Newsletter, Number 33 (April, 1959)
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The following communications have been received from the Fellows of the Center in Egypt, Dr, Helen K. Wall, and Dr. John Alden Williams, Dr. Williams is temporarily in India, Mrs. Wall may be addressed at Morland House, 16 Sharia el Sheikh Barakat, Kasr el Doubara, Cairo.
Newsletter, Number 34 (May, 1959)
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On Page 3 of Newsletter Number Thirty-two, it was announced by the President that the Center had received an anonymous gift of $10,000 and that this gift had been matched by Mr. and Mrs. John Dimick, who specified that their contribution was to be used for the maintenance of the Center’s office in Cairo.
Since the President gave his report to the Annual Meeting, the same anonymous donor has offered a second gift of $10,000, provided the members of the Center can match it. The Treasurer has just announced that he has received securities from another donor, which has realized the sum of $2,341. 79. This is a long step in the right direction, but the members must be reminded that $7,658. 21 are still needed if we are to receive the promised $10,000.
Newsletter, Number 35 (July, 1959)
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At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Center held on June 30, Miss Elizabeth Thomas a member of long-standing and an able scholar in Egyptian archaeology, was appointed to make a survey of royal tombs of the Theban necropolis under the auspices of the Center. This survey will include a topographical study of such tombs, both within and without the Biban el-Muluk, a discussion of tomb-types, sarcophagi, and other significant features. Miss Thomas plans to begin her survey during the coming season. She has very kindly offered to undertake the work at her own expense, as a contribution to the Center.
Newsletter, Number 36 (December, 1959)
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Appended to this Newsletter are the minutes of the Annual Meeting held on November 17. Members who were not present at the meeting are urged to read them with care. It may not be amiss, however, before presenting the communications received from this year's Fellows in Egypt, to draw attention to some of the points raised by the President of the Center, Mr. Edward W. Forbes, in his report to the meeting.
Newsletter, Number 37 (February, I960)
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Winter has settled on Cairo now, and the days have grown cool enough to require a light overcoat in the evenings. The sky is frequently overcast, and a few modest showers have fallen since I last wrote. The country people go about with their heads swathed in long brown scarves, in obedience to a theory that if you keep your head warm, the rest of the body doesn’t matter much. With the approach of Christmas, the more fashionable shops in Cairo have suddenly burgeoned forth with wreaths, figures of Santa Claus (all rather emaciated to an American eye unaccustomed to the more austere European tradition), and even Christmas trees. These last are usually artificial since Egypt is naturally short of the real thing. Some people use young tamarisks or branches of tamarisk arranged on an artificial trunk. The result is a very attractive substitute in silvery green.
Newsletter, Number 38 (April, I960)
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It is with pleasure that we are able to include with our reports from Egypt a letter from Dr. Helen Wall-Jacquet, who held the Center’s Egyptological fellowship in 1958-59. Dr. Jacquet writes from Lower Nubia, where she went from Luxor, after having spent some time in the latter place continuing the work described in Newsletter Thirty-Six, which she began last season under "the auspices of the Center.
Newsletter, Number 39 (October, 1960)
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The Annual Meeting of the Center, to be held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on Tuesday, November 1$, will be the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Center's corporate existence. A special program has been planned, and it is hoped that as many members as possible will attend. The business meeting, which will be made as brief as possible, will be convened promptly at 2:00 p.m. It will be followed at 3:00 o'clock by an illustrated lecture given by Mr. Dows Dunham on aspects of American archaeological activity in Egypt. Friends of members will be welcomed at this lecture and at the tea offered to members and their guests, which is scheduled for li:30 o'clock.
Newsletter, Number 40 (December, 1960)
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The Fellows of the Center, Nicholas B. Millet, and George T. Scanlon, will keep regular hours at the above address from 8:00 to 1:00 daily, excepting Friday and Sunday.
An added note, of interest to our readers, is that three of our members will participate this year in a joint expedition of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania Museums, which has just been announced. The expedition, in charge of Professor William Kelly Simpson, Vice President and Trustee of the Center, will establish a camp in Nubia, in the shadow of the famous temple of Raineses II at Abu Simbel, twenty miles north of the Second Cataract. Professor Simpson will be joined there by (among others) Edward L. B. Terrace, of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, a member of the Center, and Nicholas B. Millet, the present Director of the Center in Cairo. Dr. George T. Scanlon will represent the Center in Cairo during Mr. Millet *s absence.
Newsletter, Number 41 (March, 1961)
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The summer was a hot and somnolent one in Egypt this year, and as usual, during the hot season, most archaeological activities ceased. An exception was made for the removal of three temples in the northern stretch of Lower Nubia, where the high water of the Aswan reservoir covers the monuments for the greater part of the year, only receding in the very hottest months of the summer. This year, in the baking heat that afflicts Upper Egypt and Nubia in the summer, engineers and work gangs of the Antiquities Department laboured for two months to dismantle and remove the small temples at Debud, Tafa, and Qertassi. These are all built-in masonry and are small enough so that the blocks can be numbered as removed, to be loaded on barges, and carried away for re-erection outside the zone to be flooded by the High Dam's reservoir. The work was done in good time, despite the torrid heat, and represents the first real step in the salvage problem with which the world's Egyptologists are so concerned.
Newsletter, Number 42 (July, 1961)
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The Treasurer of the Center, Mr. Dows Dunham, has very kindly contributed the following communication on a painting of the early nineteenth century and its probable sources of inspiration. The illustration accompanying his article is the first to appear in any Newsletter.
"And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down unto the earth; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. So there was hail and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb, and brake every tree of the field." Exodus: IX, 23-25.
