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Acknowledgments

To bring a project of this magnitude to a successful completion depends on the expertise and support of many people and organizations. The Tomb Chapel of Menna Project and its publication were made possible by funding support from the American people through a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This grant was administered by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) through its Egyptian Antiquities Conservation Project (EAC). At ARCE in Cairo, Michael Jones and Janie Abdel-Aziz offered their support, as did Safi Ouri, the project accountant, who was the liaison between the project and ARCE. Amira Khattab was always on top of everything and Amir Abdel Hamid was equally helpful. And very special thanks go to ARCE director Gerry Scott, who first suggested that the tomb of Menna would be a great addition to the ARCE cadre of projects, and to Kathleen Scott, who patiently and meticulously helped me prepare the manuscript for publication.

Very sincere thanks go to Dr. Zahi Hawass, former secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, for his keen interest and support of the project. Dr. Sabry Abdel Aziz, former director general for the antiquities of the Nile Valley, was a fundamental supporter of the project early on. Mr. Magdy Ghandour, former general director of Foreign Missions Affairs, Dr. Monsour Bouriak, director general of antiquities, Luxor and Upper Egypt, and Dr. Ali Asfar and Dr. Mostafa el-Weziry, former directors general of antiquities in West Thebes, facilitated work and and offered a great deal of support over the three years.

I am also especially beholden to the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo, particularly Daniel Polz, Dietrich Raue, Isolde Lehnert, Nassar al-Tayib and his brother Mahmoud al-Tayib, and the indomitable Amani Ghaneim. I owe a special debt of gratitude to the former director, Günter Dreyer, whose advice and support were invaluable. At the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Yasmin El-Shazly and Ghada Tarek facilitated the acquisition of photographs and information about Menna’s scribal staff and the bust of Henuttawy. In the field, I benefited from discussions with many Egyptologists including Tamás Bács (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), Mohamed el-Bially (SCA chief of antiquities in Upper Egypt), Ray Johnson (Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute of Chicago), Karl-Joachim Seyfried (Professor Emeritus, University of Heidelberg), Francesco Tiradritti (Getty Research Institute); and Alain Zivie (CNRS). Special thanks go to Salima Ikram at the American University in Cairo for her wisdom and friendship. The amazing staff at the American University in Cairo Press, including the remarkable Nadia Naqib, Randi Danforth, Laila Tadros Ghali, and Neil Hewison, brought this manuscript into reality.

An interdisciplinary team of scientists and researchers aided the archaeometric analysis of the tomb chapel: Renata García-Moreno, François-Philippe Hocquet, François Mathis, Saïd Rakkaa, and David Strivay from the Centre Européen d’Archéométrie of the University of Liège, Belgium; Dimitri Laboury and Hugues Tavier from the University of Liège, Belgium; from Ghent University, Belgium, Peter Vandenabeele from the Department of Analytical Chemistry, and Kerstin Leterme from the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History of Europe; and Elsa Van Eslande from the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France. Archival work was done at the Griffith Institute at the University of Oxford with the appreciated help of Jaromir Malek, Alison Hobby, Elizabeth Fleming, and Cat Warsi.

Our conservators skillfully restored the tomb chapel to its former glory: Bianca Madden (team supervisor), Cristina Beretta, Greg Howarth, Sasa Kosinova, Sarah Livermore, Mark Perry, Doug Thorp, and our Egyptian conservator, Ahmed Yusef. The tomb was surveyed and mapped by a team of experts: Kai-Christian Bruhn, of the University of Applied Sciences, Mainz, and Stefan Ziegler, of the Office for Geoinformation, Kanton Solothurn, Switzerland. The tomb chapel was digitally photographed by Andreas Paasch and Katy Doyle, aided by Kevin Doyle. Katy Doyle also negotiated the post-production survey and stitching of the digital photographs, working tirelessly with abundant skill and a great sense of humor. Pieter Collet then expertly traced these stitched photographs digitally, as vector drawings, and opened a new avenue of non-invasive painting recording.

Outside of Egypt, special thanks go to many colleagues with whom I discussed aspects of the tomb chapel: Dieter Arnold and Marsha Hill at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Betsy Bryan at Johns Hopkins University; Kelly Anne Diamond-Reed at Villanova University; James Harrell at the University of Toledo; Friederike Kampp-Seyfried at the Egyptian Museum, Berlin; Nozomu Kawai at Waseda University, Japan; Arielle Kozloff; Peter Lacovara and Gay Robins at Emory University; Angela McDonald at the University of Glasgow; Hana Navrátilová from Charles University, Prague; Susan Onstein at the University of Memphis; Richard Parkinson at the British Museum; and Christiane Ziegler at the Musée du Louvre.

The burden of writing and editing is always borne by those closest to the author. Many, many thanks to Laura Hunt and Megan O’Neill for their excellent editing and proofreading of draft after draft; Ann England, Julia Hilliard, and Jack Josephson for their inspiration; and my husband, Jeff Jeruss, for his unbelievable patience and sense of humor (Yes, dear, it’s really done!). To all those inadvertently omitted for the sake of space, my heartfelt thanks.

My mother, Carew Fox Powell Hartwig, always encouraged me to pursue my dreams wherever they might take me. It is to her memory that I dedicate this book.