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cknowledgements
The present work ís a revised and supplemented version of my doctoral thesis that I
defended in 2021. None of the works could have been completed without the help of
several scholars and friends for whom I would like to express my gratitude here.
Iam especially indebted to Dr. Tamas Bacs for his guidance as my supervisor during
my PhD studies and for his help with the writing of this study.
I would like to thank Dr. Barbara Egedi for her enormous help in clarifying the prob¬
lematic issues in the inscriptions of the individuals, as well as Dr. Kata Jasper for her
advice regarding the issues of funerary literature.
I owe special thanks to all of my colleagues at the Institut fir Agyptologie und
Koptologie of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, who hosted me several
times and provided me with access to the library of the department. I am especially
grateful to Maren Goecke-Bauer, Frauke Pumpenmeier and Dr. Alexander Schütze
who have been of great help in making my work a success.
I owe a debt of gratitude to the following scholars and institutions who provided me
with photos and information on objects otherwise inaccessible to me: Dr. Johannes
Auenmiiller, Dr. Susanne Binder, Dr. Robert Demarée, Prof. Andreas Dorn, Dr. Chris¬
tian Loeben, Prof. Maarten Raven, Prof. Alain Zivie, the Musée Granet, and the
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.