavations in the Sinai."
On April 30, 1995, ARCE/SC and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles co-hosted Dr. Elizabeth Barber, who discussed her new book, Women's Work the First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth and Society in Early Times, which details her research on the importance of fiber arts as an economic force in history. The chapter and the museum will also co-host the Seventh Annual Egyptian Symposium, scheduled for July 29 and themed "A King's Ransom: Ancient Egyptian Jewelry," with Carol A. Andrews (British Museum) speaking on "The Labor of the Craftsmen: Jewelry Forms and Manufacture" and "Adorning the Mummy: Funerary Jewelry and Amulets." Sharing the program with Ms. Andrews will be Dr. Robert Bianchi (New York), who will have as his topics "Precious Commodities: Materials and Their Symbolic Meanings" and "The Decorative Art of Self Adornment: Jewelry Designs and Meanings."
Lastly from ARCE/SC, be reminded that an exciting three-day conference is planned by the chapter for November 3-5 on the theme "The Origins of the Ancient Egyptian State and the Preservation of Its Legacies," with featured speakers Drs. Farouk El Baz, Zahi Hawass, Mark Lehner and Fekri A. Hassan. Write ARCE/SC, 3460 S. Broadway, Los Angeles. CA 90007 for full details.
Across the continent ARCEÕs New York City Chapter sponsored a lecture and video presentation February 9, 1995, by Nicolaas H. Biegman (Netherlands ambassador to the United Nations) on the topic "Rural Sufism in Egypt," which traced this cult of the saints with roots in pharaonic, Coptic and Islamic cultures.
Postponed from February 16, 1995, to June 5, was the ARCE/NY and New School for Social Research co-sponsored talk given by Dr. Bob Brier on "Ancient Egyptian Mummification: The Hows, Whys and Wherefores." Brier is the author of the recent book Egyptian Mummies and the subject of a "National Geographic Explorer" TV documentary which traced his recent experiment in mummifying a human cadaver.
The March 31 Egyptological Seminar of New York meeting featured Dr. Janice Kamrin (University of Pennsylvania) speaking on "Monument and Microcosm: The Twelfth Dynasty Chapel of Khnum-hotep II at Beni Hassan," in which she discussed the purpose of this monument's architecture and decoration as these related to ancient Egyptian cosmology. The Seminar did not have a meeting in April (due to the ARCE annual meeting in Atlanta), and the speaker for the May 26 meeting was Dr. Bojana Mojsov (Brooklyn Museum), whose topic was "Medinet Habu: Evolution of the Architecture."
On April 17, as part of a series of lectures at The Explorers' Club in New York City, Dr. Wilfred Griggs (Brigham Young University) spoke on "Early Christianity in Egypt." At the other end of the scale, so to speak, the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion presented on May 2 a lecture by Thomas E. Levy titled "New Light on King Narmer and Egypt's Earliest Presence in Canaan."
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium (which generally meets monthly at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts) hosted Dr. David O'Connor (University of Pennsylvania) on April 19, whose lecture topic was "Far Frontiers: Egypt, Punt and the Aegean." It should be mentioned here that at the end of August Dr. O'Connor will leave his illustrious career as Egyptologist at the University of Pennsylvania to take up teaching duties at the Institute of Fine Arts, having been appointed to the position left vacant by the death last fall of Dr. Bernard V. Bothmer, longtime teacher of Egyptian art at the NYU facility.
New York City's Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts sponsored a series of three lectures by Barbara Porter (NYU) on May 9, 16 and 19, with the subject "Personal Adornment in Ancient Egypt."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was the venue for "Ancient Egypt West and East," a one-day symposium on May 4, 1995, with Anthony Mills (Director, DOP) speaking on "The Dakhleh Oasis Project: Archaeology in an Egyptian Oasis" and Fayza Haikal (American University, Cairo) repeating her talk on "Egypt's Eastern Gate." Also at the Met, as part of the May 19, 1995, Charles K. Wilkinson Lecture Series on the theme Art and Empire, Dr. Edna R. Russman (Brooklyn Museum) spoke on "Foreign Pharaohs: The Imperial Context of Twenty-fifth Dynasty Royal Imagery."
Miscellanea
For Tut Nuts
It should be noted, for the record, that the long-neglected grave of Howard
Carter in London's Putney Vale cemetery recently has been restored, with
the
deteriorated headstone replaced with a handsome new one bearing an
inscription referring to Carter's discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen and a
quotation from the "wishing cup" found in the tomb. The restoration project
was carried out with the approval of Carter's great-nephew, John
Carter, and
was financed by generous donations from the Griffith Institute (Oxford
University), the British Museum, the Egypt Exploration Society
and private
individuals, including W. Vivian Davis of the British Museum, Carter's
biographer
T.G.H. James, American archaeologist Dr. Donald P. Ryan,
and
a number of
others.
Computer News
For all of you whoÕd like to do your research via the Internet, and/or travel
the "information super-highway," take note. The Annual Egyptological
Bibliography and other publications and special indices (based on
bibliographical sources or from summaries by the searchers themselves) have
become essential tools for scholars and students of Egyptology who want to be
"state of the art" on happenings in the discipline; and it was decided at the
July 1994 meeting in Bordeaux, France, by the IAE Computer Working
Group to
compile an index of "Computerized Egyptological Resources" which will permit
institutions and individuals to engage in the easy electronic exchange of
information, the consultation of files, and the transfer of texts and images
between parties and persons around the globe.
This new index will be widely distributed by the Société d'Égyptologie, Geneve, with the goal that the index will be an inventory of all computerized materials in the field of Egyptology, including programs, applications, files, fonts, etc. Researchers who have done computer-based work are invited to write to Jean Luc Chappaz, Société d'Égyptologie, Geneve, Rue J.F. Bautte 9, CH 1201, Geneve, Switzerland, for detailed information. Subsequent submission of work (on floppy disk) should be sent to Chappaz prior to September 30, 1995, for inclusion in the first annual-index.