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the egypt exploration society
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Annual Campaign
2014
The Excavation Fund
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Amelia Edwards PN
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The Egypt Exploration Society is a Limited Company Registered in England,
No. 25816 and a Registered Charity No. 212384
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A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
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Dear friends,
2014 has been a very full and exciting year. After the postponements of 2013
our teams have been back in the field, at Merimde, Luxor, Quesna, Tell Basta,
Tell Buweib and Tell Mutubis. The situation in Egypt remains urgent, however,
and for two reasons, the contributions you, our supporters, make are now
more important than ever. The financial situation has reduced the amount of
money we have available for archaeological work in Egypt, while the threat
of looting means that this work is more important than ever.
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For this reason, as our major fundraising campaign this year we are looking for
contributions to the Excavation Fund, enabling us to continue and develop
our fieldwork. The urgent need for us to ask for your help in this way is clear
but we are confident that with your help we will be able to make a significant
contribution to tackling the problem in the coming years.
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As usual, we are also giving you the opportunity to support a series of new
Amelia Edwards Projects. Appropriately, this year we are asking for your help
in conserving a collection of works by the Society’s founder, Amelia Edwards;
a second archival project will allow us to catalogue the unpublished object
cards made during the Society’s excavations at Amarna in the 1920s and
30s and make them accessible online. Two further projects will allow us to
continue the development of our educational activities in Cairo. In addition
to the programme of scholarships we plan to create a ‘fellowship’ to send a
post-doctoral Egyptologist from this country to develop activities from our
Cairo office. We also want to make the Society’s publications more accessible
in Cairo by transporting a complete set of the Society’s publications to the
small library in our Cairo office.
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We know you feel as passionately as we do about the work we do, and hope
you’ll be able to respond to this campaign as generously as you have done in
the past. It promises to be a very exciting and rewarding journey.
Thank you!
Dr Chris Naunton, Director
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THE EXCAVATION FUND
It is vital, now more so than ever, that we can continue our
programme of fieldwork and research.
The security situation at sites
throughout Egypt remains of very
great concern, to the extent that
almost any fieldwork should now
be considered rescue archaeology.
Our teams continue to uncover new
material every season. Everything
they are able to recover from the
ground is saved: the physical material
is put into safe storage, and each and
every item that is documented and
studied contributes a little more to
our knowledge of the past in Egypt.
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For other material, not yet uncovered,
it is only a matter of time before it is lost.
Some material will be uncovered by illicit
excavations and will disappear from
view before scholars have any chance
to document it, with consequent loss
to our knowledge of the past; in other
cases, material or even entire sites may be
lost to land reclamation or even wanton
vandalism.
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It is vital that we do as much as we can, now.
One-off contributions, of any size, are very
welcome of course but regular contributions,
however small, will allow us to plan our
activities more effectively, and to tackle the
threat to Egypt’s heritage most effectively.
If just 125 of our members gave as much as £10
per month to the Excavation Fund we would
have enough money every year to support an
entire season at a major site such as Tell Basta
or Quesna. The more members making regular
contributions the more we will be able to do.
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To set up a regular payment please use the
form at the back of this leaflet. Thank you!
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AMELIA EDWARDS PROJECTS 2014-15
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Preserving Amelia’s Legacy
Amelia Edwards’greatest achievement
was, of course, the establishment of
the Society, but prior to this she had
already made a name for herself, and
is now historically significant, as a
writer and artist. We are very fortunate
that some of her works are preserved
in the Society’s archives, but they are
now in urgent need of attention if we
are to ensure that they can survive
into the future. We are asking for your
help to conserve the beautiful painting above, several early editions of her
books, her letters, and various other archival documents.
Total Funds Required: £2,000
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An EES ‘fellow’
- to provide education and practical training in Cairo
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We aim to repeat the programme
of scholarships – one of last year’s
successful Amelia Edwards Projects in 2015 and we now want to augment
it by creating a fellowship to send a
post-doctoral Egyptologist from the
UK to develop activities from our
Cairo office. The first ‘fellow’ will,
in partnership with the Society’s
representative in Cairo, develop a
series of educational events, focusing
on the Society’s fieldwork, research and archives, and also practical workshops
for potential EES scholars, and others in the Egyptological community in Egypt.
These will provide training in preparing for research for oral presentation and
publication, completing applications for scholarships and other opportunities,
managing data, and making best use of libraries, archives and research tools
such as the Online Egyptological Bibliography, and Topographical Bibliography
(Porter and Moss).
