British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES)

British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES)

The British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) is a peer-reviewed, academic publication.

BMSAES is dedicated to presenting research on aspects of ancient Egypt and Sudan and the representation of those cultures in modern times. It is available to view and download free of charge.

Launched in 2002 as one of the first Egyptological online journals, it has moved from being a responsive journal to a platform for publishing groups of papers around particular themes, such as Egyptian papyri or studies on ancient Naukratis.

The journal offers scholars the opportunity to include a large number of colour images, and other multimedia content where appropriate. Articles do not need to concern British Museum objects or projects, and accepted papers will be published as soon as possible – there is no defined publication deadline, as with print journals.

Contact us Email: bmsaes@britishmuseum.org

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    British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 26
    (2022)
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    The transfer of wall paintings from their original locations has been practised since antiquity. Many art collections contain wall paintings which were historically detached and rebacked. Such transfer is now rarely undertaken, and only under very specific circumstances. This extensive article is specifically concerned with the transfer of ancient Egyptian wall painting and was encouraged by research into the historic transfer and conservation history of the wall painting from Tomb 100 at Hierakonpolis, now at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The painting was conserved and redisplayed in Gallery 43 as part of the EU funded project Transforming the Egyptian Museum Cairo. Prior to that phase extensive research into the necessary conservation work took place during the Covid-19 pandemic when work had to be halted and most team members were working from home. The research developed into a more general interest in the practice of the transfer of ancient Egyptian wall paintings, and the subsequent associated conservation interventions. The subject is relevant not only to the current treatment of wall paintings which were historically transferred but also in the rare present occasions where transfer may be the only option to rescue a painting. Available in English and Arabic (second half), by drawing attention to the highly interventive nature of this irreversible process, the complications faced both in past operations and in the current remedial conservation work required to re-back or stabilise earlier transfers, the article aims to inform future conservation work, planning and intervention. It may help avoiding problems by learning from the mistakes of the past while building on current practice. The research was made possible with the financial support of the European Union. ت٠مارس أنشطة نقل الرسومات الجدارية من مواقعها الأصلية منذ العصور القديمة. ونتيجة لرواج أنشطة النقل السال٠ة تحتوي العديد من مجموعات الآثار على رسومات جدارية جرى نزعها ٠ي الماضي وأعيد تدعيمها. نادرًا ما تجرى أنشطة نقل الرسومات الجدارية ٠ي الوقت الراهن، وإن حدث ذلك ٠يكون ٠قط ٠ي ظل ظرو٠خاصة جدًا. تتناول هذه المقالة نقل الرسومات الجدارية المصرية القديمة على وجه التحديد. وتمثلت نقطة البداية ٠ي إجراء بحث ٠ي عملية النقل التي جرت قديمًا للرسم الجداري من المقبرة رقم 100 الواقعة بمدينة هيراكونبوليس (الكوم الأحمر بالقرب من مدينة إد٠و حاليًا) والمعروض حاليًا بالمتح٠المصري بالقاهرة. تم ترميم اللوحة وإعادة عرضها ٠ي صالة العرض 43 كجزء من مشروع تطوير المتح٠المصري بالقاهرة. الممول من الاتحاد الأوروبي. قبل تلك المرحلة، تم إجراء بحث مكث٠حول أعمال الح٠اظ والترميم الضرورية للوحة الاثرية أثناء جائحة الكو٠يد-19حيث كان معظم أعضاء ال٠ريق يعملون من المنزل اثناء وق٠الاعمال بالمتح٠. لا يتعلق هذا الموضوع بالمعالجة الحالية للرسومات الجدارية التي ن٠قلت ٠ي الماضي ٠حسب، بل يتعلق أيضًا بالحالات الراهنة النادرة التي تكون ٠يها عملية النقل هي الخيار الوحيد لإنقاذ هذه الرسومات. يهد٠هذا البحث إلى إثراء أعمال الح٠ظ والصيانة والتخطيط والتدخل المستقبلية من خلال ل٠ت الانتباه إلى طبيعة هذه العملية التي لا رجعة ٠يها والتي تنطوي على تدخل واسع النطاق وإلى التعقيدات التي واجهتها عمليات النزع السابقة وأعمال الح٠ظ والصيانة العلاجية الحالية اللازمة لإعادة تدعيم وتثبيت الرسومات المنقولة ٠ي الماضي، وأيضًا من خلال تقديم أمثلة لعمليات نقل أحدث عهدًا. قد تسهم هذه المقالة ٠ي تجنب المشكلات و٠ي التعلم من أخطاء الماضي والاست٠ادة من التجربة الحالية. تم إجراء البحث بدعم مالي من الاتحاد الأوروبي.
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    British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 20
    (2013-05)
