EGYPTIAN
ARCHAEOLOGY
David KLOTZ
Caesar in the City of Amun: Egyptian Temple Construction and Theology in Roman Thebes YYWJJJ Q Y NN 1# *4#/ ǎ
Series: Monographies Reine Élisabeth, Vol. 15
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Pilot excavation east of the Saqqara escarpment
somewhere like Thebes, Memphis might as well have been undiscovered terrain. Thankfully, that left us a certain freedom to explore whatever seemed interesting without any prejudice or prior influence. We are now at a stage where we can at least make some intelligent and informed guesses about the past Memphite environment. It became clear to us early on that the only way to understand Memphis properly (or any other ancient Egyptian site, for that matter) was to explore and appreciate its natural and human evolution: from perhaps a river island or even a riverine archipelago at the start, to its appearance as the mightiest conurbation anywhere in the ancient Near East. To begin with we were in a sense hampered by existing models of urban growth from other places such as Mesopotamia, in particular the presumption that any large communal living area would be highly nucleated or centralised; given the circumstances of the Nile regime that now seems unlikely. Instead we have proposed a string of settlement centres along the west side of the floodplain, attracting the building locations of the various pyramid and associated tomb sites, with an established core region near the earliest elite tombs between Saqqara on the west and Helwan on the east. As the river migrated eastwards many of these sites were abandoned and a nucleus did emerge (see also pp.1517) at Mit Rahina - home to the iconic Ptah temple Hikuptah (origin of the name ‘Egypt’) and also the site of many other important functional sites and monuments - including, perhaps crucially, the port of Perunefer (see the recent discussions in EA 26, pp.13-17; 28, pp.36-37; 34, pp.15-17 and 35, pp.16-17). This edition of Egyptian Archaeology highlights the environmental work that the Society’s projects are currently involved in from the Nile Delta to Upper Egypt. We all hope that this special issue will bring the Society’s contribution to this important initiative to a wider public and we look forward to future developments and to future collaborations with colleagues who have also contributed to this and other issues of EA.
Hans SCHNEIDER
The Tomb of Iniuia in the New Kingdom Necropolis of Memphis at Saqqara Q Y NN 1# *4#/ ǎ
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities, Vol. 8
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Arts et politique sous Sésostris Ier Littérature, sculpture et architecture dans leur contexte historique WJJJ Q JMM DPVMFVS Y NN 1# *4#/ ǎ
Série : Monumenta Aegyptiaca, vol. 13
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Exhibiting the Past Caspar Reuvens and the Museums of Antiquities in Europe, 1800-1840 Q C X BOE DPMPVS JMMT Y NN 1# *4#/ ǎ
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities, Vol. 7
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q David Jeffreys is Senior Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and Director of the EES Survey of Memphis. Photographs: © Egypt Exploration Society.
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