The Second Intermediate Period model coffin of Teti in the British Museum (EA 35016)
This article publishes the model coffin British Museum EA 35016 bought in 1868 from the Robert J. Hay collection. It belongs to a military official called Teti and dates to the Second Intermediate Period. Its style of decoration with the high number of text columns on the long sides follows closely the full-scale coffins of the period found at Thebes and other places in Upper Egypt. The inscriptions with different spells spoken by gods are quite garbled but also have parallels on coffins of about the same period.
The Egyptian Inscriptions at Jebel Dosha, Sudan
Pending a more detailed survey of the site, I offer here, with the permission of NCAM, a few preliminary observations, with special reference to the Egyptian inscriptions.
Little women: gender and hierarchic proportion in Old Kingdom mastaba chapels
In an initial attempt to investigate what variations in comparative scale meant to the ancient Egyptians who created and viewed Egyptian art, I have considered the limited case of the wife represented with her husband in reliefs and paintings in his tomb chapel.
The Administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom The Highest Titles and their Holders
The purpose of this book is to study a group of the highest civil administrative titles of the Old Kingdom from the standpoint of the memphite region.
"Lost City" of Tanis Found, but Often Forgotten
The treasures found in the ‘lost city’ of Tanis rival those of King Tut’s. Yet for more than six decades the riches from its rulers’ tombs have remained largely unknown.
One accident too many?
Presentation of a skeleton discovered in the Sudan in the 1996/7 season of the Northern Dongola Reach Survey, sponsored by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society, in a small Kerma period cemetery (P37), south of Kawa. This skeleton exhibits an unusually interesting range of injuries, which are listed and discussed.
A canon for the Bronze Age?
Catalogues and databases which are easily accessible to all interested parties regardless of their geographical location, occupation, background or purpose, provide a level playing field for research, publication and debate in the archaeology of the bronze age. The establishment of a canon of reliable, illustrated documentation of as many facets of the Bronze Age as are required, is a prerequisite to the future of our understanding of the Bronze Age.
The Bronze Age climate and environment of Britain
Taking the major studies together it can be seen that there is a large degree of agreement in relation to the major trends. Indeed the noise which appears to be fairly equally if not normally, distributed over time is typical of that which might be expected due to differences in dating, different site sensitivity, and in regional variation.
Prospects and potential in the archaeology of Bronze Age Britain
This paper argues that although our discipline focuses increasingly on thematic research programmes, period-based approaches remain a valuable way of understanding the particularities of the social practices we study. Different aspects of the archaeological record – including settlement, burial, landscape and material culture – are examined in turn to identify a series of possible questions for future research.
The Middle Kingdom Stelae Publication Project
Presentation of a new project to publish 176 Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period stelae of non-royal origin in the British Museum. The example of stela EA 226 is presented so that the format to be adopted may be examined.