Subject: Workshop on Coptic monuments documentation
"Documentation and registration of Coptic monuments, challenges and solutions" Cairo 30-31 May 2009 I am posting this in behalf of my Colleague Dr. Louay Mahmoud Saied. There no registration fee and the attending is for free, the SCA is not in position to provide any travel or accommodation grants. To register please respond as soon as possible to Dr. Louay Mahmoud Saied Ministry of Culture Supreme Council of Antiquities General Department of the Documentation and Registration of Coptic Monuments 3 Al-aadel Abubakr St. Zamalek, Cairo +20 2 273 656 45 +20 2 273 587 49 louay1<-at->gmail<.>com On behalf of Dr. Zahi Hawass, I would like to announce the inauguration of a newly established Department by the SCA titled "Department of the Documentation and Registration of the Coptic Monuments". This Department aims to: Document and register fully all Coptic monuments in: museums, different archaeological sights (related to either Islamic and Coptic or Pharaonic sectors' sights), excavations outcome, stores and magazines and every Coptic monument in Egypt. Preparation for publications of these documentations. Initiation of the Coptic monuments cultural awareness through: Lectures, training courses, periodicals, etc. Arrangement and gathering of the efforts of all whom are interested and experts in Coptology in and outside Egypt. The Department is about to hold a preliminary workshop at 30-31 May 2009 entitled "Documentation and registration of Coptic monuments, challenges and solutions" in 3 Al-aadel Abubakr st., Zamalek, Cairo. This workshop will include round table discussions in different fields: Survey and architectural documentation, GIS, icons, Coptic papyri, photography and new documentation techniques, wood, metals, textiles, and other fields of Coptic monuments Documentation. These discussions aim to: Allow a kind of brain storming between experts to get different ideas which will help to figure out a detailed plan of action. To recognize and arrange efforts between Coptologists and those who may be involved in this National project of the Documentation of the Coptic monuments. You are kindly invited to either attend this workshop or to offer any kind of support, technical or else. If you have any ideas concerning this project, or any questions or suggestions, please contact me: Dr. Louay Mahmoud Saied GM of the General Department of the Documentation and Registration of Coptic Monuments SCA, Cairo, Egypt Mobile: +20 2105399455 louay1<-at->gmail<.>com Prof. Dr. Hany Hanna (Ph.D) Senior Conservator, General Director Department of Conservation Helwan, El-Saf and Atfeh Sector Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Egypt. Mobil: +20 12 4176742 *** Conservation DistList Instance 22:65 Distributed: Friday, May 8, 2009 Message Id: cdl-22-65-011 ***Received on Wednesday, 6 May, 2009