Palestine Exploration Fund – Dispersed Qumran Cave Artefacts and Archival Sources (DQCAAS)

Further Work on Qumran Pottery at the PEF

July 23, 2017July 5, 2018Posted in Archaeology, Network, PotteryTagged Cave 1Q, Dennis Mizzi, jar rim, Palestine Exploration FundLeave a comment

On 20-21 July,2017 Dennis Mizzi and Joan Taylor were able to photograph, draw and study pottery fragments in the Palestine Exploration Fund, London, which the Network has identified as deriving from Cave 1Q. The most important fragments come from a jar rim.

The pottery was associated with 1Q textiles stored in one of the PEF drawers, and has only recently come to light (see previous blog post). These will be published soon in a series of articles identifying the holdings of the PEF in regard to Qumran.

We are grateful to the Committee of the PEF and especially to Felicity Cobbing (Executive Director), for making these resources available for study.

Ceramic Finds in MacCalister Gezer Drawer at PEF

July 19, 2016July 5, 2018Posted in Archives & Collections, Ceramics, QCD LinksTagged 'Ain Feshka, Archaeology, cave, Ceramics, Dead Sea Scroll Cave, Felicity Cobbing, jar, Joan Taylor, linen, Palestine Exploration Fund, Qurman, rim, shardLeave a comment

From a label brought out from a drawer, identifying “POTTERY and LINEN from DEAD SEA SCROLL CAVES,” Joan Taylor asked for further investigation of a drawer otherwise holding Gezer material at the PEF, where along with Qumran linen she had previously identified, was housed. To everyone’s excitement, executive secretary, Felicity Cobbing brought out pottery sherds labelled with the abbreviation ‘AF’. As with the linen, AF stands for Ain Feshkha, which related to Qumran Cave 1Q (originally called the ‘Ain Feshkha Cave’).

PEF(Palestine Exploration Fund) Photos, Slides & Records

June 6, 2016July 5, 2018Posted in Archives & Collections, Photographs, Written Memoirs & DocumentsTagged British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, Palestine Exploration Fund, Rev. Robert Pitt, Slide collections, Survey of Western PalestineLeave a comment

From the wealth of materials stored at the Palestine Exploration Fund: http://www.pef.org.uk/collections/, the following resources were examined over several visits:

PEF minute books from 1936-1966.
Uncatalogued slide collections.
Reverend Robert Pitt Photographic Archives (nine boxes).
BSAJ Minute Book (Kenyon Institute, formerly the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem), from 1946-1958.

The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs – Topography, Orthography, Hydrography, and Archaeology, Volume II Sheets VIL-XVL Samaria (London: Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 1882), which serves as a historical memoir of the early record of the site is also now available online at: http://archive.org/search.php?query=Survey%20of%20Western%20Palestine2Ceramic

See further photographs from Bart Wagemakers and Joan E. Taylor, “New Photographs of the Qumran Excavations from 1954 and Interpretations of L.77 and L.86,” in Palestine Exploration Quarterly Volume 143, No. 2 (July 2011): 134-156. http://www.pef.org.uk/qumran/