Images which accompanied a report given by the Director of the Egypt Exploration Society, Dr Chris Naunton, at the Society's AGM on Saturday 7 December 2013.

1. THE EGYPT EXPLORATION SOCIETY
AGM 2013
www.ees.ac.uk
The Egypt Exploration Society
Exploring and Inspiring since 1882

2. The Egypt
Exploration Society
Director’s
Report
2012-13
Dr Chris Naunton
www.ees.ac.uk
The Egypt Exploration Society
Exploring and Inspiring since 1882

3. Fieldwork and Research

4. The Theban Harbours
and Waterscapes
Survey (Dr Angus
Graham)
ERT, GPR and hand
auger survey
Karnak and west bank:
BirketHabu, Kom elHettan, and temple of
Tuthmosis III.

6. Minufiyeh Governorate
(Dr Joanne Rowland):
Quesna
Ptol / Roman cemetery:
50 burials, Roman
ceramics; post-exc
analysis
‘mummified’ remains
were examined to assess
the oils / resins used
Falcon necropolis:
corridor system and area
directly N planned, new
trench

8. The Imbaba Governorate
Prehistoric Survey
Investigate all prehistoric
findspots& sites in the
wider environment
context
satellite images, drill core
survey w Cairo Univ.
Increase in cultivated land
since last visit in 2011

9. Tell Basta: (Dr Eva Lange)
Excavations in the Bastet
temple entrance and on the
main axis (the dromos)
3D scan of the cemetery
area
White light scans were
made of parts of the
Nectanebo II shrines and
statues of Ramesses II in the
temple of Bastet.
Documentation of the
‘Governor’s Palace’ of the
MK(with Manfred Bietak,
Austrian Academy of
Science)

11. Sais (Sa el-Hagar) (Dr Penny
Wilson):
Ramesside-TIP area of
KomRebwa,
Ramesside magazine attached
to a house
built over by a large N-S wall
- may be one of the structures
associated with the city of Sais
as it rose to power in the TIP.

13. Dissemination

14. Excavation
Memoirs

15. G. T. Martin,
The Tomb of Maya
and MerytI

16. Who Was Who
in Egyptology
(4th Rev. Ed.)

17. Journal of
Egyptian
Archaeology
Bigger vol. in
2012-13:
352 pages

18. Egyptian Archaeology

19. The EES Newsletter

20. Events

21. Events
London, Cairo, Edin
burgh, Leiden, Nor
wich, Oxford and
York

22. Cultural Property and the Antiquities Trade in Egyptology
Discussion broadcast online, 29 September 2012

23. Delta Workshop (III)
Cairo, 22-3 March 2013

24. Tour of
Upper
Egypt Nov
2012

25. The Lucy Gura Archive

27. Reorganisation
and
Repositioning

28. Our aim is to reposition the Society in two key
ways:
1) We want to become more widely appealing
again
2) We want to do more in Egypt

29. In order to achieve this most effectively we need
to reorganise. So far this has meant:
• New role for the Director
• Reorganisation of finances
• Regularising of many aspects of the admin of
our activities
• A reorganisation of the staff - we have a
fantastic team now

30. Reorganisation
and
Repositioning

31. We want to be relevant, useful, appealing etc.
amongst a series of key audiences
and more widely

33. 1) Students / early-career Egyptologists
• Cent Awards – more applications than for
over a decade at least
• CRE reception, and travel bursaries in 2014

34. 2) Children
• School visits

35. 3) The general public
• Cultivating relations with the media

36. 4) Egyptians
• New member of staff in Cairo with revised job
description
• Expanded portfolio of events
• Field Schools
• First grant to an all-Egyptian excavation project
• English language tuition – revived and expanded
• Improved relations with the British Council and
British Embassy
• Fundraising Campaign – Arabic Translations and
Travel (to UK) Scholarships

38. New subscription rates

39. Subscriptions are the largest source of income
for the Society.
Increase in income is required to over rising
costs.
At the AGM in 2006 members expressed the
view that they would prefer gradual but regular
rises in subscription rates
Rates have not been raised since 1 April 2010

40. Proposed new rates:
Full member: £48
Full member with JEA: £73
Full member with GRM: £68
Student Associate: £25
Associate: £20

41. Thank you(s)

45. www.ees.ac.uk