Fustat finds
Subtitle: beads, coins, medical instruments, textiles, and other artifacts from the Awad collection
By: edited by Jere L. Bacharach.
Contributors: Bacharach, Jere L., 1938-
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cairo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Awad, Henri Amin, -- 1926-; Islamic antiquities -- Egypt -- Cairo.; Fusṭāṭ (Cairo, Egypt) -- Antiquities.
Description: "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 specialists, this material illuminates many areas of the archaeological record neglected or missing from other studies. -- The ten studies in this volume--covering beads, bone, coins, glass weights and vessel stamps, medical instruments, medical prescriptions, metal objects, and textiles-- demonstrate the wide range of archaeological material once found in al-Fustat, a site no longer accessible since most of it has been buried under urban development or lost to a rising water table."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Foreword Ibrahim Abd al-Rahman & 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Tawwab; title: Introduction Jere L. Bacharach; title: Beads Peter Francis, Jr.; title: Bone, Ivory, and Wood Jere L. Bacharach & Elizabeth Rodenbeck; title: Coins; title: Introduction Jere L. Bacharach; title: Coin Table:; title: Primary Identifiers Jere L. Bacharach (Ayyubid), Michael L.; title: Bates (Egyptian copper), Peter Mentzel; title: (Tulunid, Mamluk), Norman D. Nicol (Pre-; title: Islamic, Fatimid, Ottoman, Seljuqs of Rum),; title: Luke Treadwell (Umayyad, 'Abbasid); title: Bibliography Norman D. Nicol; title: Copper Coinage of Egypt; title: in the Seventh Century Lidia Domaszewicz & Michael L. Bates; title: Glass Weights and Vessel Stamps Katharina Eldada; title: Glass Vessel Stamp Data; title: for Materia Medica Sami K. Hamareh & Henri Amin Awad; title: Medical Instruments Sami K. Hamameh & Henri Amin Awad; title: Medical Prescriptions Henri Amin Awad; title: Metal Objects Jere L. Bacharach & Elizabeth Rodenbeck; title: Textiles Nancy Arthur Hoskins; title: Selected Bibliography of Published Works by Dr. Henri Amin Awad.