Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology
Canopic Region Mission 2003
Mission Snapshot Galleries
Here you can find a few snapshots from our excavations in Egypt.
Prof. Bert Smith, Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford, Dr. Andrew Wilson, University Lecturer in Roman Archaeology, University of Oxford, Jonathan Cole, research co-ordinator at the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology and Prof. Barry Cunliffe, Head of School of Archaeology, Professor of European Archaeology, University of Oxford with Franck Goddio, director of the projects of the Canopic Region and Alexandria Port, displaying a bronze support for ritual basins found during the archaeological excavation of the great canal of submerged Heracleion, 5th-3rd century BC.
A 2nd century bust of the river god Nile with cornucopia, probably once attached to a shield frame (imago clipeata) is being lifted from the sea bed at Canopus East onto the research vessel. Present are Prof. Barry Cunliffe, Dr. Andrew Wilson, Jonathan Cole, Georg Rosenbauer of the Hilti Foundation, and Prof. Bert Smith with Franck Goddio.
Franck Goddio explains the results of the topographical and excavations work to Dr. Andrew Wilson, Dr. Cornelia Ewigleben, Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Dieter A Irion of salaction, Prof. Barry Cunliffe, and Prof. Bert Smith on board of the research vessel in the Bay of Aboukir, Egypt.