Spring 2016 - Egypt Exploration Society

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Newsletter • London Edition
Issue 16, Spring 2016
Maria Idowu: A Tribute (2)
New Publications (3)
EES Conference: Current British Archaeology in Egypt (2016) (4-5)
Photo Captions & Credits (5)
“Melanie in Misr” (Egypt): the experiences of the inaugural Cairo Fellow (6-7)
London Seminars (8)
London Weekend Course: Digital Digging: (9)
Faith after the pharaohs: Egyptian papyri conservation (10-11)
Become a Trustee, Seeking a New Treasurer, Office Closures (12)
EES Tour to Rome, Fieldwork in Photos 2015-16 (14)
Cairo Lectures, Classes and Workshops (14)
Events Booking Form (15)
Gift Aid (15)
Join / Payment Form (16)
The days are getting longer as spring
approaches. This is the busiest time of year
for archaeological missions in Egypt, and
several of the projects supported by the
Society have already been into the field, with
more to follow. The Theban Harbours and
Waterscapes Survey Project carried out a
short field season beginning in January. The
project’s director, Dr Angus Graham and
his team were visited by the Society’s Cairo
representative, Essam Nagy and the inaugural
‘EES Cairo Fellow’ Melanie Pitkin (see more
below) whose write-up appeared online here:
http://goo.gl/6LJZDr. Dr Joanne Rowland has
also returned to the field to continue rescue
excavations ahead of a planned development
of the land in the Wadi Gamal, and to build a
protective wall around the nearby registered
antiquities area at Merimde Beni Salama.You
can follow Jo’s progress via her blog here:
http://imbaba.tumblr.com/ A new, joint EES /
University of Birmingham project led by Dr
Martin Bommas, had its first field season at
Qubbet El-Hawa, Aswan. Although the site
is already very well know as the location of
numerous rock cut tombs of the provincial
officials of the Old and Middle Kingdoms, it
has never been comprehensively explored.
The area has, sadly, also been the site of illicit
excavations in recent years, so there is a great
need for further work to be undertaken to
document what remains. We are looking
forward to bringing you the details of the
first season in due course and Melanie’s
thoughts following her visit are here:
http://goo.gl/etQiti
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Thanks to the new grants we are offering on an annual basis from the Excavation Fund, we
are able to support work at more archaeological sites throughout Egypt than ever before. A
new round of grants will be announced in the coming weeks and will take the total number
of projects to well over twenty. With this in mind we felt a conference to gather the project
directors together to share their work with members would be essential. Now that the Society
is able to support the work of so many projects, and remains the principal institution in the
UK supporting fieldwork in Egypt, it seems appropriate to name the event ‘Current British
Archaeological in Egypt’ and hope that this might help strengthen the existing togetherness
between the institutions involved. Further details are on pp. 4-5 and we hope many of you will
be able to join for what promises to be a very important event.
Several of these projects’ work features in the latest issue of Egyptian Archaeology (48, spring
2016) and also the next volume of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (see opposite)
The programme of digitizing the documentation kept in the Society’s archive
has continued. In collaboration with the MicroPasts team we have continued
to make the primary records of objects discovered at Amarna, Amara West
and most recently Buhen freely available for transcription online. This has
given many people, mostly ordinary members of the public, the opportunity
to work with these uniquely important records, while also providing the
Society with the data they contain in a form that can easily be added to our
growing database. Carl Graves, who has led the project from the EES side,
discusses the project here: http://goo.gl/w55521. As a complement to this
work, we have also continued to make further batches of digitized material
freely accessible online via the Flickr platform; most recently one hundred
and forty-seven photographs taken during Flinders Petrie’s 1898-9 season at
Abadiyeh and Hu / Diospolis Parva: https://goo.gl/NRKYIw.
In Cairo we have been extremely busy organizing a series of workshops
to provide early-career archaeologists with the ‘research skills’ they will
need to thrive.The workshops have ben organized by Melanie Pitkin, the
Society’s first Cairo Fellow who writes about her experiences on pp. 6-7.
Finally, we are unaccustomed to speaking about anything other than good
news but unfortunately 2016 did not start as we had hoped: one week
after returning from the Christmas holidays we had the terrible news
that the Society’s Finance and Business Manager, Maria Idowu, had passed
away due to complications arising from the birth of her second child.
Maria was an extremely popular and vitally important member of the
team, and had made many friends among our members and supporters
in the UK and Egypt in particular, but also around the world. She will be
greatly missed by all of us. A tribute appears below.
Best wishes,
The EES team
MARIA IDOWU: A TRIBUTE
It is with the deepest sadness that we announce the death of our friend
and colleague, Maria Idowu. Maria joined the Society as Finance & Business
Manager at the beginning of 2014, armed with a degree in Business and
Accountancy from the University of Brighton and several years’ experience
in charity finance. She faced the challenge of following in the footsteps of
Roo Mitcheson, who was well-known to many members, but rapidly made the
job her own, and set about a transformation of the Society’s financial systems
and processes. She was a much-loved and highly-regarded member of the
staff team, and we will miss her calm professionalism, no-nonsense attitude,
sense of humour, friendliness and smile. The picture here show her at her
usual desk, her smile much in evidence.
