EGYPTIAN
ARCHAEOLOGY
EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society Website: www.ees.ac.uk The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the aims or concerns of the Egypt Exploration Society Editor Patricia Spencer Editorial Advisers Peter Clayton Vivian Davies George Hart David Jeffreys Mike Murphy Chris Naunton John Taylor Advertising Sales Linda Lee Egypt Exploration Society 3 Doughty Mews London WC1N 2PG (Phone: +44 (0)20 7242 1880) (Fax: +44 (0)20 7404 6118) (E-mail: ea.sales@ees.ac.uk) Trade Distribution Oxbow Books Park End Place Oxford OX1 1HN Fax: +44 (0)1865 794449 Phone: +44 (0)1865 241249 E-mail: orders@oxbowbooks.com Website: www.oxbowbooks.com Published twice a year by The Egypt Exploration Society 3 Doughty Mews, London WC1N 2PG Registered Charity No.212384 A limited Company registered in England, No.25816 Original design by Jeremy Pemberton Printed by Commercial Colour Press plc 116-122 Woodgrange Road Forest Gate, London E7 0EW The Euroslavic font used to print this work is available from Linguist’s Software, Inc., PO Box 580, Edmonds, WA 98020-0580, USA. Phone: (425) 775-1130. www.linguistsoftware.com © Egypt Exploration Society and the contributors. No part of this publication may be reproduced without prior permission of the publishers. ISSN 0962 2837
Bubastis. Excavations of the Egypt Exploration Fund (1886-89), directed by Edouard Naville. During the work fragments of a shrine of Nekhthorheb (Nectanebo II) were discovered, and are now being studied at the British Museum. See Neal Spencer’s article, pp.21-24. Photograph: Egypt Exploration Society Archive.
Number 26
Spring 2005
Editorial
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Dominic Montserrat and Egyptian Archaeology Patricia Spencer
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Satellite imaging in the pyramid fields Miroslav Bárta and Vladimír BrÛna
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Mendes: city of the ram-god Donald Redford
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Notes and News
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Marsa Nakari: an ancient port on the Red Sea John Seeger and Steven Sidebotham
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The Tuthmoside stronghold of Perunefer Manfred Bietak
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The great naos of Nekhthorheb from Bubastis Neal Spencer
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Digging Diary 2004 Patricia Spencer
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All this pottery, what about it? Janine Bourriau
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Two graves and a well at Sais Penny Wilson
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Notice Board
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The quarries of Gebel Gulab and Gebel Tingar, Aswan Elizabeth Bloxam and Per Storemyr
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Bookshelf
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Membership Matters and Acknowledgements
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Cover illustration: Satellite photograph showing details of the Abu Sir pyramid field and North and Central Saqqara dominated by the pyramid of Djoser. QuickBird DigitalGlobe image. See pp.3-6.
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