Cities and urbanism in ancient Egypt
Subtitle: papers from a workshop in November 2006 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
By: Manfred Bietak, Ernst Czerny, Irene Forstner-Müller (editors)
Series: Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie -- Bd. 60 -- Untersuchungen der Zweigstelle Kairo des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes -- Bd. 35; Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie -- Bd. 60.; Untersuchungen der Zweigstelle Kairo des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes -- Bd. 35.
Publisher: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; Austrian Academy of Sciences Press; Brand: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Wien
Language: eng; fre; ger
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9783700165910
Subjects: Stadt; Congresses; Ancient Cities and towns; Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface by the editors  -- Manfred Bietak, Ernst Czerny and Irene Forstner-Müller; title: Houses, palaces and development of social structure in Avaris  -- Manfred Bietak; title: Fragments of information :; title: observations concerning the architectural layout of the Middle Kingdom Settlement at cEzbet Rushdi  -- Ernst Czerny; title: La résidence d'élite :; title: un type de structure dans l'organisation spatiale urbaine du Moyen Empire  -- Florence Doyen; title: Settlement patters at Avaris :; title: a study on two cases  -- Irene Forstner-Müller; title: Islands in the Nile :; title: a geoarchaeological approach to settlement location in the Egyptian Nile Valley and the case of Karnak  -- Angus Graham; title: The walls of Elkab  -- Stan Hendrickx, Dirk Huyge and Claire Newton; title: Walls, ways and stratigraphy :; title: signs of social control in an urban footprint at Giza  -- Mark Lehner and Ana Tavares; title: Urbanism in Graeco-Roman Egypt  -- Wolfgang Müller; title: Elephantine :; title: (Festungs-)Stadt am ersten Katarakt  -- Cornelius von Pilgrim; title: Vor der Kaserne :; title: external supply and self-sufficiency at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham  -- Steven Snape; title: Settlement structure and social interaction at El-Amarna  -- Kate Spence; title: Storming the gates? :; title: Entrance protection in the military architecture of Middle Kingdom Nubia  -- Carola Vogel; title: Frauen aus Nilschlamm :; title: ein Beitrag zur Anthropologie der Stadt -- Jochem Kahl.