Saturday, January 12, 2002 Part 2

J.J. holds a piece of a beautifully translucent calcite bowl that appeared from the fill under the walls just removed from Sandra’s trench. Little gifts. Using the Theodolite
Violaine works to understand the ancient Theodolite we borrow from Chicago House (it’s more than 50 years old). She and Elaine (in the background) are laying out a new square to the west of Elaine’s present trench. It’s been so productive and in the period we’re interested in, that we’re anxious to see more.

Excavating the Storage Pit
In Elaine’s trench the qufti Iman excavates the storage pit that has emerged. A large section of a pot overturned is visible and will be removed tomorrow. Statue Find
Excitement around 8 am at the temple of Ramesses III where we’re looking for possible earlier New Kingdom remains. The team of workers clearing the back sanctuary found the lower half of a beautiful statue of King Ramesses III (ca. 1180 B.C.) which has been sliced in two vertically.

Statue Fragment
Now removed from the ground the right side of the statue preserves the leg of the king wearing an elaborately pleated long garment, the front kilt of which you also see. The back pillar of the statue gives the king’s titulary and dedicates the statue especially to Osiris. From the form of the piece (we’ll show you more when we can) the statue of the king was holding a smaller statue of the god Osiris in front of him.
On the left side of the statue is a depiction in incised relief of a son of Ramesses III, shown wearing the traditional sidelock indicating youth. The prince is identified in the text as “hereditary prince, royal scribe, overseer of the choicest armies of his Majesty, king’s son of his body, his beloved, Paraherwenmyef (The god Ra is at his right hand).”

Our pottery home away from home, Beit Canada, thanks to the kindness of Prof. Donald Redford of Pennsylvania State University and Richard Fazzini of the Brooklyn Museum. Here we can bring our pottery and small finds, clean them and record them. Looking at the Pottery Baskets
Betsy Bryan breaks the news that today we’re going to go through some of the baskets left from last season and take out the diagnostic sherds (rims, painted or decorated pieces, bases, handles, etc.) and discard the rest so that we can have time to work on this season’s ceramics. J.J. swoons at the thought of “pottery murder”.

Labeling Pottery
Elaine looks at the labels for her pottery and makes some changes on them, since we decided to use different designations.
Yasmin in a characteristic pose – on the phone. But it does look a little odd with the sherds all around her.

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J.J. holds a piece of a beautifully translucent calcite bowl that appeared from the fill under the walls just removed from Sandra’s trench. Little gifts.	Violaine works to understand the ancient Theodolite we borrow from Chicago House (it’s more than 50 years old). She and Elaine (in the background) are laying out a new square to the west of Elaine’s present trench. It’s been so productive and in the period we’re interested in, that we’re anxious to see more.
In Elaine’s trench the qufti Iman excavates the storage pit that has emerged. A large section of a pot overturned is visible and will be removed tomorrow.	Excitement around 8 am at the temple of Ramesses III where we’re looking for possible earlier New Kingdom remains. The team of workers clearing the back sanctuary found the lower half of a beautiful statue of King Ramesses III (ca. 1180 B.C.) which has been sliced in two vertically.
Now removed from the ground the right side of the statue preserves the leg of the king wearing an elaborately pleated long garment, the front kilt of which you also see. The back pillar of the statue gives the king’s titulary and dedicates the statue especially to Osiris. From the form of the piece (we’ll show you more when we can) the statue of the king was holding a smaller statue of the god Osiris in front of him.	On the left side of the statue is a depiction in incised relief of a son of Ramesses III, shown wearing the traditional sidelock indicating youth. The prince is identified in the text as “hereditary prince, royal scribe, overseer of the choicest armies of his Majesty, king’s son of his body, his beloved, Paraherwenmyef (The god Ra is at his right hand).”
Our pottery home away from home, Beit Canada, thanks to the kindness of Prof. Donald Redford of Pennsylvania State University and Richard Fazzini of the Brooklyn Museum. Here we can bring our pottery and small finds, clean them and record them.	Betsy Bryan breaks the news that today we’re going to go through some of the baskets left from last season and take out the diagnostic sherds (rims, painted or decorated pieces, bases, handles, etc.) and discard the rest so that we can have time to work on this season’s ceramics. J.J. swoons at the thought of “pottery murder”.
Elaine looks at the labels for her pottery and makes some changes on them, since we decided to use different designations.	Yasmin in a characteristic pose – on the phone. But it does look a little odd with the sherds all around her.