John Billman, Vanessa Foott, Anh Nguyen Today the registration team initiates us into the mysteries of object registration: https://videopress.com/v/BjGZwydK?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true https://videopress.com/v/g3twGzcs?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true https://videopress.com/v/CMjHW4Q6?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true
Julia Budka Introduction Elena Pischikova SACP 6 was found and cleared in 2021. The work was supervised by Katherine Bateman, Hassan Mohamed Ali and Katy Ball. SACP 6 is one of the small undecorated tombs cut into the northern slope of the South Asasif hill. The remains of the mud brick superstructure outline a pylon, … Continue reading A Closer Look at the Pottery from Tomb SACP 6 in South Asasif
Elena Pischikova, Katherine Blakeney, and Kenneth Griffin The Tomb of Karakhamun contains numerous traces of original ancient gridlines. In the process of our reconstructions we became aware that the same unified grid system had been applied to both inscriptions and images throughout the tomb. In the videos below, our team members explain how this discovery … Continue reading Gridlines in Action
Mohamed Shebib and Mohamed El Azeb Hakem The most important work at the site of South Asasif is performed by our amazing conservation team led by Abdelrzk Mohamed Ali and Ali Hassan Ibrahim. Members of the Conservation team 2022 The work done by Taib Hassan Ibrahim, Mohamed El Azeb Hakem, Hassan El Dimerdash, Said Ali … Continue reading SACP Conservators in Action
By Paulína Šútorová and John Rogers Paulína is a PhD student of Egyptology in the University of Trier, Germany specializing in Queens in the New Kingdom. John Rogers is a PhD student of Egyptology at the Swansea University specializing in statehood theory, rulership ideology and international relationship in the early Saite Period. John has been … Continue reading The Small Fragment Team
By Erhart Graefe, with Mohamed Shebib Dr. Erhart Graefe, professor emeritus, of the Institute for Egyptology and Coptology of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster joined the South Asasif Conservation Project in 2014. A world-renowned specialist in the texts of the Ritual of the Hours of the Day, he's been recreating Karakhamun's variant of these texts out … Continue reading Texts of the Ritual of the Hours of the Day: 2022 update
By Steven Feurer Introduction by Elena Pischikova TT 390 is one of the three monumental decorated tombs of the South Asasif necropolis. It is not often featured on our blog. The work of Steven Feurer is going to make TT 390 the blog's prominent feature. Steven Feurer has been working on the "TT 390 Column … Continue reading Mysterious Column of TT 390
Marion Brew, Kenneth Griffin, Ali Hassan Ibrahim, Mohamed Shebib This video was taken in the the span of a few days to trace the journey of a carved limestone fragment found just outside of TT 390 back to the tomb of Karakhamun (TT 223) where it was originally located. It is just one of the … Continue reading Journey of a Fragment
By Kenneth Griffin The blog post for this week has been written by Dr Ken Griffin, the Curator of the Egypt Centre, Swansea University, who has been participating in the South Asasif Conservation Project since 2010. This post will focus on the reconstruction of the northern face of Northern Pillar 3 (NP3) within the Second … Continue reading Reconstructing the Second Pillared Hall of Karakhamun
Lepsius Figure By Katherine Blakeney The standing figure of Karakhamun's brother Nesamenopet is one of the most important documents on the application of the 21-square grid in the tomb of Karakhamun. A new addition to this figure, discovered in July 2022 is one of the most important achievements of the season so far. Until the … Continue reading July 2022 in South Asasif: Part 2
South Asasif Conservation Project 