Delta reports 1 : research in the cultural history of the ancient / edited by Eva Lange-Athinodorou and Penelope Wilson

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lange-Athinodorou, Eva, editor.

Wilson, Penelope, editor.

Series:

Archaeopress Egyptology ; 51.

Archaeopress Egyptology ; 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt--Nile River Delta.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 120 pages ): illustrations (chiefly color), maps

Place of Publication:

Bicester : Archaeopress, [2025]

Summary:

"This volume compiles papers from the 2021/2023 Delta Conferences, detailing archaeological work in northern Egypt. It includes reports on Predynastic sites, Wadi Tumilat surveys, and excavations at Tjaru and Tell el Basta, alongside studies of Ptolemaic and Roman sites. A BEAST project article explores population distribution across ancient times. Following two Delta Conferences (funded through the British Academy Special Project of the Egypt Exploration Society), the first online in 2021 and the other at Ain Shams University in 2023, selected papers have been gathered in this first volume of a new series of Delta Reports. They detail archaeological work in the north of Egypt in the form of a series of reports from Predynastic sites at Minshat Abu Omar and the eastern delta, survey work in the Wadi Tumilat, and ongoing work at the fortress of Tjaru (Tell Hebou II) and the Tell el Basta ka-chapel of Pepi II. On the western side of the Delta, Ptolemaic and Roman material is reviewed from Tell Trugi, Taposiris-Magna and Naukratis. An overview article by the BEAST project discusses a method for calculating population distributions in the delta over the whole of ancient times to provide a broader context for the archaeological reports"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Vineyards and winemaking in Tell Heboua II (pA xtm n TArw) during the New Kingdom : archaeological and textual sources / Elsayed Abd El-Alim

The ancient townscape and hinterland of Kom Trugi during the Graeco-Roman period / Ahmed Rezk Al Arabi, Bassem Morsi, and Alaa Ragab

Second preliminary report on the excavations in the Ka-temple of Pepi I in Tell Basta/ Bubastis, seasons 2022–2024 / Eva Lange-Athinodorou, Veronika Appel, Daniel Elcoat, Dina Faltings, Ashraf El-Senussi

In search of individual pottery production : a study of small, bag-shaped jars from the Predynastic graves at Minshat Abu Omar (Eastern Nile Delta, Egypt) / Agnieszka Mączyńska

Remains of the processional way of the Amun-Ra temple at Naukratis / Bassem Morsi, Ahmed Rezk Al Arabi, and Walid Nosir

Mapping Wadi Tumilat archaeological sites / Mustafa Nour el-Din, Laura Penzesova

Early evidence of a “jar-killing” ritual from Predynastic sites in the East Delta / Ashraf El-Senussi and Zeinab Soliman

New research on Predynastic and Early Dynastic pottery from Dakhalia / Zeinab Souliman

Calculating ancient human population distributions in the Egyptian Delta : a preliminary examination of methods and available evidence / Juliet V. Spedding, Steven Snape, Salima Ikram, Ignacio A. Lazagabaster and Jakob Bro-Jorgensen

Taposiris-Magna (Abusir-Mariout) : gleanings from ancient historical sources / Abdou A. Youssef

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ArchaeoPress, viewed July 21, 2025)

ISBN:

9781803279787

1803279788

OCLC:

1516179106