From: owner-anenews-digest@ (ANEnews Digest) To: anenews-digest Subject: ANEnews Digest V1999 #201 Reply-To: Sender: owner-anenews-digest@ Errors-To: owner-anenews-digest@ Precedence: bulk ANEnews Digest Thursday, December 2 1999 Volume 1999 : Number 201 anenews Report on the 1999 Gaza Research Project (GRP) anenews RUNNING EXHIBITIONS ON ANCIENT EGYPT (AE): December 1999 issue ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 09:28:48 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Report on the 1999 Gaza Research Project (GRP) Forwarded at the request of Jo Clarke of the Council for British Research in the Levant in Jerusalem, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: "Council for British Research in the Levant" A three week survey was undertaken in 1999 by the Gaza Research Project (GRP), jointly directed by Joanne Clarke, Louise Steel and Moain Sadeq.The project is part of a larger research program, funded by the Council for British Research in the Levant, examining the second millennium BC landscape of the Gaza region. The 1999 field season focused on the region of el-Moghraqa north of the Wadi Gaza. The region was chosen on the basis of the discovery in 1996 of a number of terracotta cones bearing the cartouche Mn-Kpr-R' (Tuthmosis III). A topographic survey was conducted over an area of approximately 2700m2. Since the el-Moghraqa region is extensively covered by sand-dunes of up to 20m in height the nature of the underlying landscape was unclear. Although Moghraqa is not a tell, the sand-dune had banked up against what appears to be slightly raised ground. A comprehensive surface survey delimited the visible extent of surface scatter. It was assumed that part of the site still lay beneath the sand-dunes, but it was unclear how much had been exposed in 1996 and how much was already visible in adjacent fields prior to the removal of sand in 1996. A systematic, intensive surface survey was then undertaken in order to map the frequency occurrence of material culture and to investigate the chronological and typological distribution of the surface scatter. Material recovered in the survey includes ceramics, chipped stone (primarily Canaanite blades), ground stone, terracotta cone fragments, and fragments of an alabaster vase and carnelian beads. Analysis of the pottery indicates that the main occupation of the site spans the Middle Bronze II period to the Late Bronze Age. Although there is background noise from the Byzantine period this tended to concentrate around the edges of the site in proximity to the sand-dunes. A reconnaissance survey of the surrounding area identified a second zone of cultural activity approximately 70m south-west of the main survey area. This comprised ceramics, mudbrick, human bone, and lithics. Due to recent ploughing the ceramics from the second scatter are better preserved than those recovered from the main area. They include a Middle Bronze IIA cooking pot (Amiran 1969, pl. 30/1), MB-LB platter bowls, carinated bowls, kraters, and storage jars, one with an incised sign on the handle. The close proximity of the two scatters designated M1 and M2 and their chronological parity indicate that they belong to the same general site of Moghraqa. The cultural deposits are scattered over an area of at least the size of Tell el-Ajjul. The variation in material culture between M1 and M2, most significantly the apparent absence of cones from M2, suggests functional differentiation between the two areas. Future research aims: the GRP plans a season of geophysical survey and excavation of Moghraqa in 2000: 1) to evaluate the nature and relationship of M1 and M2; 2) to assess the relationship between Moghraqa and Tell el-Ajjul (in consultation with Professor Peter Fischer, currently excavating at Ajjul); 3) to investigate the second millennium settlement pattern of the region around the mouth of the Wadi Gaza and to ascertain the relationship between a major tell site and its hinterland. Further analysis of the cones will be undertaken by Dr Bill Manley, National Museums of Scotland. Joanne Clarke Ph.D. Jerusalem Director Council for British Research in the Levant P.O. Box 19283, Jerusalem 91192 Tel: 972-2-628 3616 Fax: 972-2-628 3617 Mobile: 051 603 107 email: cbrl@actcom.co.il ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 14:56:48 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews RUNNING EXHIBITIONS ON ANCIENT EGYPT (AE): December 1999 issue Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: Aayko Eyma RUNNING EXHIBITIONS ON ANCIENT EGYPT (AE) ====================================== December 1999 issue - -------------------------------- note: not much new info, so if you have seen the Nov. issue, you may want to skip the present issue. USA (a)* - Boston, MA - "Pharaohs of the Sun" - ends Feb 6, 2000 (b)* - Buffalo, NY - "The Cycle of Life in AE" - ends Sept 2003 !