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The Ceramics group discuss
their assignment in a
session held at our rented
villa. Teodozja Rzeuska,
one of the Ceramics teachers
sits at the far end of
the table.
trips to the Coptic and Egyptian Museums, where the students
sketched and discussed a number of artifacts. Will emphasized
the value of a clean and organized archive. As such, students
were required to maintain their work in well-organized portfolios
that they would take with them upon graduation. The
group joined the survey students at the mastaba of Nensedjerkai
to gain epigraphical training through copying the hieroglyphic
inscriptions there.
The Illustration group at work on drawings in the Giza Field Lab.
Graduation and Beyond
It was in an atmosphere of pride and celebration that on April 2,
at the end of eight weeks’ intense training, the students one by
one received their graduation certificates from SCA Chairman
Dr. Zahi Hawass and AERA President Dr. Mark Lehner in a
ceremony held in Zamalek. The growing reservoir of skilled
archaeologists (graduates of all our Field Schools) now contains
over 150 names and is drawn upon by the SCA to address their
archaeological challenges wherever they arise in Egypt.
And the wave of graduates is making a difference. Last
year Afaf Wahba, osteology graduate of our first advanced Field
School (2006), was sent to work at Saqqara. Her meticulous
recording of burials in the necropolis drew the attention of surrounding
foreign missions, as well as the commendation of Dr.
Hawass himself. What’s more, Afaf ’s SCA colleagues at Saqqara
are now applying her methodology, because she trained them
while she was there. The wave ripples.
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