Maria was due to go on maternity leave on 15 January, in preparation for
the birth of her second child. Unfortunately, she was taken ill on the 7th and
passed away on the 10th. Our thoughts are with Maria’s family and friends
at this sad time.
In keeping with ancient Egyptian tradition, we wish “A thousand of bread, a
thousand of ‘teas with two sugars’, and all good and pure things for the soul
of Maria, Overseer of the Treasury, true of voice”.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming Titles for Spring 2016
The arrival of spring will bring with it a glut of new Exacation Memoirs, beginning with the
latest in the Survey of Memphis series:
Janine Bourriau and Carla Gallorini, The Survey of Memphis VIII. Kom Rabia:The Middle Kingdom
and Second Intermediate Period Pottery. EES Excavation Memoir 108.
This volume is a study of ceramic changes in the stratified settlement at Kom Rabia, Memphis,
during the Late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period.The pottery is presented
by sectors, following the archaeological narrative of Giddy’s report (The Survey of Memphis
VI), and quantitative analysis of a random sample taken from 73% of all contexts is used to
plot ceramic changes through time. The fine points of this development are discussed in
the commentary for each corpus, while Appendices 1 and 2 show the distribution of types
within the sequence and of pottery within single contexts.
The following Memoirs will also be published in the coming weeks and months
Jeffrey Spencer, The Delta Survey 2009-2015. Excavation Memoir 112.
William Y Adams and John Alexander, Qasr Ibrim:The Ottoman Period. Excavation Memoir 113.
Patricia Spencer, AmaraWest III.The scenes and texts of the Ramesside temple. Excavation Memoir 114
Lisa Giddy, The Survey of Memphis IX. Kom Rabia: The Middle Kingdom Objects. Excavation
Memoir 115
Tutankhamun’s Regent
The much-aniticpated volume on the reliefs and inscriptions from the Memphite tomb of
Horemheb, which was re-discovered by the Society in 1975, has been slightly delayed but
is now in the final stages of production.
Geoffrey Martin, Tutankhamun’s Regent. Scenes and Texts from the Memphite Tomb of Horemheb.
EES Excavation Memoir 111.
Members of the EES and/or Friends of Saqqara can pre-order the volume for the very special
discount price of £35! Offer valid for four months after date of publication.
This new volume is a revised edition of the 1989 publication, The Memphite Tomb of Horemheb,
Commander-in-Chief of Tutankhamun. Volume I The Reliefs, Inscriptions, and Commentary (EES
Excavation Memoir 55), with changes made to take account of new finds and scholarly articles.
Copies of all forthcoming titles can be pre-ordered at http://tinyurl.com/EESpre-order
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology Volume 101 (2015)
Also in the making is the 101st volume of the Journal, which will printed in March and mailed to subscribers immediately
thereafter. As usual the Journal contains scholarly articles covering a wide range of range of themes. The full list of main
articles is as follows:
Tell el-Amarna, 2014–15 (Barry Kemp), Theban Harbours and Waterscapes Survey, 2015 (Angus Graham et al), The
Fourth Century ad Expansion of the Graeco-Roman Settlement of Karanis (Kom Aushim) in the Northern Fayum (Hans
Barnard et al), @wT jH(w)T, the administration of the Western Delta and the ‘Libyan question’ in the third millennium BC
(Juan Carlos Moreno García), Ramesside Dockets on Blocks from the Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III in Dahshur (Hana
Navratilova), A Forgotten Governor of Elephantine during the Twelfth Dynasty: Ameny (Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano
and Juan Carlos Sánchez-León), Three Unusual Stelae from Abydos (Aleksandra Hallmann), An Evident Desideratum in
Egyptian Lexicography: Comments on Some Obscure Passages in the Coffin Texts and the Instructions of Amenemhat
(Marina Sokolova), The Two Non-Blue Amuns of the Shrine of Taharqa at Kawa (Caroline Armstrong), The Legal advice
of Totoes in the Siut Archive (P. BM 10591, verso, col.i-iii) (Gert Baetens and Mark Depauw), A Xoite Stela of Ptolemy
VIII Euergetes II with Cleopatra II and Cleopatra III (British Museum EA612) (Giuseppina Lenzo),The Ten Dead Deities of
The Temple of Dendera (Amr Gaber), Un Cercueil en Bois Provenant de Touna el-Gebel Conservé au Musée de l’Université
du Caire (Hassan Nasr el-Dine), Mery-Maat, an Eighteenth-Dynasty iry a3 n pr PtH from Memphis and His Hypothetical
Family (Rasha Metawi), Put the Statues in the Oven: Preliminary Results of Research on Steatite Sculpture from the Late
Middle Kingdom (Simon Connor, Hugues Tavernier and Thierry de Putter),The Inscribed Lintel of Ptahshepses at Saqqara
(Saleh Soleiman Atteia Abdalla).
Copies of all EES publications can be ordered online at http://www.ees-shop.com/
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EES CONFERENCE
Current British Archaeology in Egypt (2016)
Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 July 2016
Institute of Child Health, University College London, 30 Guilford Street, WC1N 1EH
Tickets for both days:
£70 (EES members), £95 (non-members).
