Egypt
EES Minufiyeh Survey (Joanne Rowland)
- Journal Of Egyptian Archaeology 97
EES The Society is pleased to announce the publication of Issue 97 of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. This volume has now been dispatched to members, and should be arriving with them soon (if you haven't received your copy, please contact the...
- Minufiyeh Survey 2012
EES Minufiyeh Survey (Jo Rowland) Jo Rowland and her team are back in Minufiyeh in the Delta and are already hard at work excavating where they left off last year. Today was the start of the excavation at Quesna. Our team of local workers were waiting...
- Minufiyeh Survey Excavating At Ptolemaic Cemetery
Minufiyeh Survey (Joanne Rowland) With photos. Work continued at a good pace in T9, the trench investigating the northern extent of the main part of the Ptolemaic (and possibly Early Roman) cemetery. More information will become available after Friday...
- Return To Minufiyeh
Egypt Explorati0n Society The Society's expedition to Minufiyeh Governorate in the Nile Delta, direct by Dr Joanne Rowland of the Free University, Berlin, will be resuming work next week, with a survey at the desert-fringe site of Khatabtah. This...
- Minufiyeh Survey Comes To A Close
EES Minufiyeh Survey (Joanne Rowlands) The season drew to a close on 7 April and, as always, the last few days of work were hectic, and included report writing, and packing up things in the flat in Shibin and returning everything to the storage facility....
Egypt
EES Minufiyeh Survey
EES Minufiyeh Survey (Joanne Rowland)
Jo is back in the Minufiyeh district of the Delta reporting on the long term project to survey the area. See the above page for all her posts to date.
Wednesday 23rd MarchToday was the first real day of survey work - we set off from the apartment at 7.30am, a later start than usual, as we have to ensure that our inspector can travel from Tanta in good light! We met as usual under the bridge at Quesna and headed off to the area of el-Rimaly where we made our first stop - as usual on the first day of survey in a new area - in the town centre for tea, to await the arrival of our colleague. Our colleague having arrived, we began to walk around the area, which is in close proximity to the Delta Survey sites of Tell Mustai and Umm Harb. The fields are mainly planted at the moment, although there are a number of clear fields, giving us the opportunity to take a closer look at the range of ceramics that have been turned up through ploughing. A selection of diagnostic sherds will be examined by our ceramicist, Ashraf el-Senussi during the last week of this short season. Tell Mustai was once a high kom and has been heavily built upon; Umm Harb is the highest point on the kom, surmounted by the tomb of the Sheikh Umm Harb (Arabic for ‘mother of war’). We also worked with the total station surveying equipment, and were able to plot the fields that were examined and measure the height of each of the remaining koms.
- Journal Of Egyptian Archaeology 97
EES The Society is pleased to announce the publication of Issue 97 of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. This volume has now been dispatched to members, and should be arriving with them soon (if you haven't received your copy, please contact the...
- Minufiyeh Survey 2012
EES Minufiyeh Survey (Jo Rowland) Jo Rowland and her team are back in Minufiyeh in the Delta and are already hard at work excavating where they left off last year. Today was the start of the excavation at Quesna. Our team of local workers were waiting...
- Minufiyeh Survey Excavating At Ptolemaic Cemetery
Minufiyeh Survey (Joanne Rowland) With photos. Work continued at a good pace in T9, the trench investigating the northern extent of the main part of the Ptolemaic (and possibly Early Roman) cemetery. More information will become available after Friday...
- Return To Minufiyeh
Egypt Explorati0n Society The Society's expedition to Minufiyeh Governorate in the Nile Delta, direct by Dr Joanne Rowland of the Free University, Berlin, will be resuming work next week, with a survey at the desert-fringe site of Khatabtah. This...
- Minufiyeh Survey Comes To A Close
EES Minufiyeh Survey (Joanne Rowlands) The season drew to a close on 7 April and, as always, the last few days of work were hectic, and included report writing, and packing up things in the flat in Shibin and returning everything to the storage facility....