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    Editorial This issue provides a welcome cross-section of studies on museum collections (Van Aerde) and archives (Thomas and Villing), monuments in situ (Gregory and Davies) and results from British Museum fieldwork projects, new (Thomas and Villing) and completed (Davies). Elisabeth R. O'Connell Contents: Concepts of Egypt in Augustan Rome: Two case studies of cameo glass from The British Museum (M.E.J.J. Van Aerde) The role of the Iwn-mwt.f in the New Kingdom monuments of Thebes (Steven R. W. Gregory) The Tomb of Sataimau at Hagr Edfu: An overview (W. Vivian Davies) Naukratis revisited 2012: Integrating new fieldwork and old research (Ross I. Thomas and Alexandra Villing)
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    British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 23
    (2016-07)
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    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)
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    British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 24
    (2019-02)
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    Editorial This special issue of BMSAES publishes papers and additional reflections arising from two workshops organised at the British Museum in 2011 and 2013 as part of the British Museum’s Naukratis Project. Contributions by archaeologists, Classicists, Egyptologists and other specialists explore the diverse and sometimes contrasting narratives of the different disciplines and the underlying ancient realities. The first workshop – entitled ‘The Nile Delta as a landscape of connectivity’ – concentrated on the subjects of transport networks; trade and consumption; Delta industry; and Delta communities. The second workshop was dedicated to ‘Religious Naukratis in context’. Some studies put the primary emphasis on cults, sanctuaries and offerings at Naukratis itself, while others aimed to situate Naukratis in the wider perspective of religious phenomena in the Mediterranean area, especially in the context of trading ports, but also in contemporary sites in the Delta and elsewhere. Aurélia Masson-Berghoff and Ross Thomas Contents: Naukratis in Context: programme and bibliography (Aurélia Masson-Berghoff and Ross Thomas) The Nile Delta as a landscape of connectivity: The evolving environment of the Nile Delta from 6000 BP to the present (Judith M. Bunbury, Ben Pennington and Laurence Pryer) Greek landings and Hellenic appropriations in ‘the island’ (the Egyptian Delta) (Jean-Yves Carrez-Maratray) Identifying the amphora stamps from Naukratis (Alan Johnston) Faience finds from Naukratis and their implications for the chronology of the site (Virginia Webb) Ten lead containers from Thonis-Heracleion: tackling the problem of dating (Elsbeth M. van der Wilt) Religious phenomena in Naukratis: The wool of Naukratis. About the stela Michigan Kelsey Museum 0.2.5803 (Damien Agut-Labordère) Votive inscriptions from Naukratis (Alan Johnston) A new relief fragment from the soubassement of the Ptolemaic temple of Amun-Ra at Naukratis (Ahmed Said el-Kharadly) Naukratis: Egyptian offerings in context (Aurélia Masson-Berghoff) Absent, invisible or revealed ‘relics’? X-radiography and CT scanning of Egyptian bronze votive boxes from Naukratis and elsewhere (Aurélia Masson-Berghoff and Daniel O’Flynn) Terracotta and stone figurines from Naukratis (Ross I. Thomas) Naukratis: religion in a cross-cultural context (Alexandra Villing) Cults, sanctuaries and offerings in Egypt and the Mediterranean world Cypriot terracotta figurines in the East Aegean as evidence for a technical and cultic innovation transfer? (Jan-Marc Henke) Votive offerings and ritual practice in the Ionian sanctuary of Apollo at Klaros (Ireen Kowalleck) Attic vases in Miletos (Norbert Kunisch †) The significance of faience in the religious practices at Naukratis and beyond (Virginia E. S. Webb) Gateway to the underworld: the cult areas at Sais (Penelope Wilson)
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    British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 1
    (2002-01)
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    It is with great pleasure that I write a brief introduction to BMSAES 1 (British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan), which is being launched as originally intended in January 2002. Electronic publishing is still rather in its infancy, although, as always, we in the humanities lag some way behind our scientific colleagues. However, use of the Internet is now an accepted means of scholarly communication and information retrieval amongst those who study Egypt and the Sudan the world over, and indeed, it is often easier for our colleagues in the two countries whose ancient cultures we study to access material in electronic rather than printed form. Over the past few years we have seen a number of the principal 'tools of the trade', such as the AEB and the Wörterbuch, go online, as well as there now being web pages for most institutions that house collections of objects or teach the subjects. It is now time for publishing to go online, and we have already seen the successful appearance of Internet Archaeology in the UK and of IBAES in Germany. The British Museum now joins the online publishing