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  BAR S2141 2010: Pharmacy and Medicine in Ancient Egypt Proceedings of the conferences held in Cairo (2007) and Manchester (2008) edited by Jenefer Cockitt and Rosalie David. ISBN 9781407306827. £34.00. iv+147 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
This monograph comprises the Proceedings of The Pharmacy and Medicine in Ancient Egypt Conferences, jointly organised by The University of Manchester, Britain, and the National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt, and held at The National Research Centre (March 19-21, 2007) and The University of Manchester (September 1-3, 2008). Contents; 1) The ‘Pharmacy in Ancient Egypt Project’ at the KNH centre for biomedical Egyptology (A.R. David); 2) Complementary medicine in ancient and modern Egypt (R. Baligh); 3) How the success of the ancient Egyptians depended on plants (J. Bellinger); 4) Do the formulations of ancient Egyptian prescriptions stand up to pharmaceutical scrutiny? (J.M. Campbell, J.R. Campbell and A.R. David); 5) The application of archaeobotany, phytogeography and pharmacognosy to confirm the pharmacopoeia of ancient Egypt 1850 -1200 BC) (J.M. Campbell and A.R. David); 6) A reassessment of Warren Dawson’s ‘Studies in Ancient Egyptian Medical Texts’ 1926-1934 in the light of archaeobotanical and pharmacological evidence (J.M. Campbell, E. El Saeed and A.R. David); 7) A grain of truth? determining the diet of the ancient Egyptians (J.A. Cockitt); 8) Supporting evidence: the potential role of stable isotope data in investigating the ancient Egyptian pharmaceutical tradition (J.A. Cockitt); 9) The x-ray plates of Tutankhamen: a reassessment of their meaning and significance (R.C. Connolly); 10) Blue lotus: ancient Egyptian narcotic and aphrodisiac? (D.J. Counsell); 11) Cocaine and nicotine in ancient Egypt? (D.J. Counsell); 12) Dead men tell tales: what we can learn from the courtier skeleton. A multidisciplinary study (B.L. Dement); 13) Histological examination of ancient pomegranate and wheat (J. Denton and S. Wassef); 14) Porotic hyperostosis in ancient Egyptians from the Bahriyah Oasis, Graeco-Roman period (M.Erfan Zaki, A. El-Sawaf, M. Al-Tohamy Soliman and A. Azab); 15) Were the dentists in ancient Egypt operative dental surgeons or were they pharmacists? (R.J. Forshaw); 16) Skull injuries discovered in the tomb of Djehutimes, Thebes (tt 32) (E. Fóthi and Z. Bernert); 17) Jdt rnpt or the ‘pestilence of the year’ (H. Győry); 18) Similarity of fracture treatment of workers and high officials of the pyramid Builders (F. Hussien, R. El Banna, W. Kandeel and A. Sarry El Din); 19) A study of punica granatum l. (pomegranates) (S.W.Y. Lee); 20) The man who knows bulls – veterinary practice in ancient Egypt (C. Lord); 21) A primacy in history: the doctors of the pharaohs (S. Malgora); 22) A cure for baldness: ancient Egyptian pharmacological remedies for the hair and scalp (N.N. McCreesh, A.P. Gize and A.R David); 23) Good for what ales you – a prospective study into the role of beer in ancient Egyptian medicine (R.J. Metcalfe); 24) Molecular methods for the study of ancient pharmacy (R.J. Metcalfe); 25) Palaeopathological - radiological evidence for cerebral palsy in an ancient Egyptian female mummy from a 13th dynasty tomb (A.G. Nerlich, S. Panzer, E. Hower-Tilmann and S. Lösch); 26) Surgery in ancient Egypt – palaeopathological evidence for successful medical treatment by surgery (A.G. Nerlich, S. Panzer and S. Lösch); 27) ‘Other than’ - Egyptology as science? A selective history (P.T. Nicholson); 28) Ancient Egyptian headaches: ichthyo - or electrotherapy? (R. Park); 29) Healing measures: dja and oipe in ancient egyptian pharmacy and medicine (T. Pommerening); 30) The historical treatment of mummies and the impact upon museums today. (G. Scott); 31) Stomatological investigation of Egyptian mummies from the Ptolemaic period in Hungary (I. Szikossy, H. Győry, B. Tolnai and I. Pap); 32) The Ebers Papyrus’ treatise on tumours 857-877 and the phyto-pharmacopoeia prescribed (P.A. Veiga).
BAR S2131 2010: Commerce and Economy in Ancient Egypt Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Young Egyptologists 25-27 September 2009, Budapest edited by András Hudecz and Máté Petrik. ISBN 9781407306728. £38.00. iv+187 pages; illustrated throughout.
Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Young Egyptologists held in Budapest in September 2009. Contents: Foreword: Earning a Living in a New Kingdom Village (Jac. J. Janssen); 1) The Olive Tree Cultivation and Trade in Ancient Egypt (Jose M. Alba Gómez); 2) The Economic Component of the Title jmy-r(A) Hmw-nTr ‘Overseer of the God’s Servants’? (Vessela Atanassova); 3) Use and Symbolism of Stone in Statuary: the Imitation of Painted Stones (Dania Bordignon); 4) An Economic Perspective on Relationships between Near Eastern Kingdoms during the Late Bronze Age (Alessandro Cappellini and Sara Caramello); 5) At the Intersection of Trading Routes. Commerce and Economy of Pre- and Early Dynastic Tell el-Farkha (Eastern Nile Delta) (Marcin Czarnowicz); 6) The Oracular Inscription of the High Priest of Amun Menkheperre in the Khonsu Temple at Karnak (Gabriella Dembitz); 7) Business with Gods: The Role of Bargaining in Demotic Letters to Gods and Graeco-Roman Judicial Prayers (Kata Endreffy); 8) Under the Protection of the Gods: the Divine Role for the Good Outcome of Trade and Mining Expeditions (Barbara Gilli); 9) On Egyptian Wine Marketing (Maria Rosa Guasch); 10) High-status Industries in the Capital and Royal Cities of the New Kingdom (Anna Kathrin Hodgkinson); 11) The Early Egyptian Rulers in the Nile Delta: a View from the Necropolis at Tell el-Farkha (Mariusz A. Jucha); 12) Two Egyptian Private-Law Documents of the Old Kingdom (Evgeniya Kokina); 13) Storage in the Ancient Egyptian Palaces (Giulia Pagliari); 14) Pottery as an Economic Indicator in Egypt’s Marginal Sites (Virpi Perunka); 15) The Grain Trade and the Importance of Egypt for the Economy of the Hellenistic-Roman World: Some Remarks (Marco Rolandi);16) Inscribed Stone Vessels as Symbols of the Egypto-Achaemenid Economic Encounter (Ian Shaw); 17) Customs Duty in the New Kingdom (Birgit Schiller); 18) Food and Luxury Goods – Animal Remains as an Indicator for Trade Connections Based on the Example of Faunal Material from Ancient Syene/Aswan, Egypt (Johanna Sigl); 19) Maritime Study on North- and Southbound Trade: the Red Sea Harbours (Alessandra Siragusa); 20) Gifts Exchange and Tribute in the Amarna Correspondence (Hanadah Tarawneh); 21) Commercial Routes in Upper Egypt from Naqada II to the Protodynastic: Defining Patterns of Interaction (Elena Valtorta); 22) Lead Weights and Ingots from Heracleion-Thonis: an Illustration of Egyptian Trade Relations with the Aegean (Elsbeth van der Wilt); 23) The Egyptian Economy: Sources, Models and History (David A. Warburton); 24) Trade and Money in Ramessid Egypt: the Use of General Equivalents in Economic Transactions (Andrea Zingarelli).
BAR S2113 2010: University of Southampton Series in Archaeology 2 Lake Mareotis: Reconstructing the Past Proceedings of the International Conference on the Archaeology of the Mareotic Region Held at Alexandria University, Egypt 5th-6th April 2008 edited by Lucy Blue assisted by Emad Khalil. ISBN 9781407306544. £35.00. ix+156 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, and figures.
Papers representing the final synthesis of a conference entitled The International Conference onthe Archaeology of the Mareotic Region. Lake Mareotis: Reconstructing the Past hosted by the University of Alexandria, Egypt between 5th and 6th April 2008. Contents: 1) Fawzi el-Fakharani: Pioneer excavator at Mareotis (Mona Haggag); 2) The Mareotic region in ancient sources (Mohamed S. Abd-el-Ghani); 3) A note on Lake Mareotis in Byzantine times (Mostafa el Abbadi); 4) A study of the evolution of the Maryut Lake through maps (Ismaeel Awad); 5) Lake Mareotis Research Project (Lucy Blue); 6) The results of a preliminary survey at Mareotis Island (Dylan Hopkinson); 7) The city of Marea/Philoxenité (reflections on the Alexandria University excavations, 1977-1981 (Mona Haggag); 8) Marea Peninsula: occupation and workshop activities on the shores of Lake Mariout in the work of the Center d’études Alexandrines (cealex, cnrs usr 3134) (Valérie Pichot); 9) On interpretations of archaeological evidence concerning Marea and Philoxenite (Mieczyslaw D. Rodziewicz); 10) Marea or Philoxenite? Polish excavations in the Mareotic region 2000-2007 (Krzysztof Babraj & Hanna Szymańska); 11) The lake structures at Taposiris (Marie-Françoise Boussac & Mourad el Amouri); 12) Schedia, Alexandria’s harbour on the Canopic Nile. Interim report on the German Mission at Kom el Giza/Beheira (2003-2008) (Marianne Bergmann, Michael Heinzelmann & Archer Martin); 13) Recent survey work in the southern Mareotis area (Penelope Wilson); 14) Wineries of the Mareotic region (Dorota dzierzbicka); 15) Waterfront installations and maritime activities in the Mareotic region (Emad Khalil); 16) Lake Mareotis Research Project. Phases of outrage and destruction (Sameh Ramses & Ahmed Omar).
BAR S2063 2010: Trade and Market in New Kingdom Egypt Internal socio-economic processes and transformations by Andrea Paula Zingarelli. ISBN 9781407305547. £33.00. 141 pages; 10 figures and 5 tables.
In this study the author focuses on trade and markets in New Kingdom, Egypt. Contents: 1) Introduction and overview of internal exchange systems and the Egyptian economy; 2) Theoretical approaches to the Egyptian economy; 3) Local markets; 4) Economic transactions of movable goods (in particular relation to Thebes; 5) The ‘Swtyw’ (‘traders’; 6) Real estate and land exchange; 7) Trade in slaves.
BAR S2057 2010: The Large Egyptian Pyramids Modelling a complex engineering project by H. J. de Haan. ISBN 9781407305462. £36.00. xi+125 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs, including 4 in colour.
The building process of the Egyptian pyramids has been the subject of many publications. However, a thorough review of this literature reveals that only certain aspects of this process have been studied in isolation, without taking into account the interaction between various activities involved, such as quarrying, transportation and building and without a sound quantitative basis. The present study aims at filling this gap by means of an integrated mathematical model. Attention is focussed on the largest pyramid, the one built by Cheops. The model simulates an efficient project co-ordination by balancing supply and demand of the building material, with all the activities related to the growth of the pyramid and by assuming a constant total workforce. It enables the reader to determine the effects of different building methods and of the productivity of the workers. Three building methods have been studied, successively making use of a linear ramp, of a spiral ramp and of levers. These methods are compared in terms of the number of men and man-years required. Calculations have been carried out for two sets of input data, indicated as base case and maximum case. In addition to the development of a comprehensive model for the construction of the pyramids, this work also contains a comparative analysis of other publications dealing with this subject.
