The Egypt Exploration Society
A Limited Company registered in England No.25816.
Registered Charity No.212384
Excavation Fund
2009
The Egypt Exploration Society invites application for grants of up to
£5,000 from its Excavation Fund. It is expected that most of the funds
awarded will be expended in the field.
The closing date for applications is 30 September 2009. No application
received after that date will be considered. Interviews will not be held
and all applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application
by 31 October 2009. All applications must be submitted electronically
to: application@ees.ac.uk
Conditions
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Preference will be given to projects which fall within the
Society’s current Research Strategy (below), particularly those
which bring novel approaches to clearly-defined research questions,
and which demonstrate advance consideration of possible outputs:
The Society’s strategic aim for the immediate future is to facilitate and support
research by focussing on clearly defined research projects to fill gaps in
current knowledge. This will be achieved by non-invasive surveys and
geophysical studies, together with the epigraphic recording of standing
monuments and, where possible, targeted excavations. The results of
research supported by the Society will be disseminated as widely as possible
to the public by the most appropriate means.

Applications are welcome from international teams but preference
will be given to projects headed by a Director from a UK-based
institution.

All awards will be for one year of work only with no presumption or
guarantee of continued or future funding for the project. Previous
holders of grants from the Excavation Fund may apply.

Applications should not apply ‘Full Economic Costing’ (FEC).
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The Project Director will be responsible for submitting the
application to the SCA. The application must be submitted in the
name of the Director’s institution but ‘in association with’ the
Society.

The Project or Field Director must keep proper accounts of
expenditure of the grant and submit these, with receipts (all
sterling ones, Egyptian pound ones where available) to the Society
within two months from the completion of the fieldwork.
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Any unspent monies must be
Society with the accounts.
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Project or Field Directors will be expected (where mutually
convenient) to give talks on their work for the education and
benefit of the public, and to submit reports for consideration
for inclusion in the Society’s regular publications. The
Society may also ask recipients to conduct a short presentation to donors
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to the Excavation Fund and/or to EES members.
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The Egypt Exploration Society does not undertake automatically to
publish (in book or electronic format) the results of work
undertaken with an Excavation Fund grant. However, all applications
must address the project's publication plans.
The Egypt Exploration Society
EES Research Strategy
Introduction
Within Egypt, there is still a great deal of archaeological work which can and needs to be done. The high water
table, caused in part by the building of the Aswan Dam, and climate change are causing environmental changes
throughout Egypt, impacting on ancient sites. In addition, increasing population density has led to pressure to
develop land around, and sometimes upon, ancient sites throughout the country, but especially in the Nile Delta.
Research Strategy
The Society’s strategic aim for the immediate future is to facilitate and support research by focusing on clearly
defined research projects to fill gaps in current knowledge. This will be achieved by non-invasive surveys and
geophysical studies, together with the epigraphic recording of standing monuments and, where possible,
targeted excavations. The results of research supported by the Society will be disseminated as widely as possible
to the public by the most appropriate means.
Major EES projects
The Society will continue to support the Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities in its campaign for rescue
archaeology in the Nile Delta, where excavation permits are available. Through the work of the Delta Survey,
which is now an ‘Approved Research Project’ of the British Academy, we will continue recording and
documenting sites which are under threat, and working in the field in order to record and preserve as much of
the archaeology as possible in the changing environment.
The Society will also continue and develop the research of the Survey of Memphis into river movements and
settlement patterns in the Memphis/Saqqara region and beyond. Since the Society already holds a concession for
the Memphis area, limited targeted excavation at the site, to answer specific research questions, will continue to
be possible.
Support for other projects
The Society will open up the ‘Excavation Fund’ to applications for new projects which will further the strategic
research aims described above. Chronologically, the Society will consider support for applications relating to
research from the geologically earliest periods to the start of the eighteenth century AD and geographically for
work on sites and material remains of Egyptian culture whether in Egypt or in neighbouring countries. The
Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities will only, at present, consider new applications for excavation in the
Nile Delta so proposals for new fieldwork in Middle or Upper Egypt should, for the moment, concentrate on
geophysical and other non-invasive surveys together with the epigraphic recording of standing monuments. This
policy will be kept under review to reflect any future changes in SCA guidelines.
The Egypt Exploration Society
Excavation Fund
2009
Title of project:
What are the main research questions?
Please give a description of the project and the methods to be used (800
words):
What outputs are envisaged (including print and/or electronic publication)?
The Egypt Exploration Society
Excavation Fund
2009
Contact details of Applicant
Name
Address
Telephone
E-mail
Date of application
Budget Form
Name of Project Director
Academic Institution
Name of Field Director
(if different)
Academic Institution
Site
Intended dates of work in
Egypt
Sterling Expenditure
£
Air Fares. Please state number required, estimated fare per
person, and note if any are not UK/Egypt/UK.
Travel to/from airports
(please give details)
Equipment to be purchased in the UK
(please give details)
Visa expenses
(number of people and price per visa)
Post-excavation expenses
(please provide full details and costings)
Other sterling expenditure
(please give details)
Total sterling expenditure
£
Expenditure in Egypt
LE
Off-site living expenses
1. Hotels
(please give daily rate and number of person-nights)
2. Meals
3. Other
(please give details)
Public transport/taxis/vehicle hire
Living expenses on site
(please give total and per diem rate per person)
Wages of domestic staff
(please give total and also details of pay rates)
Payments to specialists on site
(please give total and also details of pay rates)
Wages of workmen on site
(please give total and also details of pay rates)
Social Security
(give estimated cost and number of people for whom it is paid)
Excavation/research equipment purchased in Egypt
(please give details)
Inspector’s expenses
(at rate set by SCA – currently LE50 a day or LE1,500 a month)
Other
(please give details)
Total for expenditure in Egypt
Convert Egyptian pounds into sterling at a rate of LE 8 :£1
LE
£
Total for sterling expenditure
Total sterling required for expenditure in Egypt
£
£
Total budget requested from the Egypt Exploration Society**
£
Have any applications for funding for this work been made to any other
funding body? Are any such applications intended? If so, please give
details of the funding bodies concerned, the amounts requested and the date
by which the outcome of the application will be known.
** If any income is expected from outside sources which will reduce the
amount requested of the Society please indicate this below.
Total budget (final figure from table above)
£
Less donations expected from outside sources (please give details)
£
Total requested from the Egypt Exploration Society
£
The Egypt Exploration Society
Excavation Fund
2009
Referees.
Two references will be required. Please ask each referee to complete the enclosed
form and supply their contact details below. Full-time postgraduate students may
select referees from their own institutions but all other applicants must select
referees from outside their own institutions. It is the responsibility of the
applicant to ensure that they arrive by 30 September 2009. Without them the
application will not be considered.
1st Referee:
Name
Institution
E-mail address
Day-time phone number
2nd Referee:
Name
Institution
E-mail address
Day-time phone number
Please return this form by e-mail to application@ees.ac.uk by 30 September
2009. Thank you.
The Egypt Exploration Society
Excavation Fund
2009
Name of applicant:
Institution:
Title of project:
___________________________________________________________________________
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Reference
Name of Referee:
Institution:
1. Indicate the capacity in which you know the applicant:
2. Do you feel the applicant is qualified to undertake the project as
described?
3. Evaluate the project with particular attention to its scholarly value
and its cost-effectiveness:
4. Do you feel the project will answer the research questions proposed by
the applicant?
5. Add any additional comments which you feel will assist the EES in
assessing fairly the application.
Please e-mail this reference to application@ees.ac.uk by 30 September 2009.
Thank you