Students: £40 (EES members), £55 (non-members).
Tickets for one day:
SPECIAL EARLY-BIRD OFFER FOR STUDENTS:
Book before 1 June and get two days for the price of one!
Since the Society advertised the new series of grants to be provided to UKaffiliated researchers and projects for fieldwork and research in Egypt in 2014
we have been able to expand our reach in Egypt to twenty-one projects at
eighteen different sites.These include the longstanding EES concessions, as
well as other missions supported through the Excavation and Centenary
Funds. The directors of sixteen of these projects will present the results
of their work at this important conference, which represents a significant
proportion of the British-affiliated missions currently operating in Egypt.
Fieldwork is, of course, not the only stage in the process of documenting
archaeological sites and monuments, and for this reason research and
conservation being undertaken on the Society’s Lucy Gura Archive and
Oxyrhynchus Papyri will also be presented at the event.
Zawiyet Sultan © UCL
Provisional Schedule
Saturday 9 July 2016
09:30 - 10:15 Registration
10:15 - 10:30 Welcome and opening remarks
10:30 - 11:00 Dr Tessa Dickinson: Compositional analysis of mudbricks at Hierakonpolis: insights into quality, sourcing and labour organisation
11:00 - 11:30 Dr Martin Bommas, Qubbet el-Hawa:
Qubbet el-Hawa © EES / University of Birmingham
problems and priorities
11:30 - 12:00 Refreshments
12:00 - 12:30
12:30 - 13:00
Dr Brigitte Balanda, Not just a catalogue! Insights into the EES correspondence archive
Dr Daniela Colomo, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri: past and present, problems and perspectives
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Dr Jeffrey Spencer, The Egypt Exploration Society Delta Survey: 18 years of research
14:30 - 15:00 Dr Penelope Wilson, Regional Developments: Sais, Mutubis and Foua in the North-west Delta
15:00 - 15:30 Dr Joanne Rowland:
New perspectives on the earliest farming village in Northeastern Africa – a view from Merimde Beni Salama
Sa el-Hagar / Sais © EES / University of Durham
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 - 17:00
Dr Eva Lange,Discovering an unknown Ancient Egypt: the Old Kingdom Elite cemeteries at Bubastis / Tell Basta
Dr Mohamed Kenawi: Glimpses on the discovery of an ancient town: Metelis
17:00 - 19:30 Reception
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Tell Basta © University of Würzburg
EES CONFERENCE
Current British Archaeology in Egypt (2016)
Provisional Schedule (contd.)
Sunday 10 July 2016
09:00 - 09:30 Anna Garnett, The Amarna Stone Village: understanding a New Kingdom workers’ community through its pottery assemblage
09:30 - 10:00 Dr Anders Bettum, The Coffins from the South Tombs Cemetery: recent discoveries and preliminary analysis
10:00 - 10:30 Dr Delphine Driaux, A French Epigraphic Expedition at Amarna at the End of the 19th Century
10:30 - 11:00 Dr Anna Hodgkinson, The usability of portable XRF for the study of Egyptian plant ash glasses from the Late Bronze Age: A pilot study
11:30 - 12:00 Ben Pennington, Naukratis in its riverine setting
12:00 - 12:30 Dr Angus Graham, Sand, silt and sherds: land- and waterscapes of ancient Thebes
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 15:00
Yaser Mahmoud Hussein, The recently discovered Naqada III Settlement at South Abydos
Mohamed Megahed, title TBC
Dr Richard Bussmann, Pyramid, town and cemeteries of Hebenu, Zawyet Sultan
Naukratis © British Museum
15:30 - 16:00 Hassan Ramadan Aglan, Documentation of the recently discovered tombs in Central Dra’Abou El-Naga,West Bank, Luxor
16:00 - 16:30 Dr Khaled Daoud, title TBC
16:30 - 17:00 Closing remarks
South Abydos © SAEEDC_YMH_2015
In addition, posters will be presented by Dr Gregory Marouard (on The Kom
ed-Dahab Survey: a Greco-Roman settlement in the Eastern Delta) and Dr Sanda
Heinz (The Caches of the Sacred Animal Necropolis of North Saqqara) who are
unable to join the conference in person.
To book your place, use the form on p. 15 of this Newsletter
or see http://www.ees.ac.uk/events/index.html
PHOTO CAPTIONS & CREDITS
Front cover (top to bottom): excavations in progress at Tell Basta; image taken during Petrie’s excavations at Abadiyeh
and Hu / Diospolis Parva of a stone head; a student during a class in archaeological drawing in the Society’s Cairo office;
excavations underway at Sais; the EES / University Durham team at Sais; a model hippopotamus discovered during Petrie’s
work at Abadiyeh and Hu; sieving excavated material at South Abydos. Page 2: front cover of Egyptian Archaeology issue
48; inscribed material from mastaba D5 discovered by Petrie at Abadiyeh; students after a ‘research skills’ workshop
at the Greek Campus, Cairo; Maria Idowu. Pages 4-7: see captions on those pages. Page 9: Hannah Pethen conducting
survey work on site in Egypt © Hannah Pethen; satellite image of Egypt © Google. Pages 10, 11 and 13: see captions
on those pages. Page 14: Dr François Leclère lecturing at the EES / Ministry of Antiquities Delta Workshop in Cairo in
March 2015, a student during an archaeological drawing class in the Society’s Cairo office; students with the Society’s
representative in Cairo, Essam Nagy, outside the office; students during the archaeological drawing class; a student
examining archaeological material under a microscope during a course in archaeobotany; the latest group of Ministry
of Antiquities employees to be awarded English language tuition at the British Council by the Society. All photos © The
EES unless otherwise stated.
