This paper offers the publication of a large limestone stela of the priest Patjaimabanakht from Abydos, which is on display in the Sohag National Museum (Sohag 752), and a republication of stela Brussels E 4439 of the same person. The article focuses on the names, titles, and genealogies of the 51 individuals depicted on the Sohag stela. Based on its onomastic and epigraphic characteristics and its stylistic and artistic features, the stela can be dated to the Third Intermediate Period, either the 21 st Dynasty or 22 nd Dynasty.

Fieldwork at Amarna from autumn 2024 to spring 2025 involved excavation and survey in Amarna’s housing areas, including the house of the vizier Nakht, and the continuation of several post-excavation projects. The post-excavation work reported on here is the study of human skeletal materials, pottery, and matting from the non-elite cemeteries; relief fragments from the Maru-Aten; zooarchaeological samples from the house of Panehesy; and lithics and osseous technological pieces from various locations at Amarna. Ongoing community engagement work is also summarised.

This paper aims to shed light on the recently identified tomb of the overseer of the seal, Ty, who served during the reigns of both Hatshepsut and Thutmose III. The work discussed here derives from excavations in Western Thebes for the New Kingdom Research Foundation (NKRF) in November 2021 in the burial ground known as Wadi 300. Excavation results from this tomb and the surrounding area confirm that it was re-modelled and re-used during the Coptic or Late Antique Period as part of a habitation rather than a tomb. Beside Ty’s tomb, we also discovered in the same necropolis a number of other tombs belonging to other high-status officials from the same period, including the king’s sons Inebny, Montuiwy, and Renna.

This paper challenges the commonly held view that the names of the early 18 th Dynasty vizier Ahmose Ametju ( ʿmṯ ) and his wife ( Tȝ-ʿmṯ ), spelled in group writing, were non-Egyptian, and questions the validity of claims about the foreign origins of the couple, who were ancestors of a powerful Theban family. The paper argues that the non-Egyptian explanation of the names is no more convincing than the alternative interpretation that they are contracted forms of the name Ahmose (in a masculine and a feminine variant). It is further argued that the evidence for the parents of Ahmose Ametju, discovered by Sheila Whale but disregarded in subsequent studies, makes it less likely that Ahmose Ametju was an early generation immigrant to Egypt.

The ongoing excavations in the archaeological concession area of Cairo University at the Memphite New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara have uncovered a number of ancient graffiti. This article aims to present all graffiti recorded in the early Ramesside tomb of Iurokhy. Special emphasis is placed on a graffito depicting and naming male individuals bringing offerings to the tomb. It is suggested that the individuals represent members of the actual support staff of the mortuary cult, those who looked after the mortuary provisions of the deceased tomb owner. One of the individuals depicted, a man named Heriherneferher, left more than just a representation of his person. He, himself, was buried in one of the spaces of the tomb’s superstructure. This paper further presents a list of graffiti recorded in adjacent Ramesside tombs, thereby adding to the published corpus of Memphite tomb graffiti.

In 2023/24, a season of topographic survey was carried out at the North Saqqara plateau. The main objectives of this initiative were (1) the establishment of a spatial reference network of stable topographic nails distributed in the landscape, and (2) the photogrammetric survey of the portion of the Early Dynastic cemetery excavated by Cecil M. Firth and Walter B. Emery in the 1930s. Both tasks were completed successfully with the support of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. As a result of this work, the author has provided the area with a network of survey markers and found the location of structures whose existence is attested in archival documentation but whose whereabouts were then unknown. The present article is a report of the work undertaken in this field campaign, explaining the motivations, methodology, and preliminary results.