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Causing His Name to Live Culture and History of the Ancient Near East Causing His Name to Live Culture and History of the Ancient Near East Founding Editor M. H. E. Weippert Editor-in-Chief Thomas Schneider Editors Eckart Frahm, W. Randall Garr, B. Halpern, Theo P. J. van den Hout, Irene J. W inter VOLUME 37 William J. Murnane 1945–2000 Causing His Name to Live Studies in Egyptian Epigraphy and History in Memory of William J. Murnane Edited by Peter J. Brand and Louise Cooper LEIDEN • BOSTON 2009 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Causing his name to live : studies in Egyptian epigraphy and history in memory of William J. Murnane / edited by Peter J. Brand and Louise Cooper. p. cm. — (Culture and history of the ancient Near East, ISSN 1566-2055) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-17644-7 (hard cover : alk. paper) 1. Egypt—History—New Kingdom, ca. 1550-ca. 1070 B.C—Sources. 2. Egypt—History—To 332 B.C.— Sources. 3. Inscriptions, Egyptian. 4. Egypt—Antiquities. I. Brand, Peter James. II. Murnane, William J. III. Title. IV. Series. DT87.C34 2009 932’.014—dc22 2009020675 ISSN: 1566-2055 ISBN: 978 90 04 17644 7 Copyright 2009 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands table of contents v TABLE OF CONTENTS Bibliographical Abbreviations . vii List of Figures . ix Acknowledgements . xiii Introduction . 1 A Fond Remembrance: William Joseph Murnane, Jr. March 22, 1945–November 17, 2000 . 5 Lorelei H. Corcoran The Amarna Succession . 9 James P. Allen Note archéologique et épigraphique sur les architraves de la grande salle hypostyle du temple d’Amon-Rê à Karnak . 21 Michel Azim et Vincent Rondot Usurped Cartouches of Merenptah at Karnak and Luxor . 29 Peter J. Brand Quantifying Regalia: A Contextual Study into the Variations and Significance of Egyptian Royal Costume Using Relational Databases and Advanced Statistical Analyses . 49 Amy Calvert The Long Coregency Revisited: Architectural and Iconographic Conundra in the Tomb of Kheruef . 65 Peter F. Dorman The Death of Meketaten . 83 Jacobus van Dijk Images of Amenhotep IV and Nefertiti in the Style of the Previous Reign . 89 Earl L. Ertman Two Semi-Erased Kushite Cartouches in the Precinct of Mut at South Karnak . 95 Richard A. Fazzini Un assemblage au nom d’Amenemhat Ier dans les magasins du temple de Louxor . 103 Luc Gabolde Under a Deep Blue Starry Sky . 109 Marc Gabolde The Festival on Which Amun Went out to the Treasury . 121 Helen Jacquet-Gordon A Sandstone Relief of Tutankhamun in the Liverpool Museum from the Luxor Temple Colonnade Hall . 125 W. Raymond Johnson vi table of contents Egyptian New-Kingdom Topographical Lists: An Historical Resource with “Literary” Histories . 129 Kenneth A. Kitchen A Reconstruction of Senwosret I’s Portico and Some Structures of Amenhotep I at Karnak . 137 François Larché The Land of Ramesses . 175 Donald B. Redford Bibliography of William J. Murnane . 179 Plates . 183 Index . 231 bibliographical abbreviations vii BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS ÄAT Ägypten und Altes Testament. 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