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EES CAIRO FELLOW
“Melanie in Misr” (Egypt): the experiences (so far!)
of the Society’s inaugural Cairo Fellow
I don’t think I could imagine a better start to 2016!
From January 1 – March 31, I am the inaugural EES Cairo
Fellow. This role, which is essentially an experimental
one, is primarily focused on researching, developing and
delivering a range of lectures and workshops aimed at
enhancing the professional skills of Egyptian Egyptologists
and archaeologists. This includes the areas of research
methodologies, abstract writing, conference presentations,
publications and museum studies.
Essam Nagy in the EES Cairo Office
The first workshop to emerge from this, and which is now
well underway, is “Research skills for Egyptology”. This twohour workshop covers everything from the importance of
sound research and the step-by-step processes of research
to the qualities of a good researcher, how to collect and
manage data sets, structuring a thesis, as well as the key
hard-copy and digital research tools every Egyptologist and
archaeologist needs to know in order to succeed.
Melanie during a visit to Aswan
After spending an initial week meeting the team in the
London office, I arrived into Cairo on January 10 and,
I guess you might say, hit the ground running! My first
priority was to better acquaint myself with the Egyptian
Egyptology scene (although admittedly, this is an
ongoing process) – particularly from the point of view of
discovering more about the way the subject is taught, the
experiences of different lecturers and students and what
other initiatives foreign institutes have tried to implement.
Although I had started developing some of the content
for these lectures and workshops pre-Cairo, I needed to
ensure that it was going to be relevant to my audiences
and aimed at an appropriate level.
Melanie during the first workshop at Karnak
By late January, I was in the classroom! The first workshop
took place in pretty spectacular surrounds – the ARCE
Conservation labs and auditorium located within Karnak
Temple. I had about 20-25 enthusiastic participants
(mostly inspectors) who were at Masters or PhD level
in their studies. I’ve wanted to keep the workshops at a
fairly manageable size (of no more than 25) to encourage
discussion and specific questions around peoples’
individual research.
Meeting Dr Ahmed Mekawy Ouda (second from left) of Cairo
University and his students
Essam Nagy, Manager of the EES Cairo office, and myself,
therefore, spent the first few weeks meeting with many
different people. We asked questions; shared ideas and
test ran some of the content I had already developed.
A workshop at the Greek Campus
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EES CAIRO FELLOW
early March titled ‘EES Professional Skills for Egyptologists’
which will share some behind-the-scenes insights of a
number of well-respected international scholars and their
personal approach to writing up archaeological fieldwork,
delivering public talks with confidence, writing abstracts,
publishing for books and journals and so on.
Cairo University student and EES volunteer Mostafa Tolba
during one of the workshops
As I am based at the EES office in Cairo, and the largest
concentration of Egyptology students is here, the
majority of my workshops are taking place at the Greek
Campus in the Downtown area. Every Tuesday and
Wednesday during February, I am attracting a wide range
of participants from museum curators and inspectors to
university students, lecturers, professors and tour guides.
Students at the Greek Campus
On March 22, the EES’s inaugural familiarisation tour of
Egypt also gets underway (there’s honestly never a dull
moment here!). Three British postgraduate students, Ellen
Jones (Oxford University), Laura Dewsbury (University
of Birmingham) and Brandi Hill (Swansea University) will
spend a fortnight in Egypt visiting key archaeological sites,
museum collections, Egyptian universities, staff in the
Ministry of Antiquities and foreign institutes as a way of
helping to introduce them to Egypt’s Egyptology scene, a
key footing for any Egyptological career. Therefore, Essam
and I have been busy working on this schedule and all the
various logistics involved.
A workshop in Aswan
I will also be running a few in Aswan, Alexandria, the
Faiyum and Minya over the coming weeks. As a part of
this process, I have also developed a feedback form, which
I am asking every participant to complete to help inform
our future planning for more developed and integrated
training opportunities like this.
Melanie in full flow
On a more personal note, this Fellowship role is an
incredibly rewarding experience. I’ve received much in the
way of positive, anecdotal feedback from participants. It’s
also greatly satisfying to know you’re making a difference
to their professional skills, no matter how small or
incremental they may be. We just have to make sure that
we can support this type of training over the longer term.
Students at the Greek Campus
Melanie Pitkin
Further to these workshops, I have a number of other
projects keeping me busy! I’m preparing a few lectures
around museology to be delivered to ICOM-Egypt
and postgraduate Museum Studies students at Helwan
University. I’m also trying to convene a one-day event in
Melanie’s post as EES Cairo Fellow was funded by our
members and other supporters’ donations to the Amelia
Edwards Projects. We are very grateful to all those who made
a contribution to help fund this project.
