The Egypt Exploration Society Recent Publications
Working in Memphis. The Production of Faience at Roman Period Kom Helul By Paul T Nicholson EES Excavation Memoir 105. 2013 ISBN: 978-0-85698-210-1 Full price: £70.00. EES Members’ price: £59.50. This volume reports on the EES excavation (between 2000 and 2008) at Kom Helul, Memphis, of an early Roman period faience kiln which appears to be of the same type as those excavated by Flinders Petrie in the early twentieth century. The book attempts to place Petrie’s finds in their archaeological context and to reinterpret his evidence in the light of findings from the new excavation. In so doing a new outline of the chaîne opératoire of faience production during the Roman period is proposed and its relationship with the making of pre-Roman faience is discussed. The book includes an illustrated catalogue of finds.
Demotic Ostraca and Other Inscriptions from the Sacred Animal Necropolis, North Saqqara By J. D. Ray EES Texts from Excavations 16. 2013. ISBN 13: 978-0-85698-217-0 Full price: £90. EES Members’ price: £76.50. The demotic ostraca (mostly from the first half of the Ptolemaic Dynasty) published here were discovered by the EES in the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara more than thirty years ago. Two different types of text are represented: jar-labels or dockets originally written upon a complete vessel to describe its contents or to give delivery instructions, and compositions written upon a sherd or a flake of stone. These texts include literary and magical compositions, a short oracular question, dedications to Necropolis gods, an appeal to the Mother of the Apis, lists of payments and divine images, and a document of self-sale or self-hire which is probably the earliest such document so far recognised.
Coming soon The Old Kingdom Town at Buhen By David O’Connor EES Excavation Memoir 106. Forthcoming 2014 ISBN: 978-0-85698-215-6. Full price: £70.00. EES Members’ price: £59.50.
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The Old Kingdom Town at Buhen
The excavation by the Egypt Exploration Society of the Old Kingdom Town at Buhen in modern Sudan was directed by Professor W B Emery in two short seasons between 1962 and 1964. David O’Connor who was a member of Emery’s team, has reconstructed, from the original field records, this account of the excavations and publishes the results of the two short but significant seasons at Buhen’s unique Old Kingdom Town. E E S
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Sais II: The Prehistoric Period at Sa el-Hagar
Sais II: The Prehistoric Period at Sa el-Hagar By Penelope Wilson, Gregory Gilbert and Geoffrey Tassie EES Excavation Memoir 107. Forthcoming 2014 ISBN: 978-0-85698-218-7. FFull price: £70.00. EES Members’ price: £59.50.
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This is the final publication of the EES/Durham/SCA excavations carried out in 2007 in the ‘Great Pit’ at Sa el-Hagar, ancient Sais. It contains a full discussion of the layers dating to the Neolithic and ButoMaadi Periods, with specialist reports on the chipped and ground stone tools, small finds, pottery, animal bones and flora. As the only Neolithic site so far excavated on the Nile floodplain in Egypt, the site has important implications for understanding the Neolithic transition in the Delta and the development of Predynastic settlements in the north of Egypt. Penelope Wilson, Gregory Gilbert and Geoffrey Tassie E G Y P T
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