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Total Funds Required: £3,000
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AMELIA EDWARDS PROJECTS 2014-15
Amarna Object Cards:
Unpublished Records from the City of Akhenaten
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During the 1920s and 30s the Society
excavated many thousands of objects at Tell
El-Amarna, leading to a massive leap forward
in our knowledge of the city of Akhetaten and
the period of his reign. Every one of the objects
was recorded in meticulous detail, and many
were the subject of exquisite drawings made by
members of the team, including Mary Chubb,
author of Nefertiti Lived Here. The objects cards
were never published themselves, although
they contain far more information than was
published in the City of Akhenaten volumes.
Some of the cards have now been scanned and
samples made available online in 2013-14 as part of the #Amarnafortheday
series. We now aim to digitize the entire collection, making every one of the
records available online, and to conserve the originals, some of which are
works of art in their own right.
Total Funds Required: £2,500
Making the Society’s research available in Egypt
- A full set of EES Memoirs for the Cairo Library
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While it will remain essential that we
can continue to bring researchers
to the UK, we also want to make the
Society’s publications more accessible
in Cairo by transporting a complete
set of the Society’s back catalogue
of Memoirs and other reports to the
small library in our Cairo office. The
scholarships were in part prompted
by the paucity of accessible research
libraries, and this means that the Society’s publications, which represent
its enormous contribution to the knowledge of ancient Egypt, are largely
unavailable to our Egyptian colleagues. We want to help redress this situation,
and to provide a very visual indicator of the Society’s historic achievements,
by installing a complete set of Excavation Memoirs and other reports in the
small library in our Cairo office. We have the volumes ready, but cannot cover
the cost to ship them to Cairo without your help.
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Total Funds Required: £1,500
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HELP US TO CONTINUE THE SUCCESSES
OF THE LAST 132 YEARS
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It is difficult to overstate the importance of the contribution made by the Society
during its 130-year history of archaeological work in Egypt. Its excavators have been
responsible for discovering some of the most important monuments in the country:
the Osireion at Abydos, the North Riverside Palace at Amarna, the Memphite tombs
of Horemheb and Maya, and the Sacred Animal Necropolis at Saqqara. Our teams
have continued this pioneering work right up to the present day. In the last few
years...
Dr Joanne Rowland has uncovered a
previously unknown catacomb for the
burial of sacred animals at Quesna.
This has added significantly to our
understanding of animal worship
in the Delta region, providing a
wonderful complement to the masses
of information yielded during the Society’s excavations at Saqqara.
Dr Angus Graham’s wide-ranging survey work in the
Luxor region has shown that there is a strong possibility
that the famous temples of Karnak were originally built
on an island in the Nile. Angus’ revolutionary approach is
showing an aspect of people’ lives in the ancient city of
Thebes that is entirely new to us.
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Drs Jeffrey and Patricia Spencer’s work over many years in the
Delta has provided masses of new information at numerous
sites, some of which were, beforehand, barely even recognized
as having any archaeological value. Earlier this year their work
at a new site, Tell Buweib, revealed that a temple identified
using satellite images, was much earlier than previously
thought and may well date not to the Late Period, but to the
reign of Ramesses the Great.
Many more sites and monuments remain to be properly investigated, and there will,
no doubt, be many more discoveries to be made. We are determined that our work
must continue, but we will need your help.
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Please support the Excavation Fund by setting up a regular payment
by Direct Debit (see next page) and join us in continuing this vitally
important work. Thank you.
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confirmation of the amount and date will be given to you at the time of the request
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Written confirmation may be required. Please also send a copy of your letter to us.
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EXCAVATION FUND - DIRECT DEBIT FORM
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DONATION FORM
To make a one-off donation please complete the form below. You can also make a
donation via the Society’s website: http://goo.gl/rt8EJR
I would like to make a one-off donation of £............................ to the Excavation
Fund OR to the Amelia Edwards Projects for 2014-15.
I would prefer my contribution to be put towards the the Society’s work as follows
(please tick):
THE EXCAVATION FUND
Preserving Amelia’s Legacy
An EES ‘fellow’
Amarna Object Cards
A full set of EES Memoirs for the Cairo Library
I understand that if any of the Amelia Edwards Projects are over- or under-subscribed
the funds will be allocated to one or more of the other Amelia Edwards Projects.
I enclose a cheque for the above amount, made payable to ‘The Egypt Exploration
Society’OR
I would like to pay by credit/debit card and my details are as follows:
Name: ..................................................................................................................................................
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