This project has been funded in part by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Leakey Foundation, and A. Bruce Mainwaring.

We would like to thank the Supreme Council for Antiquities and Dr. Zahi Hawass Secretary General for granting us permission to do this work.  We would also like to thank Mr. Zein el Abdin Zaki Director General of Antiquities for Sohag, Mr. Mohammed Abd El Aziz Chief Inspector Balliana, and Mr. Ashraf Sayeed Mahmoud Inspector of Antiquities.  We would also like to extend our warm and appreciative thanks for Madame Amira of the ARCE for all her help in making this project possible.  Lastly, we would like to thank Matthew Adams and David O’Connor of the Penn-Yale-IFA Expedition to Abydos for facilitating our work in the desert.