SCRIBE : The Magazine of The American Research Center in Egypt : SPRING 2022 | ISSUE9
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Updates on excavation, conservation, and research projects developing across Egypt
Dr. Louise Bertini
Executive Director
Celebrating the
Centennial
A fter two years of adapting and adjusting, we are thrilled
to resume hosting our most important programmatic
event of the year, the ARCE Annual Meeting in-person.
Warmest welcome to our members and attendees who
are joining us in California, as well as those continuing to tune in
from across the globe for our virtual component. I’d like to thank
our Annual Meeting sponsors:* Keynote Presentation Sponsor
National Geographic, President’s Reception Sponsor Getty
Conservation Institute, and our official Airline Sponsor EgyptAir.
Thank you as well as to our keynote speaker, George Herbert, 8th
Earl of Carnarvon, for helping us to mark this special centennial
year celebrating the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. In
addition to our regular programs and fieldwork, ARCE has been
rolling out a suite of Tutankhamun-themed content to celebrate
the 100-year anniversary, from lectures to a member tour.
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The Celebrations
Continue!
E
veryone interested in ancient Egypt knows of the events
being celebrated this year in Egypt and throughout the
world of Egyptology. It is of course the centennial of
Howard Carter’s amazing discovery of KV62, the tomb
of Tutankhamun, and also the bicentennial of Jean-François
Champollion’s demonstration that ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
could once again be read and understood. ARCE has thus continued
rolling out its suite of events, bringing the celebrations to fruition!
Programs
In April, ARCE held its 73rd Annual Meeting in Irvine, California
where we celebrated these momentous events with our keynote
speaker, the current and 8th Earl of Carnarvon, Lord George
Herbert. To further mark the centennial, we kicked-off our national
chapter lecture tour in June with Dr. Marc Gabolde, who shared the
fascinating story of the fate of several missing artifacts ‘diverted’
away from Tutankhamun’s tomb.
The Virtual Annual Meeting also connected researchers and
members from around the world, to participate and share their
own research findings. Both virtual and in-person lectures were
recorded and are all now online, helping more members experience
the lectures at their own convenience. A sincere thank you to all
the ARCE staff and members who helped make both the virtual and
in-person Annual Meeting such a well-organized and successful event.
We also have a number of exciting events coming up including
the continuation of the Tutankhamun Centennial Chapter Lecture
Tour with Dr. Betsy Bryan, who will be travelling to Chicago, Kansas
City, North Texas, and Atlanta chapters between September 26th
and October 3rd. The special event Transcending Eternity: The
Centennial Tutankhamun Conference carried out in partnership
with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities will take
place in Luxor from November 4th-6th, 2022, and we are honored
to continue our partnership with National Geographic through our
collaboration with their Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience
project in providing content and partnership programming. See
their advertisement in this issue for a discount code to visit the
exhibition and stay tuned to ARCE.org for more information!
Fieldwork
In Luxor, the renovations of Howard Carter’s house continue thanks
to the generous donation by long-time ARCE board member Adina
Savin. In this issue of Scribe, ARCE’s Sally El Sabbahy and Nicholas
Warner review the fascinating history behind the construction of
Carter’s house and its use in the years following the discovery of
KV62. In the next issue coming out in early 2023, the team will
review the outcome of the conservation efforts and report on the
grand re-opening of the house scheduled for November of this
year, on the actual centennial of Carter opening the tomb on the
4th of November, 1922.
Media Tour
In June, ARCE hosted a special media tour to highlight ARCE
Antiquities Endowment Fund (AEF) projects, Research Supporting
Member projects, and past USAID-funded projects in Cairo. The
tour included a visit to the Great Pyramid to see the results of the
Ancient Egypt Research Associate’s (AERA) AEF-funded project
to record and better-protect Khufu’s Mortuary Temple. The most
visible change is the installation of a new access walkway encircling
the remains of the temple’s formidable black basalt pavement,
which should provide a more secure and less damaging path from
which to see the surviving monumental remains. The tour also
visited the Fatimid-era Bab Zuwayla gate, one of three surviving
entrances that controlled access to the fortified medieval city of
Old Cairo, where from 1998-2003, ARCE spearheaded an intense
conservation project, with support from USAID and under the
supervision of Nairy Hampikian, to remove, restore, and re-install
the Bab Zuwayla’s sizable wood and iron doors. The final site visited
was the Church of the blessed Virgin Mary, Saint George, and Abu
Sefein to see some of the many Coptic icons that that were restored
thanks to conservation efforts led by ARCE between 1998-2004.
It is so important to revisit these successful projects in
conjunction with the media and our colleagues from the Ministry
of Tourism and Antiquities. They show just how great an impact
the USAID grants, member donations, and endowments funds
have ‘in the field’.
