British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 23

Editorial

This special issue of BMSAES is dedicated to the recently retired papyrus conservator Bridget Leach. In tribute to a career of exceptional scope and impact, the current BMSAES issue presents recent research in Egyptology, papyrology and conservation by twelve scholars who worked closely with Bridget in the past. Given her professional focus on Egyptian and Sudanese artefacts from the British Museum, discussions of objects that she conserved, most notably but not exclusively papyri, comprise the lion’s share of this issue. This is complemented by contributions from conservation specialists in charge of renowned papyrus collections internationally.

Ilona Regulski

Contents:

“Fill my hand with a papyrus sheet so that I can tell you a lot!”: A papyrus bundle for Bridget Leach (Ilona Regulski)

Ensuring immutability: Islamic amulets from Kulubnarti, Sudan (Julie R. Anderson)

A Coptic Jigsaw Puzzle - Conservation of a group of Papyri (Vania Assis)

Restoration of carbonised papyri (Sophie-Elisabeth Breternitz)

The Tomb of the Ramesseum Papyri in the Newberry Papers, The Griffith Institute Oxford (Melissa Downing and Richard B. Parkinson)

Glass corrosion – the cause of the white/grey precipitation on the insides of papyrus glass frames (Jörg Graf)

Reading papyrus as writing material (Myriam Krutzsch)

Three Papyri: Two Frames (Cary J. Martin)

Researches on papyrus mounting with Japanese paper inlay (Eve Menei)

One last frame of Middle Kingdom fragments (Stephen Quirke)

Preliminary findings on the roll formation of the Greenfield Papyrus (Helen Sharp)

The Amduat papyrus of Panebmontu (John H. Taylor)

What the Butler Saw (Patricia Usick)