Carlos Gracia Zamacona, Ph.D. (2008), École Pratique des Hautes Études, is Atracción de Talento senior researcher at the University of Alcalá. He has published on the Coffin Texts, ancient Egyptian semantics and graphemics, including Manual de egipcio medio (Archaeopress, 2017).

• List of FiguresList of TablesAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionCarlos Gracia ZamaconaPart 1 Individuals1 Secondary Epigraphy and Interaction with Transfigured Dead: The Case of Nikauizezi, SaqqaraJulia Hamilton2 Decorated Coffin of King’s Ornament Setib Buried at AbusirVeronika Dulíková and Marie Peterková Hlouchová3 Putting Intentions in Their Place: Materialising Meaning through Spatial Dynamics in Appeals to the DeadAngela McDonald4 De Khenti-Mentiou à Khenti-Imentiou : miroir du monde funéraire royal de l’Âge Thinite à l’Ancien EmpireJean-Pierre Pätznick5 Osiris as Written in the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin TextsCésar Guerra Méndez and Carlos Gracia ZamaconaPart 2 Groups6 Repeating the Ritual under the Ground: Performance of the Royal Object Ritual in the Middle KingdomSeria Yamazaki7 Dmjw, N(j)wtj‘Citizen’ in the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts in the Context of the Social and Political Changes Occurred in Egypt at the Turn of the 3rd Millennium BCJuan Carlos Moreno García8 New Spells, New Compilations, and the Concept of Variability in Sequences of Pyramid and Coffin TextsChristelle Alvarez9 Becoming Wind? Observations on Identity and Identification in the So-called Transformation SpellsAnne LandborgPart 3 Tracers10 Variation in the Graphical Form of the First-Person Stative Ending in the Coffin TextsJorke Grotenhuis11 (Re)connecting Artefacts and Thinking in the Afterlife: the Case of Funerary Wooden ModelsGersande Eschenbrenner Diemer12 Variation as a Social Device: ‘Middle Egyptianisms’ in Old Kingdom LettersM. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro13 Problematising Linguistic Variation in the Coffin Texts: A Case-Study on Spell CT 335Dina Serova14 Occurrences of Grave Goods and Their Representations on Coffins: A Concept of Substitution?Elisabeth KruckIndex