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Updates on developments taking place in the United States and Egypt
Building a New
Foundation for Our
Future, 2023-2028
I n November of last year, the ARCE executive team presented an exclusive,
members-only virtual town hall webinar that set out ARCE’s new vision for the
future. Board of Governors President Dr. David Anderson, Executive Director Dr.
Louise Bertini, and US Director Liska Radachi presented ARCE's new strategic
plan, developed after many months of consultation with staff, chapter leaders, focus
groups, and nearly five hundred members and associates.
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Updates on excavation, conservation, and research projects developing across Egypt
Dr. Louise Bertini
Executive Director
ARCE in action on
our 75th year
W elcome to the new issue of Scribe magazine! We
hope you had a great summer and are now ready
to hear the latest interesting news about ARCE’s
ongoing work in Egypt and about our plans for
the final months of our 75th anniversary.
Over the last six months, ARCE staff, officers, members, and
our partners have been organizing and hosting events, developing
our library and online resources, and working with excavators,
academics, conservation experts, officials, and heritage management
teams from Egypt and around the world.
In May, we hosted our 74th Annual Meeting in the Minneapolis
Marriot City Center hotel and conference venue, followed the
weekend after by the virtual online conference. Both events were
very successful. In addition to a slate of outstanding presentations,
attendees were treated to special panel sessions and an exclusive
museum workshop entitled ‘Engaging Egypt and Africa in Museum
Settings’. The keynote address was a joint presentation by Dr.
Betsy Bryan and Dr. Fayza Haikal, who recounted deeply personal
stories in their talk entitled “Women in Egyptology: Long Career
Reflections”. This was delivered at the magnificent Minneapolis
Institute of Art and surely left a lasting impression on all who were
in attendance. Next year, the 75th annual in-person meeting will
take place in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, from April 19th to 21st at the
Omni William Penn hotel.
In Egypt, ARCE hosted the Cultural Property Protection
conference with delegates attending from Egypt, Jordan, Iraq,
Yemen, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, and Palestine. This was
made possible thanks to generous funding from the U.S. Embassy in
Cairo, in partnership with the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
(MoTA), the Council of American Overseas Research Centers
(CAORC), and the US Department of State. The conference focused
on “Sustainable Documentation and Inventories Management” and
ended on a promising note where recommendations were drafted
based on more than thirty presentations by regional experts. Rec-
ommendations included the formation of an “Arab World Heritage”
network, increasing collaboration through regional joint projects,
and the development of regional training initiatives.
The Hypocephalus: An Ancient Egyptian Funerary Amulet
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The hypocephalus is still a topic seldom investigated in Egyptology. Between 1961 and 1998, Edith Varga studied the antecedents of the object type, discussing all practices aimed at the protection of the head up to the 4th century BC from all over Egypt.1 Through her ongoing commitment to the subject, hypocephali were ‘rediscovered’ for Egyptology. She identified no fewer than two-thirds of the examples presently known, and published these in several articles.2 The analysis and typology of these amuletic objects at the time when they appeared in the 4th century BC remained for a further research project. In my work, I aimed at continuing the research of Edith Varga, and at presenting the catalogue of hypocephali to the public.
Figured Ostraca from New Kingdom Egypt: Iconography and Intent
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The aim of the study is to examine a particular set of images found only on ostraca from New Kingdom Egypt. These scenes show women, often with a child, sitting on a bed in a domestic environment; alternatively, they depict women with a child in a kiosk, in an outdoor setting. The purpose of this research is to examine why these images were drawn and to explore what these representations meant to their creators and viewers. The functionality of the ostraca will also be analysed, considering if they were objects in their own right or merely practice pieces for larger scale compositions.
A view from the herd : cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs in pharaonic Egypt : a primer for Egyptologists and archaeologists A view from the herd : cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs in ph...
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The importance of cattle, sheep, and goats; decision-making in ancient Egypt; and a little theory
Taxonomy and nomenclature
The origin of domestic cattle, sheep, and goats in Egypt
Setting the stage. Environmental factors : floods, rains, and climate change; The ecological biogeography of pastoralism in ancient Egypt; Feeding and foddering; Herd size in ancient Egypt; The assumptions : a framework for modeling animal management in ancient Egypt; pulling it all together
Cattle in pharaonic Egypt : herd dynamics, feeding behavior, production characteristics, and productivity. The Baladi breed : a model for cattle in ancient Egypt; Modeling pharaonic cattle management and productivity
Sheep, goats, and pigs in pharaonic Egypt : herd dynamics, feeding behavior, production characteristics, and productivity. Unimproved breeds of sheep : a model for pharaonic sheep; Unimproved breeds of goats : a model for pharaonic goats; Modeling pharaonic sheep and goat management and productivity; The pig in ancient Egypt; Comparing cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs : predictions and two normative assumptions reexamined
Consumption and nutrition. Butchering, nutrition, and patterns of consumption
Explaining patterning in the faunal remains from Old Kingdom Egypt. Archaeological data from the Old Kingdom : patterns and explanations
Newsletter, Number 175 (FEBRUARY 1998)
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CONTENTS: THE PTOLEMAIC CITY OF ALEXANDRIA RECONSIDERED Robert Steven Bianchi -- NEWS FROM CAIRO -- NEWS FROM NEW YORK -- DEVELOPMENT NEWS -- MYTH, IMAGINATION, REALITY: NEW EGYPTIAN DIRECTORS 6 -- GIFTS OF THE NILE
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FAIENCE -- DEATH AND ETERNITY IN ANCIENT EGYPT -- HOLD THE DATE.
