The Oasis Papers 10: The Land Where the Sun Goes Down. The Archaeology of Egypt’s Western Desert

Contents

Preface

Conference Programme

Managing the Preservation of Archaeological Sites and Heritage in Parallel with Achieving the Goals of Sustainable Development – Lamiaa Sayed Abdallah

The Church at Dayr Abu Matta, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt and its Implication for Dating Triconch Churches in the Nile Valley and Beyond – Gillian E. Bowen and Christian Turney

Plaster Architectural Decoration from Domestic Contexts at Amheida – Roberta Casagrande-Kim

Eastern Desert Signposts and Western Desert Annotations: Early Hieroglyphic Rock Inscriptions in Upper Egypt – John Coleman Darnell

Christian Archaeology in Kharga Oasis: Recent Fieldwork – Victor Ghica

The ‘Cult Hill’ of El-Deir: Reflections on the Typology of Temples in the Kharga Oasis – Arnault Gigante and Gaëlle Tallet

Mut al-Kharab: The Archaeology of the Central Temple Area – Colin A. Hope

The Abandonment of Kellis: Further Reflections – Colin A. Hope, Gillian E. Bowen and Iain Gardner

A Stela for Harendotes from Amheida and the Changing Views on Horus and Seth in the Southern Oasis – Olaf E. Kaper

Stratified Late Antique Ceramics from al-Qasr – Paul N. Kucera

Footsteps in the Rock: Graffiti on an Outcrop in North Kharga – Nikolaos Lazaridis and Salima Ikram

The So-Called ‘Water Mountain’ Symbol in the Chufu Region, Egyptian Western Desert: New Insights and Interpretations – Nourhan Moustafa Ahmed

Lighting in Trimithis: Lamps from Late Roman Domestic Contexts – Marina Maria Serena Nuovo

From the Valley, From the Desert: The Iconography of Seals from Balat in the Late Third Millennium – Laure Pantalacci

Irrigated Stones: Interpreting Enigmatic Petroglyphs from the Western Desert – Paweł L. Polkowski

A Reinterpretation of a Petroglyph Group at Djedefre’s Water Mountain and Other Early Boat Petroglyphs in Areas Adjacent to the Western Oases – Rita Simon

The Spread of Domesticates across Egypt and their Potential Impact on Indigenous Wild Animal Species: Placing Dakhleh in a Wider Context – Juliet V. Spedding, Salima Ikram, Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, Chris Thomas and Jakob Bro-Jørgensen

Blocks from a Late Period or Early Ptolemaic Period Tomb near Mut in Dakhleh Oasis – Günter Vittmann

Dayr Mustafa Kashif and the Episcopate of Oasis Magna in Late Antiquity – Rhiannon Williams

The Dakhleh Oasis Project Monographs

About the Author

Colin A. Hope and Paweł L. Polkowski are members of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, while Julie R. Anderson and Loretta Kilroe represent the Department of Egypt and the Sudan at the British Museum. Hope is Senior Research Adjunct in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Monash University and directs excavations in Dakhleh Oasis at Ismant al-Kharab and Mut al-Kharab; he is a founding member of the Dakhleh Oasis Project and focuses upon settlement archaeology in Dakhleh. Polkowski is the current director of the Project and head of its Petroglyph Unit. He is the senior custodian at the Poznań Archaeological Museum and an adjunct at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Julie Anderson is Curator for Egypt and the Sudan with a major interest in the Kushite and Saite Periods, while Loretta Kilroe is the IB Curator for Sudan and Nubia.