Excavations at Amheida

Arg, photobombed by Sekhmet! The #Amheida panel (DM Ratzan, O Kaper, M Nuovo, and R Casagrande-Kim) had a great time sharing our work at the 10th DOP conference @britishmuseum. Thanks for such a productive and collegial meeting @isawnyu @nyuclassics @WUSTLAnthro @NYUniversitySAS

We have a panel about #amheida at the DOP conference/Annual Egyptological Colloquium @britishmuseum tomorrow! britishmuseum.org/sites/default/… At 86 degrees (fine, 30 degrees) today it’s going to feel a little bit #Dakhla! @isawnyu @classicswustl #ancientegypt #romanegypt #archaeology

Raffaella Cribiore helping to make an “American dinner” with our undergrad students at the Amheida excavation house in 2012. (Photo courtesy of N. Aravecchia.) Her obituary has now been published @nytimes legacy.com/us/obituaries/…. As it says, she was a superb cook! @isawnyu

New site plan for Amheida based on last season’s work. Updated with latest data for church B7 and preliminary mapping of Area 11. Link to this and other plans here: isaw.nyu.edu/research/amhei…. @isawnyu @WUSTLAnthro #amheida2023 #dakhlaoasis #archaeology #ancientegypt #romanegypt

The #Amheida Excavations mourns the passing of our beloved colleague, mentor, and friend Raffaella Cribiore. She brought the poetry on our walls to life. She will be sorely missed. Ave atque vale. @isawnyu @nyuclassics

There will be an Amheida panel as part of the 10th Int. Conf. of the #dakhla Oasis Project! If you are in London this Sept., check out what’s “new” at ancient Trimithis and the rest of this magical part of ancient and modern #egypt @isawnyu @WUSTLAnthro #archaelogy #amheida2024

| VIENT DE PARAÎTRE | Graffiti and Rock Inscriptions from Ancient Egypt A Companion to Secondary Epigraphy Par @chloeragazzoli, Khaled Hassan & Chiara Salvador (eds.) ifao.egnet.net/publications/c…

A story in praise of Bedouin hospitality, set in the days of the caliph al-Wāthiq (840s CE). "Maḥrūz b. Nājiya al-Ruṣāfī said, 'I was among those accused when funds went astray.... Few can escape overcome by fear and pursued by the government!'" geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/3…

Friends of #amheida Down Under, save the date! Thurs. 13 July, 6pm: The Archaeology of an Oasis City: Twenty Years of Excavations at Amheida in Egypt’s Western Desert, Dr. Nicola Aravecchia. Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney @ccwm_sydney @Sydney_Uni @WUSTLAnthro #dakhla

We got (most of) the band back together in Rome this past May! Engaging discussions, great people, lots of ideas for the future. New ideas take people to put into action, so reach out if you are looking to invest in your next big project. #amheida2024 @isawnyu @WUSTLAnthro

New! The #amheida2023 field report, now in Arabic! يتمتع! #dakhla #trimithis #egypt #archaeology #amheida Safely preserved and published in NYU’s Faculty Digital Archive. @NYULibraries @ISAWLib @WUSTLAnthro archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/64…

Hi all, we’re back! Plenty of updates for you all in the coming weeks. First up: we have a new repository for #Amheida publications: archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/64…. And the first thing to go up is a pdf of our preliminary report from the 2023 season: archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/64…

Hi twitterverse! We are looking for papyri.info training materials: does anyone know of any? Thanks!

I will present my book on pre-Islamic Arabia (cambridge.org/core/books/pre…) at the 2nd Online Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival on March 10th. I will be introduced by Anthony Kaldellis. ed.ac.uk/history-classi… Registration via Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/2nd-online-e…

Off to @ARCENational to close the #amheida2023 season and work on our permit for #amheida2024 … but before that, the first cappuccino of 2023 in Zamalek. It was worth the wait! From the picture it is clear that I failed the marshmallow test … en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_… @isawnyu

Join us this weekend for #SocietySunday! This Sunday, Feb 5 at 1 pm ET, Elizabeth Murphy of Florida State University will present a free virtual lecture entitled "Going to Work in the Roman Empire: The Archaeology of Potters and Potting." 🏺 Register: ow.ly/wAHH50MJ7of

Recent excavations have provided new data for how the population lived in Aksum beyond the city. Learn more in the OI Members Lecture “Finding an Ancient Town: Discovery and Excavation of Beta Semati, Ethiopia” which debuted two years ago today.See bit.ly/oiBetaSamati

And then, there were none. The #smheida2023 season is done but not quite in the books. We have several weeks of data entry and months of analysis to do; but planning for #amheida2024 begins … in Cairo in 9 hrs. The day is young, at 4am! Thanks to all! العام القادم! @isawnyu

The excavation at the Roman fort of Deir el-Atrash is still ongoing. More to come about our 2023 season soon!

Registration day! #amheida2023 @isawnyu