Neal Spencer

Neal gained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2000 (on temple building in Late Period Egypt). Research interests include thirtieth dynasty Egypt, non-royal construction initiatives, Ramesside Nubia and Nile Delta archaeology.

In addition to leading the Department, Neal has recenly finished a 9-year field project at Kom Firin in Egypt’s western Nile Delta, a large settlement site occupied from the Ramesside Period (thirteenth to twelfth century BC) until the seventh century AD.

Since 2008, Neal has directed the British Museum fieldwork at Amara West, administrative capital of Upper Nubia in the Ramesside era. He has also participated in rescue fieldwork at the Fourth Cataract, and at sites throughout Egypt.

Neal manages the British Museum’s annual International Training Programme, for curators from countries outside the EU.

Contact

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

Current projects

• The Nile Delta of Egypt: Fieldwork at Kom Firin

• Amara West, Sudan

Previous projects

• Exhibition on the Gayer-Anderson Cat

External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies

• Committee member, British Egyptian Society

• Trustee, Freud Museum, London - www.freud.org.uk

Recent publications

N. Spencer, “Cemeteries and a Ramesside suburb at Amara West”, Sudan & Nubia 13 (in press 2009)

R. Parkinson and N. Spencer, “The Teaching of Amenemhat at Amara”, EA 35 (2009): 25–7

N. Spencer, Kom Firin I: The Ramesside temple and the site survey (British Museum Research Publication 170, 2008)

N. Spencer, “A Theban Statue Base from the reign of Nekhtnebef” in T. Schneider and K. Szpakowska (eds), Egyptian Stories. A British Egyptological Tribute to Alan B. Lloyd on the Occasion of His Retirement (AOAT 347; Münster, 2007): 373–91

N. Spencer, The Gayer-Anderson Cat (British Museum Objects in Focus; London, British Museum Press, 2007)

N. Spencer, A Naos of Nekhthorheb from Bubastis (British Museum Research Publications 156, London, 2006)

N. Spencer, ‘The temples of Kom Firin’, Egyptian Archaeology, 24 (2004), pp. 8-40

N. Spencer, ‘Samanud: the urban context’, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 87 (2001), pp. 23-31

N. Spencer, ‘The Epigraphic Survey of Samanud’, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 85 (1999), pp. 55–83