Neal Spencer
Assistant Keeper (Curator)
Egyptian Archaeology; Late Period
Egypt
Department: Ancient Egypt &
Sudan
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8311
Email: egyptian @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Neal is a curator with particular responsibility for the Late
Period and Graeco-Roman material from Egypt in the collection,
having 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, and Nile Delta archaeology.
In addition to research on the collection and
outreach related to them (including lectures, galleries and
books), Neal directs the Museum’s excavations at Kom Firin in
the western Nile Delta, a large settlement site occupied from the
Ramesside Period (thirteenth to twelfth century BC) until
the seventh century AD. He has also participated in fieldwork
in Sudan, at the Fourth Cataract.
Neal manages the British Museum’s annual
International Curatorial Training Programme,
for curators from countries outside the EU.
Current British Museum projects
Previous British Museum projects
Exhibition on the Gayer-Anderson Cat
External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies
Committee member, British Egyptian Society
Trustee, Freud Museum,
London - http://www.freud.org.uk/
Publications
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