(e) - Lincroft, NJ - "Egyptian installation" - ends Aug 31, 2000 (g) - Atlanta, GA - "Mysteries of the Mummies" /"Aida" - ends April 2001 (k)* - Birmingham, Alabama - "Searching for AE" - ends Jan 16, 2000 (n) - Kansas City, MO - "Echoes of Eternity" - ends May 7, 2000 (o)* - New York, NY - "Art in the Age of Pyramids" - ends Jan 9, 2000 (q) - Houston, Texas - "Searching for Eternity" - ends Labor Day 2000 (r) - Washington, DC - "Charles Lang Feer and Egypt" - indef. (s) - Berkeley, CA - "The Tebtunis Papyri" - ends Dec 3, 1999 (t) - Washington - "Nile Journal of R.M. Hunt" - ends Jan 2, 2000 (u) - Boston - "Virtual Egypt" - ends February 27, 2000 (v) - Camden, NJ - "Women of the Nile" - ends Dec 18, 1999 * = major exhibitions with well over 100 objects in an unique assemblage ! = new in this issue UK (a) - London - "Craking Codes: The Rosetta Stone" - ends Jan 16, 2000 (c) - Dorset - "Tutankhamun Exhibition" - indef.(?) (d) - Oxford - "Afterlife in AE" - till mid 2000 THE NETHERLANDS (a) - Leiden - "Mummies" + "Ancient Blue" - till end of 1999 (a) - Leiden - "Ritual and Splendor" - ends March 19, 2000 GERMANY (a) - Weiden - "Egyptian Ceramics" - indef. (b) - Essen - "Agatha Christie and the Near East" - ends March 5, 2000 (c) - Berlin - "Between trad. philology and elec. media" - ends Dec 31, '99 (d) - Hildesheim - "Giza, Hermopolis, Piramesse" - indef. (f) - Dresden - "Mummies for Eternity" - ends Dec 5, 1999 (h) - Amberg - "Ancient Rings" - ends Jan 9, 2000 FRANCE (b) - Paris - "Vivant Denon" - ends Jan 17, 2000 (e) - Strasbourgh - "Schlumberger Collection" - ends Dec 31, 1999 (k) - Agde - "Funerary beliefs of AE" - ends Jan 8, 2000 BELGIUM (a) - Tongeren - "Roman Emperors on the Nile" - ends Feb 9, 2000 (b) - Treignes - "Shadows of Egypt" - ends Dec 12, 1999 SWITZERLAND (b) - Basel - "Pyramids and Lake Dwellings" - indef. POLAND (a) - Poznan - "Gods, Graves and Mummies" - indef. JAPAN (a) - Nagoya - "Masterpieces of MFA Boston" - till Sping 2004 (b) - Kouchi - "Egypt Collection of Vienna" - ends Dec 5, '99 SWEDEN (a) - Boras - "Tutankhamun's Wardrobe" - ends Feb 27, 2000 (b) - Stockholm - "Love of Egypt" - indef. AUSTRIA (b) - Klagenfurt - "Looking at a Mummy" - ends July 30, 2000 CROATIA (a) - Zagreb - "Gods, Spirits and Demons of AE" - ends March, 2000 ================================================= NB: The label of each exhibition (a letter) refers to the website version of EEF NEWS, sections [II] and [X]; URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/4482/EEFNEWS.html If you see something of interest in the above calendar, for your country and area, and perhaps would like to visit, then you may find the full details (museum, description, web links, et.al.) on the EEF NEWS website. If no opening date is given, then that date was before the 1st of this issue's month. That is: the exhibition is open when you read this. NB: Only exhibitions running during the month of this issue are mentioned in the above Calendar; future exhibitions you may find in the NEWS. This Calendar will be updated and posted on the 1st of every month. New entries not in previous issues will be signalled with an '!'. Please send any contributions to: ayma@tip.nl (Aayko Eyma) EEF NEWS is a newsletter that also contains other Egyptological news bits, like lectures, conferences, web links, book releases, et.al. Please do not copy this Calendar to other public forums without permission. Copyright (c) 1999 A.K. Eyma ================================================== ------------------------------ End of ANEnews Digest V1999 #201 ******************************** Back issues are available on the Oriental Institute World-Wide Web (WWW) site at: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/OI_ANE.html