Written in memory of the late Cyril Aldred, one of the world's most highly regarded experts in Egyptian art, the 30 original and thought-provoking essays in this volume, by an international team of leading scholars, are a major contribution to Egyptian art history, to Egyptology and to art history in general.

Preface, Three Appreciations of Cyril Aldred, The Bibliography of Cyril Aldred, New Evidence for Liliform Capitals in Egypt, An Elite Image, An Early Twelfth Dynasty Sculpture, Striding Glazed Steatite Figures of Amenhotep III: an Example of the Purposes of Minor Arts, Some Remarks on the Louvre Statues of Sepa (A 36 and 37) and Nesames (A 38), The Pyramid of Seila and its Place in the Succession of Snofru's Pyramids, Missing Parts, Several Objects, and some Aspects of the Art of the Third Intermediate Period, Two Iconographic Questions: Who and When? Relief Styles of the Nebhepetre Montuhotep Funerary Temple Complex, 'The Very Best Artist', Memoranda on Craftsmen at the Ramesseum, The MalqataJEl-Amarna Blues: Favourite Colours of Kings and Gods, Un dignitaire de l'heureuse Memphis au Moyen Empire: Ptah-ounenef, Descriptive Notes from the Valley, The Locusts on the Daggers of Ahmose, Jewellery Fragments from the Tomb of Nefertari in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Two Scribes and a King of Dynasty XVIII, A Sleeping Gazelle, Howard Carter's Collection of Egyptian and Classical Antiquities, The 'Feminization' of the Male Figure in New Kingdom Two-dimensional Art, Vulture and Cobra at the King's Brow, Ramses II admirait Sesostris Ief Eleni VASSILIK, Egyptian Bronze Sculpture before the Late Period, A Remarkable Gem in Paris