community with BMSAES. Publishing online has its advantages and disadvantages. Coming to terms with the technology and being taken seriously by colleagues are perhaps the main disadvantages, but the advantages far outweigh them. Print is becoming ever more expensive, and delays in the appearance of traditional journals seem to get ever longer with the multitude of pressures on the editors. With online publication, backed up by proper peer review, it is possible to bring up-to-date quality research to readers the world over in a matter of hours; as an example, the last paper to be put into the present issue of BMSAES arrived in its final form around noon on the day before launch and was on the website for the author to proof-read two hours later. Nowadays, publication in accredited online journals is accepted in assessments of research in museums and universities. While publication in print will remain for many projects the only suitable method, much research can profitably appear more quickly and meaningfully via electronic media. We will all watch developments with interest. Nigel Strudwick Contents: Cataloguing the Internet, or how I found it in the catalogue in my library (Diane Bergman) The Middle Kingdom Stelae Publication Project, exemplified by stela BM EA 226 (Detlef Franke) Hieratic Inscriptions from the Quarry at Qurna: an interim Report (Shin-ichi Nishimoto, Sakuji Yoshimura, and Jiro Kondo) Kushite buildings at Kawa (Derek Welsby)
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    British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 3
    (2002-11)
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    Editorial This is now the third issue of BMSAES (British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan) to be produced in 2002. It presents an interesting range of articles, all of which take advantage of aspects of the medium in which it is published. The papers by Favard-Meeks, Judd and Prag all use a number of colour photographs which, particularly in the case of Favard-Meeks, might be prohibitive in a paper journal. The paper by Backes is an index and thus by being presented electronically is searchable while still permitting it to be printed and read in the manner of more traditional media. The issues of indexing and preservation of BMSAES now rear their heads, not least as it is not now possible to list all the papers published on the journal's home page. I shall shortly begin the preparation of a system for indexing and accessing back issues of BMSAES. I examined the whole issue of archiving and permanence of electronic material for a paper presented during the informatique et Egyptologie meeting in Pisa this summer, and I hope the paper will be published in the proceedings (see http://www.ie2002.it/). The issue of permanence is a major one which needs to be tackled by every electronic publication with a wish to survive into the future. Nigel Strudwick Contents: Index zu Michelle Thirion, 'Notes d'onomastique. Contribution à  une révision du Ranke PN', 1-11e série (Burkhard Backes) The present state of the site of Behbeit el-Hagar (Christine Favard-Meeks) One accident too many? (Margaret A Judd) Proportion and personality in the Fayum Portraits (AJNW Prag)
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    British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 4
    (2004-12)
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    Editorial There has been a gap of two years since the appearance of an issue of BMSAES (British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan). Electronic publishing in Egyptology is still in its infancy, and there is yet some way to go in persuading colleagues to produce material for electronic publications such as ours. BMSAES has, however, received numerous submissions over the past two years, but these have not reached the publication stage after being submitted to the process of peer review established at the time the publication was set up. Today it is easy to set up and publish oneself on the Internet, with free web space accompanying most email accounts, free weblog software, and so on, but this ease and freedom bring with it the responsibility to make clear to others that the material published has academic credibility. It is absolutely essential that those who set up serious academic online publications maintain a rigorous process of review, so that readers can come to the site knowing that whatever they read, while it could be controversial, at least has the blessing of the scholarly community. There are far too many web sites of 'alternative' or 'controversial' natures which present questionable ideas as established fact, usually without supporting critical apparatus; the uninitiated coming to such sites via a search engine may often be forgiven for being unable to distinguish between the different qualities of material. All the papers in this issue are written by Egyptologists at the British Museum. I do not regret that two of them have already appeared