Location: Timai El Amdid, Egypt

Season Dates: July 16, 2013 - August 14, 2013
Application Deadline: February 28, 2013

Website: http://www.telltimai.org

Discount for AIA members: $100

Program Type
Field school

Affiliation: University of Hawaii at Manoa

Project Director: Robert Littman and Jay Silverstein, University of Hawaii, and Dr. Mohamed Kenawi, Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies, Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Project Description

 

Seeking students to participate in a summer 2013 Conservation Field School at the site of Tell Timai in the Delta region of Egypt. Students will receive training in analysis, conservation, recording and preservation of artifacts and architecture, including coins, pottery, glass, stone, mudbrick.   Staff includes conservators from Egypt and around the world.  The school is based in Timai El Amdid, Egypt, and will include field trips to Alexandria, Cairo, Bubastis,Tapsosyris Magna, Memphis, Giza and Sakara.  Tell Timai, the ancient city of Thmouis, is a rare example of a well-preserved Graeco-Roman City in the Nile Delta.  The city offers an exceptional opportunity to study all aspects of life, business, religion, and administration during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods.  Mudbrick architecture is rarely preserved in the Delta, making Tell Timai a unique piece of Egyptian history.  Unfortunately the site is under considerable threat from encroachment, erosion, and looting.  The Tell Timai Project of the University of Hawaii has embraced the concepts of Research, Conservation, and Education and undertaken the tasks of studying the city and saving it as an important piece of Egyptian patrimony and world history.  The ultimate goal is to create a site worthy of drawing tourism to the Eastern Delta and combining the site with neighboring Mendes to create a World Heritage Archaeological Zone.

 

Period(s) of Occupation: Hellenistic, Roman Egypt

Project Size: 25-49 participants

Minimum Length of Stay for Volunteers: entire season

Minimum Age: 18

Room and Board Arrangements

 
Dig house at Timai El Amdid.  Shared rooms and bathrooms; in house cook and cleaning staff. Wireless.  Hotels on field trip sites.  All in country costs covered except incidentals.  Air transportation to Cairo not covered.  A number of small partial scholarships are available.

Cost: $5000

Academic Credit
Name of institution offering credit: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Number of credits offered: 3-6
Tuition: $451-$906

Contact Information
Dr. Jay Silverstein, Professor Robert Littman
LLEA 1890 East West Road, University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822
US
jsilvers@hawaii.edu
Phone: 808 956-4173
Fax: 808 373-4639