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 209 - WINTER 2017
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The New Metropolitan Museum of Art Storeroom at Dahshur and the Relief Decoration from the Pyramid Complex of Senwosret iii -- Digital Heritage Preservation: 3D Laser Scanning the Red Monastery Church -- Restoring Coins in Egypt: Field School at the Karnak Conservation lob -- it's Online: 6,500 Numismatic Items from the Egyptian National Library's Collection -- The Conservation Project of TT 110 (Tomb of Djehuty) -- ARCE Opens Exciting New Door-Growing Our National Presence in 2017 -- Madame Amir Khattab Retires -- ARCE Coiro Friends Take Trip to Sicily, September 8-16, 2016 -- Donor Support -- Research Supporting Members -- 2014-2015 Annual Report.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 181 - (Fall/Winter - 2001/2002)
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the Reconstruction of a Group of Wooden Models from the Tomb of Djehutynakht in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Nadia Lokma --Center Update -- Finding What Belzoni Didn't Take Foundation Deposit Pits in the Western Valley of the Kings / Richard H. Wilkinson -- Between Comite and Community: The Restoration of Al-Salih Tala'i / Alaa El-Habashi -- The Cairo Mapping Project / Nicholas Warner -- Conservation of the Cave Church at the Monastery of St. Paul / by the Red Sea Michael Jones.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 184 - (Fall/Winter - 2003/2004)
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Egyptian Views of the Pharaohs from Muhammad Ali to Naser
Donald Malcolm Reid -- 0riental lnstitute's Epigraphic Survey Continues in Luxor
Ray Johnson -- ARCE / USAID Project Increases Egyptian Museum's Ability to Preserve Antiquities -- Bab Zuweyla Opening Celebrates ARCE and USAID Collaboration -- Mersa Gawasis: A Phoroonic Coastal Site on the Rea Seo Kathryn A. Bard and Rodolfo fattovich -- The Musical Foundations of Umm Kulthum's Pan-Arab Appeal Laura Lohman.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 185 - (Summer 2004)
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Definition of Identity: Pharaonic Arrhileclure in contemporary Egypt by faiza Haikal -- ARCE and French institute collaborate on Three-Year project by Jere Bachrach -- One Hundred Years of Conservation at the Zawiya Farag lbn Barquq by Hoda Abdel-Hamid -- Ornamental Stones Used in The Zawiya and Sabil of Farag ibn Barquq by James A. Harell -- the Pro[het Muhammad's ascension (Mi'raj) in Islamic Painting and Literature: Evidence From Cairo collections by Christiane Jacqueline Joubert -- Frank Yurco by Janet H. Johnson -- Fellowship Report: the First Archaeological Survey of Nubia by Peter Lacovara -- Chapter Report -- Tucson is setting For 55th annual meeting -- Antiquities Endowment Fund -- Members For Donors -- Statement For Financial position -- Conferences and Symposia.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 187 - (Spring 2005)
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Archaeological Field Schools: ARCE Responds to an Egyptian Need by Shari Saunders -- Giza Field School 2005 by Mark Lehner -- North kharga Oasis Survey 2005 by Salima Ikram -- Metropolitan Museum/ARCE (AEF grant) Conservation Project by Dr. Elena Pischikova -- Islamic Stamped Glass in the Gayer-Anderson Museum, Cairo by Jere L.Bacharach -- the ARCE Grand Egyptian Tour of 2005 by Sarah R. O'Brien, ARCE North Texas -- ARCE Simpson Library News -- Accessions to the Collection September-December 2004 -- Nicholas B. Millet -- ARCE Update -- Nnnual Report.
Definición y caracterización de las cerámicas a mano con decoración pintada del sur de la península ibérica en época tartésica
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Las cerámicas a mano con decoración pintada constituyen uno de los materiales arqueológicos más destacados del Bronce Final y de la Primera Edad del Hierro en los valles del Guadalquivir y del Guadiana, contexto en el que se desarrolló la cultura tartésica. En este trabajo se ha abordado un estudio exhaustivo sobre estos estilos cerámicos, definiendo sus características técnicas, dispersión geográfica, formas, decoración, simbolismo, cronología, uso y significado. A este estudio de conjunto se añaden varias piezas inéditas de Alarcos, algunas con análisis arqueométricos y de contenido cuyos resultados cuestionan su tradicional consideración como ?cerámicas postcocción?.0Dicha caracterización permite una orientación en la clasificación de unos estilos tradicionalmente considerados como un conjunto monolítico, cuando realmente subyace un panorama mucho más complejo que obedece a diversas circunstancias cronológicas y culturales. Entre estas últimas destacan las relaciones y contactos establecidos entre las comunidades locales peninsulares y las poblaciones mediterráneas, dando lugar a fenómenos culturales de mestizaje o hibridación en el que se conjugó la tradición local con todas las aportaciones exógenas, una realidad fosilizada en estas producciones. En definitiva, se trata de la obra de conjunto más completa y actualizada sobre estas cerámicas, estudiadas desde la perspectiva de los nuevos enfoques teórico-metodológicos y las recientes interpretaciones.
