Ms. Jones is a PhD student in Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. Her research focuses on the use of female mythological creatures on Lycian tombs, including gorgons, sphinxes, and harpies, and the extent to which these had an apotropaic function whereby they were included to ‘protect’ the tombs and/or the souls of the dead. Noticeably, male mythological creatures (for example, centaurs or satyrs) do not appear to have been used in the same context, indicating that the gender of these liminal figures was somehow important to their function, and that their liminality may have reflected social values about the place of women in society and cult. As part of her research, she plans to take a postcolonial approach to the way that apotropaism and funerary cult in the ancient Near East have traditionally been viewed by Western academics, in an effort to deconstruct colonialist and Orientalist narratives present in some of the existing scholarship.