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chapters, and for sharing the final phases of the book and a number of bottles of wine. I am also grateful to those people who have read and commented on partial drafts of the book including Dr. Sam Lucy and Dr. Robin Skeates.
Madame Thanaa Hassan Moussa of the Nubian Museum in Aswan, Egypt, kindly allowed me to photograph the artefacts from Qustul and Ballana.
I am also thankful to my colleagues who listened to my ideas and encouraged my research. Thanks therefore to Dr. Dorian Fuller, Dr. Stuart Tyson-Smith, Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Dr. Cornelia Kleinitz, Professor Greg Woolf, and especially Dr. David Edwards whose support in the earlier stages of this research I found particularly encouraging. I owe Dr. Pam Rose a special thank you with regard to her help in developing my understanding of the pottery from Qustul and Ballana. I am also grateful to Dr. John Chapman and Dr. Derek Welsby who examined my earlier work. Their comments on that work have been very useful in reformulating certain aspects of this research. Any mistakes that remain herein are my own responsibility.
Of course, I am deeply grateful to my parents and to Helen for their unstinting and unquestioning support in various forms over many years of postgraduate study and beyond. Truly, this project could not have been completed without their belief in the value of research, and their belief that I could do it.
Special thanks must go to my husband Boris, who has put up with the emotional and intellectual highs and lows (or grumpiness and hysteria) that were an inevitable part of my research and the writing of this book.