In order to draw a picture of the royal residence town of Memphis and its inhabitants during the New Kingdom period (15501070 BCE) that is as representative as possible, this volume has analyzed all of the available written witnesses in one extensive corpus. It is on this basis that individuals have not just been identified, but their personal relationship patterns reconstructed within a historical network of people.

Anne Herzberg-Beiersdorf, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.