Oxford Expedition to Egypt: Scene-details Database
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Overview: Acknowledgements
Phase One of the Oxford Expedition to Egypt Scene-details Database was made possible through a three-year award from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. In addition to database construction and related research, the award funded the fieldwork and preparation to pre-publication level of the first three volumes of the Expedition's 'Egypt in Miniature' series - a photographic and analytical record of scenes and scene details similar to those recorded in geographical and chronological order in the database, but produced in book form on a tomb-by-tomb basis, starting with the decorated tomb-chapels of Kagemni, Ptahhotep II and the possible twin brothers, Niankh-khnum and Khnumhotep (Egypt in Miniature Vol. I, Vol. II, and Vol. III, Parts 1-2 respectively). The Expedition's members are greatly indebted to the AHRC for its generosity. Without this academic and financial support, and IT support provided by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) and the Archaeology Data Service in York (ADS), we could not have initiated the first phase of the dual resource programme mentioned above.
Considerable research and practical work for Phase One took place in Egypt, therefore the Expedition acknowledges with gratitude the scholarly co-operation offered by the Secretary General, Dr Zahi Hawass, the Director of Foreign Mission Affairs, Mr Magdy el-Ghandour, the Committee Members of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, and the directors, inspectors and their staffs at various archaeological sites, especially Saqqara and Giza. We also remember the valuable work of our long-term team at Saqqara, Mr Demerdash el-Kerati, Mr Abu el-Hassan, Mr Mohammed Ali (deceased, 2007), and Mr Mohammed Badri, and the unfailing thoughtfulness of our academic colleagues, most notably Mr Sabry Farag, Mr Orban E. Abou'l-Hassan, Mr Hany Abdallah el-Tayeb and Mr Saleh Suleiman.
Prior to our AHRC award in 2003 we received several academic grants which contributed towards the development of the Expedition and its programme of fieldwork and research. For this reason we also extend our thanks to the committees of the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Wingate Foundation, and the Gerald Averay Wainwright Fund, for providing crucial financial support in the years leading up to 2003.
