Now Available from ISD The Egypt Exploration Forthcoming, New, Society and Classic Publications The Old Kingdom Town at Buhen Sais II by David O’Connor The Prehistoric Period at Sa el-Hagar This long-awaited volume publishes the by Penelope Wilson, Gregory Gilbert excavations by the Egypt Exploration and Geoffrey Tassie Society of the Old Kingdom Town at Buhen, This is the final publication of the EES/ directed by W. B. Emery between 1962 Durham/SCA excavations carried out and 1964. Following Emery’s unexpected in 2007 in the ‘Great Pit’ at Sa el-Hagar, death in 1971, the material was prepared ancient Sais. It contains a full discussion by David O’Connor, who had been a Site of the layers dating to the Neolithic and Supervisor at Buhen. The volume presents Buto-Maadi Periods, with specialist the location, excavation and extent of the reports on the chipped and ground stone Old Kingdom Town, descriptions of structural and architectural features, tools, small finds, pottery, animal bones and flora. As the only Neolithic and a discussion of Egyptian ceramic as well as Nubian sherds, followed by a site so far excavated on the Nile floodplain in Egypt, the site has important catalogue of lithic artifacts. implications for understanding the Neolithization of the Delta and the 350p, 60 pls (Egypt Exploration Society, September 2014, Excavation Memoir development of Predynastic settlements in the north of Egypt. 106) hardcover, 9780856982156, $140.00. Special Offer $112.00 397p, illus (Egypt Exploration Society, April 2014, Excavation Memoir 107) paperback, 9780856982187, $140.00. Special Offer $112.00 The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume LXXIX The Oxyrhynchus Papyri edited by W.B. Henry and P.J. Parsons Volume LXXX The volume presents unpublished papyri edited by D. Leith and M. Hirt from Oxyrhynchus related to the theme Contains texts studied in the course of the project ‘New Medical Texts from of public games. Oxyrhynchites had a Oxyrhynchus’, funded by the Wellcome Trust in 2007–10, some of which wide range of spectacles to watch: plays were discussed at the British Academy workshop ‘New Light on Ancient and mimes in the theater, athletic and Medicine’ in 2010. musical competitions at gymnasial and c. 200p, plus plates (Egypt Exploration Society, November 2014, Graeco-Roman higher levels, chariot racing and other Memoirs 101) hardcover, 9780856982224, $170.00. Special Offer $136.00 circus entertainment. 228p, illus (Egypt Exploration Society, May 2014, Graeco-Roman Memoirs 100) hardcover, 9780856982194, $170.00. Special Offer $136.00 70 Enterprise Drive, Suite 2 • Bristol, CT 06010, USA Distributor of phone: (+1) 860 584 6546 • fax: (+1) 860 516 4873 Scholarly Books www.isdistribution.com • [email protected] The Egypt Exploration Society Quesna I Investigations in the Ptolemaic–Roman Cemetery, 2006–2013 by Joanne Rowland Since 2006, investigations have been carried out in the Quesna necropolis by the team of the EES Minufiyeh Archaeological Survey. This publication concerns the first element of work that has now been completed, the investigations in the Ptolemaic–Roman cemetery (2006–2013). In 2006, the extent of the cemetery (in so far as it survives until today) was delimited using magnetic survey, the results of which are included in the introductory section to this volume. The volume opens with a general description of the site before proceeding to the main catalogue, which includes information on each of the burials that have been excavated and analyzed. This includes bioanthropological data as well as information relating to the graves. The main catalogue is followed by a synthesis of the demographic data, evaluating the wider population both within the site and within the wider Egyptian and Mediterranean world. 330p, illus (Egypt Exploration Society, December 2014, Excavation Memoir 109) hardcover, 9780856982217, $140.00. Special Offer $112.00 The Anubieion at Saqqara III Qasr Ibrim Pottery from the Archaic to the The Ballaña Phase Third Intermediate Period by William Y. Adams by Peter French, Throughout its long history, Qasr Ibrim was edited by Janine Bourriau the most important settlement in Egyptian This volume is the first of a series on the Nubia. During the Middle Ages, it was both ceramics from the Egypt Exploration an administrative capital and a center of Society’s excavations in the Anubieion at Christian worship. As an archaeological site Saqqara. Published and some unpub- it has produced an unprecedented wealth lished parallels from Saqqara itself, from of material, including objects of wood, the city of Memphis, and from further leather and textile that are rarely preserved afield place each type in its geographical and chronological context to archaeologically. This volume describes and illustrates in detail the finds from trace the evolution of the ceramic repertoire in the Saqqara/ Memphis area the immediate pre-Christian period, from about AD 350 to 600. through the major periods of ancient Egyptian history. 