Angus Graham

Survey and excavation at the Gebel El-Asr gneiss and quartz quarries in Lower Nubia (1997-2000)

Presentation des fouilles effectuees dans les carrieres de gneiss et de quartz a Gebel el-Asr (basse Nubie) de 1997 a 2000. Les AA commentent les decouvertes (steles, jarres de stockage...).

Theban harbours and waterscapes survey, 2013

Report on the 2014 season of the Theban Harbours and Waterscapes Survey. The paper discusses topographic survey and data correction for the West Bank of Thebes and geoarchaeological investigation of the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep III and the area to the east of the Ramesseum.

Theban Harbours and Waterscapes Survey, Spring 2016

Report on the 2016 spring season of the Theban Harbours and Waterscapes Survey (THaWS). The article discusses the geoarchaeological and geophysical survey along a 3.2 km-long transect starting close to the front of the Temple of Millions of Years of Ay and Horemheb and stretching to the village of Geziret el-Bairat on the West Bank of the Nile.

Book Review: Grain Transport in the Ramesside Period: Papyrus Baldwin (BM EA 10061) and Papyrus Amiens.Grain Transport in the Ramesside Period: Papyrus Baldwin (BM EA 10061) and Papyrus Amiens. By JanssenJac J.. Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum 8. Pp. xv + 144, pls 22. London, British Museum Press, 2004. ISBN 0 7141 1959 8. Price £125.

P. Baldwin and P. Amiens are brought together in this primary publication as the two halves of a single Late Ramesside roll, following Janssen’s recognition of P. Baldwin as the missing half from Gardiner’s study of P. Amiens. This papyrus provides important evidence for the study of the economy, administration, and logistics of grain collection in the Late Ramesside Period. Having been told by Rosalind Janssen that the text was in preparation, and with my interest in shipping and landing places, I eagerly awaited its publication. Both P. Baldwin and P. Amiens were acquired in 1882 by the British Museum and Musée de Picardie respectively. The provenance is believed to be from a tomb in Asyut, but this is based solely upon edward Baldwin’s initial letter to Samuel Birch. The volume is composed of three parts: Part I discusses the recent history and physical state of the papyrus, and reviews the discussion of its date. The two other parts of the book give an introduction, translation, and commentary of the recto (Part II) and verso (Part III) of the text, which are of a ‘different nature’ (p. 8). Appendix I presents the parallel and corresponding entries in tabular form, and Janssen discusses the question of whether parts of the text are taken from a different original text. Appendix II addresses diacritical marks and signs preceding the lines of column II, and Appendix III discusses writings of the preposition r-xt ‘under the authority of’. Separate indexes for the recto and verso include three groupings: personal names, toponyms, and domains. A handwritten hieroglyphic transcription of the complete text, together with text notes and photographs of the papyrus, wrap up the volume. The recto is an account of grain loaded onto an expedition of 21 ships at various landing places in the 9th and 10th Upper egyptian nomes, from lands under the administration of various institutions within the temple complex at Karnak. This is an important source of evidence for the organisation and logistics of shipping and grain collection, as well as for the mooring and loading places, and the administration of the land where the cereal was grown. As Janssen states in the second paragraph of his foreword, he has provided the ‘starting point for the study of the contents of the text and its relevance for egypt’s history, especially its economic and administrative aspects’. whilst Janssen believes that