ASYUT AND THE ASYUT PROJECT JOCHEM KAHL 1. ASYUT: A CITY OF CULTURE, A BORDER TOWN AND A WOUNDED CITY MUSEUMS ALL OVER THE WORLD DISPLAY MASTERPIECES OF ART WHICH WERE FOUND AT ASYUT. ESPECIALLY WORTH MENTIONING ARE OBJECTS FROM THE LATE FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD/PERIOD OF REGIONS (FOR THAT TERM CF. MORENZ 2010: 35) AND THE MIDDLE KINGDOM, E.G. THE ... إقراء المزيد

POTTERY OFFERING TRAYS: GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND NEW MATRIAL FROM ASYUT ANDREA KILIAN DURING THE FIELD CAMPAIGNS CONDUCTED BY THE ASYUT PROJECT FROM 2004 UNTIL 2008 A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF FRAGMENTED POTTERY OFFERING TRAYS WAS UNEARTHED. THERE IS STILL NO SPECIFIC TERM WHICH COULD BE USED WHEN REFERRING TO THESE OBJECTS. IN GERMAN THEY ARE SPOKEN OF AS E.G. "OPFERPLATTEN", "OPFERTELLER" ... إقراء المزيد

HUMAN BONES FROM TOMBS OF THE OLD KINGDOM MAGDALENA PATOLLA THIS STUDY DEALS WITH HUMAN SKELETAL REMAINS FROM THE MIDDLE-EGYPTIAN NECROPOLIS GEBEL ASYUT AL-GHARBI, STEP 7. BIOLOGICAL TRACES ON SKELETAL MATERIAL SERVE AS A BASIS FOR INDIVIDUAL FINDINGS, WHICH OFFER A UNIQUE ACCESS IN RECONSTRUCTING DAILY LIFE, ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIVING CONDITIONS IN PREHISTORIC POPULATIONS AND ALLOW AN INSIGHT INTO THE ... إقراء المزيد

THE NOMARCHS OF ASYUT DURING THE FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD AND THE MIDDLE KINGDOM MAHMOUD EL-KHADRAGY REINVESTIGATING THE ANCIENT NECROPOLIS OF ASYUT BY THE EGYPTIAN-GERMAN JOINT MISSION OF SOHAG UNIVERSITY AND THE JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITÄT MAINZ FOR SEVEN SUCCESSIVE SEASONS (2003-2009) PROVIDED US WITH RICH INFORMATION CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NOME DURING THE LATER PART OF THE FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD AND ... إقراء المزيد

EPIGRAPHIC WORK AT ASYUT SAMEH SHAFIK HISTORY OF THE EPIGRAPHIC WORK AT ASYUT A NUMBER OF EXPEDITIONS HAVE WORKED IN THE LAST THREE CENTURIES IN THE CEMETERY WEST OF ASYUT, SPENDING MANY YEARS OF FIELDWORK BUT FINDING GREAT DIFFICULTIES MOSTLY DUE TO THE CONDITIONS OF THE SCENES AND INSCRIPTIONS IN THE TOMBS OF THIS CEMETERY. EXAMPLES OF SUCH EXPEDITIONS ARE: ... إقراء المزيد

AN OVERVIEW OF ISLAMIC POTTERY ABD EL-NASER YASIN DURING SEVEN SEASONS OF THE COURSE EXCAVATION, A LARGE NUMBER OF ISLAMIC POTTERY OBJECTS HAS BEEN DISCOVERED AND CLASSIFIED AS FOLLOWS: * UNGLAZED EARTHENWARE THE EXCAVATION PROVIDED US WITH VARIOUS FRAGMENTS OF UNGLAZED VESSELS, MOSTLY WATER JUGS AND KOULLAL. * GLAZED EARTHENWARE THE MOST COMMON FORMS OF POTTERY FOUND DURING THE EXCAVATIONS ... إقراء المزيد

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF TOMB SIUT II FROM THE MIDDLE KINGDOM MEIKE BECKER IN THE NECROPOLIS OF ASYUT ONE CAN FIND SOME OF THE LARGEST EXAMPLES OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PRIVATE TOMB ARCHITECTURE. THE LECTURE DEALS WITH THE TOMB OF THE 12TH DYNASTY NOMARCH DJEFAI-HAPI II. IN CONTRAST TO THE LONG KNOWN AND WELL DESCRIBED TOMBS OF THE LOCAL NOMARCHS CHETI I ... إقراء المزيد

WOODEN MODELS FROM ASYUT MONIKA ZÖLLER-ENGELHARDT WOODEN MODEL GRAVE GOODS REPRESENT ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST IMPORTANT GROUPS OF GRAVE GOODS FROM THE LATE OLD KINGDOM UNTIL THE END OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOM. IN ASYUT WOODEN MODELS FORM THE CHARACTERISTICAL ELEMENT OF GRAVE GOODS OF THE FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD AND THE MIDDLE KINGDOM: THE CITY WAS ONE OF THE ... إقراء المزيد

PLANT REMAINS FOUND IN THE TOMBS OF GEBEL ASYUT, EGYPT AHMED EL-KHATIB ASYUT WAS THE ANCIENT CAPITAL OF THE 13TH NOME OF UPPER EGYPT. WITH GEBEL ABU EL-FEDA, TO THE NORTH OF THE TOWN, FACES CLOSELY THE CURVY AND DANGEROUS COURSE OF THE NILE THEREIN; ANCIENT ASYUT HAD A GREAT STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE FOR CONTROLLING THE NILE PASSAGE TO THE NORTH ... إقراء المزيد

THE NEW KINGDOM GRAFFITI IN TOMB N13.1 URSULA VERHOEVEN THE TOMB N13.1, LYING ABOUT 30 M ABOVE TOMB III, WAS DISCOVERED IN 2005 NOT HAVING BEEN DESCRIBED OR MENTIONED BY ANYONE BEFORE. WITH ITS TOMB-OWNER, THE NOMARCH ITI-IBI-IKER, IT CAN BE DATED INTO THE 11TH DYNASTY RANGING BETWEEN THE OTHER GREAT TOMBS OF NOMARCHS IN THIS NECROPOLIS.THE TOMB N13.1, LYING ... إقراء المزيد