Tel Kedesh Group Shots or "Mr DeMille, these pots are ready for their closeup!"

Peter Stone and Meghan McFarlane setting up the shots, observed by Andrew Boos.

A selection of cookware, semi fine and spatter ware vessels.

A group shot of the Semi Fine Wares.

When on an archaeological dig, one can get so immersed in the day to day details of the project that one can lose sight of why we are doing all this... to publish! There are many ways to publish material: preliminary reports, final reports, giving papers at professional meetings and lectures to the general public. One of my professors at Texas A&M, Richard Steffy, said as he wearily prepared for yet another lecture tour, that he would know when his work was finally published when people stopped asking him to give lectures! To that end, one needs lots of good illustrative pictures of the site and its finds.

This past week Peter Stone who is publishing the pottery, prepared with conservator Meghan McFarlane, a series of group shots of material which was excavated by Ameera Elrasheedy in 2008 from an important context in the Hellenistic Administrative building at Tel Kedesh, but only repaired in 2009 by Meghan and Suzanne Davis.