Research Catalog

Title

Egypt in the first millennium AD : perspectives from new fieldwork / edited by Elisabeth R. O'Connell.

Author

Pagans, Christians and Muslims (Colloquium) (2012 : British Museum)

Publication

• Leuven ; Paris ; Walpole, MA : Peeters, 2014.
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

O'Connell, Elisabeth R.

Description

xiv, 230 pages, 68 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans; 31 cm

Summary

This volume contains the proceedings of the twenty-first annual British Museum Egyptology Colloquium, which was the first in the series dedicated to post-pharaonic Egypt. The volume investigates continuity and change in the archaeological record in the First Millennium AD, focusing on the transitions to and from Late Antiquity (AD 250-800), when Egypt's population became Christian and, later, Islam was introduced. The fourteen contributors, representing the overlapping disciplines of Egyptology, Archaeology and Art History with specialisations in the pharaonic, Roman and Late Antique periods, present the results of new archaeological research at a range of sites currently under investigation. Seeking to identify trends and compare results, the volume is organised according to four major themes: 1) settlements, 2) cemeteries, 3) settling rock-cut tombs and quarries and 4) temple-church-mosque. Many of the contributions address adaptive reuse of earlier architecture, the recycling of earlier monuments as building material (i.e., spolia), or both.0.

Series Statement

British Museum publications on Egypt and Sudan ; 2

Uniform Title

British Museum publications on Egypt and Sudan ; 2.

Subject

• 30 B.C. - 1250 A.D
• Antiquities
• Egypt > History > 30 B.C.-640 A.D. > Congresses
• Egypt > History > 640-1250 > Congresses
• Egypt > Antiquities > Congresses
• Egypt

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Settlements and cemeteries in Late Antique Egypt : an introduction / Elisabeth R. O'Connell -- Urban change at Late Roman Trimithis (Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt) / Anna Lucille Boozer -- Living the high life : late antique archaeology in the Delta / Penelope Wilson -- Syene (ancient Aswan) in the firt millennium AD / Wolfgang Müller -- Qasr Ibrim : new perspectives on the changing textile cultures of Lower Nubia / John Peter Wild and Felicity Wild -- City of the dead : the necropolis of Tuna el-Gebel during the Roman period / Katja Lembke -- Churches and meeting halls in necropoleis and crypts in intramural churches / Peter Grossmann -- Textiles from the so-called 'tomb of Tgol' in Antinoupolis / Cäcilia Fluck -- Gebel Asyut al-gharbi in the first millennium AD / Jochem Kahl -- The Christianisation of the Amarna landscape : conquest, convenience or combat? / Gillian Pyke -- Monastic settlements in Dayr Abu Hinnis (Middle Egypt) : the spatial perspective / Gertrud J.M. van Loon and Véronique De Laet -- Wadi Sarga revisited : a preliminary study of the pottery excavated in 1913/14 / Jane Faiers -- 'You will open up the ways in the underworld of the god' : aspects of Roman and late antique Abydos / Andreas Effland -- SCA excavations at Luxor : new discoveries from the first millennium AD / Mansour Boraik -- Reused architectural elements in Alexandrian mosques and cisterns / Helen Fragaki.

Call Number

JFG 15-151

ISBN

• 9789042930711
• 9042930713

OCLC

900685952

Conference

Pagans, Christians and Muslims (Colloquium) (2012 : British Museum)

Title

Egypt in the first millennium AD : perspectives from new fieldwork / edited by Elisabeth R. O'Connell.

Publisher

Leuven ; Paris ; Walpole, MA : Peeters, 2014.

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

British Museum publications on Egypt and Sudan ; 2

British Museum publications on Egypt and Sudan ; 2.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

30 B.C. - 1250 A.D.

Added Author

O'Connell, Elisabeth R., editor.

Research Call Number

JFG 15-151