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Arriving at Kom ed-Dahab. See Digging Diary, p. 34 (Photo: Oriental Institute-EES Delta Survey). The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the aims or concerns of the Egypt Exploration Society Editor Jan Geisbusch Editorial Advisers Aidan Dodson John J Johnston Caitlin McCall Chris Naunton Luigi Prada Alice Stevenson John Taylor Advertising Sales Egypt Exploration Society 3 Doughty Mews London WC1N 2PG Phone: +44 (0)20 7242 1880 Fax: +44 (0)20 7404 6118 E-mail: jan.geisbusch@ees.ac.uk Distribution Phone: +44 (0)20 7242 2268 E-mail: orders@ees.ac.uk Website: www.ees-shop.co.uk
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ISSN 0962 2837
Number 48
Spring 2016
Editorial
Sometimes you don’t plan for things, and yet they come together as if you had – call it editor ial kismet. For EA 48 this was the case with an abundance of contributions on work done by EES field directors or else financially supported by the Society: Richard Bussmann and his team report on the first season at Zawyet Sultan, site of a small Old Kingdom pyramid (our cover image shows a tomb nearby); Anna Hodgkinson explains what X-ray fluorescence can tell us about glass objects found at Amarna, making exciting links to wider Bronze Age trade networks across the Mediterranean; Khaled Daoud and his colleagues continue their epigraphic work at the tomb of Nakht-Min at Abusir; and Ben Pennington gives us an update on the latest geo-archaeological work at Naukratis – all four projects receive funding through EES fieldwork & research grants. But fascinating projects are, of course, pursued beyond the EES as well: after three years of refurbishing and reconceptualising, the Museo Egizio at Turin presents itself in new splendour, Paolo Del Vesco writes. Aidan Dodson picks up some of the loose ends of the discussions surrounding the tomb of Tutankhamun and the nearby embalming cache of KV 63 – a topic buzzing with interest at the moment.Wojciech Ejsmond and his team continue the exploration of Gebelein (see EA 47); Hesham Hussein, one of the EES’ Visiting Scholars last year, follows traces of Ptolemy XII in Sinai that have come to light through an illegal dig; and Bérangère Redon and Thomas Fauchet refine their interpretation of the circular stone structures found at Samut (we reported in EA 46). Jan Geisbusch Our patrons for whose generous support the Egypt Exploration Society is very grateful: Charles Beck, Barbara Begelsbacher, Eric Bohm, Raymond Bowker, Andrew Cousins, Paul Cove, Martin R. Davies, Philip Feakin, Christopher Gorman-Evans, Richard A. Grant, Annie Haward, Michael Jesudason, Paul Lynn, Anne and Fraser Mathews, Wayne Miele, Anandh Indran Owen, Mark Ponman, Keith Raffan, Lyn Stagg, John Wall, and John Wyatt. If you would like to become an EES Patron, please contact Carl Graves: carl.graves@ees.ac.uk Cover illustration: Zawyet Sultan, the outer chambers of the tomb of Khunes (Photo: Mission to el-Minya). 1