The Archaeological Mission of the University of Salento (Lecce) would like to acknowledge institutions and people for their contribution to the Soknopaiou Nesos Project. A special mention is due to the Dean of the University of Salento, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Cultural Centre in Cairo, the Andrew Mellon Foundation and Prof. Roger S. Bagnall. We are deeply grateful to the Supreme Council of Antiquities, to the General and local directors who have succeeded in these important charges, and to the inspectors who every year collaborated with the Mission.

Our warmest thanks are due to cav. Luca Trombi, to the Friends of Soknopaiou Nesos Project and to Centro Internazionale di Studi Borgiani of Velletri, directed by dr. Rigel Langella: without their support many activities wouldn’t have been possible.

Our warmest thanks to the collaborators and students who came in the field in the various seasons, the workmen, all from Fayyum villages, and the assistants to directors, Moataz Abu el Nil, Mohammed e Ashraf Barakat.