BAR S2054 2010: Nabataean Settlement and Self-Organized Economy in the Central Negev Crisis and renewal by Tali Erickson-Gini. ISBN 9781407305431. £53.00. viii+330 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
This study examines the transformation that took place in the central Negev (Israel) during the Late Roman
and Early Byzantine periods by addressing questions such as: What do existing historical records and past
archaeological research tell us about the transformation that took place in the Negev and in neighbouring regions during this period? What can the material finds from recent excavations in the area, for the purposes of this study at Mampsis, Oboda, and Mezad ‘En Hazeva, provide to supplement that information? What factors contributed to the greatest population increase and permanent settlement activity to have ever taken place in such an inhospitable desert environment as occurred in the Byzantine period between the fourth and the seventh century CE? In the first chapter the geographical setting, including the geology, climate, hydrology and vegetation are discussed. In the second chapter a summary of archaeological research of the region under discussion, including surveys and excavations, is presented. In chapters three through six the historical background in the early centuries of the first millennium CE is presented together with historical and archaeological evidence pertaining to the region. In the second part of this work, the material finds from sealed deposits found in recent excavations from Mampsis, Oboda and Mezad ‘En Hazeva are presented and discussed in their archaeological and historical contexts. Attention is directed to the ceramic evidence and the implications that this evidence holds with regard to demographic and economic developments in the region in the period under discussion.
BAR S2052 2009: Society for Arabian Studies Monographs 8 Connected Hinterlands: Proceedings of Red Sea Project IV held at the University of Southampton September 2008 edited by Lucy Blue, John Cooper, Ross Thomas and Julian Whitewright. ISBN 9781407306315. £43.00. x+232 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, photographs.
Papers from the conference Connected Hinterlands (Proceedings of Red Sea Project IV) held at the University of Southampton in September 2008. Contents: 1) Ancient polities and interrelations along the red sea and its western and eastern hinterlands (Kenneth Kitchen); 2) History and use of an ethnonym: ichthyophágoi (Oscar Nalesini); 3) The identification of the ancient pastoral nomads on the north-western Red Sea littoral (Hans Barnard); 4) Patterns of trade in the red sea during the age of the Periplus Maris Erythrae (Federico de Romanis); 5) Glass, glassworking and glass transportation in Aksum (Jacke Phillips); 6) Adulis and the Eritrean coast in museum collections and Italian and other European travelers’ accounts (Chiara Zazzaro); 7) The linguistic situation on the Dahlak Islands in Eritrea (Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle); 8) Roman policy in the red sea between Anastasius and Justinian (Dario Nappo); 9) The roman port of Alia: economic connections with the Red Sea litoral (S. Thomas Parker); 10) A Palestinian Red Sea port on the Egyptian road to Arabia: Early Islamic Aqaba and its many hinterlands (Kristoffer Damgaard); 11) ‘Amr B. Al-‘ās’s refurbishment of Trajan’s canal: Red Sea contacts in the Aphrodito and Apollōnonas Anō papyri (Frank Trombley); 12) The expansion of Muslim commerce in the Red Sea basin, c. AD 833-969 (Tim Power); 13) Transcontinental trade and economic growth in the early Islamic Empire: the Red Sea corridor in the 8th-10th centuries (Maya Shatzmiller); 14) From the Tihamah plain to Thailand and beyond: preliminary analysis of selected ceramics from Quseir al-Qadim (Rebecca Bridgman); 15) Textiles with writing from Quseir al-Qadim – finds from the Southampton excavations 1999-2003 (Fiona Handley and Anne Regourd); 16) Thieves or sultans? Dahlak and the rulers and merchants of Indian Ocean port cities, 11th to 13th centuries AD (Roxani Margariti); 17) Jiddah: Port of Makkah, gateway of the India trade (William Facey); 18) Shipwreck, maroons and monsters: the hazards of ancient Red Sea navigation (Eivind Seland); 19. Early Christian pilgrimages, the Sinai Peninsula and the Red Sea (Walter Ward); 20) Egypt’s Nile/Red Sea canals: chronology, location, seasonality and function (John Cooper); 21) João de Castro’s Roteiro Do Mar Roxo (1541) (Paul Lunde); 22) Trans-national practices and sanitary risks in the red sea region: the case of the pilgrimage to Mecca (Sofiane Bouhdiba).
BAR S2032 2009: Ushabti di militari del Museo Egizio di Firenze by Giacomo Cavillier. ISBN 9781407306094. £29.00. 101 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, drawings and photographs. In Italian.
A study with catalogue of the ‘ushabti’ (funerary figurines) from the Egyptian Museum, Florence.
BAR S2031 2009: Personal Identity and Social Power in New Kingdom and Coptic Egypt by Mary Horbury. ISBN 9781407306087. £38.00. ii+146 pages; 4 colour plates.
The continual question of why identities are imposed, why people are excluded and why the insupportable is supported forms the basis of this study. The author takes the apparently opposing contexts of New Kingdom and Coptic Egypt as prime case studies in which to look at how and why people manage to live under extreme centralisation and under its opposite, locally based power. Chapter One places the topic in its historiographical and theoretical setting. Chapter Two looks at statements of self emanating from the centre of power, and assesses their impact. Letters in Middle/Late Egyptian from royal and non-royal contexts are discussed. In Chapter Three the author contrasts the material from the preceding chapter with evidence from New Kingdom Memphis. Chapter Four contrasts the New Kingdom world, with its superficially centralized and strong state, with that of the Coptic period. Chapter Five assesses how far beliefs expressed in textual sources were reflected in the built environment.
BAR S2019 2009: ‘Being in Ancient Egypt’. Thoughts on Agency, Materiality and Cognition Proceedings of the seminar held in Copenhagen, September 29-30 2006 edited by Rune Nyord and Annette Kjølby. ISBN 978 1 4073 0594 3. £29.00. 98 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings, figures, tables and photographs.
Papers from a seminar held at the University of Copenhagen in September 2006. Contents: A New Look at the Conception of the Human Being in Ancient Egypt (John Gee); 2) Between Identity and Agency in Ancient Egyptian Ritual (Harold M. Hays); 3) Material Agency, Attribution and Experience of Agency in Ancient Egypt: The case of New Kingdom private temple statues (Annette Kjølby); 4) Self-perception and Self-assertion in the Portrait of Senwosret III: New methods for reading a face ((Maya Müller); 5) Taking Phenomenology to Heart: Some heuristic remarks on studying ancient Egyptian embodied experience (Rune Nyord); 6) Anger and Agency: The role of the emotions in Demotic and earlier narratives (John Tait); 7) Time and Space in Ancient Egypt: The importance of the creation of abstraction (David A. Warburton); Index of Egyptian and Greek words and expressions.
BAR S2008 2009: Rock Art of the Eastern Desert of Egypt Content, comparisons, dating and significance by Tony Judd. ISBN 978 1 4073 0584 4. £33.00. vi+141 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs.
BAR S2000 2009: Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 17 The Churches of Nobadia by William Y Adams. ISBN 9781407305363. £71.00. Vol 1: xvi+292 pages, Vol 2: xiv+473 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
This is a study of the churches of Nobadia – the most northerly of the three medieval Nubian kingdoms. Since more than two-thirds of its territory has now been flooded by the successive Aswan dams, and much of the remainder has been surveyed by archaeologists, there is probably not a great deal remaining to be learned. The time therefore seems appropriate for a summary overview. Volume I begins with an introduction to the study as a whole, followed by descriptions of 67 churches of the Early Christian period, built between about AD 550 and 850, and 47 Classic Christian churches, built between about SD 850-1100. The second volume deals with Late and Terminal Christian churches (c. AD 1100-1500), as well as a comparative overview of the various features of Nobadian church architecture. These chapters are followed by a brief survey of the churches of Makouria and Alwa, and a final discussion of the dynamics of development and change.
BAR S1967 2009: Health and Medicine in Ancient Egypt Magic and science by Paula Alexandra da Silva Veiga. ISBN 9781407305004. £27.00. ii+80 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
Health was a constant concern in life and even the deceased needed extra care so that they would be at their prime when enclosed in the sarcophagus; and in the possession of magical ‘weapons’ so that when they reached the Afterlife, they would be in complete possession of all their physical abilities. Medicine in ancient Egypt was trying to restrain all malefic beings from action and to preserve the well-being of the individual. Through this work, all descriptions and conceptions observed in the existing legacy of ancient Egypt will lead to conclusions that attest this unique duality: its main aim is to synthesize information from ancient Egyptian daily life; everything that has been written upon it and analyzed until today, throughout the world, in different perspectives and several languages, thus giving a contribution for international research and also possible future contributions for medicine and Egyptology. This work is divided into four chapters: Chapter 1: Sources of Information; Medical and Magical Papyri; Chapter 2: Heka –“the art of the magical written word”; Chapter 3: Pathological types; Chapter 4: Medical-magical prescriptions and their ingredients; this list is a description that contemplates from the global perspective to details, revealing all, from general existing sources to particular ingredients used in prescriptions.
BAR S1965 2009: Syro-Palestinian Deities in New Kingdom Egypt The hermeneutics of their existence by Keiko Tazawa. ISBN 9781407304489. £43.00. xii+210 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs, including 2 colour plates.
How did Syro-Palestinian deities come into existence in Egyptian society? What was the raison d'etre of Syro-Palestinian deities in Egyptian society? These are among the central questions explored in this study. To answer them, the author applies interdisciplinary theories of anthropology to the pure results of data analyses of six Syro-Palestinian deities. With this purpose in mind, this work consists of compilations of as much evidence as possible of each
Deity (Baal, Reshef, Hauron, Anat, Astarte and Qadesh); analyses of these evidences from iconographic and textual representations with the use of statistical procedure; discussions of the results of these analyses for every deity from the viewpoints of history, theology, ideology and religious style and so on in the both royal and non-royal spheres; and conclusions are suggested through the discussions above with application of the anthropological theories: Tributary Relationship based on the comparative studies and Translative Adaptation theory.
 BAR S1960 2009: En Quête de la Lumière / In Quest of Light. Mélanges in Honorem Ashraf A. Sadek edited by Amanda–Alice Maravelia. ISBN 9781407304441. £45.00. xvii+221 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs; in French with English summary.
Contents: Prologue: Témoignage (Adel Sidarus); Introduction (Amanda-Alice Maravelia); 1) Cette Obscure Clarté qui tombe des Étoiles : Les Fêtes de Fondation et de Dédicace du Temple d’Edfou (Bernard Arquier & Nadine Guilhou); 2) Ténèbres et Lumières: A Propos d’une Scène Représentée à la Fin du Livre de la Nuit (Anne-Sophie Goddio-von Bomhard); 3) A Bronze Aegis of King Amasis II in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (Sergej Ivanov); 4) Weni the Elder and his Royal Background (Naguib Kanawati); 5) The Growth of Plants in the Light of the Sun-God (Silvia Wiebach-Koepke); 6) Quelques Étincelles de Lumière Égyptienne pour la Théorie Nostratique: Une Lueur venue de l’Ancien Égyptien, du Copte, de l’Afro-Asiatique (Jean-Pierre Levet); 7) Les Astres selon l’Hymne Orphique Homonyme et des Textes (Funéraires) Égyptiens : Aspects d’une Métaphysique de la Lumière (Amanda-Alice Maravelia); 8) Lux et Lex: Les Six Pharaons Législateurs, d’après Diodore de Sicile (Bernadette Menu); 9) The Sun’s Rays and the Divine Image of Ramesses II (Alicia Meza); 10) The Corn-Mummy KS 342 of the Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna (Daniela Picchi); 11) Solar Notions, Rituals and Images in Pre–Dynastic Egypt (Tatjana A. Sherkova); 12) Les Hypocéphales: Une Glorification Lumineuse d’Osiris (Brigitte Vallée); 13) Les Coptes vus par le Voyageur Johann Michael Vansleb au XVIIe Siècle (Gilbert-Robert Delahaye); 14) Philological Thoughts about the Theological Meaning of Light in Some Ancient Egyptian Words (Brigitte Göde); 15) L’Aveugle de Naissance ayant miraculeusement trouvé la Lumière, selon la «Vieille» Version Biblique Égyptienne (Bohairique B4-B74, Bodmer III, Ioan., IX) (Rodolphe Kasser); 16) De l’Âne à Roulettes à l’Âme de Lumière: pour une Lecture Iconographique du Chapiteau de la Fuite en Égypte de la Cathédrale d’Autun (Bernadette Sadek); 17) A Narrow-Sleeved Woollen Tunic from Byzantine Egypt (Sophia Tsourinaki); 18) The Monastery of Saint Macarius in the 16th Century (Youhanna Nessim Youssef); Epilogue: Conclusions, CV & Bibliography of Dr Ashraf Sadek (Amanda-Alice Maravelia).
