{"id":5400,"date":"2018-03-15T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birminghamegyptology.co.uk\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2018-03-15T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T10:00:05","slug":"festschrift-in-honour-of-tony-leahy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/2018\/03\/15\/festschrift-in-honour-of-tony-leahy\/","title":{"rendered":"Festschrift in honour of Tony Leahy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of our group will be aware, Tony Leahy, Senior Lecturer in Egyptology, retired last year after some 40 years of service to the University. To honour his achievements, a small ceremony was held at the University on 15th February to present Tony with a festschrift:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5401\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5401 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-15-at-09.50.52-204x300.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-03-15 at 09.50.52\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-15-at-09.50.52-204x300.png 204w, https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-15-at-09.50.52.png 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">As sealed for presentation!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8216;A True Scribe of Abydos. Essays on First Millennium Egypt in Honour of Anthony Leahy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The book &#8211; 265 in the series Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, published by Peeters of Leuven and edited by Claus Jurman, Bettina Bader, and \u00a0David Aston &#8211; contains more than 20 essays from scholars having ties with Tony and the University over many\u00a0years. Further details about the book and a brief summary of its\u00a0contents may be seen on the publisher&#8217;s web site at:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peeters-leuven.be\/boekoverz_print.asp?nr=10517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.peeters-leuven.be\/boekoverz_print.asp?nr=10517<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ISBN 978-90-429-3480-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of our group will be aware, Tony Leahy, Senior Lecturer in Egyptology, retired last year after some 40 years of service to the University. To honour his achievements, a small ceremony was held at the University on 15th February to present Tony with a festschrift: &#8216;A True Scribe of Abydos. 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To honour his achievements, a small ceremony was held at the University on 15th February to present Tony with a festschrift: As sealed for presentation! &#8216;A True Scribe of Abydos. Essays on First Millennium Egypt in Honour of Anthony Leahy.&#8217; &nbsp; The book &#8211; 265 in the series Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, published by Peeters of Leuven and edited by Claus Jurman, Bettina Bader, and \u00a0David Aston &#8211; contains more than 20 essays from scholars&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Edward Mushett Cole","url":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/author\/mushetej\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Edward Mushett Cole","author_link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/author\/mushetej\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}