This book comprises the final excavation report of the western part of the late Middle Kingdom settlement in Area A (ca 1830 to 1700 BC) excavated from 1966 to 1969. Included are a comprehensive ...description of the archaeology, the architecture and all relevant finds. Book: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1453 Map: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1454
Das Buch beinhaltet den abschließenden Ausgrabungsbericht des westlichen Teils der Siedlung des späten Mittleren Reiches (ca 1830-1700 v. Chr.) auf dem Siedlungshügel A, der in den Jahren 1966 bis 1969 erforscht wurde. Die Arbeit umfaßt eine ausführlichen Beschreibung des Befundes, der Architektur und aller dazugehörenden Funde. Buch: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1453 Faltkarte: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1454
This book comprises the final excavation report of the western part of the late Middle Kingdom settlement in Area A (ca 1830 to 1700 BC) excavated from 1966 to 1969. Included are a comprehensive ...description of the archaeology, the architecture and all relevant finds. Book: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1453 Map: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1454
Das Buch beinhaltet den abschließenden Ausgrabungsbericht des westlichen Teils der Siedlung des späten Mittleren Reiches (ca 1830-1700 v. Chr.) auf dem Siedlungshügel A, der in den Jahren 1966 bis 1969 erforscht wurde. Die Arbeit umfaßt eine ausführlichen Beschreibung des Befundes, der Architektur und aller dazugehörenden Funde. Buch: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1453 Faltkarte: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1454
Architectural reuse was common in ancient Egypt. Modern interpretations of this practice, particularly in royal contexts, usually ascribe it either a practical or ideological function, only rarely ...considering it possible that different motivations were involved. This type of approach is particularly true for the reuse of Old Kingdom blocks by the Middle Kingdom king Amenemhat I in his pyramid at Lisht, a case often classified as solely utilitarian. However, an approach that prioritizes not only the ancient Egyptian worldview and royal ideology, but also how this case of reuse fits into cross-cultural considerations of monumentality, demonstrates the necessity to look at this practice more holistically. This study focuses in particular on the possibility that the transportation of reused materials by Amenemhat I was a spectacle of construction used to showcase the king's legitimacy and authority at the start of a new dynasty.
Victorian Alchemy explores nineteenth-century conceptions
of ancient Egypt as this extant civilisation was being
'rediscovered' in the modern world. With its material remnants
somewhat paradoxically ...symbolic of both antiquity and modernity (in
the very currentness of Egyptological excavations), ancient Egypt
was at once evocative of ancient magical power and of cutting-edge
science, a tension that might be productively conceived of as
'alchemical'. Allusions to ancient Egypt simultaneously lent an air
of legitimacy to depictions of the supernatural while projecting a
sense of enchantment onto representations of cutting-edge science.
Examining literature and other cultural forms including art,
photography and early film, Eleanor Dobson traces the myriad ways
in which magic and science were perceived as entwined, and ancient
Egypt evoked in parallel with various fields of study, from imaging
technologies and astronomy, to investigations into the
electromagnetic spectrum and the human mind itself. In so doing,
counter to linear narratives of nineteenth-century progress, and
demonstrating how ancient Egypt was more than a mere setting for
Orientalist fantasies or nightmares, the book establishes how
conceptions of modernity were inextricably bound up in the
contemporary reception of the ancient world, and suggests how such
ideas that took root and flourished in the Victorian era persist to
this day.
This paper employs a historiographical approach to review the allied fields of Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology in relation to studies of disability and bodily differences in ancient Egypt. We ...incorporate critical disability studies and embodiment theories to consider whether ableism is prevalent across these disciplines. The focus of this study has been inverted from 'identifying' disability. Instead our primary driving question is: are Egyptological approaches to bodily differences and disabilities contributing to a production and maintenance of ableism in Egyptology? Here we first identify ableist narratives within numerous methodologies highlighting the need to reconsider existing approaches, terminologies, models, and assumptions regarding studies of disability in the ancient past. We then challenge readers to recognise ableism as a form of inequality in the existing scholarship, and in turn, call for better awareness of assumptions relating to bodily norms, terminologies, and inclusivity in ancient world studies.
The ancient southern Levantine city of Gezer is well-known from Egyptian, Biblical and Assyrian sources, associated with power struggles, conquests, and intriguing tales involving figures such as ...Milkilu and Amenhotep III, Merneptah, the Philistines, Solomon and his unidentified pharaonic father-in-law, and Shishak / Sheshonq I. Since the identity of Gezer with "Tell Jezer" is quite literally 'set in stone' by some dozen boundary inscriptions, along with impressive Bronze and Iron Age remains, research at this site provides a unique opportunity to compare text and archaeology, as well as bring to light the undocumented everyday lives of the city's inhabitants. In this endeavour, independent scientific dating is crucial for anchoring the remains chronologically. This paper presents the first substantial radiocarbon dataset and Bayesian chronological analysis for Gezer spanning the last part of the Late Bronze Age (LBA; LB IIB) through Iron Age II. The dataset derives from an essentially continuous stratigraphic sequence exposed in recent years by the Tandy expedition along the central-southern edge of the site. The results allow us for the first time to independently determine the site chronology, test the viability (from a chronological perspective) of proposed historical correlations, and contribute to debates on Philistine and Iron Age chronology.
Flinders Petrie’s first two seasons in Hawara, between 1888 and 1889, and their subsequent exhibitions in London, were arguably pivotal for the career of the British archaeologist. They also provide ...a wealth of documentation in his own hand to better 'understand' the man. But to better 'critique' him, this paper aims to reassess Petrie’s mindset, field work, and results in Hawara, first by the standards he began to craft for himself in the field, before briefly taking a modern perspective to complete the critical picture. To evaluate Petrie’s work by his own ambition, what could be more appropriate than to take him at his word? In the seminal 'Methods & Aims in Archaeology' of 1904, he would neatly set out his vision and the practicalities for the discipline. This assessment proffers to proceed along the original processual chapters of the book to examine how Petrie’s practices in Hawara in 1888–1889 already pioneer the theory he would consolidate 15 years later, while incorporating the latest research views. The main sources for this review are, by order of relevance, threefold: first, his original hand-written documentation from two so-called ‘Journals’ collected from letters, eight excavation ‘Notebooks’ and three ‘Day Diaries’; second, his publications for both seasons; and third, his autobiographical pieces. It appears that the ‘Father of Egyptian Archaeology’ did not entirely live up to his nascent ambition, leaving a contentious legacy to this day. The urge of the ‘salvage man’, trapped in contradictions, produced good results for the time but may also have led him astray in terms of aims and methods.
The aim of this study is to present those works that are particularly interesting for the research of Egyptian ceramics during the New Kingdom (1539-1077 BC), for those who are new to the world of ...Egyptology and, in particular, to the study of Egyptian ceramics. At the same time, we show some works that could be useful to know the main events in the historical context that took place during the dynasties that cover this period of Egypt’s History. On the other hand, despite the fact that today there are monographs and works on paper that are not available on the web, which are conceived as works of obligatory consultation, we have the opportunity to access to tools and resources that numerous web pages facilitate the world of research. This paper presents some of the above mentioned web resources.
In Europe, the bible was long used to determine the age of human civilization, supplemented by accounts written by the historians of classical antiquity. The early modern development of the natural ...sciences called supposed certainties into question. The classical disciplines were assigned a decisive role in this conflict. This volume presents these developments, some of them unexpected.
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