Ancient Egypt Digital Library: British Museum

In addition, two new online journals have been launched: the Bronze Age Review and the Technical Research Bulletin. The first issue of the latter includes an analysis of pigment inlays from Meidum.

Bronze Age Review
Technical Research Bulletin

Contents

Studies of ancient Egyptian footwear. Technological aspects. Part XVI. Leather Open Shoes
André J. Veldmeijer

Issue 12: September 2009

Contents

Constructing word similarities in Meroitic as an aid to decipherment
Reginald Smith

Early Kushite Tombs of South Asasif
Elena Pischikova

Edfu under the Twelfth–Seventeenth Dynasties: The monuments in the National Museum of Warsaw
Marcel Marée

On Publication
Jeffrey Spencer

Issue 13: November 2009

BMSAES 13 contains 11 papers submitted for publication in the Proceedings of the Third International Colloquium on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt, which was held at the British Museum from 27 July to 1 August 2008.

This selection from the more than 40 papers that will ultimately appear in the full proceedings “Egypt at its Origins 3” (Peeters’ Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta series), touches on a wide range of topics and recent discoveries pertaining to this formative period is Egyptian history.

The full conference program and abstracts of papers presented are available at:www.origins3.org.uk/index.htm

Contents

Pottery production at Hierakonpolis during the Naqada II period: Toward a reconstruction of the firing technique
Masahiro Baba
Institute of Egyptology, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

South Levantine Early Bronze Age chronological correlations with Egypt in light of the Narmer serekhs from Tel Erani and Arad: New interpretations
Eliot Braun
W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem, Israel and Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem, Israël

The corpus of pre-firing potmarks from Adaïma (Upper Egypt)
Gaëlle Bréand
EHESS-CRPPM, CNRS UMR 5608 “TRACES,” Toulouse, France

The development and nature of inequality in early Egypt
Juan José Castillos
Uruguayan Institute of Egyptology, Montevideo, Uruguay

The Early Dynastic administrative-cultic centre at Tell el-Farkha
Krzysztof M. Ciałowicz
Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Egypt and Nubia in the 5th–4th millennia BC: A view from the First Cataract and its surroundings
Maria Carmela Gatto
Yale University, New Haven, USA

Burial practices of the Final Neolithic pastoralists at Gebel Ramlah, Western Desert of Egypt
Michał Kobusiewicz, Jacek Kabaciński, Romuald Schild, Joel D. Iris and Fred Wendorf

Egyptian engineering in the Early Dynastic period: The sites of Saqqara and Helwan
Angela La Loggia
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

The corpus of potmarks from Tarkhan
Lisa Mawdsley
Centre for Archaeology and Ancient History, Monash University, Victoria, Australia

Investigating a new Dynasty 2 necropolis at South Saqqara
Ilona Regulski
Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

Potmarks from Early Dynastic Buto and Old Kingdom Giza: Their occurrence and economic significance
Anna Wodzińska
Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Issue 14: December 2009

Contents

Kom el-Farahy: a New Kingdom Island in an evolving Edfu floodplain
Judith M. Bunbury, Angus Graham and Kristian D. Strutt

The British Museum epigraphic survey at Tombos: the stela of Usersatet and Hekaemsasen
W. Vivian Davies

The British Museum expedition to Elkab and Hagr Edfu, 2009
W. Vivian Davies and Elisabeth R. O’Connell

The Arzawa letters in recent perspective
J. David Hawkins

Studies of Ancient Egyptian Footwear. Technological Aspects. Part VII. Coiled Sewn Sandals
André J. Veldmeijer

Studies of ancient Egyptian footwear. Technological aspects. Part XII. Fibre shoes
André J. Veldmeijer

Issue 15: November 2010

Editorial

This issue contains 13 papers from the colloquium, The Book of the Dead - Recent research and new perspectives, held at the British Museum on 21–22 July 2009. The meeting brought together leading scholars working on aspects of the Book of the Dead. Several of their contributions have been influential in the development of the exhibition Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (4 November 2010 – 6 March 2011).