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LONDON: SEMINARS
“Accustomed as I am to public speaking”
Rhetoric and Education in Graeco-Roman Egypt
Teacher’s notebook of the 1st century AD
(The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXVI, no. 5093).
Saturday 14 May 2016, 10:30 - 16:30
The Egypt Exploration Society, 3 Doughty Mews, London, WC1N 2PG
Tickets: £25 (EES members), £30 (non-members).
In the Graeco-Roman world proficiency in public speaking was of great importance for the ruling elite and middle
class, that is for high-ranking officials, civil servants, lawyers, and even businessmen. Thus, rhetorical training played a
crucial role in education, comparable to a university degree in our own time. Many Greek papyri excavated in Egypt, in
particular those recovered by the Egypt Exploration Society at ancient Oxyrhynchus, provide rich information on the
details of this educational process. The syllabuses can be reconstructed with the help of ancient rhetorical handbooks
transmitted through mediaeval and Renaissance manuscripts, while the papyri offer a unique ‘worm’s eye’ view through
autographed student exercises and teachers’ notes for the preparation of classes. This seminar will guide attendees
through the texts preserved on the papyri discovered by Grenfell and Hunt on behalf of the EES over a century ago,
studying them in the context of Graeco-Roman education in Ancient Egypt.
This seminar will be led by Dr Daniela Colomo, Research Officer, Oxyrhynchus project
Pots, Processes and People:
An Introduction to Ceramic
Manufacture in Ancient Egypt
and Sudan
Saturday 11 June 2016, 10:30 - 16:30
The Egypt Exploration Society, 3 Doughty Mews,
London, WC1N 2PG
Do you know your amphora from your kerma ware beaker?
In this hands-on workshop with sherd nerds Anna Garnett
(British Museum) and Dr Sarah Doherty (Ashmolean Museum)
participants will consider all things ceramic; focusing on the different
methods of manufacturing pottery that the ancient Egyptians
employed. What clays did the Egyptian potters use? How did they
make beautiful blue painted and incised ware pottery? Where
can ancient kilns be found? All these questions and more will be
considered in this interactive workshop. Be prepared to get your
hands dirty!
Please note: this workshop will include interactive elements in
which you may get dirty - please ensure you wear suitable clothing
(i.e. something old!).
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LONDON: WEEKEND COURSE
Digital Digging: Exploring Egyptian Landscapes
with GIS and Landscape Archaeology
Saturday and Sunday 13 and 14 August 2016, 10:00 - 17:00 (both days)
The Egypt Exploration Society, 3 Doughty Mews, London, WC1N 2PG
Satellite imagery, geographic positioning, and radar
scanning have changed how archaeologists research
Egyptian landscapes. This weekend course reveals
how researchers are using 21st century technology
to make exciting discoveries about Egyptian city,
temple and quarry landscapes, and gives participants
the opportunity to investigate real sites using a
geographic information system (GIS). During the
first day of the course participants will discover
how landscape research undertaken by the Theban
Harbours and Waterscapes Project at Luxor, the
Hatnub Epigraphic Project, the Saqqara Mapping
Project and on the sacred landscapes of the Eastern
Desert is changing our understanding of ancient
Egyptian culture.
During the second day participants will learn for
themselves how we investigate Egyptian sites with
GIS. Using open-source GIS software they will
undertake a series of practical tasks covering the
most typical uses of GIS in archaeology, working
with material from some of the most interesting
sites in Egypt. During these exercises participants
will be asked to answer spatial questions about
artefact distribution, use satellite imagery to identify
and record archaeological features and experience
the thrill of creating their own three-dimensional
topographic model of an archaeological site. No
prior experience of GIS is necessary, as the course is
intended for beginners, and appropriate tuition and
assistance will be available throughout.
For the exercises on the second day, participants
will need a basic understanding of computing and
a modern laptop computer running a Windows
Vista/7/8/10, Mac or Linux operating system, with a
minimum CPU speed of at least 2.2GHz, at least 8GB
of RAM and at least 1GB hard drive.
This seminar will be led by:
Dr Hannah Pethen, Hatnub Epigraphic Project
Liz Jones, University College London
Sarah Jones, Theban Harbours & Waterscapes Project
Anna Garnett, British Museum.
To book your place, on any of our events please use the form on p. 15 of this Newsletter
or visit http://www.ees.ac.uk/events/index.html
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OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI
ON DISPLAY AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Faith after the pharaohs: Egyptian papyri conservation
In preparation for the Egypt: faith after the pharaohs
exhibition five papyri, kindly loaned from the Egypt
Exploration Society, came into the Paper Conservation
studio. As papyrus conservator at the British Museum
I have worked on a wide range of manuscripts held by
our Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan over the
years. The collection includes many fine examples of
papyri from ancient Egypt such as temple accounts from
Abu Sir dating from approximately 2400 BC, some of
the longest and most beautifully illustrated funerary rolls
from throughout Egypt’s long Pharaonic history, as well
as literary texts and day to day legal documents. Working
on such material has always been fascinating but I was
particularly delighted to be able to work on these five
papyri as they were excavated at Oxyrhynchus.
