One form, one desk, three working days for routine matters.
Every message reaches Salma Iskander at the Aswan office. Salma triages by topic: subscription queries directly, paleographic-corpus questions to the relevant editor, commissioned-reading bookings to Mostafa, correction submissions to the editor of the affected corpus, press enquiries to Mostafa personally. Office hours Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday from 10:00 to 14:00 Cairo time.
Send a message.
Mark the topic accurately — it determines who reads the message. Routine subscription queries are usually resolved in one round; paleographic-corpus questions take three to five working days because the editor verifies against the corpus; commissioned-reading bookings involve a written quote within five working days followed by separate booking and the four-pass edition cycle.
By post — the printed annual digest.
Institutional subscribers may add the printed annual digest at €34 plus postage. Three hundred and forty pages consolidating the year's four quarterly issues, the annual finds summary, the corrections log, the methodology document and the December transparency note. Postage €6 within Egypt, €13 to Europe and North Africa, €21 elsewhere. The print run is six hundred copies; once distributed the digital archive remains the canonical reference.
If you reached us by mistake.
If you were looking for an antiquities dealer, a private-collection appraisal service, a tour operator or a museum information desk, you are at the wrong door. The journal is an independent paleographic publication working with documented institutional excavations only. We do not appraise private collections, do not sell antiquities, do not run tours and do not staff a museum information desk. The Cairo and Berlin paleography consultancy services handle private-collection enquiries within their own ethical frameworks; we will not pass your enquiry to them on your behalf.
Response-time commitments by topic.
Routine subscription queries: one working day. Corpus questions: three to five working days. Correction submissions: five to ten working days (because we verify against the corpus and consult the institutional director). Reading disagreements: up to fifteen working days. Commissioned-reading quote: five working days; the four-pass edition cycle then follows. TEI-XML questions: three to seven working days (Bilal handles these). Press enquiries with named deadlines: prioritised by Mostafa, typically two working days. Institutional-partnership enquiries: ten working days (these go through the editorial board's monthly meeting).