Rescue excavation and first safeguarding in the New-Kingdom-Necropolis in Aswan-West (Upper Egypt) in cooperation with the Eygtian Antiquities Organization; kick-off season to evaluate a long-term project in spring 2015

埃及文物组织为柏林埃及博物馆馆长(这里：申请人)提供了一个不同寻常的独一无二的合作机会，以调查、记录、记录、保护和出版新发现的新王国(公元前1550-1200年)阿斯旺-韦斯特地区的装饰石墓。这些陵墓(到目前为止已知的7个，还有十几个将被勘探)已被发现，并在2012年被当地抢劫者部分抢劫。新发现的墓地具有极其重要的考古学和埃及学价值，因为到目前为止，18王朝的精英陵墓几乎是未知的。这些墓葬的记录在艺术史、墓葬建筑、物质文化和葬礼实践领域都有非常重要的成果。葬礼习俗的地方特色应该与Qubbet el-Hawa的旧王国和中央王国以前的版本以及整个埃及的当代住宅和地方墓地进行比较。新发现的墓主和其他被描绘和提到的人和官员将在人口学研究领域以及新王国时期大象岛和第一个上埃及诺姆的地方政府的结构和行政组织中提供新的重要证据。在目前的状态下，无法估计调查这一墓地的科学能力的全面范围和重要性。因此，应在2015年春季开赛季评估结果出来后申请一个长期项目，这是本提案的问题。由于7座(目前已知的)陵墓中的一些是可以进入的，可以进行破坏和抢劫，而且埃及当局正指望柏林埃及博物馆的合作，2015年春季的第一季将是非常必要的。第一季的目标如下：a)在4号和5号墓上方建造保护墙；b)5号墓的文件和铭文工作；c)用墙和实心屋顶彻底保护5号墓；d)保护4号墓，并用沙袋覆盖装饰过的正面；e)测量该地区和出土的陵墓；f)2号墓(使用者)的摄影文件，供埃及合作伙伴出版；g)2号墓(使用者)的保护规定；H)评估与长期项目的实施有关的进一步步骤，应在第一季结束后直接提交。(有关详细信息，请参阅附件。)

The Egyptian Antiquities Organization offered the director of the Egyptian Museum Berlin (here: the applicant) the unusual and exclusive chance for a cooperation to investigate, to document, to record, to safeguard and to publish the new discovered decorated rock tombs of the New Kingdom (1550 - 1200 BC) in the region of Aswan-West. These tombs (7 are known till now and more than a dozen will be exspected) have been discovered and partly robbed by local plunderers in 2012. The newly discovered necropolis represents an archaeological and egyptological value of extreme significance, because the elite-tombs of the 18th dynasty were almost unknown up to now. The documentation of those tombs promises very important results in the field of art history, tomb architecture, material culture and funeral practices. Local features of the funeral custom should be compared with the previous versions of the Old and Middle Kingdom at the Qubbet el-Hawa as well as with the contemporary residential and local necropolis all over Egypt. The newly detected tomb owners and the other depicted and mentioned persons and officials will provide new important evidence in the field of prosopographical studies and in the structure and administrative organization of the local government on Elephantine Island and the 1st Upper Egyptian nome during the New Kingdom. The scientific capacity of the investigation of this necropolis cannot be estimated to its fully range and importance at the present state. Therefore a long term project should be applied for after the evaluation results of the kick-off season in spring 2015, which is the issue of the present proposal. Due to the fact that some of the 7 (until now known) tombs are accessible and are open to vandalism and looting and due to the fact that the Egyptian authorities are counting on the cooperation of the Egyptian Museum Berlin, a first season in spring 2015 will be more than necessary. The aims of the first season are the following: a) construction of protection walls above the tombs no. 4 & 5; b) documentation and epigraphic work in tomb no. 5; c) complete safeguarding of tomb no. 5 with walls and a solid roof; d) protection and covering the decorated façade of tomb no. 4 with sandbags; e) measurements of the area and the excavated tombs; f) photographic documentation of tomb no. 2 (User) for the publication by the Egyptian partners; g) conservation provisions in tomb no. 2 (User); h) evaluation of the further steps with regard to the application of a long term project, which should be submitted directly after the first season. (For all details see the attachments.)