Newsletter, Number 91 (FALL 1974)
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CONTENTS:
Notes from Princeton--
Projects 1974-75--
ARCE Fellows 1974-75--
Prospective Members--
Continuation of the Epigraphic and Architectural Survey, The Oriental Institute, The üniversity of Chicago, Luxor / by Kent R.--
Weeks Editing the Nag Hammadi Codices / by James M. Robinson--
Pennsylvania—Yale-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Giza Project, Summer 1974 / by William Kelly Simpson--
A New Sounding Device to Assist Archaeological Exploration / by Lambert T. Dolphin --
Notes on Activities in Egypt--
The Center's Guest Book--
1974 Annual Meeting Abstracts of Papers.
Newsletter, Number 56 (December, 1965)
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Through the courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, an Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt was held this year in Chicago on November 13th.
The meeting was well attended by members and their guests. Among the latter was Mr. Renzo Pagin of the Department of State of the United States of America, Miss Bea Davidson of the Smithsonian Institution, Professor Jaroslav Cerny, distinguished Professor of Egyptology Emeritus of Oxford University, Dr. Labib Habachi, a well-known scholar from Egypt, and Mrs. Habachi, who has for several years been associated with the office of the Center in Cairo. Others present included the following:
Newsletter, 25 april 1956
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REPORT ON THE WORK AT ABU SIMBEL
carried on by the ’’Centre de Documentation et d’Etudes sur 1'Histoire de 1'Art et de la Civilisation de 1’ancienne Egypte"
This item has been contributed by Dr. Charles F. Nims, Epigraphic Survey, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Luxor
The first week after arrival at Abu Simbel was occupied by the work of organization and the photogrammetric survey. The latter was undertaken by a team of three French scholars, assisted by Drs. Mahmoud Tolba and Hasan Mostafa of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Cairo. In charge was Professor Poiuilliers, Directeur de 1'Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, a pioneer in all the applications of aerial survey. He served as chief of aerial observation for the AEF in 1916-1918. The first to apply the principles of aerial mapping to the study of architecture, it was his survey which was the basis of the photogrammetric section of the Report on the Monuments of Nubia (unfortunately without the mention of his name). By combining surveying and stereo (3-D) photography, he has been able to make very accurate measurements of buildings in the least possible time. From the results of the work'at Abu Simbel a model of the temple and an architectural study are now being prepared in Paris.
Newsletter, 27 June 1951
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Our Membership Secretary, Richard A. Parker, Professor of Egyptology at Brown University, has sent the following delightful account of his recent visit to Egypt- The fruits of his researches will no doubt be more savory to us than the accomplishment was to him: those of us who cannot visit Egypt in the near future will find some consolation in this evidence that a visit is not all roses.
’’Shortly after the close of the first semester at Brown University I left for Egypt for a stay of nearly three months. I had not been in Egypt since I turned over the directorship of the University of Chicago expedition at Chicago House, Luxor, to George Hughes very early in 19U9; and I was anxious to see what two years’ work had brought to light from Egypt’s buried past. I had the primary purpose, however, of rechecking some of ny previous copies of astronomical ceilings and of recording a few new ones as well as a few which time had not permitted me to record before. During xny stay at home, I and my colleague Otto Neugebauer had worked over much of the material which we had previously collected toward the goal of a publication of all Egyptian astronomical texts; and various questions about correct readings had come up which could of course be answered only in the field.