ees director's report for 2014-15
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THE EGYPT EXPLORATION SOCIETY
AGM 2015
The Egypt Exploration Society
Exploring and Inspiring since 1882www.ees.ac.uk
Director’s
Report
2014-15
The Egypt Exploration Societywww.ees.ac.uk
Fieldwork and Research
Merimde / Beni Salama
Dr Joanne Rowland
76,000m2 of the grid
surveyed - good coverage
of the entire surface of the
Wadi Gamal North-west.
Material from previous
seasons examined
Fine specimens of Middle
Palaeolithic and Neolithic
lithics collected,
photographed and drawn
Quesna
Dr Joanne Rowland
Excavations in the Old
Kingdom mastaba and
Late Period to Ptolemaic
sacred falcon galleries
Examination of finds
Essam Nagy – site visits
Essam Nagy – site visits
Tell Basta
Dr Eva Lange
Excavations in the
dromos of the Bastet
temple
Documentation of the
OK Tombs and
‘Governor’s Palace’
of the MK (now also
OK) continued
Sa El-Hagar (Sais)
Dr Penny Wilson
Extended the area of
Excavation 12 in
order to find the
enclosing walls of the
magazine, its extent
and orientation
Followed the later,
large wall to
investigate its extent
& relationships with
the domestic features
of the Third
Intermediate Period
Tell Buweib
Drs Jeffrey and Patricia
Spencer
Investigated the area of
New Kingdom settlement
on the low-lying part of
the tell at its north-west
corner.
Work appears to confirm
that the temple was
founded over an area of
New Kingdom (probably
18th/19th Dyn) settlement.
Tell Mutubis
Dr Penny Wilson
Magnetometer survey
Training local
inspectors
The Theban Harbours and
Waterscapes Survey (THaWS)
Dr Angus Graham
Larger and more diverse team
Electrical Resistivity Tomography
(ERT) surveys on the W Bank,
particularly E of the Ramesseum
Intensive season of auger work
to investigate changes in the
sediments
Processing of samples from the
2014 & 2015
Centenary Awards
Survey of El-Minsha,
Sohag (Ptolemaios
Hermiou)
Dr Heba Abd El-Gawad
A new way to support fieldwork
18 sites, 21 projects
7 EES concessions 8 Excavation Fund grants 5 Centenary
Awards
Current Field Directors
Dissemination
Excavation Memoirs
101st Graeco-Roman Memoir
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. LXXX
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology Vol. 100 (2014)
Abstracts in Arabic
Essam Nagy – site visits
Egyptian Archaeology 45 and 46
Newsletter
London and Cairo editions
Events
Lectures, seminars, study
days, evening classes,
museum visits, Access
Archive Afternoons
56 in total
London, Cairo, Birmingham,
Durham, Edinburgh,
Leicester, Liverpool
A Tribute to
Professor Faiza
Haykal
Library & Archive
New library and archive catalogue now
online!
Level in the Archive
(ISAD(G) description inparentheses)
Description Examples
Archive(fond)
Top level incorporating the entirety of the holdings atat the EES
EES LG Archive
This designation will not feature in the accession number as it is already assumed.
Sub-archive(sub-fond)
The Society's Archive is divided into a number of sub-sub-archive levels relating to specific sites/themes.
TA - Tell el-AmarnaBUH - BuhenDIST - DistributionCOR - CorrespondenceART - ArtworkCAM - CaminosGR - Graeco-Roman Branch
Collection(series)
Within each archive there exist sub-divisions within thethe records. This usually relates to material type,although can also reflect topical changes in the recordsrecords themselves.
001 - for separate containers of
documentsSLI - A collection of slides relating to a
specific archivePICT- A collection of photographic prints
relating to a specific archiveMAP - Maps and plansCOR - CorrespondenceOC - Object cardsTA - Tell el-Amarna, sites may also
feature as sub-divisions of some archives
File Within the collection the records may be stored indifferent files/folders, usually relating to dig season.
31-3257-58abaabb
Item These are the smallest sub-division of the EES Archive,Archive, such as a letter, slide, journal etc. These are
001002
For exampleTA.OC.31-32.581EES Archive level (1)
TA Sub-archive level (45)
OC Collection level (350)
31-32 File level (>1000)
581 Item level (?)
• EES Lucy Gura Archive• Tell el-Amarna Sub-archive
• Object card Collection• 1931-32 season File
• Object card 581 Item
Refurbishments….
Refurbishments….
Essam Nagy – site visits
Essam Nagy – site visits
Essam Nagy – site visits
Essam Nagy – site visits
Essam Nagy – site visits
Essam Nagy – site visits
Scholars
Scholars
Essam Nagy – site visits
Thank you(s)
Me, Carl Graves, Maria Rubin, Elina Rolin, Jan Geisbusch, Hazel Gray, Maria Idowu, James Moore
Essam Nagy
Volunteers
Trustees
JJJ - retiring after 6 years as EES Vice-Chair
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