Contents

Three funerary papyri from Thebes: New evidence on scribal and funerary practice in the Late Period
Burkhard Backes

The Book of the Dead as canon
John Gee

Creating borders: New insights into making the Papyrus of Ani
Bridget Leach and Richard B. Parkinson

The two funerary papyri of Queen Nedjmet(P. BM EA 10490 and P. BM EA 10541 + Louvre E. 6258)
Giuseppina Lenzo

The guardian-demons of the Book of the Dead
Rita Lucarelli

In the footsteps of Edouard Naville (1844–1926)
Barbara Lüscher

An intriguing Theban Book of the Dead tradition in the Late Period
Malcom Mosher, Jr.

Memphis–Thebes: Local traditions in the Late Period
Marcus Müller-Roth

The Book of the Dead Project: Past, present and future
Marcus Müller-Roth

Evidence of a master copy transferred from Thebes to the Memphis area in Dynasty 26
Irmtraut Munro

The Book of the Dead of Ankhesenaset (P. BNF Egyptien 62-88). Traces of workshop production or scribal experiments?
Chloe Ragazzoli

Book of the Dead documents from the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara
Maarten J. Raven

When a Book of the Dead text does not match archaeology: The case of the protective magical bricks
(BD 151)
Isabelle Régen

Issue 16: January 2011

Contents

The last New Kingdom tomb at Thebes: the end of a great tradition?
Tamás Bács

Cemetery D at Amara West: the Ramesside Period and its aftermath
Michaela Binder, Neal Spencer and Marie Millet

British Museum Expedition to Elkab and Hagr Edfu, 2010
Vivian Davies and Elisabeth R. O'Connell

Nabta Playa Black-topped pottery: Technological innovation and social change
Kit Nelson and Eman Khalifa

Tell el-Balamun 2010
A. J. Spencer

Issue 17: September 2011

Contents

British Museum Expedition to Elkab and Hagr Edfu 2011
W. Vivian Davies and Elisabeth R. O’Connell

The Egyptian temple and settlement at Naukratis
A. Jeffrey Spencer

Issue 18: August 2012

Editorial

This issue of BMSAES contains the proceedings of the Annual International Egyptological Colloquium, entitled Mariners and traders: Connections between the Red Sea littoral, Arabia and beyond, and Rudolfo Fattovich’s Raymond and Beverley Sackler Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology, ‘Egypt’s trade with Punt: Recent discoveries on the Red Sea coast,' both held at The British Museum on 2 August 2011.

Contents

Egypt’s trade with Punt: New discoveries on the Red Sea Coast
Rodolfo Fattovich

Glassware from Roman Egypt at Begram (Afghanistan) and the Red Sea trade
Rachel Mairs

From the sea to the deserts and back: New research in Eastern Sudan
Andrea Manzo

Ras Budran and the Old Kingdom trade in Red Sea shells and other exotica
Gregory Mumford

Ayn Sukhna and Wadi el-Jarf: Two newly discovered pharaonic harbours on the Suez Gulf
Pierre Tallet

Port communities and the Erythraean Sea trade
Ross I. Thomas

From the Roman Red Sea to beyond the Empire: Egyptian ports and their trading partners
Roberta Tomber

Building pharaoh’s ships: Cedar, incense and sailing the Great Green
Cheryl Ward

A preliminary assessment on the pottery assemblage from the port town of Adulis (Eritrea)
Chiara Zazzaro and Andrea Manzo

Issue 19: December 2012

This issue of BMSAES contains three diverse contributions using various methods to explore aspects of New Kingdom to Late Antique Egypt. Using 3D models

Contents

Visualizing the size and movement of the portable festival barks at Karnak temple
Elaine Sullivan

The ploion hellenikon of Roman Egypt: What was Greek about it?
Emad Khalil

British Museum Expedition to Elkab and Hagr Edfu 2012
W. Vivian Davies and Elisabeth R. O’Connell

Issue 20: May 2013

Contents

Concepts of Egypt in Augustan Rome: Two case studies of cameo glass from The British Museum
M. E. J. J. Van Aerde

The role of the Iwn-mwt.f in the New Kingdom monuments of Thebes
Steven R. W. Gregory

The Tomb of Sataimau at Hagr Edfu: An overview
W. Vivian Davies

Naukratis revisited 2012: Integrating new fieldwork and old research
Ross I. Thomas and Alexandra Villing

Issue 21: July 2014

Editorial

This issue presents new work on Roman, Late Antique and Medieval Egyptian collections primarily in the UK, Germany and France.

