Many students with learning disabilities find it difficult to acquire basic reading skills. This is even more of a challenge for students who are non‐vocal. The purpose of the present study was to pilot the use of Headsprout Early Reading© (HER©), an online reading programme, with four non‐vocal students with a severe learning disability (SLD), over the course of a nine‐week period. Additional table‐top activities were designed and implemented to augment the online instruction. None of the students completed the programme. Three students improved their early reading skills over the course of the intervention. Staff members indicated positive experiences of using HER©, especially mentioning how motivated the students were to engage with the programme. HER© for students with SLD requires one‐to‐one support and a longer implementation period to achieve completion; these have implications for resourcing in special schools. However, HER© shows promise with non‐vocal students with learning disabilities and evidence supports the need for larger‐scale evaluation research.

This article draws on legal texts written in demotic Egyptian and in Greek to investigate the ownership and use of the pastophoria (Egyptian s.wt (n ḥ.t-nṯr), ‘places (of the temple)’) of ancient Egyptian temple complexes. The focus is on the pastophoria of the temple of Hathor in Pathyris in Upper Egypt during the Ptolemaic period. The Pathyrite evidence is compared with that provided by documents from other Egyptian sites. The relationship between the temple functionary known as the pastophoros (Egyptian wn(?)) and the pastophorion is examined.

This article examines legal texts in demotic and in greek to investigate the siting and construction of pastophoria, egyptian s.wt. (n H.t-nTr) 'places (of the temple)', in the enclosure of the temple of hathor in Pathyris in upper egypt during the Ptolemaic period. The Pathyrite evidence is compared with documentary and archaeological evidence from other egyptian sites. In a forthcoming article in this journal, the scope of the study will be extended to consider the ownership and use of pastophoria and their relationship with the temple functionary known as the pastophoros, egyptian wn(?). In addition to advancing study of the topography of the Pathyrite temple complex and of the egyptian pastophorion, this article and its sequel explore the kinds of evidence that legal texts provide about ancient property types, their uses, and their social contexts.* This paper draws on my doctoral research, which was funded by the uK arts and humanities research council. I would like to thank John ray, dorothy Thompson, Kate Spence, and my anonymous referees for their comments and suggestions.1 f. ll. griffith, Catalogue of the Demotic papyri in the John rylands Library Manchester: With Facsimiles and Complete Translations (manchester, 1909), III, 47 n. 5.2 a. Bataille, Les Memnonia: recherches de papyrologie et d'épigraphie grecques sur la nécropole de la Thèbes d'Égypte aux époques hellénistique et romaine (cairo, 1952), 198. for an overview, see g. Vittmann, Der demotische papyrus rylands 9 (ÄaT 38; wiesbaden, 1998), II, 318-9.3 J. f. Quack has suggested that the demotic title should be read iry-aA 'doorkeeper', rather than wn 'opener': his unpublished comments are reported in K.-T. Zauzich, 'ein antikes demotisches Namenbuch', in