THE EGYPT EXPLORATION SOCIETY

AGM 2013

The Egypt Exploration SocietyExploring and Inspiring since 1882www.ees.ac.uk

The Egypt Exploration Society

Director’s Report 2012-13

Dr Chris Naunton

The Egypt Exploration SocietyExploring and Inspiring since 1882www.ees.ac.uk

Fieldwork and Research

The Theban Harbours and Waterscapes Survey (Dr Angus Graham)

ERT, GPR and hand auger survey

Karnak and west bank: Birket Habu, Kom el-Hettan, and temple of Tuthmosis III.

Minufiyeh Governorate (Dr Joanne Rowland):

Quesna

Ptol / Roman cemetery: 50 burials, Roman ceramics; post-exc analysis ‘mummified’ remains were examined to assess the oils / resins used

Falcon necropolis: corridor system and area directly N planned, new trench

The Imbaba Governorate Prehistoric Survey

Investigate all prehistoric findspots & sites in the wider environment contextsatellite images, drill core survey w Cairo Univ.Increase in cultivated land since last visit in 2011

Tell Basta: (Dr Eva Lange)

Excavations in the Bastet temple entrance and on the main axis (the dromos)3D scan of the cemetery areaWhite light scans were made of parts of the Nectanebo II shrines and statues of Ramesses II in the temple of Bastet. Documentation of the ‘Governor’s Palace’ of the MK(with Manfred Bietak, Austrian Academy of Science)

Sais (Sa el-Hagar) (Dr Penny Wilson):

Ramesside-TIP area of Kom Rebwa,

Ramesside magazine attached to a house

built over by a large N-S wall - may be one of the structures associated with the city of Sais as it rose to power in the TIP.

Dissemination

Excavation Memoirs

G. T. Martin, The Tomb of

Maya and Meryt I

Who Was Who in Egyptology

(4th Rev. Ed.)

Journal of Egyptian

Archaeology

Bigger vol. in 2012-13:352 pages

Egyptian Archaeology

The EES Newsletter

Events

EventsLondon, Cairo, Edinburgh, Leiden, Norwich, Oxford and York

Cultural Property and the Antiquities Trade in Egyptology

Discussion broadcast online, 29 September 2012

Delta Workshop (III)Cairo, 22-3 March 2013

Tour of Upper Egypt

Nov 2012

The Lucy Gura Archive

Reorganisationand

Repositioning

Our aim is to reposition the Society in two key ways:

1) We want to become more widely appealing again2) We want to do more in Egypt

In order to achieve this most effectively we need to reorganise. So far this has meant:

• New role for the Director• Reorganisation of finances• Regularising of many aspects of the admin of our activities• A reorganisation of the staff - we have a fantastic team now

Reorganisationand

Repositioning

We want to be relevant, useful, appealing etc. amongst a series of key

audiences and more widely

1) Students / early-career Egyptologists• Cent Awards – more applications than for over a decade at least• CRE reception, and travel bursaries in 2014

2) Children• School visits

3) The general public• Cultivating relations with the media

4) Egyptians

• New member of staff in Cairo with revised job description

• Expanded portfolio of events• Field Schools• First grant to an all-Egyptian excavation

project• English language tuition – revived and

expanded• Improved relations with the British

Council and British Embassy• Fundraising Campaign – Arabic

Translations and Travel (to UK) Scholarships

New subscription rates

Subscriptions are the largest source of income for the Society.

Increase in income is required to over rising costs.

At the AGM in 2006 members expressed the view that they would prefer gradual but regular rises in subscription rates

Rates have not been raised since 1 April 2010

Proposed new rates:

Full member: £48Full member with JEA: £73Full member with GRM: £68Student Associate: £25Associate: £20

Thank you(s)

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