Neal Spencer
Assistant Keeper (Curator)
Egyptian Archaeology; Late Period
Egypt, Ramesside Nubia
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, Ramesside Nubia and Nile Delta archaeology.
In addition to research on the collection and
outreach related to it (including lectures, galleries and
books), Neal directs the Museum’s fieldwork 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.
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.
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, “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