Egyptian sacred landscape in advance of publication; Gay Robins; Michelle Sampson; Ian Shaw for letting mc read sections of his thesis and his work-in- press; Patricia Spencer for patient and generous help with the archives of the Egypt Exploration Society; the staff of various departments of the University of Warwick, especially Maureen Bourne and Alan Watson; and all the people who read drafts of various sections or discussed my ideas with me - Catherine Alexander, Bridget Bennett, Kate Chedgzoy, Joanna Defrates, Simon Eccles, Emma Francis, Imogen Grundon, Rachel Hasted, Sally Macdonald, Diana Paton, Ger- aldine Pinch, Christina Riggs, Rob Singh, John Tait, Terry Wilfong, Sue Wiseman, Maria Wyke. In a book which dips its toes into as many ponds as this does, their input was much needed and appreciated. Mistakes, of course, remain my own. At Routledge, Vicky Peters always had faith in this project and her assistants Nadia and Catherine provided invaluable support: my thanks to them all.
Special thanks go to two people — Michael Davis, who read and commented on most of the book in draft, gave invaluable help (especially with Chapter 4), and put up with me while I wrote it; and Lynn Meskell. Before she left England for the USA we collaborated on some of the discussion of Amarna art in Chapter 2, and I owe a great deal to her bold ideas about Egypt and her knowledge of archaeological theory. It's a pleasure to acknowledge my debt and to say that without her this book would have been a very different project.
October 1999
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W. Helck and E. Otto (eds)
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