EGYPTIAN
ARCHAEOLOGY
Representation of the colossal statue on the back slab of the eastern colossus. ©Memnon Amenhotep Project/ Sourouzian The eastern colossus during reconstruction in March 2014. ©Memnon Amenhotep Project/Sourouzian
Wooden stela of Sa-Mut (MS Wilkinson dep e.59 127a). © Bodleian Library, Oxford University.
The author wishes to thank the Bodleian Libraries University of Oxford, for the copy of the manuscript and kind permission to publish. The joint project working under the auspices of the Ministry of Antiquities headed by HE Mamdouh Eldamaty, is directed by Hourig Sourouzian and Mohamed Abdelmaksoud in 2013, with Abdelhakim Karrar in 2014. Field operations and site management are directed by the architect Nairy Hampikian.The preliminary excavation was carried out by Carmen Lopez Roa. Geo-radar investigations were carried out by Arkadi Karakhanyan, Ara Avagyan and Mikayel Gevorkyan. Miguel Lopez, Mohamed Ali El-Ghassab. Christian Perzlmeier led the operations of transportation, lifting and raising with the team of stone specialists. Stability and statics were calculated by Mohamed el-Esawy. The fine restoration team is headed by Mohamed El-Azab named Abu-Hakim. The texts are studied by Rainer Stadelmann. Field work is supported by the site inspector Azab, the conservator from the Department Ahmed Faragallah, and Ali Reda Mohamed. Epigraphic drawings are made by Jola Malatkova and Pauline Calssou; documentation and epigraphy by Benjamin Durand and Somaia Osman. For the invaluable financial support in fall 2014, the project members kindly thank the Association des Amis des Colosses de Memnon with Farida Khelfa, Christian Louboutin and Henri Seydoux; World Monuments Fund ® Robert Wilson Challenge to Conserve Our Heritage; supporters of conservation Stephanie and Bernhard Buchner; the Memnon Verein with Renate and Michael Gadomski, Siegrid and Klaus Reuther, Peter Gain; Asem Allam; Horus Egyptology Society, Neil Stevenson; Chesterfield Association for the Study of Ancient Egypt; and all friends of the site. 22