This paper examines a hitherto neglected device in Egyptian literature that one finds frequently in ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Akkadian texts—the use of Leitwörter. In these other corpora, the Leitwort involves words and/or roots that recur throughout a text and often reflect on central characters and/or reinforce central themes. It also can lend irony to…

The Head of Anubis: A Curious Gift from Aegean Emissaries in the Tomb of Menkheperreseneb
In this brief contribution the author explains the rather strange appearance of an Anubis-headed rhyton among the gifts of Aegean emissaries in the tomb of Menkheperreseneb (TT 86) as a way of marking the gifts as burial items. This places the object in accord with recent discoveries, which have shown that the Aegean gifts in…