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Late Roman Glassware and Pottery from Amarna and Related Studies
Late Roman Glassware and Pottery from Amarna and Related Studies By Jane Faiers, with contributions by Gillian Pyke and Wendy Smith EES Excavation Memoir 102. 2013 ISBN: 978-0-85698-212-5 Full price: £65. EES Members’ price: £55 This is the second volume on the monastic site of Kom el-Nana at Tell el-Amarna and brings up to date the excavations carried out there. The first volume contained mainly unstratified pottery and no glass, and included some of the Late Roman sites around Amarna. This volume brings together the stratified pottery and both stratified and unstratified glass and includes more Late Roman sites around Amarna which were visited by Robert Miller in 1988 and Barry Kemp in 1995.
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The Aubieion at Saqqara III: Pottery from the Archaic to the
The Anubieion at Saqqara III: Pottery from the Archaic to the Third Intermediate Period
The Anubieion at Saqqara III: Pottery from the Archaic to the Third Intermediate Period By Peter French, assisted by Janine Bourriau EES Excavation Memoir 103. 2013 ISBN: 978-0-85698-214-9 Full price: £70.00. EES Members’ price: £59.50 Two previous Excavation Memoirs on the Egypt Exploration Society’s excavations in the Anubieion at Saqqara have described the surviving structures and the large and small objects found and analysed in the area’s complex stratigraphy. The present volume adds the evidence of that most prolific of ancient artefacts, the pottery, for the whole period from the first use of the area until the eighth century BC, placing each type in its geographical and chronological context to trace the evolution of the ceramic repertoire in the Saqqara/ Memphis area through the major periods of ancient Egyptian history.
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The Ballaña Phase
Qasr Ibrim: The Ballaña Phase By William Y Adams, with contributions by Nettie K Adams EES Excavation Memoir 104. 2013 ISBN: 978-0-85698-216-3 Full price: £70.00. EES Members’ price: £59.50
Throughout its long history Qasr Ibrim was the most important settlement in Egyptian Nubia. During the Middle Ages it was both an administrative capital and a centre of Christian worship. As an archaeological site it has produced an unprecedented wealth of material, including objects of wood, leather and textile that are rarely preserved archaeologically. Also preserved are hundreds of specimens of written material in many different languages. This volume describes and illustrates in detail the finds from the immediate preChristian period, from about ad 350 to 600. Two earlier volumes in the same series (Qasr Ibrim, the Earlier Medieval Period and Qasr Ibrim, the Late Medieval Period) describe the remains from the succeeding periods. William Y Adams was born in California and educated at the Universities of California and Arizona, receiving his PhD from the latter institution in 1958. After early researches in American Indian ethnography he turned his attention to salvage archaeology, directing excavations within river valleys in the United States and then along the Nile in the Sudan and Egypt. From 1959 to 1966 he was Director of Excavations in Nubia for the Sudan Government, and from
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1972 to 1982 directed EES excavations at Qasr Ibrim. Simultaneously with the Qasr Ibrim excavations he served as Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, until his retirement in 1992.
As an archaeological site Qasr Ibrim has produced an unprecedented wealth of organic material that is rarely preserved archaeologically, and hundreds of specimens of written material in many different languages. This volume describes and illustrates in detail the finds from about AD 350 to AD 600, when Qasr Ibrim was both an administrative capital and a centre of Christian worship. Qasr Ibrim: The Earlier Medieval Period (EES EM 89) and Qasr Ibrim: The Late Medieval Period (EES EM 59) described the remains from the succeeding periods. Nettie K Adams was born in Oklahoma and educated at the University of Arizona in anthropology. After her marriage to W Y Adams in 1955 she participated in excavations in the American southwest, and in the Sudan during the
Nubian Monuments campaign. In 1976 she began the study of textiles at Qasr Ibrim under the guidance of Elisabeth Crowfoot. Together they worked out systems for dealing with the vast numbers of textiles, analyzing and recording material organised by cultural period are in preparation.
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every piece. Since then she has been writing and publishing the textile data from Qasr Ibrim. Catalogues of the
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Working in Memphis. The Production of Faience at Roman Period Kom Helul By Paul T Nicholson EES Excavation Memoir 105. 2013 ISBN: 978-0-85698-210-1 Full price: £70.00. EES Members’ price: £59.50 This volume reports on the EES excavation (between 2000 and 2008) at Kom Helul, Memphis, of an early Roman period faience kiln which appears to be of the same type as those excavated by Flinders Petrie in the early twentieth century. The book attempts to place Petrie’s finds in their archaeological context and to reinterpret his evidence in the light of findings from the new excavation. In so doing a new outline of the chaîne opératoire of faience production during the Roman period is proposed and its relationship with the making of pre-Roman faience is discussed. The book includes an illustrated catalogue of finds.
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