The mounds turned out to be ‘drifts’ of rubbish tips
which proceeded to yield approximately half a million
fragments of papyri with ancient texts, including early
Christian literature. Grenfell and Hunt spent six seasons
at Oxyrhynchus and their discoveries were by far the
most exciting of the time in terms of quantity and range of
the manuscripts found. Here was found several centuries
worth of archives where official and private documents
collectively provided a rare insight into the everyday life
of this Roman town’s inhabitants during the 1st to 6th
centuries AD.
Examination of papyri under the microscope © British Museum
Papyrus rolls before conservation
The story of this excavation had fired my initial interest
in papyrus as a paper conservation student many years
ago. The ancient town of Oxyrhynchus, meaning ‘city of
the sharp-nosed fish’, modern al-Bahnasa lying 120 miles
south of Cairo, was excavated between 1896 and 1907
by papyrologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt. This
excavation began as part of a systematic exploration of the
sites of Greco-Roman settlements and their discoveries
were made in the sandy mounds on the outskirts of the
town.
The papyri that came to the paper conservation studio
included a rental agreement between two female monks
leasing part of their home to a Jewish man (P.Oxy 3203)
excavated in the first season, a small fragment containing
the Greek Septuagint (P.Oxy 3522) and another depicting
an informal drawing of Daniel in the lion’s den, both
excavated in the fourth season.
P.Oxy 3939
Excavations underway at Oxyrhynchus
It is unknown during which season the last two papyri
were found but they addressed matters relating to the
Roman requirement for all citizens to sacrifice to the
gods and include a Certificate of Sacrifice (P.Oxy 3929)
and a letter from a Chrisitian man named Copres about a
way to avoid the obligation (P.Oxy 2601).
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OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI
ON DISPLAY AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM
All the papyri were examined under magnification before
opening the old glass mounts and starting any treatment.
Once opened, a bloom or ‘halo’ could be immediately
seen on the old glass, in the case of P. Oxy 3203 it was
very pronounced. This is a common feature with papyri
enclosed in glass, particularly those found by excavating
rubbish tips where they are found together with other
material such as potsherds, ash, charcoal, rags, straw,
and various kinds of kitchen waste. In this type of
archaeological context papyri will absorb soluble salts.
When later enclosed in glass, and even in conditions
where relative humidity changes very little, the salts
absorb small amounts of moisture from the surrounding
air. As the air slowly dries out again these soluble salts
migrate outwards and deposit themselves on the nearest
surface which in this case is the glass. This can happen
repeatedly over the years and a substantial ‘bloom’ can
build up inside the mount making the papyrus quite hard
to read. Scientific analysis has found the bloom to consist
of mainly sodium chloride, common salt, and it can be
wiped off the glass very easily. However, the Oxyrhynchus
papyri were all remounted in new glass for the exhibition.
Working in the paper conservation studio © British Museum
Undoubtedly helped by the dry climate of Egypt, papyrus
has proved to be a very durable writing material with
remarkable powers of preservation. Made from Cyperus
papyrus L., a sedge plant about four metres high that
grew plentifully along the banks of the Nile in antiquity,
a sheet a papyrus was made from sections of the lower
part of the stem where it was at its thickest. The outer
rind is peeled off to reveal a spongy white inner pith
which can be sliced longitudinally to make thin strips.
These strips are laid side by side to form one layer before
laying a second layer on top at right angles, then pressing
and drying the whole. Individual sheets made in this way
could then be joined to form a roll.
Realigning and repairing one of the papyri © British Museum
Before remounting some conservation work was
undertaken on the manuscripts. This involved laying back
loose or twisted fibres and repairing along fractures.
Repairs – in this case small pieces of Japanese paper, used
for its strength and quality and toned to a sympathetic
colour – are applied to the papyri with starch paste.
The newly mounted papyri now take their place in the
exhibition alongside the other fascinating objects that tell
the story of faith after the pharaohs.
Bridget Leach
Conservator: Pictorial Art, British Museum
The exhibtion Egypt: faith after the pharaohs was displayed
at the British Museum until 7 February 2016, and was
generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. The
accompanying book is available from the British Museum shop
online. This article first appeared on the British Museum blog
at http://goo.gl/4CTepJ.
Repairing a loose fragment of P.Oxy 3203 using small ‘tabs’
applied with tweezers © British Museum
The five papyri for the exhibition were in need of minor
repair and all except the small fragment of Daniel were
in need of remounting between new sheets of glass. It
was decided to exhibit Daniel in a passe-partout without
glass to try and enhance viewing for the visitor. Generally,
papyri are so fragile that glass mounts are necessary for
their protection but in this case, the fragment being small
and in reasonable condition, an exception was made for
the duration of the exhibition.
Dr Daniela Colomo (Research Associate and Curator,
Oxyrhynchus Papyri) who is based in the Papyrology Rooms,
at the Sackler Library University of Oxford, where the papyri
are kept, will be speaking about the collection at the Society’s
forthcoming conference in July 2016 (see pp. 4-5).