 BAR S1942 2009: The Architectural Decoration of Marina el-Alamein An analysis and catalogue of the late Hellenistic and Roman decorative architectural features of the town and cemetery by Rafal Czerner. ISBN 9781407304229. £33.00. xi+132 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 12 in colour. Catalogue of architectural features.
The present study focuses on the ancient architectural decoration of a particular form uncovered on the excavation site of modern Marina which lies on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, about 6 km east of el-Alamein. Also known as el-Bahrein, it is located 96 km west of Alexandria, 40 km west of ancient Taposiris Magna (Abu Sir), and 185 km east of Paraetonium (Marsa Matruh). For the past twenty years, Polish and Egyptian missions have been conducting archaeological research and preservation of the remains of the Hellenistic-Roman town and necropolis found on this spot and tentatively identified on the basis of descriptions of ancient destruction on the Mediterranean coast. The excavations occupy a section of the lagoon coast more than 1000 m long E-W and about 550 m wide N-S. The layout of the ancient town has been reconstructed on the basis of results of investigations conducted to date. The harbour infrastructure, including warehouses of which ruins have survived, lay immediately on the coast. Directly to the south of the port and commercial quarter, was the city centre which included baths, a civic basilica and other public buildings around a porticoed main square. Surrounding the centre were densely occupied habitation quarters. Remains of more than 50 different architectural structures have been discovered in the town and necropolis. On the basis of archaeological evidence, the town functioned from the 2nd century BC to the beginning of the 7th century AD. The earliest remains, some even from the mid 2nd century BC, were found in the necropolis. A very specific type of architectural decoration characterized by simplification and decorative geometrization appears in Marina where it also seems to have been prevalent. This kind of stylization has been associated mainly with Petra where a similar architectural decoration was commonly applied. Having been recognized first in Petra, it came to be known as Nabatean. The stylized architectural decoration discovered at Petra and Hegra is so specific and dissimilar from any of the Classical orders that it has even been described on occasion as a separate architectural order.
BAR S1919 2009: L'eau dans les espaces et les pratiques funéraires d'Alexandrie aux époques grecque et romaine (IVe siècle av. J.-C. – IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.) by Agnès Tricoche. ISBN 9781407304021. £43.00. iii+222 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, including 4 colour plates; catalogue. In French with English abstract.
In the cemeteries of Graeco-Roman Alexandria in Egypt, archaeological investigations initiated more than a century ago discovered various water systems adapted for specific funerary purposes. From the foundation of the city in 332 B.C. to the third century A.C., over fifty hydraulic installations have been noted within the records of Alexandria itself and its vicinity. From a corpus that inventories the hydraulic structures identified to this day in the archaeological literature, the different water management systems are described and reasons put forward to explain the presence of these devices (wells, cisterns, basins, etc.). The results show that the cemeteries should not just be considered as a ‘cities for the dead’ but also as places of rebirth and life. Some of the devices discovered within the funerary context have echoes in the libation systems already known in the Mediterranean and lead towards an evaluation, from textual and iconographical documents, of the role of water in the offerings to the Alexandrian dead.
BAR S1903 2009: The Elite Late Period Egyptian Tombs of Memphis by Michael Stammers. ISBN 9781407303857. £38.00. viii+214 pages; 9 maps; 23 tables; 164 figures; 5 data Appendices and with CD.
This study investigates the drivers for the development of the elite Late Period tombs of the necropoleis of Memphis. It studies their conceptual basis in the context of the social and political situation of the Late Period. It examines the landscape of Memphis and explores the geographic, geological and man-made features that encouraged the creation of a ‘sacred landscape’ with a view to discovering what features made this a desirable place for the building of tombs and why Late Period clusters of tombs were built in some parts of that landscape but not in others; it also considers the significance of their alignment. It sets out to discover what religious, social or ancestral factors made the elite choose the location of the individual tombs, what determined their structure and how they relate to older as well as contemporary structures. Finally, the reason for the positions of the different burial grounds of Memphis, and the interrelation between them, is explored in order to establish the socio-political factors influencing that choice.
BAR S1866 2008: Bronze Priests of Ancient Egypt from the Middle Kingdom to the Græco-Roman Period by Barbara Mendoza. ISBN 9781407303499. £56.00. viii+402 pages; 143 plates; catalogues, inscriptions and data Appendices.
Ancient Egyptian bronze sculpture appears in many major European and North American museum
collections, but its inadequate study makes the sculpture very difficult to analyze. The aim of the present study is to analyze and organize the corpus of priestly bronze statuary, a rather large subgroup of non-royal ancient Egyptian bronze statuary. To this end, the author utilizes several factors intrinsic to each three-dimensional figure: epigraphical, stylistical, contextual, and technical, to show the temporal development of the ancient Egyptian priest and priestly figure in bronze. With this study the author provides a foundation for further study in the area of non-royal bronze statuary in general and a clearer view of the artistic contribution of priestly bronze statuary in particular, as well as a better understanding of the role and development of priestly bronze statuary.
BAR S1852 2008: Egyptian Tomb Architecture The archaeological facts of pharaonic circular symbolism by David I. Lightbody. ISBN 9781407303390. £25.00. xiii+88 pages; 77 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; 4 data Appendices.
The objective of this monograph is to describe and explain the meanings underlying some otherwise anomalous archaeological data drawn from the study of Ancient Egypt. An explanation for the phenomena observed has hitherto proved elusive. The data is principally concerned with royal funerary architecture from the Old Kingdom, and the underlying systems of measurement and geometry that were employed therein. As well as providing a description and explanation for the data, this work also has the objective of providing the first synthesis of related cultural information drawn from several different textual and archaeological resources. The general subject matter is pharaonic funerary architecture from Old Kingdom Egypt, and the work focuses specifically on the circular proportions deliberately incorporated into the tomb designs by the architects. Contents: Introduction; 1) Fundamentals of Ancient Egyptian mathematics and architecture; 2) The Evidence and facts of Egyptian circular proportions; 3) The symbolism; 4) Methodology, analysis and discussion of mathematics; 5) Arguments from authorities; 6) Archaeology and philology; fieldwork and deskwork; 7) Conclusions; Appendix 1: Secondary Issues; Appendix 2: Social Context of early Egyptology; Appendix 3: Egyptian and Greek Mathematics; Appendix 4: Quotes from the Greeks.
BAR S1851 2008: Wine In Ancient Egypt A Cultural and analytical study by Maria Rosa Guasch Jané. ISBN 9781407303383. £25.00. ix+72 pages; 50 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 1 in colour.
Wine is a beverage that belongs to the Mediterranean culture. A study of the origins of wine shows how deep vineyards are rooted in this area from West to East and since antiquity. The oldest and most extensive documentation about viticulture and winemaking comes from Egypt. Vineyards have been grown in the Nile Delta for five thousand years. The historical and archaeological study of documents and paintings related to winemaking coming from walls of Egyptian tombs, still presents nowadays unknown aspects. Thanks to the development of analytical techniques, we are now able to shed light on a new aspect known to us from the first Mediterranean civilization: the wine culture in Egypt. This present study has three objectives: To provide a bibliographical study of viticulture and oenology in ancient Egypt; to verify, in an analytical way, the presence of wine in amphorae of ancient Egypt; and to investigate what kinds of wine were produced in ancient Egypt.
BAR S1850 2008: Amun Temples in Nubia A typological study of New Kingdom, Napatan and Meroitic Temples by Caroline M. Rocheleau. ISBN 9781407303376. £26.00. ix+96 pages; 3 tables; 42 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; Gazetteer of sites.
The aims of this study are to observe patterns in the spatial configuration of Egyptian and
Kushite temples dedicated to Amun in Nubia; to identify architectural models; and finally, to ascribe these models to certain historical periods or specific rulers. The core of the work is a typological study based on the comparison of architectural plans of one type of building dedicated to a particular deity. Although it used two earlier typological studies of Kushite architecture as a stepping stone, this study differed in the definition of its assemblage. the present corpus includes New Kingdom temples in an attempt to follow the architectural evolution of Kushite temples from their source of inspiration. Because ancient Egyptian temples were undoubtedly the prototypes upon which Napatan and Meroitic temples were modelled, it was necessary to include them in the study and classify them together with later temples in order to properly establish patterns. Additionally, the newly uncovered temples at Doukki Gel, Hugeir Gubli, Usli, Soniyat, Dangeil, and el-Hassa offered new material that needed to be included in such a study. As much as the study of Egyptian temples contributed to our understanding of ancient Egyptian civilisation, the study of Napatan and Meroitic temples might just do the same for the Kushite kingdom.
BAR S1838 2008: Lo Stato egiziano nelle fonti scritte del periodo tinita by Simone Lanna. ISBN 9781407303222. £37.00. xiii+194 pages; 28 tables; 33 plates. In Italian with 11-page English summary.
This work presents the development of a theoretical model of land management (with its resources and inhabitants) for Thinite Egypt (the period when the kings coming from the city of This and buried in Umm el-Qaab cemeteries ruled most of Egypt). This volume is divided into three parts: textual analysis of Thinite inscriptions ; the second part is a synthesis of the data achieved with the former analysis, delineating a historical model of Early Egyptian State. The third part includes an appendix containing 28 tables with a further complete analysis of all the inscriptions in a tabular and really easy-consulting format. Finally there are 33 plates with the figures of almost all the inscription used in the volume.
BAR S1824 2008: Eastern Desert Ware: Traces of the Inhabitants of the Eastern Deserts in Egypt and Sudan During the 4th- 6th Centuries CE by Hans Barnard. ISBN 9781407303109. £50.00. 246 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, drawings and photographs, including 7 colour plates; 12 data Appendices.
This study presents the first comprehensive description of a small corpus of ceramic vessels, now defined as Eastern Desert Ware (EDW). The vessels that comprise this corpus are hand-made cups and bowls, shaped without the use of a potter's wheel, with proportionally thin walls and well-finished surfaces. Larger vessels and closed forms do occur very sporadically, although these forms may so far have escaped recognition. Many of the outside and several inside surfaces of the vessels are burnished and decorated with geometrical patterns impressed or incised in the unfired clay. These patterns are often remarkably asymmetric and frequently enhanced by a white inlay or a partial red slip. Eastern Desert Ware has been found in archaeological contexts predominantly dated to the 4th-6th centuries CE, by associated pottery, coins, and radiocarbon analysis, in the Nile Valley between the Fifth Cataract, just north of
where the Atbara debouches into the Nile, and the First Cataract near Aswan, as well as in the desert to the east, between Quseir and Port Sudan, an area of roughly 350,000 km² . CHAPTER ONE: Historical Background of the Eastern Desert and Eastern Desert Ware; CHAPTER TWO: The Macroscopic Description of Eastern Desert Ware and its Comparison with Associated Pottery Material; CHAPTER THREE: The Provenance of Eastern Desert Ware as Suggested by the Chemical Composition of the Fabric of the Vessels; CHAPTER FOUR: The Use of Eastern Desert Ware as Suggested by Lipid Residues in the Walls of the Vessels; CHAPTER FIVE: The Eastern Desert and the Production of Eastern Desert Ware; CHAPTER SIX: Interpretative Summary and Conclusions.
