Jeffrey Spencer

Former Deputy Keeper
Ancient Egypt; archaeology Department: Ancient Egypt and Sudan

 

Jeffrey Spencer, who joined the British Museum in 1975, has managerial and curatorial responsibilities for the advancement of all aspects of activity in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan. The role combines administrative matters necessary for the operation of the Department, curation of the collection and academic research, including fieldwork in Egypt. The latter work has in recent years been focused on the archaeology of the Nile Delta and has helped to place in context objects from this region in the collections. Prime areas of interest include the material culture of the Archaic Period, the Third Intermediate Period and the Late Period.

Contact

egyptian@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7323 8311

Current projects

Previous projects

  • Excavation at El-Ashmunein, Middle Egypt (1980-1990)

  • Cataloguing the Egyptian Early Dynastic Collection (1980)

External fellowships / Membership of professional bodies

  • Member of the Egypt Exploration Society

  • Member of the Executive Committee of the Egypt Exploration Society

  • Member of the German Archaeological Institute

  • Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries

  • Member of the International Association of Egyptologists

Recent publications

J. Spencer, Excavations at Tell El-Balamun, 1999-2001 (London, British Museum Press 2003)

J. Spencer, ‘Main Street, Diospolis Parva’, in N. Crummy (ed.), Image, Craft and the Classical World. Essays in honour of Donald Bailey and Catherine Johns (Monogr. Instrumentum 29), (Montagnac 2005), pp. 233-41

J. Spencer, ‘The Exploration of Tell Belim, 1999-2002’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 88 (2002), pp. 37-51

J. Spencer, ‘Geophysical survey at Tell el-Balamun’, with T. Herbich, Egyptian Archaeology, 29 (Autumn 2006), pp. 16-19

J. Spencer, ‘The Subsidiary Temple of Nekhtnebef at Tell el-Balamun’, BMSAES, 4 (2004), pp. 21-38