Le verre de Sabra al-Mansuriya (Kairouan, Tunisie) - milieu Xe-milieu XIe siècle : Production et consommation vaisselle - contenants - vitrages
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Knowledge of Islamic glass and its craftsmanship in the medieval period has relied heavily on Middle Eastern literature. The study of workshop and rich glass assemblage from Sabra al-Mansuriya (Kairouan), the Fatimid capital founded in 947/948 and destroyed in 1057, shows that Ifriqiya followed the technological evolutions of glass craftsmanship
The archaeological survey of Sudanese Nubia, 1963-69 : the Pharaonic sites
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This volume, focusing on pharaonic sites, brings to publication the records of the Archaeological Survey of Sudanese Nubia (ASSN). These records represent a major body of data relating to a region largely now lost to flooding and of considerable importance for understanding the archaeology and history of Nubia.
The reach of the Assyrian and Babylonian empires. Case studies in Eastern and Western peripheries
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This volume deals with the Assyrian and the Babylonian Empires and seeks to provide new data for the ways that enabled these states to govern efficaciously their vast territories and diverse populations across the ancient Middle East. With both states exerting and distributing power and authority from centre to periphery, the channels through which these were asserted are understood to be of key concern in order to assess the imperial structures. Elucidating the mechanisms of control, especially in view of the always fragile relations between the state centre and remote peripheries, has long been a major subject in the study on ancient empires.0The volume edited by Shuichi Hasegawa and Karen Radner is specifically concerned with tracing the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires? reach into and their hold over their more peripheral regions. The papers collected in this volume cover the period from the 9th to the 6th century BCE and draw on the rich archaeological and textual data that has come to light in old and new excavations and survey projects in Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey, and in particular at the Dinka Settlement Complex (Gird-i Bazar and Qalat-i Dinka), the cemetery discovered at Sanandaj, Tel Rekhesh, Tell Ali al-Hajj, Tell Mastuma and Yasin Tepe.
Newsletter, 7 April 1955
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On January 28, Mr. and Mrs. Dimmick, Dr. R. F. S. Starr of the State Department, and the Director visited the Cheops Boat Grave Just when the last of the forty-one main ceiling blocks was raised, thus permitting for the first time a completely unobstructed view of the boat's stern. Two large curved panels from the prow in beautiful condition are directly underneath, and in the south-east corner stands a wooden beam, pierced near the top by a slotshaped hole which still houses a piece of rope forming a clue as to the use of these holes which dot most of the woodwork. Further west, two short, wide, curved boards, lying a few inches apart, are connected by several strands of quarter-inch rope which pass through the oblong slots cut into these boards. Thus it appears that all wooden beams, girders, and planks which show these holes were once laced together with rope. Quantities of it are lying in a pile against the eastern end of the south wall of the chamber, partly covered with matting.
Newsletter, 20 October 1955
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During the summer Dr. Simpson returned to New York, whereas I visited a number of Egyptian collections in France and England. The office was reopened early in September, and now, several weeks later, it seems to us as if we had never been absent from Egypt since last year. Once again the Nile has risen, and the muddy swift-moving waters barely seem to get through under the bridges. The crest of the flood was reached in the beginning of the month, but it will take several weeks before the inundation subsides visibly. The Cairo bridges, incidentally, are being illuminated at night by neon tubing which lines the contours of spans and girders. The new Shepheard's Hotel with its eight stories, to which the structure has now risen, already dwarfs the Semiramis in the next block, and lovely fountains have been installed on the Midan el Tahrir and the Opera Square. They incorporate sets of colored lights which change every few seconds and attract vast crowds in these pleasantly cool September evenings. The Corniche has been extended further and now follows the Nile embankment well north of the Bulaq Bridge. The palm trees on the street leading from the railroad station toward Heliopolis, once cut down by order of Farouk fearing assassination, have been replanted, and new buildings of 13 and 16 stories have sprung up all over town.
Newsletter, 13 Desember 1954
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On later pages in this Newsletter a series of reports by Mr. Bothmer, Director, and Mr. Dimick, Fellow of the Center in Cairo, is published in chronological sequence on preparations for removing the heavy blocks of limestone covering the Boat Grave adjacent to the Great Pyramid of Cheops, and on the actual lifting of some of them. These eye-witness accounts by ecient if Jlcally competent observers are of immediate interest as news and of permanent value for the archaeological record.