Newsletter, Number 72 (JANUARY 1970)
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Contents:
Notes from Princeton--
Notes erom Cairo--
Broad Outline of Activity in the Antiquities Sector, 1968-69 / Dr. Gamal MokhtAR--
The Perils and Pleasures of a "Modern Egyptologist” / by Dr. Arthur Goldschmidt--
Dentistry in Ancient Egypt / by Dr. Shakir Khalebl--
International Symposium on the Architecture of Cairo / by A Participant--
The Center's Guest Book--
Minutes of the 1969 Annual Meeting of Members--
Revised A.R.C.E. By-Laws.
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Looking to the Future -- Key Places in this Issue -- Fieldwork Season: New & Returning Expeditions -- Updates from the Current Season -- In Memoriam / William Kelly Simpson -- celebrating the Conservation Field School Graduates in Luxor -- Recap: April 2018 Annual Meeting -- Experiencing 3,000 Years of Ancient Egypt in Los Angeles -- International Archaeology Day Events -- Caroline Williams and Jen Thum -- A Road Trip Along the Nile.
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Then & Now: 70 Years of the American Research Center in Egypt -- Greetings from the Director for Egypt -- Capturing Ancient Egypt in Three Dimensions -- The Founding of an American Research Center in Egypt -- Reviews of Publications in Egyptology -- The Hidden Treasures: Hearst Museum Egyptian Collection -- U.S. Congressional Delegation Visits Luxor -- Celebration of ARCE at the U.S. Embassy -- Donor Support -- Board & Staff -- Research Supporting Members -- Financial Statements -- The ARCE Houseboat Fostat.
Newsletter, Number 92 (WINTER 1975)
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CONTENTS:
Page Zareh H. Misketian 1916-1974--
Gamil Antaki - Rashad Abd Al-Muttalib--
International Conference on Egyptology in Cairo / by Cynthia Sheikholeslami--
Medieval Islamic Astronomy - Progress Report / by David A. King--
On the Problems of Research at the Libraries of the Yemen
Arab Republic / by Abbas Hamdani--
Missione Archeologica in Egitto Della Universita di Roma / by Sergio Donadoni--
Travel by Foreigners Within Egypt--
The Center’s Guest Book--
Notes From Princeton--
Works on Egyptology Currently in Progress--
An Additional Footnote on Pleating in Ancient Egypt--
ARCE Fellows - 1974-75--
Minutes of Meeting of Members--
ARCE Membership--
Photographs.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 195 - (Summer 2009)
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Conservation of the Mosque of Aslam al-Silagdar in Cairo -- Amheida: the Site Management Project of 2008-2009 A Late Antique Funerary Chapel at the White Monastery (Datr Anba Shenouda), Sohag -- The Egyptian Museum Register Scanning Project, Part ||: the Special Registers -- An Investigation into the Sacred Kistirict as Depicted in New Kingdom Private Tombs -- Calvin W. Schwabe: Remembering a Veterinarian's Approach to Ancient Egypt -- ARCE's 60th Annual Meeting -- Big Change in ARCE Governave Practices Fellows 208-2009 -- Around ARCE -- Annual Report.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 196 - (Spring 2010)
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Antiquities Endowment Fund (AEF): Working to Preserve Egypt's Padt and Support ARCE Activities -- Why Building ARCE's Operating Endowment is the Best Way to Help -- Spotlight on an ARCE Research Supporting Member: Yale University -- 2010 Conference on Human Remains in Ancient Egypt -- Beds in New Kingdom Egyptian Art Writing Family History From the Ottoman Archives -- Around ARCE -- New Book Chronicle Decade of Conservation Work in Egypt -- A Visit to Greece -- the Eighth Annual ARCE Thanksgiving Came Trek: Poetic Scenery and Ponderous Beasts.
