The twelfth annual Current Research in Egyptology symposium aimed to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of the field of Egyptology. Papers in these proceedings reflect this multidisciplinarity, with research based on Archaeology, Linguistics, Cultural Astronomy, Historiography, Botany, Religion and Law, amongst others. By means of one or several of these disciplines, contributors to this volume approach a broad range of subjects spanning from Prehistory to modern Egypt, including: self-presentation, identity, provenance and museum studies, funerary art and practices, domestic architecture, material culture, mythology, religion, commerce, economy, dream interpretation and the birth of Egyptology as a discipline.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Conference papers not included in this volume
• Poster presentations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Access to the Divine in New Kingdom Egypt: Royal and public participation in the Opet Festival
• Chapter 2: Female Figurines from Deir el-Medina: A review of evidence for their iconography and function
• Chapter 3: Sex Object or Equal Partner? The role of women as portrayed in ancient Egyptian love poems
• Chapter 4: Chronology of the Egyptian New Kingdom Revisited
• Chapter 5: The Problem with Neferusi: A geoarchaeological approach
• Chapter 6: ‘If only I could accompany him, this excellent marshman!’: An analysis of the Marshman (sḫty) in ancient Egyptian literature
• Chapter 7: Wrestling with the Past: The origins of pharaonic history in the Islamic Middle Ages
• Chapter 8: The Applicability of Modern Forensic Anthropological Sex Determination Techniques to Ancient Egyptian Skeletal Remains
• Chapter 9: Children of Sorrow: Infants and juveniles in Ancient Egyptian funeral processions during the New Kingdom
• Chapter 10: Skeletal Health in Early Egypt
• Chapter 11: The Medjay Leaders of the New Kingdom
• Chapter 12: The Functional Context of 18th Dynasty Marks Ostraca from the Theban Necropolis