elsewhere (one in print, the other on CD), as here they either take advantage of the technical opportunities offered by the electronic medium, or are more widely available than they were before. The issue of indexing and preservation of BMSAES is still on my mind. My own paper in this issue, although written and first published three years ago, still addresses central questions in this area. While I believe we have helped to establish the fact that credible Egyptology can be published on the Internet, the matter of permanence is a major one which needs to be tackled by every electronic publication with a wish to survive. Nigel Strudwick Contents: The Egyptian Inscriptions at Jebel Dosha, Sudan (W.V. Davies) The Subsidiary Temple of Nekhtnebef at Tell el-Balamun (Jeffrey Spencer) Electronic publishing: the example of BMSAES (Nigel Strudwick)
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    British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 5
    (2006-06)
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    Editorial There has been another gap, this time of 18 months, since the appearance of an issue of BMSAES (British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan). My comments in the previous editorial about the variability of submissions and the need to maintain standards still apply as strongly as ever. This is a short issue, and I am very grateful to the authors for their patience in seeing their contributions appear. There is still a British Museum flavour to the issue. Grajetzki's article deals with an object in the collection, while our other article is a new departure for us, a book review, admittedly of the letters of a man who played an important part in the history of the Department in the Museum in the later 19th century. Despite the BM connection, it must be stressed, nonetheless, that contributions on all relevant subjects are welcome, and that authors are not required to have a BM connection in their papers. There do not seem to have been any significant developments in the areas of electronic publishing insofar as it affects Egyptology in the time since the last issue. The subject of electronic publishing will be discussed at the forthcoming Informatique et Egyptologie meeting in Oxford, and interested readers should check out the web pages [http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/egypt/ie2006/] for further information Nigel Strudwick Contents The Second Intermediate Period model coffin of Teti in the British Museum (EA 35016) (Wolfram Grajetzki) The Letters of Peter le Page Renouf (1822-1897), edited by Kevin J. Cathcart, 4 vols. (University College Dublin Press, 2002-2004) (A review by Patrica Usick)
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    British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 14
    (2009-12)
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    Editorial The final issue of 2009 features two articles based on British Museum fieldwork in the Edfu area, and another on epigraphic work at Tombos in Sudan, with publication of related material in museums in Cairo and Khartoum. The two papers by Veldmeijer continue a series on ancient Egyptian footwear, and include detailed discussion and photography of several sandals and shoes held in the British Museum. Finally, the Hawkins paper presents a new interpretation of two Amarna letters, with fantastic photography of the tablets kindly provided by colleagues in the Egyptian Museum (Cairo) and the Vorderasiatisches Museum (Berlin). Contents: Kom el-Farahy: a New Kingdom Island in an evolving Edfu floodplain (Judith M. Bunbury, Angus Graham and Kristian D. Strutt) The British Museum epigraphic survey at Tombos: the stela of Usersatet and Hekaemsasen (W. Vivian Davies) The British Museum expedition to Elkab and Hagr Edfu, 2009 (W. Vivian Davies and Elisabeth R. O’Connell) The Arzawa letters in recent perspective (J. David Hawkins) Studies of Ancient Egyptian Footwear. Technological Aspects. Part VII. Coiled Sewn Sandals (André J. Veldmeijer) Studies of ancient Egyptian footwear. Technological aspects. Part XII. Fibre shoes (André J. Veldmeijer)
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    British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 10
    (2008-09)
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    Editorial The three papers in this issue epitomise the range of subjects covered by BMSAES: a report on new fieldwork, the publication of an object in a museum collection, and a study of the modern reception and presentation of ancient artefacts. The journal is intended to cover the same range of cultures and time periods as the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, namely the prehistoric, ancient and pre-modern cultures of Egypt and Sudan. Contents The Poetics of Egyptian museum practice (Wendy Doyon) Tombos and the Viceroy Inebny/Amenemnekhu (Vivian Davies) A Mamluk Coin from Kulubnarti, Sudan (Julie Anderson)
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