Issue 3: November 2002
Editorial
This is now the third issue of BMSAES (British
Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan) to be produced in 2002.
It presents an interesting range of articles, all of which take
advantage of aspects of the medium in which it is published.
The papers by Favard-Meeks, Judd and Prag all
use a number of colour photographs which, particularly in the case
of Favard-Meeks, might be prohibitive in a paper journal.
The paper by Backes is an index and thus by
being presented electronically is searchable while still permitting
it to be printed and read in the manner of more traditional
media.
The issues of indexing and preservation of
BMSAES now rear their heads, not least as it is not now possible to
list all the papers published on the journal's home page. I shall
shortly begin the preparation of a system for indexing and
accessing back issues of BMSAES.
I examined the whole issue of archiving and
permanence of electronic material for a paper presented during the
informatique et Egyptologie meeting in Pisa this summer, and I hope
the paper will be published in the proceedings (see http://www.ie2002.it/). The issue of
permanence is a major one which needs to be tackled by every
electronic publication with a wish to survive into the future.
Nigel Strudwick
Contents
Index zu
Michelle Thirion, 'Notes d'onomastique. Contribution à une révision
du Ranke PN', 1-11e série
Burkhard Backes
The present
state of the site of Behbeit el-Hagar
Christine Favard-Meeks
One accident
too many?
Margaret A Judd
Proportion and
personality in the Fayum Portraits
AJNW Prag