BAR S1822 2008: Royal Authority in Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty by Garry J. Shaw. ISBN 9781407303086. £31.00. xiv+136 pages.
This study highlights and debates the evidence for the king’s personal authority and power within three major spheres of influence: 1) the appointment of officials, 2) the making of commands; and 3) military leadership. The extent to which this evidence can be used to create a historically accurate picture of government practice is a major issue throughout this study. The evidence collected dates to the 18th Dynasty from the reign of Ahmose to the end of the reign of Amenhotep III. Chapter one deals with evidence for the appointment of officials by the king as evidenced by the words dhn, rdi m/r, and sxnt. Chapter two analyses this data. Chapter three presents all evidence of the king making commands, as evidenced by the word wD. Chapter four is an analysis of this evidence. Chapter five presents evidence for the king making military decisions and fighting alongside his army. This evidence is analysed in Chapter six. The final chapter puts into context the difficulties of drawing clear boundaries between the ideological and the real in such material.
BAR S1809 2008: Dance, Dancers and the Performance Cohort in the Old Kingdom by Lesley Kinney. ISBN 9781407302966. £44.00. xvi+265 pages; illustrated with figures, drawings and photographs. 2 data Appendices.
The purpose of this volume is to reveal as much information as possible on the nature of dance in Old Kingdom Egypt. This is achieved through the thorough examination of the primary evidence pertaining to dance in the old Kingdom, which comes to us in the form of pictures, letters, captions and titles. Scenes of dance abound in tomb decoration, in particular, but can also be found in solar temples attended by the living. Indeed, when a clear definition of what constituted dance in Ancient Egypt is reached, the number of pictorial examples relating to dance became so vast that it necessitated restricting this study to material from the old Kingdom. While the study of pictures of dance reveals much about the history and development of art, much regarding the nature of dance can also be perceived. It is reasonable to assume that much of the information recorded regarding dance; the poses, costumes, props and gender of dancers as depicted in scenes of dance, should reflect the nature of dance as it was performed at the time and even the region in which it was recorded. Therefore, the developments traced in the course of this study relate to the art history record of dance as much as to dance itself.
BAR S1794 2008: 2008 An Appraisal of the Skulls and Dentition of Ancient Egyptians, Highlighting the Pathology and Speculating on the Influence of Diet and Environment by Judith Miller. ISBN 9781407302829. £29.00. 143 pages; illustrated throughout with figures and plates.
When first studying Ancient Egyptian History, the author, a dental surgeon, was struck by the fact that, with the exception of a blind harpist or an occasional adipose figure, the Ancient Egyptian, was portrayed as healthy and fit with a superb physique. However, the reality was somewhat different. It has been discovered in previous studies of the mummies and the profusion of skeletal material which are available in many collections that their lives were far from ideal and many died in pain with diseases found in modern man. Then there are the many medical papyri which give prescriptions for treatments. Some were magical and were, in reality, spells to rid the sick individual of possession by a malign spirit. However some were rational and were passed on from doctor to doctor. This research was undertaken to investigate whether changes in the diet over a period of 4000 years had a direct effect on the dentition of the ancient Egyptian. The abundance of specimens in various collections made it possible to examine complete skulls to detect dental and bone pathology which may have been influenced by disease and the environment in which they lived. Analysis of the literature of past surveys carried out in tombs has revealed much information. Tomb paintings symbolised an ideal presentation of food for the afterlife. There are scenes illustrating agriculture and irrigation of the land. In museum collections there are papyri listing rations allotted to workmen and soldiers. Of particular importance are the burial goods. There are flagons containing dried remnants of wine and beer. There are mummified joints of beef. Offerings of fruit and grain are identifiable and have been analysed. Bread offerings, found in abundance, have been investigated to differentiate organic and inorganic components. From archaeological excavations, butchered bones from a variety of animals have been identified and the burial sites give clues as to the extent of the fertile area of the Nile Valley at different periods during the millennia. This historical evidence has been examined to evaluate the extent of medical knowledge at various periods and this has been related to the pathology found.
BAR S1755 2008: Migdol. Ricerche su modelli di architettura militare di età ramesside (Medinet Habu) by Giacomo Cavillier. ISBN 9781407301945. £25.00. 100 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs. In Italian.
This study explores the influence of Near Eastern military architecture on the Egyptian 20th-Dynasty ‘castle’ (Migdol) at Medinet Habu.
BAR S1608 2007: Social Aspects of Ancient Egyptian Domestic Architecture by Aikaterini Koltsida. ISBN 9781407300252. £37.00. xv+246 pages; 95 figures, maps, plans and drawings; 88 b/w plates; 2 data Appendices.
How important is the study of the domestic architecture of a society in order to reveal the everyday life of its inhabitants? How significant is the space within which people live and interact in order to understand the structure and function of a family? How much does the space influence the relationships developed among the people living under the same roof? Is there a characteristic house plan to cover the everyday basic needs of an ancient Egyptian? These are amongst the questions addressed in this study. In the area of Egyptology, early studies concerning settlement archaeology were focused on town planning, architectural design, or literary sources. There have even been studies that completely denied the existence of cities in ancient Egypt. It is only during the last decades that the anthropological approach has been added to Egyptology to define social relationships. The aspects of urbanisation and domestic architecture have seemed to be recognised by Egyptologists as issues that are both of major importance and worthy of enquiry for archaeological investigation. However, there has been no recent complete comparative study giving a room–to–room analysis of the domestic architecture. Moreover, most of the studies consider houses as ground plans, trying to identify the origins of architectural characteristics, or the social differentiation between the inhabitants of the different house types. In this study, the author looks at the function and use of a domestic unit and the everyday life of its occupants.
 BAR S1595 2007: Territorial Appropriation during the Old Kingdom (XXVIIIth-XXIIIth centuries BC) The royal necropolises and the pyramid towns in Egypt by Silvia Lupo. ISBN 978 1 4073 0011 5. £38.00. 296 pages; 8 tables; 8 maps; 32 figures, plans, drawings and photographs; two data Appendices.
The concepts of ‘territory’ and ‘territoriality’ are analysed on the basis of anthropological and archaeological data. It is assumed that ‘territory’ and ‘territoriality’ are more complex concepts than simple space occupation. For the case of Egypt in the Old Kingdom, the author of this volume considers different variables related to the ideology and to the socio-political and economic systems of the Egyptian state. Its consolidation, the royal power legitimisation and that of the elite, and the socio-political and economic system are here considered from their unification in the Early Dynastic period, to the Old Kingdom, when the state expanded and its political and ideological maturity was achieved. ‘Part One: Territory, occupation of space and legitimisation; Part Two: Royal necropolises and Pyramid towns during the Old Kingdom; Part Three: The territorial appropriation in Egypt – an alternative explanation for the Old Kingdom.
BAR S1587 2007: Private Religion at Amarna The material evidence by Anna Stevens. ISBN 1407300008. £47.00. vii+365 pages; illustrated throughout; complete with inventories and index.
In this study the author approaches the realm of ‘private religion’ in Egypt some 3,300 years ago. The two broad research questions that frame this study are: What was the structure of the private religious landscape at Amarna (Central Egypt, on the Nile), and what were the ideas that shaped this landscape? The starting point is a corpus of objects and structures from settlement remains at one site, Amarna, the location of Egypt’s capital for a brief period (c.350 – 330 BCE) towards the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty. At the height of its occupation, Amarna was the administrative, political and religious centre of Egypt. (Estimates of the city ’s population at this time range between 20,000 and 50,000 people.) This publication is divided into three parts. Part I places the study in context. The history of the Amarna period, the layout of the site and its excavation history are summarized. Part 2 explores the issue of how to define private religion and identify its material remnants: the inventory of the material evidence – objects, architectural emplacements and buildings. It is hoped that the dissemination of this material will assist others researching similar topics, making available unpublished evidence from most of the main phases of excavation at the site. Part 3 explores the design, manufacture and acquisition of the material components of religion, and considers the forms of the conduct in which they were used. Also examined are the transcendental forces involved: the royal family and Aten, and ‘traditional ’ deities and spirits, including private ancestors. Part 3 also considers the shape of the religious cityscape, and the questions of who was participating in religion, and what was done with the material when it was no longer in use. The study concludes with a discussion of the motivating factors that underlay religious conduct, and which open a small window onto the ideas that shaped the religious landscape more broadly.
BAR S1527 2006: Les Astres dans les Textes Religieux en Égypte Antique et dans les Hymnes Orphiques by Amanda-Alice Maravelia . ISBN 1841719641. £70.00. 638 pages; 72 figures and tables, colour frontispiece; Indices, including Egyptian terms. In French, with summaries in English, Greek and German.
This work examines the evolution of astronomical thought, as well as the various astronomical and cosmovisional ideas in pharaonic Egypt (c. 2800 -1200 BCE), after the most important religious texts (primarily Pyramid Texts and Cofn Texts, and secondarily Book of the Dead). More specically, the author examines the astronomical conceptions of the ancient Egyptians concerning the stars, the Sun, the Moon and the Planets, as they are revealed in these funerary texts; a statistical analysis and a global comparative study of the corpora of PT and CT are presented here for the rst time. The textual study of the Orphic Hymns and the funerary texts of the Egyptians is conducted within the interdisciplinary framework of both Egyptology and Archæoastronomy. The contents of this volume include: Chapter I, develops the theme and the scope of study, and the methodology, and the tools used to analyze the textual material in our comparative study. Chapter II is intended to be viewed as a concise introduction to the modern concepts of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology. Chapter III is the nucleus of the study, where conceptions of ancient Egyptians in relation to the celestial bodies —as they are revealed in their funerary texts— are examined. Chapter IV is dedicated to the Hellenic Orphic Hymns, the textual archæoastronomical dating of their astronomical and cosmovisional notions from c. 1300 BCE (an era coinciding with the NK, viz the early Ramesside period), and the study of the astronomical conceptions that the Orphics had about the celestial bodies (stars, Sun, Moon and Planets). Chapter V is a concise comparative study between the ancient Egyptian and the modern astronomical ideas on the celestial bodies. Chapter VI is the focal point of convergence of the main conclusions and ideas of the work, with a review of the conclusions. The work ends with a series of Tables and the Indexes, presenting readers with a review of various modern and ancient astronomical conceptions, as well as with egyptological notions dealt with in the study (classied and categorized in appropriate sections). Written in French with extensive summaries in French, English, Greek and German.
 BAR S1471 2006: The UCL Lahun Papyri: Accounts edited by Mark Collier and Stephen Quirke. ISBN 1841719072. £36.00. vi+339 pages; illustrated throughout, including 7 fold-outs. Concordance, 12 Appendices and Indices of terms, names and data. With CD.
This volume completes the presentation of all University College London’s Lahun papyri (see BAR S1083/2002 and S1209/2004). Over half of the great mass of papyrus fragments retrieved by Petrie from the Middle-Kingdom town-site near al-Lahun (Fayum region) comprises administrative records and the authors have divided the analyses into items for which Petrie-Griffith lot numbers are known, items for which Petrie-Griffith lot numbers are not known, and items of less determinate content not included in other series. The work includes a CD showing colour photographs of the original material.
BAR S1469 2006: Los sumos sacerdotes de Amón tebanos de la wHm mswt y dinastía XXI (ca. 1083 – 945 a.C.) by José Lull. ISBN 1841719056. £42.00. 402 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, figures, plans, drawings and photographs. Appendices. In Spanish with extended English summary.
This work (‘The High Priests of Amun in the ‘wHm mswt’ Era and the Twenty-First Dynasty’) explores the chronological, genealogical and historical controversies from a very dark episode in ancient Egypt: the period at the end of the rule of Ramesses XI and the beginning of the Third Intermediate Period (XXI Dynasty). The research focuses on the role played by the Theban High Priests of Amun – a field of study so far neglected by other Egyptologists.