Newsletter, 15 June 1955
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The Cairo season is coining to an end, at least as far as the Center is concerned. In a few days this office will be closed until September and I shall move to Alexandria to work at the Graeco-Roman Museum there for a month or so. The past eight and a half months seem to have gone by very quickly, but in retrospect they were rich and rewarding and full of pleasant interruptions which made the routine of research, office work, and field trips a rather varied experience. For one thing, we now have a group of Members, admittedly few in number, here in Cairo who are genuinely interested in the antiquity and art of the Nile Valley and there is hope that some day, in the not too distant future insha'allah, a permanent institution will serve American historians and archaeologists in this part of the Near East. There also was the never-ending stream of casual visitors who came from far away to ask advice as to the best way in which to get around in Egypt or to tell about their experiences. Among them we had a young American student from the Free University of Berlin who, without knowing any Arabic, traveled up and down the country for several weeks without encountering any difficulties or having trouble in finding a place to sleep. There were the Sunday excursions when peaceful temple ruins were swarming with children, and there were the quiet happy afternoons when this ,writer walked the length and breadth of northern Mitrahine with John Dimick in order to learn something about the topography of ancient Memphis from one who knew his levels and map coordinates. The group of Fulbright grantees is breaking up, and some of them have left already, and a few of our friends in the U.S. Information Service are being transferred or are going on home leave.
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, 25 January 1956
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The following item has been contributed by Dr. William K. Simpson, Research Associate of the Center in Cairo:
"A publication of great interest has recently appeared. It is entitled Report on the Monuments of Nubia Likely to be submerged by Sudd-el-Ali Water, published by the Government Press, Cairo, 1955, for the Antiquities Department of the Ministry of Education. After a preface by the Director-General of the Antiquities Department, Professor Mustafa Amer, there follows a letter addressed to the Minister of Education by Dr. Selim Hassan. In the letter he mentions the great need for a project to save the monuments, and that the assistance of foreign colleagues and UNESCO would be gratefully accepted. The committee,which visited Nubia in December, 1954, and January, 1955, consisted of Dr. Selim Hassan (president), Dr. Ahmed Fakhry, Labib Habachi, architect Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim, and architect Mustafa Sobhi Mohammed. The results of their survey and their recommendations, together with cost estimates, are the subjects of the report. An account of previous scientific work is given before their description of the sites.
Newsletter, 28 January 1955
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Much of the work of the Cairo office is not very spectacular and attracts little attention locally. A number of inquiries are received by mail every week which are answered more or less promptly, depending on their nature. Bequests for photographs and other information, especially bibliographical data, come in regularly, and to fulfill them as well as possible and as quickly as possible takes much time and often much energy. We try to keep in touch with the other Schools affiliated with the Archaeological Institute of. America as well as with museums and universities at home, and even some of our European colleagues have turned to us for help if their own channels of approach proved inadequate. There are a number of callers every few days who wish to inform themselves of items as varied as the address of a certain institution in the U.S. and the number of American expeditions which have worked in Egypt in the past. There were also several American archaeologists on visits from Athens and Jerusalem whom we took to some of the sites near Cairo, and there is the ever-present task of keeping abreast of what is going on in the field and of writing it up for the Newsletter. But it was the showing of Mr. Garner’s film EGYPT - A JOURNEY INTO THE PAST which brought the Center to the attention of a wider public here in Cairo, and in order to follow up this interest it has been decided to arrange a number of tours for interested members of the American colony and their friends.
Newsletter,11 december 1953
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The meeting was called to order at 2:35 P٠M٠ by the President, Mr. Edward w. Forbes. One hundred and thirty-four members were represented at the meeting by proxy or in person.
It was VOTED to dispense with the reading of the Minutes of the last Annual Meeting and to accept them as printed.
At the invitation of the President, the Treasurer, Mr. Keller, read his Report which was accepted by VOTE. It was placed on file* here follows a summary of the Boston account (the report on the Cairo account having been delayed in the mail)
Newsletter,25 july 1952
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You will be glad to hear that our first Director ئ Egypt, Dr, William Stevenson Smith, is better after the illness which led to his hospitalization on return. He sends US the following retrospect upon his work.
six weeks in the hospital and a long period of recuperation from an operation have prevented me from reporting until now on the period between my last letter on October 12th, 1951 and my departure from Egypt on January 2nd, 1952. On November 12th I delivered a lecture on ’The Giza Site: Its Historical and Archaeological Significance’ for the School of Oriental Studies at the American University at Cairo• This was well attended by students and friends of the University who showed a lively interest in the subject•