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BECOME A TRUSTEE OF THE EES
If you would like to volunteer to serve as a Trustee of the Society, please contact Dr Chris Naunton, by email to
[email protected], or by mail to The Egypt Exploration Society, 3-4 Doughty Mews, London WC1N 2PG. If you are
thinking of applying but have not previously served as a Trustee of a charity, and would like to find out what is involved,
please contact Dr Naunton for more information.
Expressions of interest, including a CV, from anyone wishing to be considered for proposal as one of the Board’s
nominees at the AGM on 15th October 2016, must be received at the Society’s London Office by 5pm on 30th April.
The Board will interview applicants during May, and will then decide which applicants it wishes to nominate.
The Board will publish the names of its nominated candidates on the Society’s website by the end of June. Any other
member of the Society who wishes to stand for appointment as a trustee at the AGM will be able to do so by giving
the appropriate notification to the Society not later than 6th August; details of how to do this will be specified on the
web-site. The full list of candidates will then be sent to members with the AGM notices not later than 29th September.
SEEKING A NEW TREASURER
The Society is now at an important and exciting point in its evolution as it re-invents itself for the 21st century. The
organisation is governed by a Board of Trustees which includes the three Officers of the Society: the Chair, ViceChair and Treasurer. The current Treasurer’s term of office ends in October 2016.
We are now seeking to find a successor who will take a leadership role in strategic planning, maintain an overview
of the charity’s financial affairs, to seek to ensure its financial viability and to ensure that proper financial records
and procedures are maintained; in so doing the Treasurer works closely with the Finance Manager, the Director and
the Chair of the Board of Trustees. The Treasurer leads the Society’s Finance Committee and also serves on other
committees including the Fieldwork and Research Committee which acts as the Society’s Grants Committee.
The Treasurer must be or become a member of the Society: the appointment is for an initial period of three years
renewable for a further three.
The ideal candidate will:
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have a professional accounting or a similarly relevant qualification and experience of working as a finance
professional
be able to commit the requisite time (10 days a year)
have a good understanding of financial management and reporting, preferably in the nonprofit or higher education fields
be an effective chair of meetings
have the coaching skills to work with the Finance Manager, Director and other staff to develop and implement
the Society’s Business Plan
have an interest in archaeology or Egyptology
have experience in the NGO/charity sector either as an employee or volunteer
have experience is establishing &/or setting out strategic goals in a business setting
have well developed analytical skills
London office: 3 Doughty Mews, London WC1N 2PG.
Salary: non-salaried; expenses will be paid
Hours: part-time; average 10 days per year
Further details are available on the EES website http://www.ees.ac.uk or by contacting the Director or the Treasurer
on 020 7242 1880 or email [email protected]
Please email your CV and a supporting statement highlighting your interest in and suitability for the role, the
contribution you feel you could make and details of any relevant training or experience.
Closing date: 30 April 2016
Interviews: May 2016
OFFICE CLOSURES
LONDON: The London Office and Library will be closed on the following public holidays: Friday 25 March (Good
Friday), Monday 28 March (Easter Monday), Monday 2 May, Monday 30 May. PLEASE NOTE: The Society’s offices will be
also closed to the public throughout August (except for events), reopening on Thursday 1 September.
CAIRO: The Cairo Office will be closed on the following dates: Sunday 27 March (Easter Day), Monday 28 March
(Easter Monday), Sunday 1 May (Coptic Easter/ Labour Day), Monday 2 May (Sham El Nessim),Thursday 7 to Sunday 10
July (Eid El Fitr), Monday 12 to Thursday 15 September (Eid El Adha).
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EES TOUR TO ROME: CITY OF OBELISKS
For over 2,000 years, the obelisks of imperial Egypt, older than Rome itself, have been at the heart of the city’s story.
Erected by emperors as symbols of their power, they were re-erected centuries later by popes, so that they could be
set up again as centrepieces of the new city. Ancient Egypt, seen not only as a civilisation of legendary wealth and power,
but also as the guardian of occult knowledge, inspired scholars, artists and architects, and has left its mark throughout
Rome, in its streets and buildings as well as its museums and galleries.
This special group tour, organised by Cox & Kings in collaboration with the Society, will be led by EES member and
author of Egypt in England, Chris Elliott. The tour will take in 10 of Rome’s ancient obelisks, including the largest
surviving Egyptian example. It will also visit the Vatican Museums, focusing on the Egyptian elements. The visit will last 5
days & 4 nights and costs from £1,695, a portion of which will be passed on to the Society.
To make a booking or for further information
please call +44 020 3797 4618 or visit Cox & Kings online at http://goo.gl/PC0Qhs
FIELDWORK IN PHOTOS 2015-6
In 2016 the Society will again be supporting more projects across the Nile valley and Delta than ever before.Thanks to
the grants we have been able to offer since 2015 we are now able to support work at a greater range of sites, covering
a wider range of research themes. Furthermore the competitive process estalished for making the grants allows us the
flexibility to choose the sites and projects most urgently in need of support.The photographs here provide a flavour of
the range of activities currently being undertaken, and you can read more about the work on the Society’s website, and
in the latest volume of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology and issue of our magazine Egyptian Archaeology.