Contents

Findspot known: Treasures from excavation sites in Egypt in the Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin
Cäcilia Fluck

Jewellery from Late Antique Egypt
Yvonne Petrina

Soft-furnishing textiles from the Egypt Exploration Fund season at Antinoupolis, 1913–14
Frances Pritchard

New research on Medieval embroideries from Tell Edfu at the Louvre Museum
Amandine Mérat

Late Antique and Medieval headwear from Egypt in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Ruiha Smalley

Radiocarbon dating of linen hairnets in sprang technique
Antoine De Moor, Cäcilia Fluck, Mark Van Strydonck and Mathieu Boudin

R. Campbell Thompson's 1913/14 excavation of Wadi Sarga and other sites
Elisabeth R. O’Connell

Roman Naukratis and its Alexandrian context
Ross I. Thomas

Issue 22: April 2015

Contents

British Museum Expedition to Elkab and Hagr Edfu 2013
W. Vivian Davies and Elisabeth R. O’Connell

A further type of figural pottery from Hagr Edfu
Thomas Beckh

Amun-Ra, lord of the sky: A deity for travellers of the western desert
Nikolaos Lazaridis

Werethekau and the votive stela of P3-n-'Imn (Bristol Museum H 514)
Ahmed M. Mekawy Ouda

Quarrying for Claudius, protected by Min: A small quarry at Gebel el-Silsila East
Maria Nilsson and Adrienn Almásy

British Museum Technical Research Bulletin

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_journals/technical_research_bulletin.aspx

British Museum Technical Research Bulletin

Volume 1

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_journals/technical_research_bulletin/bmtrb_volume_1.aspx

Writing that cannot be erased: investigations of a box of pigmented inlays from the tomb chapel of an Old Kingdom noble
Janet Ambers, Rebecca Stacey and John H Taylor

British Museum Technical Research Bulletin

Volume 2

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_journals/technical_research_bulletin/bmtrb_volume_2.aspx

A new look at an old cat: a technical investigation of the Gayer-Anderson cat
Janet Ambers, Duncan Hook, Neal Spencer, Fleur Shearman, Susan La Niece,
Rebecca Stacey and Caroline Cartwright

Analysis and conservation of a weeping glass scarab
Philip J. Fletcher, Ian Freestone and Rainer Geschke

Scientific aspects of ancient faces: mummy portraits from Egypt
Caroline Cartwright and Andrew Middleton

Wooden Egyptian archery bows in the collections of the British Museum
Caroline Cartwright and John H. Taylor

British Museum Technical Research Bulletin

Volume 3

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_journals/technical_research_bulletin/bmtrb_volume_3.aspx

Egyptian stelae from Malta
Jeremy Young, Marcel Marée, Caroline Cartwright and Andrew Middleton

Bronzes from the Sacred Animal Necropolis at Saqqara, Egypt: a study of the metals and corrosion
Quanyu Wang, He Huang and Fleur Shearman

British Museum Technical Research Bulletin

Volume 4

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_journals/technical_research_bulletin/bmtrb_volume_4.aspx

Coatings and contents: Investigations of residues on four fragmentary sixth century BC vessels from Naukratis (Egypt)
Rebecca Stacey, Caroline Cartwright, Satoko Tanimoto and Alexandra Villing

British Museum Technical Research Bulletin

Volume 5

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_journals/technical_research_bulletin/bmtrb_volume_5.aspx

