EGYPTIAN
ARCHAEOLOGY
The discovery of the lintel of Hatiay at Amarna Chris Naunton has uploaded to the EES page at YouTube another short film that he has edited from footage shot at Amarna during the Society’s excavations in the 1930s. This fascinating film describes the discovery of the famous painted lintel from the house of Hatiay: www.youtube. com/user/EgyptExplorSociety. It can also be accessed via the EES website: www.ees.ac.uk/news/index/89.html. The film footage, which is silent and to which Chris has added a commentary, shows the lintel as it was found on site, and being transported to the excavation house. Chris has also included in the film contemporary excavation photographs from the Society’s Lucy Gura Archive and reports of the discovery in newspapers of the time. The finely-painted lintel is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, but a cast made for the Society’s end-of-season exhibition in London is preserved in the Bolton Museum and is also featured in the film. In 2010, with the help of Geoffrey Martin, Chris retrieved from Cambridge the full-size coloured copy of the lintel made at the time by John Pendlebury’s wife Hilda. The painting has now been deposited Hilda Pendlebury’s painted copy of the scenes and texts on the lintel after in the Society’s Lucy Gura its first unrolling in Doughty Mews Archive.
The Society’s YouTube page with a scene from the film showing a report of the discovery as it was published in the New York Times
The lintel on site at Amarna in the 1930-31 season. Photograph: EES Lucy Gura Archive
Barry Kemp’s work in Egypt honoured Barry Kemp was made a Companion of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in Her Majesty the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List. The CBE is a grade of honour directly below a knighthood and represents a very welcome national recognition of Barry’s contributions to Barry Kemp at Amarna in Egyptology – in particular the March 2010. Photograph: exemplary excavations he has Dyan Hilton been carrying out at Amarna since the 1970s, working until recently under the auspices of the Society, and now under those of the Amarna Trust.
In addition, through his teaching at Cambridge University until his retirement in 2007, Barry was instrumental in initiating and furthering the careers of many Egyptologists around the world, a number of whom were among the forty friends and colleagues who celebrated his career in a two-volume Festschrift, published by the Supreme Council of Antiquities in 2009. For the broader audience, his two editions of Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization have provided an exposition of what made the country ‘tick’ that is hard to beat in Egyptological literature. The Society congratulates Barry on receiving his well-deserved honour and looks forward to many more years of achievements. AIDAN DODSON