David Aston Author

Barbara G. Aston is a free-lance Egyptologist based in Alexandria, Ohio who specializes in Egyptian pottery and stone vessels. She has worked primarily in the Valley of the Kings and in the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, where she has been a ceramicist on the EES-Leiden excavations for over 30 years. Her previous publications on the New Kingdom pottery from these tombs appear in The Tomb of Pay and Raia at Saqqara (2005), The Memphite Tomb of Horemheb V (2011), The Tomb of Iniuia (2012), and The Tombs of Ptahemwia and Sethnakht at Saqqara (2020). David Aston is an Egyptologist who has participated in excavations for over forty years, with his most recent fieldwork comprising several seasons in the Valley of the Kings. He has written articles for learned journals and contributed chapters to scholarly publications, including several EES excavation memoirs. Amongst his own monographs one can count Pottery recovered near the Tombs of Seti I (KV 17) and Siptah (KV 47) in the Valley of the Kings, 2014; Burial Assemblages of Dynasties 21-25: Chronology – Typology – Developments, 2009 , and Elephantine XIX: Pottery from the Late New Kingdom to the Early Ptolemaic Period, 1999. Jacobus van Dijk was associate professor of Egyptology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. From 1981 to 2003 he worked as philologist/epigrapher with the EES-Leiden excavations at Saqqâra. Together with Geoffrey T. Martin he re-investigated the Royal Tomb of Horemheb in the Valley of the Kings (2006–9). Since 1986 he has also been working with the Brooklyn Museum Expedition to the Precinct of Mut at South Karnak.