Can’t wait to read the full story!

Interesting insights from the project ceramicist this week, who has managed to isolate the African and Egyptian Red Slip forms in the Karanis legacy data, in contexts site-wide. The ceramic data is generally messy, but a pattern has emerged. Stay tuned…

Recumbent lions were found across the South Temple precinct (of Pnepheros and Petesouchos) at Karanis, too: “Almost immediately 3 stone lions found, one laid on its side under pavement level, just by S. wall, & just W. of Vespasian’s Gate” (D.G. Hogarth, 12/24/1895).

Working down in the bowels of the Kelsey Museum archives today, and Francis himself is here to inspire.

Spent another morning in the Kelsey archives, and was amazed to learn that the handwritten record of excavated objects notebooks from the first season name the Egyptian staff who dug each context. This information does not survive in the digital version I usually consult.

This new article was published in January, but it took longer than expected to unlock it for open access. Delighted to share it now, on (among other things) the intersection of field and museum archaeology: doi.org/10.1515/tc-202…