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For translations and discussion of these love poems, Michael Fox, The Song of Songs and Ancient Egyptian Love Songs (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin, 1985); John Foster, Hymns Prayers, and Songs: An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Lyric Poetry (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995), pp. 162–166 (a selection).

The only comprehensive publication of Turin Papyrus 55001 is Joseph Omlin, Der Papyrus 55001 und seine Satirisch-erotischen Zeichnungen und Inschriften, (Turin: Fratelli Pozzo-Torino, n.d.). Related to the vignettes of this papyrus are numerous explicitly erotic ostraca and figurines; see Lisa Manniche, Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt (New York: Kegan Paul International, 1987).

Colin A. Renfrew, “Questions of Minoan and Mycenaean Cult,” in Robin Hägg and Nanno Marinatos, eds., Sanctuaries and Cults in the Aegean Bronze Age (Stockholm: Paul Âström Förlag, 1981), pp. 29–30.

See also Klaus Kilian, “Earthquakes and Archaeological Context at 13th Century BC Tiryns,” in Stiros and Jones, Archaeoseismology, p. 65.

Adapted from Terramoto de 1755: Testemunhos Britanicos, The British Historical Society of Lisbon (Lisbon: Lisoptima Edicoes, 1990).

Drews, End of the Bronze Age, p. 39.

Amos Nur and Eric H. Cline, “Poseidon’s Horses: Plate Tectonics and Earthquake Storms in the Late Bronze Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean,” Journal of Archaeological Science 27 (2000), pp. 43–63.

Robert Drews, The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1993), p. 39.

Carl Blegen, Cedric G. Boulter, John L. Caskey and Marion Rawson, Troy IV, Settlements VIIa, VIIb and VIII (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1958), pp. 11–12.

Pirhiya Beck and Moshe Kochavi, “Aphek,” in Ephraim Stern, Ayelet Lewinson-Gilboa and Joseph Aviram, eds., The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land (Jerusalem: The Israel Exploration Society, 1993), p. 68.