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Jan Picton - Honorary Lecturer

 

Name: Janet Picton

Honorary Title:  Honorary Lecturer

Email: j.picton@ucl.ac.uk

IoA staff nominator’s name and email address:

Stephen Quirke s.quirke@ucl.ac.uk

 

 

Profile

IoA involvement:

Jan Picton contributes to the teaching of the affiliate course Ancient Egypt in London which she originally developed and coordinated, and IoA modules on Archaeology of Egypt and Sudan. She offers student support for object-based research in the Petrie Museum, and mentors Institute students on access to the Petrie Museum archives and on their own object-based research.

Jan continues active fieldwork in Egypt on two major projects (with IFAO at Gurob, and with the MET Museum New York at Malqata). She contributes seminars on this fieldwork for the IoA Research Network Archaeology of Egypt and Sudan, reinforcing IoA staff support for IoA undergraduate and MA/MSc students.

Publications

Research Publications

Selected publications:

2021             ‘Small finds’, and ‘Textiles’. Chapters in Gurob Excavations 2005-2017.  I. Shaw (ed.) Vernon Press, in prep.

2021           The mystery of the swimming girl spoon:  excavating museum archives, with I. Pridden, in prep. 

2020             ‘The Gurob child’s tunic’, report for the Egyptian Textile Museum and Museum of Egyptian Civilisation.

2020           ‘Egyptian Textiles’ chapter (with J.M. Johnstone & I. Pridden), in The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology, Oxford University Press.

2016           ‘Living and Working in a New Kingdom ‘harem town’’, in S.L. Budin and J Turfa (eds) Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World, Routledge 2016.