No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

• Peter Lacovara: Archaeologist of Egypt and Nubia, Janet RichardsOur Peter, Chester HigginsBibliography of Peter LacovaraFirst or Second Intermediate Period? Egyptian or Nubian? How Small Discoveries Might Change Old Interpretations, Bettina BaderAlphabet Soup: Reisner’s Sculptor A and Sculptor B at Giza, Lawrence M. BermanEgyptianizing Art in its Historical Context: The John Stemme Obelisk, Edward BleibergA Chocolate “Deffufa”, Charles Bonnet and Dominique ValbelleHoward Carter and the German Dig-House at Luxor, Bob Brier and Ahmed MansourThe Circle Closes: On the Diadem from the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Katja Broschat and Eid Mertah“Inlaid with All Precious Stones”: The Provenance and Function of a Group of Coffin Inlays from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Nicholas BrownA Horse of a Different Color: Eton Myers Collection 1631, Betsy BryanKushite Salmagundi I: The Path in the Tomb of Tanutamani and Pyramid Text Utterance 670 as a Framework for the Events on the Path, Susan K. DollA Child Mummy in Cincinnati, Jonathan Elias and Carmen Muñoz PérezA Fragment of a Round-Topped Alabaster Stela of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten, Marjorie M. Fisher and W. Raymond JohnsonQueen Khensa’s Gems: International Diplomacy in Exotic Vessels and Semiprecious Stones in Twenty-Fifth Dynasty Nubia, Jasper GauntTheban Tomb 126 with an Addendum on Theban Tomb C7, Andrew Hunt GordonThe Great Dealers: John Cooney’s Recollections of Joseph Brummer, Tom HardwickA Block from the “Living Ones of the Aten Endure” Kom el-Nana, Melinda HartwigThe Royal Workshops at the Dazzling Aten, Zahi HawassA Note on the Use of Petrified Wood, Sergej V. IvanovPropping up the Dead: The Burial of Tabakmut in Tomb MMA 60, Janice Kamrin and Salima IkramThe Date of the Lower Slope Cemetery and the Spatial Development of the Abydos Middle Cemetery: First Insights from the Pottery Analysis, Christian Knoblauch, Mohamed Naguib Reda, and Aisha MohamedPeter and the Palace City, Mark Lehner  An Old Kingdom Child’s Garment from the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Mimi Leveque and Renée SteinOsiris Statuettes: Votive Offerings in the Temple of Osiris at Abydos, Michelle Marlar Sur le caractère symbolique des voûtes en chevrons monumentales, Franck Monnier   Lunch with Ricardo Caminos, Susan Osgood About the Stonecutters of Late Antique Coptos, Laure Pantalacci The Name and Parentage of Asru, an Egyptian-Kushite Woman in Manchester, Campbell PriceNew Kingdom Imported Pottery from the Middle Area of Qurna, Luxor, Egypt, Mohamed Naguib RedaThe Riqqeh Pectoral, Nicholas ReevesA Piriform Jar from the Cemetery at el-Dakka: Contexts and Contents, Margaret Serpico, Ben Stern, and Denise DoxeySatdjehuty: Notes on an Early Eighteenth Dynasty Burial Assemblage, John H. Taylor The Northeast Corner Pillar of Weni the Elder’s Tomb: From Discovery to Display in the Sohag Museum, Heather Tunmore, Suzanne L. Davis, Hamada Sadek, Ramadan Kotb, and Caroline RobertsBasketry Quivers from Ancient Egypt, André J. Veldmeijer and Salima IkramAbove or Beside? Some Remarks on the Excavation of the Sanctuary of Heqaib in Elephantine in 1932 and 1946-7, Cornelius von PilgrimNubian Khoiak Festival Rituals at Philae and Meroe, Janice W. Yellin

The contributions are consistently strong, combining rigorous scholarship with accessibility for both specialists and informed readers. The production is of a high standard, with clear illustrations and an effective layout, though the volume’s size might be daunting. It may be best approached selectively, and rewards repeated consultation. No Good Deed Goes Unpunished is a fitting and affectionate tribute to a scholar whose influence extends well beyond his publications . . .  Roger Forshaw, Ancient Egypt, July/August 2026