BAR S1459 2006: Corpus of Inscriptions of the Herakleopolitan Period from the Memphite Necropolis Translation, commentary and analyses by Khaled Abdalla Daoud. ISBN 1841718971. £42.00. xii+351 pages; 116 plates, maps and drawings. Indices of place and personal names, epithets and titles.
This work examines in detail a specific group of inscribed material from the Memphite necropolis. The material dates to the late Old Kingdom-Herakleopolitan Period, and comes from tombs belonging to officials of various ranks and social standing. Some of the stelae and other inscribed fragments, offering tables, side pieces, and blocks have been published, while others are looked at here for the first time. This book, however, is the first work to bring all this material together as comprehensively as possible in order to fully assess its extent and importance. It investigates the distribution of the Herakleopolitan Period cemeteries in the vast necropolis of Memphis; analyses each individual cemetery and its development through this period; and explores the architectural remains of the chapels of the period to cast light on their design. A major focus is the examination of the tomb stelae, their orientation, development, and their inscriptions in comparison with contemporary stelae from provincial cemeteries, particularly Dendara, Naga-ed Deir, Akhmim, Ashmunein, Asyut, Edfu and Thebes.
 BAR S1448 2005: Modern Trends in European Egyptology Papers from a Session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Ninth Annual Meeting in St. Petersburg 2003 edited by Amanda–Alice Maravelia. ISBN 184171884X. £26.00. xv+92 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, tables and illustrations.
10 papers from the session on Modern Trends in European Egyptology held at the European Association of Archaeologists Ninth Annual Meeting in St. Petersburg 2003. Contents: Egypt on its Way to an Early State: The Nile Delta and the Valley (Tatjana A. Sherkova); Ancient Memphis and the Helleno–Roman World: A Short Note (Galina A. Belova); Among the Hidden Treasures of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens: Searching for Forgotten Mummies (Amanda–Alice Maravelia); Les Figurines Obscènes de la Collection Égyptienne du Musée Municipal de Limoges (Ashraf Alexandre Sadek); From the History of Archaeology: The Destruction of the Late Antiquity Necropolises in Egypt reconsidered (Maya Müller); Knowledge Engineering at the Russian Institute for Egyptology in Cairo and at the CES/RAS, Moscow (Edward Loring); The Shifting Foundation of Ancient Chronology (Leo Depuydt); Sothic Dates in Egyptian Chronology (Anne–Sophie Goddio–von Bomhard); Looped Pile Weaves at the Benaki Museum: More Observations on the Classication of Techniques and the Technology of Textiles (Sophia Tsourinaki); Origins of the Sd–Festival: On the History of a Hypothesis (Alexej A. Krol).
BAR S1438 2005: Gli Shardana nell’Egitto Ramesside by Giacomo Cavillier. ISBN 1841718742. £25.00. 76 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs. In Italian.
An exploration of the social and military role of the Shardana mercenaries in Egypt during the 13th to the 11th centuries BC.
BAR S1426 2005: The Role of Foreigners in Ancient Egypt A study of non-stereotypical artistic representations by Charlotte Booth. ISBN 1841718653. £25.00. 71 pages; 34 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
To determine the role that foreign immigrants held in Egyptian society, the author looks in this study at what it meant to be Egyptian and how foreign immigrants differed. Her analysis covers a discussion on ethnicity, nationalism and citizenship, particularly in relation to Asiatics, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians, Minoans, and Indians. Selected catalogues of finds and other material illustrate to these 7 groups of ‘foreigners’.
 BAR S1421 2005: Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 14 The West Bank Survey from Faras to Gemai 3. Sites of Christian Age by William Y. Adams. ISBN 1841718602. £37.00. xiii+202 pages; 12 tables; 85 figures, maps, plans and photographs; 21 black and white plates; 3 oversized plans in back pocket; Appendix of finds; Arabic summary.
This is the second in a series of volumes detailing the results of an archaeological survey carried out in the most northerly part of the Sudan, between 1960 and 1965. The present volume deals exclusively with sites dating from the Christian Nubian period, between approximately AD 580 and 1500. In brief, the survey covered an area on the west bank of the Nile extending from Faras, on the Egyptian border, to the village of Gemai, 62km to the south. Also included within the survey area were all of the islands of the Second Cataract to the west of the main Nile channel—more than 20 islands in all. This volume contains chapters dealing with each of the major site types, viz: churches, fortifications, habitation sites, industrial and miscellaneous sites, and mortuary sites. The description of each site is followed by an abbreviated listing of all the registered finds from that site. More detailed discussion and illustration of the artifactual finds from all the sites is reserved for two chapters following the site descriptions. A final chapter considers what the West Bank Survey has contributed to our understanding of the history and culture of Christian Nubia.
BAR S1401 2005: The Role of the Chantress (Smyt) in Ancient Egypt by Suzanne Lynn Onstine. ISBN 1841718408. £31.00. iv+164 pages; 8 charts; Catalogue.
This study looks at what is meant by the term ‘Smyt’, or ‘chantress’, in ancient Egypt (including New Kingdom, Third Intermediate Period, Middle Kingdom, Late and Ptolemaic Periods). Very little is known about the specifics of the title or the types of people who held it. Both men and women could hold the title, but the female version is by far the more prevalent and they form the focus of this research. Studies investigating the status of non-royal women are a fairly recent phenomenon, but the abundance of data from private tombs and monuments concerning the women who held the title Smyt makes these women ideal subjects for a study of non-royal women within their cultural and historical contexts.
BAR S1380 2005: Current Research in Egyptology II Liverpool, January 2001 edited by Ashley Cooke and Fiona Simpson. ISBN 1841718203. £21.00. iv+80 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, tables, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
9 papers from the Current Research in Egyptology Conference (II) held at Liverpool, January 2001: (1) The use of the double and triple uraeus in royal iconography (Sally-Ann Ashton); (2) The organisation and mobilisation of Old Kingdom quarry labour forces at Chephren’s quarry (Gebel el-Asr) Lower Nubia (Elizabeth Bloxam); (3) Excavations at Theban tomb kv 39 (Ian Buckley); (4) An Old Kingdom town at Zawiet Sultan (Zawiet Meitin) in Middle Egypt: a preliminary report (Nadine Moeller; (5) Egypt and Mycenaean Greece: a Mycenean perspective (Georgina Muskett); (6) The age of the sphinx and the development of the Giza Necropolis (Colin Reader); (7) The transition to state society in Egypt: problems and possibilities of applying mortuary evidence (Joanne Rowland); (8) Single mother goddesses and divine kingship: the sidelock of youth and the maternal bond (Geoffrey Tassie); (9) Morphological variations in Egyptian crania (Sonia Zakrzewski).
BAR S1339 2005: Die Siegelabrollungen und Rollsiegel der Stadt Elephantine im 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr. Spurensicherung eines archäologischen Artefaktes by Jean-Pierre Pätznick. ISBN 1841716855. £55.00. viii+631 pages; 36 figures, maps, plans and drawings; 91 tables. Catalogue of 665 seals. Concordance. In German with English abstract.
Elephantine Island is the largest of the Aswan area islands, and is one of the most ancient sites in Egypt, The sealing material of the town of Elephantine was uncovered and collected by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Cairo (DAI-German Institute) in the years 1972-1991 in 15 archaeological missions. With its more than 1600 objects, it is one of the most important and biggest corpora of its kind that has ever been found in a urban context from the Early Dynastic (Middle/Late Second Dynasty) and from the very beginning of the Old Kingdom (Third Dynasty). Study of the material has lead not only to the establishment of a very differentiated typology, but also assisted with the determination of the characteristics of different sealing methods and traces of the materials found on the backs of the seals. The insights given in to the trade and storage of goods in the town of Elephantine are considerable.
 BAR S1335 2005: Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 13 The West Bank Survey from Faras to Gemai 2. Sites of Meroitic and Ballaña Age by William Y. Adams. ISBN 1841716812. £35.00. xiv+176 pages; 61 figs, maps (+ one fold-out), plans and drawings; 25 b/w plates, 31 tables. Arabic summary.
This volume is the first of a series that will report on surveys and excavations carried out in the most northerly portion of Sudanese Nubia, in the years between 1960 and 1963. Specifically, the area covered comprised the west bank of the Nile between the villages of Faras and Gemai, and adjacent islands of the Second Cataract. This stretch of approximately 60km was selected for initial attention because it was the area most immediately threatened, by construction of the cofferdam that preceded the main Aswan High Dam. During the course of four seasons the West Bank Survey recorded a total of 262 sites, ranging in age from Neolithic to early modern, and carried on at least some excavation in well over half of them. The present volume describes only the sites of Meroitic and Ballaña age that were discovered during the survey, while sites of earlier and of later date will be described in subsequent volumes.
BAR S1315 2004: Modeling Socioeconomic Evolution and Continuity in Ancient Egypt The value and limitations of zooarchaeological analyses by Carol Yokell. ISBN 1841716642. £32.00. iv+143 pages; 12 tables; 37 figures, maps, plans, drawings.
This work examines patterns of taxonomic utilization from a wide range of sites from different geographic regions and through several thousand years in order to contribute to an eventual understanding of the mechanisms by which disparate regional societies were subsumed into the unified Egyptian ‘state.’ An examination of the relative adaptability of cattle, sheep, goat, and pigs is fundamental to understanding the choices by humans for exploiting a particular species or its products in a given area. A predictive model was developed based on issues of economic and social production among modern societies utilizing these same domesticated taxa under similar environmental conditions. Five strategies were identified: nomadic pastoralism, semi-nomadic pastoralism, transhumance, agro-pastoralism, and ranching. Contrary to previous interpretations, pigs were shown to be well adapted to utilization by sedentary populations in both the southern Valley and northern Delta regions. The methods for the investigation of alternatives of social and economic production and intensification were closely linked to zooarchaeological analysis. However, in addition, faunal inferences were supplemented with evidence such as artistic depictions, Egyptian texts, and literature.
BAR S1289 2004: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 60 Islamic Archaeology in the Sudan by Intisar Soghayroun Elzein. ISBN 1841716391. £32.00. x+152 pages; 11 maps; 94 figures, plans, drawings; 15 b/w plates.
The Middle Nile Basin, which is in effect the present Republic of the Sudan, from the 7th century CE accepted Islam through influences from both the north and the east and responded to the changes which have taken place in the Dar al-Islam. From the north these influences, through Egypt, have been largely from ‘Sunni’ sources and from the east, through the Red Sea Coast which have been ‘Sufi’. This has profoundly affected the spiritual life of both the immigrant Muslims and the indigenous population who converted to Islam. Political divisions through the centuries maintained those differences and as a result they are visible in the archaeological evidence on which this work concentrates. The principal aims of this study are: to define and analyse the archaeological evidence for Islam in the Sudan; to establish a basis for future Sudanese study in the field of the archaeology of Islam, by considering the present evidence in all aspects; to point out the variations in archaeological evidence in the domains of Ottomans, Fung and Fur; to analyse the main influences that came from the east, north, north-west and west Africa and their impact on material culture in the Middle Nile Valley; to draw attention to the long misunderstood Ottoman presence in Lower Nubia, the importance of the Mahas mekdom in its relation with the Ottoman and Fung sultanates; to draw attention to the evidence of the Islam of the nomads and their material culture and also to contribute to a better understanding of the true nature of the foundation of Islam in the Sudan from archaeological remains and written documents and comment on the importance of documentary evidence in the understanding of Islamisation of the Sudan.
BAR S1269 2004: Society for Arabian Studies Monographs 2 Trade and Travel in the Red Sea Region Proceedings of Red Sea Project I held in the British Museum October 2002 edited by Paul Lunde and Alexandra Porter. ISBN 1841716227. £35.00. viii+178 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, plates and drawings.