Tell Basta © University of Würzburg
Mutubis © EES / University of Durham
Sa el-Hagar / Sais © EES / University of Durham South Abydos © SAEEDC_YMH_2015
Naukratis © British Museum
Interactive map - see https://goo.gl/VR9EW9
The funding for the grants is provided by our members and other supporters through the Society’s Excavation Fund. It
is vital that we can continue to attract donations to this fund if we are to continue to support archaeological fieldwork
in Egypt. To make a one-off or regular contribution please use the form on page 15 of this newsletter or visit our
website at: www.ees.ac.uk/support/index.html. Thank you. Your support will make a very real difference
to what we can achieve in the future.
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CAIRO LECTURES, CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
Enquiries: Essam Nagy, EES Cairo Office, c/o British Council, 192 Sharia el-Nil, Agouza, Cairo.
Phone: +20 (0)2 33001886 E-mail: [email protected]
Evening Lecture
Sunday 6 March 2016, 6:00 pm
The Garden Room, British Council,
192 Sharia el-Nil, Agouza, Cairo
Entry free of charge
Beads for Nefertiti: Recent excavations at a jewellery workshop in
Amarna’s Main City South
By Dr Anna Hodgkinson,
Freie Universität and Egyptian Museum, Berlin / The Amarna Project
For the past 10 years, the Amarna Project has been excavating the non-elite
cemeteries of ancient Akhetaten, revealing unique insights into the health and
quality of life of the people of Amarna, and their responses to the religious
reforms of Akhenaten. This talk will summarise the work so far, both at the
South Tombs Cemetery, focus of fieldwork up to 2013, and at a cemetery
at the North Tombs, where the first excavation season earlier this year has
yielded some unexpected results.
One-day Workshop
Monday 7 March, 10:00 am to 4:30 pm
(registration open from 9:30 am to 9:50 am)
The Jameela Auditorium, The Greek Campus,
28 Falaki Street, Bab el Louk
Entry free of charge
Professional Skills for Egyptology - Helping you to succeed at an
international level
Presenters include: Carl Graves (EES), Melanie Pitkin (EES), Dr Nigel
Strudwick (Cambridge University), Dr Anna Stevens (Assistant
Director, The Amarna Project) and Dr Nigel Fletcher-Jones
(Director, AUC Press).
Weekend Classes
Saturdays from 5 to 26 March 2016, 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Alexandria
EES Museum Studies Programme: Museum Studies Basic Course
Weekend Classes
Saturdays from 9 to 30 April 2016, 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm
British Council, 192 Sharia el-Nil, Agouza, Cairo - OR The Greek Campus, 28 Falaki Street, Bab El Louk, Cairo
EES Museum Studies Programme: Museum Management
Weekend Classes
Dates and venue to be confirmed
EES Archaeology Studies Programme:
Archaeological excavation and its complete recording
For further information please contact the Society’s Fieldwork and
Engagement Manager, Essam Nagy (details above).
Visit our website: http://www.ees.ac.uk/events/index.html
...or Facebook page ‘The Egypt Exploration Society - Cairo Friends’
(https://goo.gl/nbz0wz)
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EVENTS BOOKING FORM
Please use the form below to reserve your place at EES events.
To provide your payment details, please see overleaf.
Please provide an email address, and we will confirm your booking by email.
If you do not have an email address, please enclose a stamped addressed envelope to receive a paper ticket.
You can book all of our events online by visiting http://ees.ac.uk/events/index.html
or by scanning the QR code at top right
All proceeds from ticket sales go towards the continuation of the Society’s work in Egypt and the UK
NO. OF
TICKETS
Saturday 30 April 2016. Museum Trip: EES Visit to the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology (see p. 6)
fee @ member rate (£5) / fee @ non-member rate (£10)
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Saturday 14 May 2016. London Seminar: Rhetoric and Education in Graeco-Roman Egypt (see p. 7)
fee @ member rate (£25) / fee @ student member rate (£18)
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fee @ non-member rate (£30) / fee @ student non-member rate (£22)
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Saturday 11 June 2016. London Seminar: Pots, Processes and People (see p. 7)
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SPECIAL EARLY-BIRD OFFER FOR STUDENTS:
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Book before 1 June and get two days for the price of one!
Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 August 2016. London Weekend Course:
Digital Digging: Exploring Egyptian Landscapes with GIS and Landscape Archaeology
fee @ member rate (£25) / fee @ non-member rate (£30)
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GIFT AID
Calling all UK tax payers!
Did you know that for every £1 you donate or pay to the Society we can claim an extra 25p from the UK
government which we can use to expand on our projects in Egypt, offer more in our events programme, and
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This small gesture can make all the difference - please don’t forget to tick the box overleaf!
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Membership is open to all, and as a Full Member you’ll receive three issues of this Newsletter per year, two issues
of our magazine, Egyptian Archaeology and the option to add-on the internationally renowned Journal of Egyptian
Archaeology (JEA), or the Graeco-Roman Memoirs (GRM).
Members are also entitled to discounts on our other publications, and reduced ticket prices for our events, and
can make use of the world-class Egyptology library. And of course you would be following in the footsteps of the
thousands who have supported our work since 1882!
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