Newsletter, Number 158-159 (SUMMER/FALL 1992)
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One of the most significant areas of inquiry into ancient Egypt, and until fairly recently one of the most neglected, is the nature of settlement in the Nile Valley and Delta. Although a tremendous amount of information has been acquired about ancient Egyptian society from the study of texts, monumental architecture, and cemeteries, the detailed study of Egyptian cities, towns, and villages has, for much of the history of Egyptian archaeology, not been a major part of scholarly research, with a few exceptions (e.g. Kahun, el-Amarna). Thus a major set of data with which to inform debate on the nature of ancient Egyptian society has remained virtually untapped.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 208 - SUMMER 2016
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Wall Paintings in the Late Roman City of Trimithis (Ambeida), Dakhla Oasis: A Tantalizing Preliminary Survey -- Ancient Column inscriptions and New Technologies: the 2Ol4-2015 Field Season of the Karnak Great Hypostyle Hall Project -- The Mit Rahina Field School, 2014 -- The Osiris Temple at Abydos -- Architectural Conservation of the White Monastery Church (Dary Anba Shinuda), Sohag -- Conserving the Amarna Coffins -- the Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt -- Egyptian Coffin Conservation Project -- Enemies of the Stale: The Old Kingdom Prisoner Statues and Three-dimensional Representations of foreigners -- Documenting and Watching Shadow Ploys in Coiro: Text and Performance.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 199 - (Fall 2011)
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The Monastery of St Matthew the Potter al-Dayr al-Qadis al-Anba Mata'us al-Fakhuri, Esna -- the Wall Paintings From the Temple of Amenhotep ||| at Wadi es-Sebua: Conservation, Preservation, and Documentation -- "Restoring and Conserving a Tympmum from the North Chapel of the Senwosret ||| Pyramid Complex at Dahshur" -- Crumbling Challenge and Presentation Puzzle: the Karanis Site Management Project -- Egypt and the Block Sea Slave Trade During the Thirteenth Century -- An Introduction to the Palace in Ancient Egypt -- Director General of Upper Egypt and the Oases Presents Lectures -- ARCE Group Enjoys the Beauty and History of Cyprus -- Endowment Donors as of 7/21/2011 -- Annual Report.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 210 - (Summer 2017)
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Greetings From the New Executive Director -- TT 110 Epigraphy and Research Field School: Training and Protecting the Archaeology of Wadi el-Hudi, Eastern Desert Twenty-second and Twenty-fifth Dynasty Mummies From Thebes: X-Ray and CT-Scan Examination Project -- the Art and Culture of Ancient Egypt: Studies in Honor of Dorothea Arnold -- Another View from the Edge: The Frontier of Aswan in the Early Islamic World - In Search of Semna: Studying the Egyptian Kitchen -- The Complex of Qalawun: From Cassas to Creswell -- ARCE Conference -- ARCE News -- ARCE Celebrates in Washington DC -- ARCE Luxor Field School Graduation 2017 -- ARCE Iftar Celebration 2017.
Newsletter, Number 57 (MARCH, 1966)
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Though this is the flrst notice to readers of the Newsletter, actually since May 1964 the Center has had a share in a project of first importance in the study of Ptolemaic Egypt and its trade relations with contemporary Mediterranean states. This project is the classification, and installation in the museum of Alexandria, of the most notable of all collections of stamped handles. Such handles are fragments of stamped commercial containers made of earthenware, and the stamps on the handles are control stamps, impressed before firing, current chiefly in the great period of the ancient port city of Alexandria, from the latter 4th to the last century B.C., and, within that period, sometimes very closely datable. The containers were largely made for the transport of wine, but certainly re-used in ancient Egypt for every sort of fluid or semi-fluid commodity, as we know from may mention in papyri.
Newsletter, Number 119 (FALL 1982)
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CONTENT:
The Epigraphic Survey (Chicago House) Part 2: The Institute Function of CHICAGO HOUSEj Lanny Bell, William Murnane, and Bernard Fishman--
A Preliminary Report on the 1982 Season AT HlERAKONPOLIS, Michael A. Hoffman--
Excavations at Qasr IbriM/ 1982, William y. Adams--
-OCAL Institutions and Agricultural Development in Egypt: A Concluding -FIELD REPORT, Richard H. Adams, Jr.--
The Interaction of Class and Nation in the Emergence of the Egyptian Workers MOVEMENT, Zachary Lockman--
The Culture of Political Opposition in Egypt BETWEEN 1935 AND 1954, Selma Botman--
Ancient Egypt In Biographies of the Late Period (380 BCE through 246 BCE), Elizabeth J. Sherman--
SOCIALIZATION OF EGYPTIAN WORKERS, Shahrough Akhavi--
The Politics of Health care in Modern Egypt, Nancy E. Gallagher--
Books Available for Review in JARCE--
Notes from the Executive Director.