18 papers from the 1st Red Sea Project, held at the British Museum in October 2002. Contents: The Red Sea: the wind regime and location of ports (W. Facey); Arabian trade with ethiopia and the Horn of Africa: from ancient times to the 16th Century (R. Pankhurst); The elusive land of punt revisited (K.A. Kitchen); Pharaonic Egypt and the Red Sea arms trade (D.M. Dixon); Possible connections in Antiquity between the Red Sea coast of Yemen and the Horn of Africa (E.J. Keall); Ancient interaction across the southern Red Sea: new suggestions for investigating cultural exchange and complex societies during the 1st millennium BC (M.C. Curtis); The ‘pre-Aksumite’ state in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea reconsidered (R. Fattovich); Pre-Aksumite Aksum and its neighbours (J. Phillips); Adulis to Aksum: charting the course of Antiquity’s most important trade route in East Africa (W. Raunig); The Egyptp-Graeco-Romans and Panchaea/Azania: sailing in the Erythraean Sea (F. Chami); Reflections of ethnicity in the Red Sea commerce in Antiquity: evidence of trade goods, languages and religions from the excavations at Berenike (S.E Sidebottom); Gold dinars and silver dirhams in the Red Sea trade: the evidence of the Quseir documents (L. Guo); The merchants’ diet: food remains from Roman and medieval Quseir al-Qadim (M. Van der Veen); ‘What the devil are you doing here?’ Arabic source for the arrival of the Portugese in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean (P. Lunde); Mamluk and Ottoman activity in Yemen in the 16th Century: coastal security and commercial significance (C. Smith); Quseir Fort and the archaeology of the Hajj (C. LeQuesne); Les échanges commerciaux entre les rives Africaine et Arabe de l’espace Mer Rouge Golfe D’Aden aux seizième et dix-septième siècles (M. Tuchscherer); Luxury wares in the Red Sea: the Sadana Island shipwreck (C. Ward).
BAR S1260 2004: Étude sur les Canidæ des temps prépharaoniques en Égypte et au Soudan by Jean-Olivier Gransard-Desmond. ISBN 1841716189. £27.00. v+89 pages; 4 tables, 44 figures, photographs, maps and drawings; catalogues of finds and sites. In French..
In this study the author explores all aspects of the dog and the animal’s origins in early Egypt and the Sudan - wild and domesticated, divine and mongrel. Included are a catalogue of related finds and a Gazetteer of key sites.
BAR S1223 2004: Cylinder Seal Glyptic in Predynastic Egypt and Neighboring Regions by Jane A. Hill. ISBN 1841715883. £29.00. x+131 pages; 2 tables; 50 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Prior to the last decade, few cylinder seals and no impressed sealings had ever been discovered in Predynastic Egyptian archaeological contexts. This monograph reviews important new finds from Abydos (Upper Egyptian Cemetery U) which demonstrate that cylinder seals were indeed used for sealing purposes, as well as other finds from Egypt and Nubia, which may be reevaluated in light of these discoveries. Seals and sealings from Lower Nubia and the southern Palestinian site of ‘En Besor are examined to trace the development of the Predynastic Egyptian glyptic style from the Naqada IId period to the beginning of the First Dynasty. This development is used to suggest a sequence for other Predynastic art works without provenance. The social and political implications of early Egyptian cylinder sea use are also examined using models established in the study of Mesopotamian seal use and sealing practices
BAR S1218 2004: Europe, Hellas and Egypt Complementary Antipodes during the Late Antiquity. Papers from Session IV.3, held at the European Association of Archaeologists Eighth Annual Meeting in Thessaloniki 2002 edited by Amanda–Alice Maravelia. ISBN 1841715786. £37.00. viii+98 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, figures, tables, photographs and drawings, 7 colour plates.
This volume represents the papers given at a session of the 8th EAA Conference held in Thessalonike in 2002. The session was based around four themes: The links between populations of Egypt and Europe (especially Hellas) in ancient times; the impact of the advent of Alexander the Great, and the current excavations in Alexandria; the political, economic and cultural contacts between Europe, Hellas and Egypt especially during the LP, Helleno–Roman and Early Christian (Coptic) Periods; and aspects of the history of European Egyptology and those European museums holding Egyptian antiquities today. The 9 papers are: (1) The Cretans in Egypt Galina A. Belova; (2) Among the Hidden Treasures of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens: Searching for Forgotten Mummies Amanda–Alice Maravelia and Eleni Cladaki–Manoli; (3) The Egyptian Collection of the Archaeological Museum in Bologna: Past and Future Daniela Picchi; (4) Ancient Egyptian Collections in Ukrainian Museums: The Case of B.I. & V.N. Khanenko’s Museum in Kiev Sergej V. Ivanov; (5) La Musique Copte Ashraf-Alexandre Sadek ;(6) Late Antique Textiles of the Benaki Museum with Bucolic and Mythological Iconography Sophia Tsourinaki; (7) Fantastic Discoveries in Archaeology: The Case of the Tomb of Alexander the Great Harry E. Tzalas; (8) Egypt and the Great Silk Road Tatjana A. Sherkova; (9) The Ancient Egyptian Roots of the Phoenix Myth: On the History of the Problem Helena G. Tolmatcheva.
BAR S1209 2004: The UCL Lahun Papyri: Religious, Literary, Legal, Mathematical and Medical edited by Mark Collier and Stephen Quirke. ISBN 1841715727. £34.00. iii+160; illustrated throughout, including 7 fold-out text illustrations; 7 Indices, including place names and chronologies.
The papyri presented in this volume (the second volume in the Lahun series: cf. BAR 1083: ‘Letters’) range across all categories between letters and accountancy documents (to form the final BAR volume, forthcoming) and five broad groupings have been adopted for this work – ‘Religious, Literary, Legal, Mathematical, and Medical. As in the ‘Letters’ volume, the printed pages present updated transcriptions with transliterations for all but the smallest fragments. The entire collection is presented in digitized photographic form in the accompanying CD.
BAR S1208 2004: Weapons, Warriors and Warfare in Early Egypt by Gregory Phillip Gilbert. ISBN 1841715719. £34.00. ix+210 pages; 9 maps and tables; 83 figures, drawings, photographs; 6 Appendices, including catalogues.
This research is a study of the development of weapon technologies in Early Egypt (the interval from earliest times until the end of the 2nd Dynasty of the Egyptian state) through the examination and interpretation of material remains. This includes a detailed assessment of the relevant artefacts from prehistoric and Early Dynastic sites. Weapons are evaluated to determine whether they had a military, hunting or ritual function or indeed combinations of these. The earliest depictions of warriors and warfare are then assessed to determine the influence of military aspects upon Early Egyptian society. Cross-cultural research is used to identify possible anthropological parallels that may lead to a better understanding of the Egyptian evidence. The contribution of warfare during the formation of the Egyptian state is discussed and the possibility of a peaceful origin is assessed. For the purposes of this study the territory occupied by the Egyptian Nile valley culture(s) defines Egypt. Throughout the periods examined the Egyptian culture essentially occupied the Nile valley, extending from the First Cataract in the south to the mouth of each branch of the Nile as it disgorged into the Mediterranean Sea in the north. The author develops a model for warfare in Egypt from its earliest times to the end of the 2nd Dynasty, by reviewing current trends in the archaeology, anthropology and history of warfare. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of warfare during the rise of the Egyptian state. Aspects of warfare in Early Egypt are examined through interpretation of pictorial narratives, fortifications and settlement patterns, cultural expansion and predynastic invasions, and wars from Dynasty 0 to Dynasty 2.
BAR S1205 2004: Skarabäen außerhalb Ägyptens Lokale Produktion oder Import? Workshop an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, November 1999 edited by Astrid Nunn and Regine Schulz. ISBN 1841715689. £26.00. iv+79 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, tables, maps, drawings and photographs.
6 papers from the workshop “Scarabs outside Egypt: local production or imports?” held at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in November 1999. The six contributions are (1) The political implications of the early scarab series in Palestine (Daphna Ben-Tor); (2) Thronende auf palästinischen Skarabäen (Manfred Görg); (3) Die Skarabäen und Skaraboide aus Westvorderasien und Mesopotamien; (4) Löwe und Esel. Eine ungewöhnliche Bildkombination (Regine Schulz); (5) Zwei Skarabäen der Hatschepsut und Neferure (Matthais Seidel); (6) jmnjj.t- Skarabäen? (Stefan Wimmer).
BAR S1192 2003: Current Research in Egyptology III edited by Rachel Ives, Daniel Lines, Christopher Naunton and Nina Wahlberg. ISBN 1841715581. £26.00. iv+75 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings, tables, and illustrations.
Following a successful inaugural event at the University of Oxford and an expanded second at the University of Liverpool, the Third Symposium for Current Research in Egyptology was held in December 2001, at the University of Birmingham. The symposium was again successful in bringing together UK-based graduate students of Egyptology to provide an opportunity to disseminate the results of their research. It also served to encourage communication between an otherwise disparate group of students spread across the various Egyptological institutions throughout the country. Indeed, speakers came from nine different institutions and the papers presented illustrated well the broad range of topics currently being studied throughout the United Kingdom. The topics of the 9 featured papers include: The Lotus Reborn: the creation and distribution of the Description de L’Égypte; The arrival of the horse in Egypt: new approaches and a hypothesis; Aspects of the Hyksos’ role in Egyptian society from the artistic evidence; Some thoughts on the social organisation of dockyards during the new kingdom; Egyptian blue: where, when, how?; The specialness of science: it’s all in the mind; Crossing the night: the depiction of mythological landscapes in the Am Duat of the New Kingdom Royal Necropolis; Trends in burial evidence: evaluating expectations for the regional and temporal distribution of mortuary behaviour in Predynastic Egypt; Representations of Hathor and Mut in the Hibis temple.
BAR S1178 2003: Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 11 Meinarti IV and V The Church and the Cemetery. The History of Meinarti, An Interpretive Overview by William Y. Adams. ISBN 184171545X. £30.00. x+118 pages; 4 separate fold-out plans 17 tables; 20 figures, maps, drawings; 4 colour ills; 18 pages of b/w ills; 6-page summary in Arabic.
This is the fourth and final volume presenting the results of excavations carried out at the Nubian complex of Meinarti in 1963 and 1964, and concludes and important and impressive body of work on an equally important and impressive archaeological site. Previous volumes dealt with the pre-Christian remains (Meinarti I; Adams 2000), the Early and Classic Christian remains (Meinarti II, Adams 2001), and the Late and Terminal Christian remains (Meinarti III, Adams 2002). This concluding publication considers the church and the cemetery – two features of the site whose use continued through most of the Christian period. Both were described briefly in the earlier volumes in relation to specific occupation levels, but they are comprehensively dealt with here. The work includes colour plates, separate fold-out maps, and a 6-page summary in Arabic.
BAR S1166 2003: Catalogue of Palaeolithic Artefacts from Egypt in the Pitt Rivers Museum by Sarah Milliken. ISBN 1841715344. £37.00. vii+217 pages; 79 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; Bibliography; Index of people; Index of sites.
