Manfred Bietak Preliminaries 1 Manfred Bietak Contents 7 Manfred Bietak Abkürzungen/Abbreviations Manfred Bietak Vorwort/Preface Manfred Bietak A farewell to our great friend Lawrence E. Stager Břetislav Vachala - Lenka Varadzinová Pavel Červíček (1942–2015): List of Publications on Rock Art Mostafa Hassan Mahmud Ahmed - Sameh Ahmed Elsaid Hashem - Lucia Hulková - Anna Wodzińska Vorberichte/Preliminary Reports: Egyptian Salvage Excavations at Tell el-Mansheya E. Christiana Köhler - Delphine Driaux - Sylvie Marchand - Tawny Holm - Arianne Capirci Vorberichte/Preliminary Reports: Preliminary Report on the Investigation of a Late Period Tomb with Aramaic Inscription at el-Sheikh Fadl/Egypt Michal Artzy From Akko/Acco to Beit She’an/Beth Shan in the Late Bronze Age Aiman Ashmawy Ali More Stone Objects from the so-called Governor Palace at Tell Basta Bettina Bader On Simple House Architecture at Tell el-Dabca and its Parallels in the Late Middle Kingdom Julien Cooper Kushites Expressing ‘Egyptian’ Kingship: Nubian Dynasties in Hieroglyphic Texts and a Phantom Kushite King Wojciech Ejsmond Natural Pyramids of Ancient Egypt: from Emulations of Monarchs to Royal Burials Valentina Gasperini - Hannah Pethen Roads from Bahariya to Faiyum: A Study in Remotely Sensed Data Birgit Glück The Heritage of the A-Group. A Chronological and Cultural Re-Investigation Jean-Philippe Goiran - Cécile Vittori - Brice Noirot - Magdy Torab Relative Sea Level Variations at Alexandria (Nile Delta, Egypt) over the Last Millennia: Archaeological Implications for the Ancient Harbour Ann-Kathrin Jeske Tortypologie befestigter Anlagen. Erarbeitung anhand altägyptischer Tore des Mittleren bis Neuen Reiches Clara Jeuthe Einblicke in die lithischen Industrien von der 1. Zwischenzeit bis in das Neue Reich – die Beispiele Tell el-Dabca und Tell Edfu Dominika Kofel - Teresa Bürge Agriculture and Storage Practices in an Early Iron Age Household: Analyses of Plant Macro Remains at Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Jordan Valley Karin Kopetzky Tell el-Dabca and Byblos: New Chronological Evidence Eythan Levy A Fresh Look at the Mekal Stele Gianluca Miniaci Deposit f (Nos. 15121–15567) in the Obelisk Temple at Byblos: Artefact Mobility in the Middle Bronze Age I–II (1850–1650 BC) between Egypt and the Levant Alessandro Moriconi Rising Moon at Tell eŝ-Ŝerīʿa/Tel Seraʿ: A Neo-Assyrian Bronze Crescent Standard and the Iconography of the Moon God Sîn of Ḫarrān in Southern Levant. Ritual Paraphernalia and Military Insignia? Martin Odler - Katharina Uhlir - Marie Jentsch - Martina Griesser - Regina Hölzl - Irene Engelhardt Between Centre and Periphery: Early Egyptian and Nubian Copper Alloy Artefacts in the Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (KHM) Peter Pavúk - Barbara Horejs Ceramics, Surveys, and Connectivity in Western Anatolia: The Middle and Late Bronze Age Bakırçay/Kaikos Valley Restudied Sarah Vilain Imitations et productions locales influencées par la céramique chypriote White Painted Pendent Line Style à Tell el-Dabca