Fustat finds : beads, coins, medical instruments, textiles, and other artifacts from the Awad collection / edited by Jere L. Bacharach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bacharach, Jere L., 1938- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Awad, Henri Amin, 1926-.

Awad, Henri Amin.

Islamic antiquities--Egypt--Cairo.

Islamic antiquities.

Fusṭāṭ (Cairo, Egypt)--Antiquities.

Fusṭāṭ (Cairo, Egypt).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cairo, Egypt ; New York, New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Corroded pieces of metal, stamped lumps of copper, broken bits of glass with partial inscriptions, fragments of textiles, tiny beads-these were the raw material found at al-Fustat, the site of the first Muslim settlement in Egypt in the seventh century and the heart of Cairo for many centuries following. From the 1950s Dr. Henri Amin Awad accepted from the poor in this area objects that had no obvious market value in return for medical services rendered. Over the years he built up an extraordinary and important collection of artifacts. Carefully cleaned, sorted, and then analyzed by specialist

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Foreword Ibrahim Abd al-Rahman & 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Tawwab

Introduction Jere L. Bacharach

Beads Peter Francis, Jr.

Bone, Ivory, and Wood Jere L. Bacharach & Elizabeth Rodenbeck

Coins

Coin Table:

Primary Identifiers Jere L. Bacharach (Ayyubid), Michael L.

Bates (Egyptian copper), Peter Mentzel

(Tulunid, Mamluk), Norman D. Nicol (Pre-

Islamic, Fatimid, Ottoman, Seljuqs of Rum),

Luke Treadwell (Umayyad, 'Abbasid)

Bibliography Norman D. Nicol

Copper Coinage of Egypt

in the Seventh Century Lidia Domaszewicz & Michael L. Bates

Glass Weights and Vessel Stamps Katharina Eldada

Glass Vessel Stamp Data

for Materia Medica Sami K. Hamareh & Henri Amin Awad

Medical Instruments Sami K. Hamameh & Henri Amin Awad

Medical Prescriptions Henri Amin Awad

Metal Objects Jere L. Bacharach & Elizabeth Rodenbeck

Textiles Nancy Arthur Hoskins

Selected Bibliography of Published Works by Dr. Henri Amin Awad.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61797-521-4

1-61797-233-9