On 11/05/2013 09:12, Morgan Leigh wrote:

The reference shelf of the Griffiths in Oxford contains several volumes that one tends to refer to all the time -
especially at the beginning of
a topic - the three volume encyclopedia is there, much of its material often redacted from the  monumental

> 
>  * Lexikon der Ägyptologie, Hrsg. von Wolfgang Helck und Eberhard
>    Otto which is standard reference work and gives bibliographical list
>    and work by leading expert - multilingual - but worth ploughing
>    through even if the article is in unfamiliar language -

 also there alongside porter and moss,
so good reference works for a college library -
if you don't already have then baine and malek's atlas of AE is very useful
- there is also a one volume edition of the encyclopedia by same eds

mogg morgan
oxford