Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections V OLUMES 38 & 39 J UNE –S EPTEMBER 2023 TABLE OF C ONTENTS Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections | EgyptianExpedition.org VOLUME 38 About This Journal v Editorial Personnel vi Guide for Contributors vii Subscription Instructions x INTRODUCTION Gods and Humans in Ancient Egypt: Current Research and Multidisciplinary Approaches ix Renata G. Tatomir ARTICLES Was the Notion of Purgatory Known in Ancient Egyptian Religious Funerary Beliefs? 1 Reda Atalla The Representation of “Humans” and Gods in the So-Called Satirical Ostraca and Papyri from Deir el-Medina 21 Jennifer Miyuki Babcock Ptah, South of His Wall, Lord of Ankhtawy 29 Galina A. Belova Time of Creation, Creation of Time: Notes on the Making of Time in Six Religious Hymns of the New Kingdom (ca. 1539–1077 BCE) 47 Guilherme Borges Pires New Kingdom Private Theban Tombs: Places of Interaction between the Living, the Dead and the Gods 71 Miriam Bueno Guardia Self-Preservation in the Ptolemaic—Early Roman Period: Looking at Non-royal Portraiture 83 Giorgia Cafici To “Osirify” Royal Mummies in the Theban Necropolis 97 Giacomo Cavillier