This book provides a complete catalogue of the collections of Palaeolithic artefacts from Egypt housed in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. Though none of these collections derive from excavations, they nevertheless constitute a valuable research resource from both a historical and an archaeological point of view, and additional information is provided in order that this may become clear. The seventeen collections comprise 1009 objects. The founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum, which arrived in 1884, included only a handful of such objects, but the numbers dramatically increased during the forty-eight years that Henry Balfour served as Curator (1891-1939). The earliest donations made during this period came from two Oxford graduates, Quibell (1896) and MacIver (1899-1901). These were followed by the collections of Forbes (1900), Garstang (1901), Mace (1904), Hall (1905), the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund (1910), Ruffer (1919), Bell (1921), Currelly (1924), Balfour's own small collection (1926), Davies (1926), Evans (1928) and Evans-Pritchard (1934). Henry Balfour died in 1939 and was succeeded by Tom Penniman, and it was during Penniman's term of office that the Seligman Collection was donated in 1940. The last collection, the Bishop Collection, arrived into the care of the fifth Curator, Schuyler Jones, in 1988. The collections fall into two categories: the largest category consists of those artefacts which were collected with a scientific and/or anthropological interest in mind; a much smaller category consists of artefacts collected by 'collectors', be they professional (the Egyptologists) or amateur (Seton-Karr and Ruffer). Among these field collectors, however, one man stands out. Charles Seligman collected everything: tools, cores, waste flakes and even small fragments. Because of his significant role in the development of Palaeolithic archaeology, and because his collection is by far the largest among the Pitt Rivers Museum Egyptian Palaeolithic collections, Seligman therefore constitutes the focus of this study. This book is divided into two parts. The first part provides a historical, archaeological and geographical context for the Pitt Rivers Museum collections of Palaeolithic artefacts from Egypt. The second part of the book consists of three catalogues. These collections represent a significant historical document which covers the first sixty years of Palaeolithic archaeology in Egypt.
BAR S1165 2003: Innovationen und Extravaganzen Ein Beitrag zur Architektur der thebanischen Beamtengräber der 18. Dynastie by Melanie Wasmuth. ISBN 1841715336. £35.00. iii+176; 108 figures, tables, drawings; 4 photographs.
BAR S1153 2003: Funerary Sacrifice of Animals in the Egyptian Predynastic Period by Diane Victoria Flores. ISBN 841715239. £33.00. viii+160 pages; 8 tables; 31figures, maps, plans, drawings; 16-page bibliography.
The principal focus of this study is an analysis of “independent animal burials”, as they are most often indiscriminately interpreted as early evidence for a religiously symbolic significance of the species that occur. Such a cultic interpretation only rarely is offered for the other category of burial, that of animals interred in or, in its later developed form, directly associated with human graves. These animals have generally been considered merely another form of grave goods. However, this type of animal burial, in the form of subsidiary burials, can be tracked into the early First Dynasty and beyond. Thus the diachronic development of this particular category of burial exhibits an uninterrupted continuity between the predynastic and early historic periods. The geographical scope extends from Upper Egypt (Badarian and Naqada Cultures), to Lower Egypt (Neolithic and Maadi-Buto Culture), and Lower Nubia (A-Group), and detailed appendices cover a Gazetteer of independent animal burials, animals in human graves; elite cemeteries; food offerings; and cemetery maps.
BAR S1110 2003: Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 10 Survey Above the Fourth Nile Cataract by Derek A. Welsby . ISBN 1841714887. £40.00. xii+143 pages; 56 tables; 92 figures, maps, plans, illustrations, including 3 maps in colour, 6 fold-outs, and 1 folded in back-cover pocket; illustration, 6 fold-outs; 60 b/w photographs/plates; site Gazetteer; Arabic summary.
In December 1952, the new Egyptian Government decided to construct the Aswan High Dam. In the late 1970s and 1980s the construction of a dam at the Fourth Cataract, known as the Merowe Dam, was again mooted (Hakim 1993, 1-2), while another was proposed at the Kajbar rapids a little downstream of the Third Cataract. In response to the threat posed to the antiquities of the Fourth Cataract region the Sudan Archaeological Research Society undertook a single season of survey (November/December 1999). Although the concession granted included the whole of the left bank, over a distance of 40km, and the islands between the two forts at Dar el-Arab (Suweiqi) and Jebel Musa (Kirbekan), at the downstream end of Boni Island, the wealth of archaeological sites coupled with the difficulties of travel in the region meant that only small areas were examined in detail (1km along the left bank in the vicinity of the village of Gereif; Birti Island and four other small islands; the left bank from a little upstream of Birti; ten islands immediately downstream of el-Tereif). Most of the sites located were described, sketch plans were made where appropriate and many were also surveyed in detail, plans being produced at a scale of 1:500 or 1:100. Artefacts were also collected either from each feature or from transects across the sites and this material was studied by the pottery, lithics and small finds specialists. Many of the rock pictures were traced onto acetate and their locations plotted by GPS or in relation to their local environment by total station. A detailed description of the sites surveyed is contained in the gazetteer which is followed by an analysis of the pottery, small finds and lithics. The results detailed in this volume are advanced tentatively and it is fully expected that further survey work and excavation will modify the conclusions arrived at here. However, in the light of the current situation where it seems likely that the dam will be built in the very near future, and of the need for the archaeological community to seriously address the loss of a vast number of archaeological sites along one of the least known stretches of the Nile Valley, it was felt to be desirable that this work be brought to publication as soon as possible. It offers a glimpse of the richness and diversity of the remains of human activity in what is generally considered one of the most inhospitable regions of the valley, over many millennia.
BAR S1099 2003: The Spatial Structure of Kom el-Hisn: An Old Kingdom Town in the Western Nile Delta, Egypt by Anthony Cagle. ISBN 1841714771. £38.00. vi+253 pages; 88 figures, maps, plans, drawings, graphs; 27 tables.
Kom el-Hisn is located near the western edge of the Nile delta, midway between Cairo and Alexandria, and about 13 km west of the Rosetta branch of the Nile. It is composed of primarily Old Kingdom deposits (Dynasties V and VI, ca. 2500-2290 BC) but the site was also occupied in the Middle and New Kingdom periods. (It has been suggested that some First Intermediate burials are included within the Old Kingdom architecture, and Kom el-Hisn clearly flourished during the height of Old Kingdom power.) After a detailed introduction, the author reviews the development of Egyptian settlement patterns and structures to provide the Old Kingdom context, before continuing to discuss the specific issues relating to the current research and some of the explanations offered by other researchers for the development of Egypt’s particular brand of complex society. Chapter four describes the research programme that provided the data on which this study relies, and subsequent headings contain detailed descriptions of the deposits associated with each excavation unit in the analysis. Before the full summary in the ultimate chapter, there are statistical analyses that build the model of functional differentiation found within the excavated areas.
BAR S1083 2002: The UCL Lahun Papyri: Letters First volume of the comprehensive publication of the Ancient Egyptian papyri excavated by Flinders Petrie at the Middle Kingdom site of Lahun edited by Mark Collier and Stephen Quirke. ISBN 1841714623. £36.00. xv + 203 pages; line drawings throughout, 10 Indeces of ‘Egyptian words’, ‘vocabulary’, ‘personal names’, ‘titles and occupations’, ‘Kings’, ‘Deities’, place names, and ‘dates’. With accompanying CD.
The University College London Lahun (Middle Kingdom) papyri constitute one of the most remarkable harvests of papyri of any age. This volume communicates the content of the surviving letters and letter fragments from the Petrie excavations at Lahun in an accessible and affordable format. The letters and fragments are from original letters: model letters, letter copies, and reports are reserved for future publications. The volume is intended not only for Egyptological researchers, but also for learners in higher and further education. This mass of writing calls for a more nuanced appreciation of the roles of writing and reading, and the social reach of the written culture across the different classes, ages, genders inhabiting this architecture and landscape. (The reader will find three means of access to the original content: Printed pages with transcriptions, transliterations, and translations; A printed index; The entire collection of papyri on an accompanying CD.)
BAR S1076 2002: Royal Festivals in the Late Predynastic Period and the First Dynasty by Alejandro Jiménez Serrano. ISBN 1841714550. £27.00. viii, 116 pages, 57 figures, drawings, plans, maps, 2 tables.
This book studies the royal festivals in the Egyptian Late Predynastic period and the First Dynasty. (The chronological beginning here is the Naqada IId period and the author includes a brief account of royal festivals in the contemporary Lower Nubia and the Second Dynasty.) The Egyptian kings developed a complex system of ceremonies and rituals that served them as a form of expression before society. The ways were complex and varied, but so effective that most of these festivals continued to be performed for more than three thousand years. The author begins with an historical outline of the unification process and the First Dynasty before exploring the main themes of kingship and festivals. The points of discussion include temple structures (Abydos, Saqqara, Hierakonpolis), festival traditions, the ‘sed’ festival, ‘victory festivals’, the festival of ‘Sokar’, and symbolic topography.
BAR S1072 2002: Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 9 Meinarti III: The Late and Terminal Christian Phases by William Y. Adams. ISBN 1841714518 . £52.00. xii + 126 pages. 9 loose maps in folders, 2 fold-out plans, 5 pages of colour plates, 38 pages of b/w plates, 15 tables, 81 figures, drawings, maps and plans. Register of finds, bibliography, Arabic summary.
This is the keenly awaited third of a projected five volumes, presenting the results of excavations carried out at the Nubian site of Meinarti in 1963 and 1964. (Before its inundation, Meinarti was a low-lying alluvial island situated at the foot of the Second Nile Cataract, about 10km to the south of the town of Wadi Halfa.) The present volume carries the story forward through Late and Terminal Christian periods (Phases 5 and 6), and up to the final abandonment of the site around AD 1600. This accomplished series of reports is designed very much as a work of reference, and is consequently highly user-friendly, with each section presented as a self-contained study.
BAR S1052 2002: Ancient Egypt and Antique Europe Two Parts of the Mediterranean World. Papers from a session held at the the European Association of Archaeologists Seventh Annual Meeting in Esslingen 2001 edited by Amanda-Alice Maravelia. ISBN 184171433X. £24.00. 82 pages, illustrated with fogures, maps.
CONTENTS: AMANDA–ALICE MARAVELIA and GALINA A. BELOVA: Ancient Egypt and Antique Europe: Two Parts of the Mediterranean World (Some Perspectives for European Egyptology); AMANDA–ALICE MARAVELIA: Egyptian Collections in Hellenic Museums: A Brief History and Some Pieces; ELENI CLADAKI MANOLI, MARGARITA NICOLAKAKI–KENTROU, ELENI TOURNA: Egyptian Thesauri in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens; VIKTOR LEBEDINSKY: Underwater Archaeology in Egypt: The Past and the Present; HARRY E. TZALAS: The Hellenic Mission’s Archaeological Survey in Alexandria: A Preliminary Report; IOANNIS LIRITZIS: The Archaeological Sciences Institute of the Aegean at Alexandria (ASIAA): Research and Perspectives for the Future. A Preliminary Report; SERGEEJ V. IVANOV: Databank of Eastern European Egyptology: The Project and its Prospects
BAR S1045 2002: Las tumbas reales egipcias del Tercer Período Intermedio (dinastías XXI – XXV) Tradición y cambios by José Lull (with extensive summary in English). ISBN 1841714267. £44.00. 326 pages, 147 figures, 22 plates.
After the death of the last of the ramessides, Smendes, Lord of Tanis, proclaimed himself Pharaoh, founded the XXI dynasty and initiated one of the most unknown but attractive periods in the history of Egypt, the Third Intermediate Period. This book deals with the burials in the Valley of the Kings in the 21st – 30th Dynasties of Egypt, when they were not used by the rulers anymore. Through detailed investigation of the tombs and the hieroglyphes, the author has tried to identify the individuals buried in these tombs. The royal New Kingdom tombs were taken as a reference point and a comparison with the texts and iconography was established. This enables a better understandong of the traditions that followed in the Third Intermediate Period and naturally the changes that had taken place in the choice of the religious compendiums and representations associated with this period.
BAR S1007 2001: Two Treasurers of the Late Middle Kingdom (Egypt) by Wolfram Grajetzki. ISBN 1841712868. £27.00. iv; 103 pages; drawings, plans, tables; 8 black and white plates.
The Middle Kingdom (c. 2000 – 1500 BC) is in many respects the classical period of ancient Egyptian history and culture. During the two main periods of this era there were profound changes in administration and material culture. The office of the treasurer was established in the Early Middle Kingdom as one of the highest offices at the royal palace. As a result of recent finds of stelae and other material, this volume presents an in-depth study of two important treasurers, as well as many of the minor officials in their administrations.
