The Oasis Papers 10: The Land Where the Sun Goes Down. The Archaeology of Egypt’s Western Desert

This volume presents 19 papers from the Tenth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, offering new research on Egypt’s Western Desert from prehistory to Late Antiquity. Topics include archaeology, rock art, settlements, temples, Christianity, heritage management, and environmental change across Dakhleh and Kharga.

This volume presents 19 papers from the Tenth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, offering new research on Egypt’s Western Desert from prehistory to Late Antiquity. Topics include archaeology, rock art, settlements, temples, Christianity, heritage management, and environmental change across Dakhleh and Kharga.

Preface

Conference Programme

Managing the Preservation of Archaeological Sites and Heritage in Parallel with Achieving the Goals of Sustainable Development – Lamiaa Sayed Abdallah

The Church at Dayr Abu Matta, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt and its Implication for Dating Triconch Churches in the Nile Valley and Beyond – Gillian E. Bowen and Christian Turney

Plaster Architectural Decoration from Domestic Contexts at Amheida – Roberta Casagrande-Kim

Eastern Desert Signposts and Western Desert Annotations: Early Hieroglyphic Rock Inscriptions in Upper Egypt – John Coleman Darnell

Christian Archaeology in Kharga Oasis: Recent Fieldwork – Victor Ghica

The ‘Cult Hill’ of El-Deir: Reflections on the Typology of Temples in the Kharga Oasis – Arnault Gigante and Gaëlle Tallet

Mut al-Kharab: The Archaeology of the Central Temple Area – Colin A. Hope

The Abandonment of Kellis: Further Reflections – Colin A. Hope, Gillian E. Bowen and Iain Gardner

A Stela for Harendotes from Amheida and the Changing Views on Horus and Seth in the Southern Oasis – Olaf E. Kaper

Stratified Late Antique Ceramics from al-Qasr – Paul N. Kucera

Footsteps in the Rock: Graffiti on an Outcrop in North Kharga – Nikolaos Lazaridis and Salima Ikram

The So-Called ‘Water Mountain’ Symbol in the Chufu Region, Egyptian Western Desert: New Insights and Interpretations – Nourhan Moustafa Ahmed

Lighting in Trimithis: Lamps from Late Roman Domestic Contexts – Marina Maria Serena Nuovo

From the Valley, From the Desert: The Iconography of Seals from Balat in the Late Third Millennium – Laure Pantalacci

Irrigated Stones: Interpreting Enigmatic Petroglyphs from the Western Desert – Paweł L. Polkowski

A Reinterpretation of a Petroglyph Group at Djedefre’s Water Mountain and Other Early Boat Petroglyphs in Areas Adjacent to the Western Oases – Rita Simon

The Spread of Domesticates across Egypt and their Potential Impact on Indigenous Wild Animal Species: Placing Dakhleh in a Wider Context – Juliet V. Spedding, Salima Ikram, Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, Chris Thomas and Jakob Bro-Jørgensen

Blocks from a Late Period or Early Ptolemaic Period Tomb near Mut in Dakhleh Oasis – Günter Vittmann

Dayr Mustafa Kashif and the Episcopate of Oasis Magna in Late Antiquity – Rhiannon Williams

The Dakhleh Oasis Project Monographs

• Edited by Colin A. Hope
• Edited by Paweł L. Polkowski
• Edited by Julie R. Anderson
• Edited by Loretta Kilroe
• Associate editor Bruce E. Parr