304p, illus (Egypt Exploration Society 2013, Excavation Memoir 104) paperback, 467p, illus (Egypt Exploration Society 2013, Excavation Memoir 103) paperback, 9780856982163, $140.00. Special Offer $112.00 9780856982149, $140.00. Special Offer $112.00 Working in Memphis Late Roman Glassware The Production of Faience and Pottery from Amarna at Roman Period Kom Helul and Related Studies by Paul T. Nicholson by Jane Faiers This book reports on the excavation of This is the second volume on the monastic a faience kiln at Kom Helul, Memphis. site of Kom el-Nana at Tell el-Amarna and The kiln is of the early Roman Period and brings up-to-date the excavations carried appears to be of the same type as those out there. The book brings together the excavated by Flinders Petrie in the early stratified pottery and both stratified and twentieth century. The book attempts to unstratified glass, and includes more Late place Petrie’s finds in their archaeological Roman sites around Amarna which were context and to reinterpret his evidence in the light of findings from the new visited by Robert Miller in 1988 and Barry Kemp in 1995. Although the con- excavation. In so doing, a new outline of the chaîne operatoire of faience clusions reached on the dating of the site may well have to be revised in the production during the Roman Period is proposed and its relationship to the future, the collections of pottery and glass will prove useful for those working making of pre-Roman faience is discussed. The book includes an illustrated in the Middle East and Egypt. catalogue of finds. 267p, illus (Egypt Exploration Society 2013, Excavation Memoir 102) paperback, 322p, illus (Egypt Exploration Society 2013, Excavation Memoir 105) paperback, 9780856982125, $130.00. Special Offer $104.00 9780856982101, $140.00. Special Offer $112.00 2 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 233–14 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 The Egypt Exploration Society The Survey of Memphis VI The Tomb of Maya Kom Rabi’a: The Late Middle and Meryt I Kingdom (Levels VI–VIII) The Reliefs, Inscriptions, by Lisa Giddy and Commentary This volume describes the late Middle by Geoffrey Thorndike Martin Kingdom levels excavated in the 1980s Maya was one of the most important at Kom Rabi’a, Memphis. Following an officials of state under Tutankhamun. introduction outlining the work at Kom The holder of many titles in the Rabi’a and summarizing the extant Middle administration, the chief of which Kingdom remains at Memphis as a whole, was overseer of the treasury, he was there is a detailed description of the late also responsible for the security of Middle Kingdom stratigraphy revealed at Kom Rabi’a, accompanied by in-text the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Maya and his wife Meryt erected figures illustrating the salient characteristics of each level in the six sectors a magnificent tomb at Saqqara, the necropolis of the capital city, Memphis. investigated. Complete lists of the contexts excavated and objects discovered Wrecked in antiquity by tomb robbers, much remained nevertheless to be are provided. There follows a reconstruction of events across the site, and a recorded by the EES-Leiden mission which located the tomb in 1986. The final essay evaluating the importance of Kom Rabi’a for our understanding of present volume by Geoffrey T. Martin provides a full record of the architecture, late Middle Kingdom Memphis. scenes and texts in the superstructure, as well as the unique painted 247p, illus (Egypt Exploration Society 2012, Excavation Memoir 94) paperback, substructure reliefs of the monument, detailed indexes, and an overview of 9780856981982, $130.00. Special Offer $104.00 the life of the tomb-owners. 215p, illus (Egypt Exploration Society 2012, Excavation Memoir 99) hardcover, Demotic Ostraca and 9780856982064, $160.00. Special Offer $128.00 Other Inscriptions from the Sacred Animal Necropolis, Akhenaten’s Workers North Saqqara The Amarna Stone Village Survey, 2005–9 by John D. Ray by Anna Stevens The majority of the ostraca published in From 2005 to 2009, a survey and excavation project was undertaken at the this volume are written on potsherds, Stone Village, a small settlement on the eastern desert plain of Amarna, but there are also limestone and gypsum not far from the Workmen’s Village. This was the first concerted effort to plaster fragments and writing-boards. record this site and introduce it into the story of Amarna. The fieldwork The texts include literary and magical revealed a community of laborers likely engaged in tomb-cutting and related compositions and a range of texts which argue for the existence of a scribal tasks, including at the Royal Tombs, but of lesser social standing than the school of some kind. There are also a short oracular question, various occupants of the Workmen’s Village. The piecing together of diverse strands dedications to the gods of the Necropolis, an appeal to the Mother of the of archaeological evidence sheds light on their experiences, the Stone Village Apis, lists of payments and divine images, and more.