BAR S1006 2001: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 53 Darfur (Sudan) In the Age of Stone Architecture c. AD 1000 – 1750 Problems in historical reconstruction by Andrew James McGregor. ISBN 184171285X. £36.00. v; 173 pages; 5 maps; 19 plates.
Volume 53 in the series of Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology focuses on the old sultanate of Darfur, in the westen part of modern Sudan, and, in particular its stone architecture from c. AD 1000-1750 (before its fall to the forces of European colonialism). Proper archaeological work has yet to begin in Darfur and a full study of the known physical evidence, with the associated traditions, has yet to be completed. This volume presents a study of the physical and linguistic evidence, and oral traditions that take regional contexts into account, and therefore provides a framework for archaeological investigation. The existing literature is examined in depth to separate fact from fiction, and to suggest the most promising avenues for further research.
BAR S980 2001: Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 7 Life on the Desert Edge Seven thousand years of settlement in the Northern Dongola Reach, Sudan by Derek A. Welsby. ISBN 1841712663. £109.00. Vol. 1: 348 pages; 6 colour photographs; 252 figures, maps, plans, fold-out plans, drawings; 8 tables; 183-page Gazetteer of sites..
Although large-scale investigations are common in other areas of the Nile valley, little archaeological activity had taken place along the Dongola Reach and the 80km stretch of the Nile on the east bank from opposite el Khandag in the south to Eimani in the north. In 1993 the Sudan Archaeological Research Society (SARS) began a four-season campaign of survey in this area which was followed by a single season of excavation, the work ending in 1997. The survey was stimulated by the current lack of information on the area and the threat of future development destroying whatever evidence might be there. A thorough investigation of the region was therefore essential to discover the archaeological potential and to allow steps to be taken to protect or record the sites. The extensive results are published here in two very detailed volumes; 11 further contributors have added chapters on pottery, scarabs, lithics, leather samples, human remains, animal remains, plant remains, and small finds. Volume 1 includes a detailed geological ‘history’ of the region and a site Gazetteer. Volume 2 includes a detailed chapter on results and analyses and a summary in Arabic.
BAR S966 2001: Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 6 Meinarti II The Early and Classic Christian Phases by William Y. Adams. ISBN 1841712531. £52.00. 164 pages (inc. 5 pages of Arabic summary and 40 pages of plates); numerous photographs, fold-out plans, illustrations and tables.
This is the second of a projected series of five important volumes presenting the results of excavations (1963-4) carried out at the Nubian site of Meinarti (near the Second Nile Cataract, about 10km to the south of modern-day Wadi Halfa). Occupation of the site covers some 18 levels, ranging from perhaps 200 AD to the early Post-Christian periods, or approximately 1600 AD. This second volume (following on from the analysis of the two first Phases – the Meroitic and Ballaña) carries the story forward through the Early and Classic Christian periods, designated as Phases 3 and 4. The work includes a summary in Arabic, a section containing 40 pages of b/w photographs, and a back-cover pocket-insert with seven separate plans/lay-outs. A comprehensive register of finds from Phases 3 and 4 is presented as an Appendix.
BAR S923 2001: Ptolemaic Royal Sculpture from Egypt The interaction between Greek and Egyptian traditions by Sally-Ann Ashton. ISBN 1841712213. £27.00. 121 pages, numerous photographs, 2 tables.
Although the Ptolemaic royal image has been the subject of many individual studies, there remains an imbalance in the extent of scholarly attention devoted to the different styles of imagery. The aims of the present publication are to assess the interaction between the Greek and Egyptian Ptolemaic royal representations (from about the third century B.C.), and to establish a relative chronological sequence for developments in the presentation of the royal family, where possible identifying individual rulers. The material is divided according to classification, and the various functions of the different types of royal image will also be considered. Includes a catalogue section detailing 70 pieces of sculpture from major museum collections and elsewhere.
BAR S919 2001: The Anra Scarab An archaeological and historical approach by Fiona Richards. ISBN 1841712175. £47.00. 350 pages, 46 figures, 12 tables, 18 graphs, 29 maps, 3 appendices, catalogue.
The potential of the scarab seal is still neglected by many archaeologists. They are primarily considered for chronological purposes, and so their capacity as an historical document is under-rated, as is their value as an archaeological tool. Luckily, more recent studies are beginning to assess the archaeological and historical value of scarabs, and in particular design scarabs, revealing them as potential indicators of cultural interaction, and it is within this genre that the anra (identified always by a sequence of hieroglyphs which includes the letters n and r) scarab is considered in this extensive study. The aim of this work is to try and establish the status, function, meaning, and significance of the anra scarab, and possibly offer something new with regard to the nature of the relationships that existed between the countries of Africa and the Levant during the latter part of the Middle Bronze Age.
BAR S909 2000: Current Research in Egyptology 2000 edited by Angela McDonald and Christina Riggs. ISBN 1841712078. £32.00. 143 pages, 17 Symposium papers with photographs, line drawings, figures and tables.
A selection of 17 papers from the first Symposium of “Current Research in Egyptology”, held in Oxford in 2000. The Symposium was held to foster communication and exchange of ideas among students of Egyptology at UK institutions. The UK enjoys a wealth of Egyptological resources, but it is sometimes difficult for graduate students from different universities to interact. In many cases, the very diverse papers presented, constitute ongoing research, offering authors the opportunity to formulate the current state of their work, and to present it to a wider audience. Topics covered range from “Hysteria Revisited: Women’s Public Health in Ancient Egypt” to “Papyrological Evidence of Travelling in Byzantine Egypt”.
BAR S903 2000: Egyptian Studies Association Publication 4 Excavations in the Locality 6 Cemetery at Hierakonpolis 1979-1985 by Barbara Adams. ISBN 1841710997. £47.00. 316 pages, 30 tables, 116 plates (13 colour), 30 figures.
Hierakonpolis is situated some 650 km south of Cairo and 113 km north of Aswan. The Locality 6 cemetery lies 2 km south west of the edge of cultivation in the bed of Wadi Abul Suffian, and covers an area of approximately 18,000 sq.m. The mortuary use of the site started about 3700 BC and continued until around 3050 BC. This volume studies 12 tombs, discussing geological features, tomb architecture, various finds (including human bone, floral and faunal remains), regional cemetery planning, extra-regional contacts, the site history, etc.
BAR S895 2000: Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 5 Meinarti I The Late Meroitic, Ballana and Transitional occupation by William Y. Adams. ISBN 1841710946. £34.00. 109 pages, 13 tables, 41 figures (including 3 separate, fold-out cross-sectional diagrams), maps and plans (including 8 fold-out plans), 22 plates.
Before its inundation in 1965, the island of Meinarti was situated at the foot of the Second Nile Cataract, 10km south of the town of Wadi Halfa. It was the last place that could be reached, at all times of the year, by large watercraft travelling upriver, a circumstance clearly important in shaping the history of the settlement. The total excavation work covered 18 occupation levels, varying in date from the 2nd or 3rd centuries to the 17th century AD. This volume processes in detail the Late Meroitic and Ballaña phases (c. 200-660 AD), and is the first in five volume series.
BAR S888 2000: The Foreign Relations of the “Hyksos” A neutron activation study of Middle Bronze Age pottery from the Eastern Mediterranean by Patrick E. McGovern with a contribution by Tine Bagh. ISBN 1841710881. £42.00. 242 pages, 1 colour plate, 17 b/w plates, 29 figures, 46 tables.
This NAA study of Syro-Palestinian pottery types found at Tell el-Dab‘a/Avaris is important from the perspective it provides on economic and social developments at what has been identified as the capital of the “Hyksos” in the north eastern Nile Delta during the period from the late Middle Kingdom through the Second Intermediate Period. As well as opening up a new sight-line on the pottery industry at Tell el-Dab‘a / Avaris, this study is also extremely important in refining hypotheses and conclusions based on pottery analyses, and, indeed, the author presents his case for a radical rethink in the light of these NAA findings. Illustrated throughout.
 BAR S866 2000: An Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles, Epithets and Phrases of the Old Kingdom A completely updated and revised edition of Murray’s Index of 1908 including an analysis of all new material published to date by Dilwyn Jones. ISBN 1841710695. £114.00. 1045 pages in two volumes.
Modern research of titles and epithets used in Ancient Egypt has made considerable advances since the publication of first listings by Murray. These volumes present completely updated lists, with the individual entries given in the most common orthography followed by a transliteration and a translation, the approximate date of the source and textual reference.
BAR S827 2000: Vitreous Materials at Amarna The production of glass and faience in 18th Dynasty Egypt by Andrew J Shortland. ISBN 1841710385. £32.00. 184 pages, 114 b/w figures and photos, 7 colour photographs.
This book investigates the technological processes involved in the making of ancient vitreous materials concentrating on the site of Amarna, in Middle Egypt. Amarna was the capital city of the 18th Dynasty king, Akhenaten (1352-1336 BC). The manufacture of vitreous materials in Dynastic Egypt reached its zenith in terms of artistic and technical accomplishment in the 18th Dynasty. Amidst the debate over the source of these technological advances, whether some of the vitreous materials were imported or manufactured locally, the entire process of manufacture is examined, from the selection of raw materials, preliminary processing and eventual firing right through to the distribution of the finished objects. Analysis of the finished objects and the waste materials of the production sequence by scanning electron microscope and other techniques forms the principal source of evidence, supported by close examination of the archaeological context. The significance of the different types and colours of glasses is examined and compared to the material from tomb paintings and texts, which sheds light on the relationship between Egpytian glass and Mesopotamian glasses. The overall social and political climate of the city of Amarna and other New Kingdom towns is also considered where this might help our understanding of the conditions of craftsmen in vitreous materials or of the overall control of the industry.
BAR S814 1999: Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 4 Kulubnarti III The cemeteries by William Y. Adams, Nettie K. Adams, Dennis P. Van Gerven and David L. Greene. ISBN 184171027X. £23.00. 90 pages of text with 17 figures, 18 plates of photographs.
This is a third in a series of definitive publications on the excavations of medieval sites in Nubia. It is concerned with the funerary remains uncovered in two cemeteries, one on the island of Kulubnarti, the other on the adjacent left bank of the Nile. The report includes detailed descriptions of grave types which are set within their Nubian medieval context. Special attention is given to the analysis of textiles found as well as to the physiscal anthropology.
BAR S782 1999: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 48 Échanges et contacts le long du Nil et de la Mer Rouge dans l'époque protohistorique (IIIe et IIe millénaires avant J.-C.) Une synthèsepréliminaire by Andrea Manzo. ISBN 1841710024. £30.00. 168 pages, 61 figures.
The study of social and cultural changes which occurred in the period between 3000 and 1000 BC in the areas bordering the Nile and the Red Sea. Studied were the Egyptian texts, archaeological evidence as well as paleo-climatic circumstances.
BAR S740 1998: Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 3 Gabati A Meroitic, post-Meroitic and medieval cemetery in central Sudan by D.N. Edwards. ISBN 0860549364. £39.00. 257 pages, 114 b/w line drawings, 94 b/w photographs, 4 plates in colour.
This is a report on rescue excavations carried out by SARS on a Meroitic and post-Meroitic cemetery in Gabati, on the east bank of the Nile, north of Khartoum. Detailed description of excavations and finds throws light on the little known events and possible population movements in the 4th-7th centuries AD in Sudan.
BAR S651 1996: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 40 State Formation in Egypt Chronology and society by A.H. Wilkinson. ISBN 0860548384. £34.00.
BAR S590 1994: Excavations in Akhmim, Egypt Continuity and change in city life from late antiquity to the present by Sheila McNally and Ivancica Dvorzak Schrunk. ISBN 0860547604. £26.00.
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