Jordan is a doctoral candidate in Egyptology at the University of Oxford. His research explores how visual images were used and conceptualized in ancient Egypt, as reflected in the forms and distribution of ‘composite’ figures that combine elements from different objects. Three categories of religious material from the early second millennium BCE form the core of his current work: the cosmographic Book of the Hidden Chamber, the collection of mortuary spells known as the Book of Two Ways, and decorated ivory ‘wands’ used in rituals of birth and protection.