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Acknowledgments

A great number of people supported me in this project, both during my PhD studies and while I was revising the text. I would particularly like to thank Nigel Fletcher-Jones and Neil Hewison from the American University in Cairo Press, who not only suggested they might like to publish my thesis but also provided invaluable advice, feedback, and encouragement. My PhD supervisors Steven Snape and Matthew Fitzjohn and my examiners Chris Eyre and Marco Zecchi offered many wise words and posed very helpful, difficult questions. Campbell Price, Cordula Werschkun, and Peter M. Robinson were endlessly supportive while I was preparing my PhD, as were my friends and colleagues in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology and the libraries at the University of Liverpool. My colleagues in the Department of History and Archaeology in the American University of Beirut have not only made me feel enormously welcome, but have also provided some crucial advice on parts of this book. Since 2007 I have worked with many archaeological missions in the United Kingdom and Egypt, and I owe a lot to the teams at Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project, Chester Amphitheatre, Giza (Ancient Egypt Research Associates), Tell al-Retaba, Elephantine (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut), Madinat al-Gurob, and Sais. My friends and family have known me at my best and my worst during this process, and I owe a great deal to Daniel Lawson, Pier Paolo Raffa, to my “five brothers and a million sisters” who keep me smiling, to my five “children” Rory, Benjamin, James, Amelia, and Robert, to my brother Tom, and to Emma and Niki. Many colleagues, friends, and family have read various drafts of this study as it progressed, and I am exceptionally grateful to everyone who offered their time and advice so generously, especially Ruth Binney and Marco Zecchi. Last, but certainly not least, I want to thank the people who first inspired me to ‘do’ Egyptology and Archaeology: Mark Lehner, José Pérez-Accino, Jan Picton, Mick Oakey, Keith Hazell, Naomi Payne, Neil Faulkner, and Patricia Graham.