Photos by James Kellie
Latest news from Bloomsbury...
2nd July 2009
Latest news from Gurob …
Our course directors and visiting lecturers are often archaeologists active in the field. Ian Shaw, one of the course directors for Technology in Ancient Egypt is Director of the Gurob Harem Palace Project (GHPP) in Egypt.
Following another successful season at Medinet el-Gurob in April Ian updates us:
We continued to work on the first comprehensive map of this large New Kingdom palace, town and multi-period necropolis, using the latest GIS software. We re-excavated areas of the town site, revealing traces of at least one kiln possibly used for working glass during the New Kingdom. Among the more unusual surface finds this season were a faience scaraboid of a duck with its head reversed; a fragment of a late 18th-Dynasty blue glass vessel with feathered design in yellow, black and white; a small tile decorated with a fish in cream and brown glaze (pictured here) similar to those found at Amarna; two ‘lady on a bed’ figurines; and two fragments of shabtis (one in faience and one of Nile silt clay).
If you would like to find out more about this fascinating project or make a donation to it, or perhaps arrange to make an exclusive visit to the site during the 2010 season, contact Ian Shaw (ishaw@liv.ac.uk) or Jan Picton (j.picton@ucl.ac.uk).
You can download details of their first fund-raising event here: a mini-conference to be held on Friday 11 September, at 6-8pm, organised jointly with the Friends of the Petrie Museum.
26th June 2009
Bloomsbury Academy (BA) Autumn Conference 2009
We are delighted to report that there will be a Bloomsbury Academy Conference at UCL in Autumn 2009.
Further information here
20th May 2009
Wildlife artist Jackie Garner
BSS combines a unique range of learning experiences and teachers. This year we have wildlife artist Jackie Garner teaching two sessions on the Fauna of Ancient Egypt course (6-10 July). All BSS students are invited to attend a special Private View of Wild about Egypt, an exhibition of Jackie’s wildlife paintings inspired by pharaonic art, on Tuesday 14th July, 6-9 pm at The Coningsby Gallery, 30 Tottenham Road, London W1T 4RJ. You can also visit the gallery daily, 12-18 July.
If you miss it in London you can always see it at the Nature in Art Museum in Gloucester (11-30 August) where it is showing alongside Egyptian Landscapes, an exhibition of Egyptian tapestries from the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre in Egypt.
Find out more at these websites:
www.jackiegarner.co.uk | www.coningsbygallery.com | www.nature-in-art.org.uk | www.wissa-wassef-arts.com
BSS in Egypt
Our first 'BSS in Egypt' course (Saturday 24 to Saturday 31 October 2009) is now fully booked however we are delighted to announce that we will be running the course again at the end of November...
BSS in Egypt (Saturday 24 to Saturday 31 October 2009)
Bloomsbury Summer School - 2009 Programme
Regular visitors to BSS will be delighted to know that our 2009 programme has been designed by our Deputy Director Lucia Gahlin, who will be running all our courses this year. This arrangement is intended to enable Christopher Coleman, the Director of BSS, to concentrate on his research.
The cover of the 2009 BSS brochure features the handle of a bronze razor in the form of a monkey holding dom palm fruit, New Kingdom, UC 30135, courtesy of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL. Photograph by Mary Hinkley, UCL Media Services 2008.
