Saï Island

For the Qatar-Sudan Archaeological Project (QSAP) of conservation and valorization of Saï Island achaeological sites, a conservation-restoration and preventive conservation mission has been realized in winter 2015 on french excavations collections.

The mission objectives were to lead a collection inventory, minimalist treatments on registered objects, complete conservation-restoration treatments on artefacts in danger and to establish a precise and accessible documentation.

From the III^rd millennium before Christ to the XVI^th century A.D.

With among other terracotta, dry earth, egyptian faience and glass

Directors : M.Didier Devauchelle (Professor of the University Lille 3, Director of the Papyrology and Egyptology Institute of Lille) and M. Vincent Francigny (Director of the French Section of the Direction of the Sudanese Antiquities)
Supervisor : M^meMélanie Cressent (laboratory Halma) : M^me Omima Hasabelrasoul Ahmed (National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Sudan)
Collaborators : Alice Flot (conservator of archaeological and ethnographical objects, organic and composite material), Aymeric Raimon (conservator of historic and archaeological metallic objects and composite material), Irene Garcia Alonso (heritage conservator), Marlène Roca (sculptures conservator) and Gemma Torra i Campos (heritage conservator)