This ancestor stela was the subject of my first article, which was published in a volume to mark the retirement of Professor Alan Lloyd. Professor Llo (cont.)

This faience tile depicts the lower half of a lapwing bird squatting on a neb-basket, which forms the rebus reading "all the rekhyt-people adore". The (cont.)

Since 2010 I have been part of the South Asasif Conservation Project (SACP) directed by Dr Elena Pischikova. As part of this project, I have worked cl (cont.)

Anyone who knows me will attest to the fact that I love an obscure god. This amulet represents the god Sopdu-Hor, who certainly falls into this catego (cont.)

W85 is one of my favourite objects in the Egypt Centre collection. This statue of Osiris was purchased by Sir Henry Wellcome from the collection of th (cont.)

To me, W157 is one of the real hidden treasures of the Egypt Centre collection. Despite being quite small in size, the carving of the dress is fantast (cont.)

W161 is a fragment belonging to one of the many stone shabtis of the Chief Lector Priest Padiamenope. This object plays a significant role in my life (cont.)

This object is a statue base belonging to the well-known Vizier of Ramesses II, Paser. It reminds me of my dear friend Anthony Donohue, who sadly pass (cont.)

W242 reminds me of my time as a lecturer of Egyptology at Swansea University. While preparing a lecture on the Amarna Period objects in the Egypt Cent (cont.)

The lintel of Tjenti is one of the masterpieces of the Egypt Centre collection. What I particularly like about this object is its life cycle. It was f (cont.)

This canopic jar is quite special. It belongs to a man called Psamtek son of Iahweben and seems to be the only item of his funerary equipment known (a (cont.)

W588 has been noted by several visitors to the Egypt Centre to be a fake. However, by carefully researching the object, I have been able to show that (cont.)

W769 reminds me of the importance of continually looking at objects for new insights. While this paddle doll had been studied previously, it was only (cont.)

W1041 is a beautiful example of a wooden funerary stela dating to the Ptolemaic Period. The long inscription on the front identifies the owner as a ma (cont.)

This shabti may not be the nicest example in the Egypt Centre collection, but for me it is one of the most significant. It had previously been misiden (cont.)

W1367b is one of two fragments of the inner coffin of Amenhotep son of Hapu in the Egypt Centre collection. Amenhotep was one of the most famous offic (cont.)

W1371 reminds me of my time working on the Thutmose III Temple Project, directed by Dr Myriam Seco Alvarez, in Luxor. This fragment is undoubtably fro (cont.)

The Egypt Centre is a strong proponent of object-based learning and students have the unique opportunity to handle many of the objects in the collecti (cont.)

W2050 is an object I insist on showing visitors during tours to the Egypt Centre store. While badly damaged, enough of this Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figure s (cont.)

This unusual statue of an unidentified goddess reminds me of the many wonderful Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conferences I attended. During CR (cont.)