Newsletter, Number 43 (September, 1961)
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The response to the suggestion that brief papers be presented by members at the Annual Meeting on November 15, 1961, has been most gratifying. More papers have been offered than the time at our disposal can accommodate, and the Executive Committee has been obliged, regretfully, to exclude certain papers of great interest, to be read by title and later published in the News-letter, if those offering the contributions will agree. A number of members üho have not wished to present papers have signified their enthusiastic approval of this new departure by promising attendance at the meeting.
In response to many requests, a large part of the afternoon session will be devoted to Nubia and its salvage problems.
Newsletter, Number 44 (December, 1961)
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The Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Inc., held at the Museum of Fine Arts on Wednesday, November 15, 1961, was attended in person by forty-four members, with an additional 89 represented by proxy, bringing the total to 133» The open sessions, at which papers were presented, were attended by an estimated 15>0 persons, some of whom expressed their interest by joining the Center.
The business meeting was called to order at 10:00 A.M. by the President, Edward W. Forbes, to whose long leadership and wise counsel the Center has been greatly indebted from the time of its foundation. He presented the following report:
Newsletter, Number 45 (April, 1962)
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At & meeting of the Executive Committee held on March 16, the Fellow-ships offered by the Center through the generosity of the Bollingen Foundation were awarded as follows:
To Nicholas B. Millet, for research in Egyptology. In view of his outstanding services to the Center and his achievements in his field, Mr. Millet's Fellowship has been renewed for the coming season. In addition to continuing his Egyptological studies, Mr. Millet has assisted, during the past two seasons, in the work of the late-Pennsylvania excavations in Nubia, in connection with which he has been described as a "born excavator." Mr. Millet will continue as Director of the Center in Cairo.
Newsletter, Number 46 (July, 1962)
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Ten years ago the Center issued a statement saying: "It is hoped and anticipated that, like the American Schools at Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, the Center may be able...to sponsor and conduct excavations in Egypt. Such excavations would be purely scientific in purpose, intended chiefly to augment the world’s knowledge of Egyptian antiquity and to provide a practical ’laboratory’ in which to train future generations of archaeologists, architects, epigraphers, and copyists. Since excavation is meaningless without prompt and adequate publication of the results, each season’s work should be published in full-year by year; and it is regarded as essential that, before a program of excavation is entered upon, provisions shall be completed for the production of such annual publications.11
Newsletter, Number 76 (JANUARY 1971)
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CONTENTS:
The Passing of a Leader--
Notes from Princeton--
The Roentgenographic Study of the New Kingdom Pharaohs of the Cairo Museum--
And Never the Twain Shall Meet? by Ralph M. Coury--
On Getting Around in the Cairo Archives / by F. Robert Hunter--
Further Notes on Research Facilities in the U.A.R. by / Melissa Coury--
Government of the U.A.R--
Campagne de Fouilles de Universita di Roma by Sergio Donadoni--
Report on the Third Season of the Austrian Excavations in the Asasif, Luxor-West (November 1970) / by Manfred Bietak--
Egyptological Plans in Yugoslavia by / Bernarda Perc--
At the Cairo Museum by Leonard H. Lesko Notes on Activities in the U.A.R. Department of Antiquities--
Other Expeditions--
The Center's Guest Book--
Minutes of Meeting of Members--
Abstracts of some of the Papers presented at the 1970 Annual Meeting.
Newsletter, Number 80 (JANUARY 1972)
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CONTENTS:
Notes from Princeton--
ARCE Fellows for 1971-72--
Archaeological and Other Projects Sponsored / by ARCE in 1971 - 1972--
Interim Report of the 1971 Season of the Fustat Expedition / by Dr. George T. Scanlon--
Why Study Ottoman Egypt? / by Peter Gran--
Universita Degli Studi Di Roma / by Professor Sergio Donadoni--
Warding Off An Eclipse / by Bulbul Abdel Meguid (”Omm Sety”)--
Notes on Activities in Egypt--
The Center's Guest Book--
Abstracts of Papers Presented at Annual Meeting--
Minutes of 1971 Annual Meeting.
Newsletter, Number 74 (JULY 1970)
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CONTENTS:
Notes from Princeton--
Dows Dunham Honored--
Tribute to Paul Lapp / by Dr. James M. Robinson--
Books Recently Published / by ARCE Members--
Research Facilities in the U.A.R / by John A. Williams by permission of MESA--
Modern Egyptian Historiography / by Jack Crabbs--
Musings of an ARCE Fellow at Work / by an A.--
Jaroslav Cerny, 1889-1970 / by Labib Habachi--
Provisional Report on Dra Abu el-Naga / by Lanny Bell--
Austrian Excavations in the Asasif / by Manfred Bietak--
A Visit to Osiris at Karnak / by Donald Redford--
Notes on Activities in the U.A.R.--
The Center’s Guest Book.
Newsletter, Number 78 (JULY 197])
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CONTENTS:
Notes from Princeton--
Work ln the Necropolis of El-Tarif / by Dr. Dieter Arnold--
Report of the Fourth Campaign of the Austrian Mission, University of Vienna, in the Asasif / by Dr. Manfred Bietak--
Impressions of a Fellow Traveller / by John L. Foster--
U. A. R. Cabinet of Ministers--
National Archaeological Institutes in Cairo--
Notes on Activities in the UAR--
The Center’s Guest Book.
Newsletter, Number 82 (JULY 1972)
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CONTENTS:
Notes from Princeton--
Jurju Zaydan: A New Arab World View / by Lewis Ware--
The Tombs of the High Priests at Dira Abu El-Naga / by Lanny Bell--
Trois Campagnes de Fouilles Dans L'Assassif / by Herman De Meulenaere--
ARCE Fellows--
Notes on Activities in Cairo--
The Center’s Guest Book.