THE EGYPT EXPLORATION SOCIETY

AGM 2015

The Egypt Exploration Society

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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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