Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Dr. Marianne Eaton-Krauss for the English translations of the original German chapters by Dr. Regina Hölzl and Michael Neumann.
The hieroglyphic transcriptions of the hieratic texts were composed in computer font by Irene Morfini, MA, and Vincent Oeters, MA, to whom we express our sincere gratitude. Maren Goecke-Bauer, MA, was kind enough to produce the facsimiles for the table in the introduction of the chapter about the text of the papyrus.
We are grateful to Prof. Dr. J.F. Quack for valuable comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of our chapters.
We thank Dr. Neal Spencer and Tania Watkins of the Department of Ancient Egypt and the Sudan of the British Museum for providing us with an image of the linen shroud BM EA 10270 (here Fig. 16a).
Dr. Raymond Johnson of the Chicago House at Luxor deserves our gratitude for supplying a new image of the recently restored so-called ‘House of Butehamun’ at Medinet Habu (Fig. 21).