Portrait mummies from Roman Egypt: ongoing collaborative research on wood identification

Caroline Cartwright, Lin Rosa Spaabæk and Marie Svoboda

The history and conservation of the papyrus of Tuy

John Taylor, Bridget Leach and Helen Sharp

British Museum Technical Research Bulletin

Volume 6

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_journals/technical_research_bulletin/bmtrb_volume_6.aspx

The Norwich shroud: conservation and investigation of a rare Eighteenth Dynasty shroud

Monique Pullan, Janet Ambers, Caroline Cartwright, John H. Taylor and Faye Kalloniatis

Archaeobotanical research in a pharaonic town in ancient Nubia

Philippa Ryan, Caroline Cartwright and Neal Spence

British Museum Technical Research Bulletin

Volume 7

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_journals/technical_research_bulletin/bmtrb_volume_7.aspx

The study and conservation of four ancient Egyptian funerary portraits: provenance, conservation history and structural treatment

Nicola Newman, Lynne Harrison, David Thomas, Joanne Dyer and John Taylor

Analytical study of the first royal Egyptian heart-scarab, attributed to a Seventeenth Dynasty king, Sobekemsaf

Gianluca Miniaci, Susan La Niece, Maria Filomena Guerra and Marei Hacke

Volume 8

Available now in hard copy and online in Autumn 2015:

Kom Firin

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/kom_firin,_egypt.aspx

See a 360 degee panorama of Kom Firin in Google Earth, created by Stefan Geens:

http://www.ogleearth.com/2007/11/the_kom_firin_d.html

N. Spencer, Kom Firin I: The Ramesside temple and the site survey (British Museum Research

Publication 170, 2008)

free download

http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/0%20Prelims-10%20Bibliog.pdf

Reports submitted to the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/kom_firin,_egypt/project_reports.aspx

Kom Firin

Kom Firin 2002 (pdf 2mb)
Topographic survey; test excavations in the north-west of the site.

Kom Firin 2003 (pdf 2.7mb))
Magnetometry survey; excavations in the Ramesside temple.

Kom Firin 2004 (pdf 10mb)
Magnetometry survey; excavations in the Ramesside temple, and around the gateway of the Ramesside enclosure.

Kom Firin 2005 (pdf 8mb)
Magnetometry survey; excavations in the Ramesside temple, and near the north-eastern corner of the Ramesside enclosure (includes Third Intermediate Period levels).

Kom Firin 2006 (pdf 4mb)
Excavations near the north-eastern corner of the Ramesside enclosure (includes Third Intermediate Period levels); excavations across the northern segment of the late temple enclosure walls.

Kom Firin 2007 (pdf 6mb)
Excavations near the north-eastern corner of the Ramesside enclosure (includes Third Intermediate Period levels); excavations of domestic structures in the Citadel (Late Period); auger-coring.

Kom Firin 2008 (pdf 10mb)
Excavations inside the north-eastern corner of the Ramesside enclosure (includes Third Intermediate Period levels); excavations of domestic structures in the Citadel (Late Period); brief zoology report (2002-2008).

Kom Firin 2009 (pdf 4mb)

Analyses of ceramics from Citadel (Late Period) and trench NA (Late Period-Roman); recording of newly exposed segment of Late Period enclosure wall.

The Research Publications series

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/research_publications_series.aspx#AllResearchPublications

A Naos of Nekhthorheb from Bubastis:

Religious Iconography and Temple building in the 30th Dynasty

Neal Spencer, with a contribution by Daniela Rosenow

British Museum Research Publication 156

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/research_publications_series/2006/a_naos_of_nekhthorheb.aspx

http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/156%20Bubastis%200prelims-all%20chapts-Append-Bibliog-Index%20of%20Mus%20objects.pdf

http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/156%20Bubastis%20col%20pls%20standard%20bm%20fonts%20resized.pdf

http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/156%20Bubastis%20Figures%20rev%20inc%20p84.pdf

http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/156%20Bubastis%20Platesrev%20optimized.pdf

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