This volume is the first of a series on the ceramics from the Egypt Exploration Society's excavations in the Anubieion at Saqqara. The desert edge overlooking the Nile Valley was intensively used for two and a half millennia before its selection as the site of the mainly Ptolemaic temple. Mastaba tombs, pyramids and their associated temples, densely packed shaft tombs and a Late Dynastic cemetery came and went, many leaving evidence of former magnificence, while invisible beneath shifting sands lies fragmentary testimony to the kings, queens, nobles and commoners buried here and the priestly communities who ministered to their needs in the afterlife. Two volumes 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. Published and some unpublished parallels from Saqqara itself, from the city of Memphis, where most of those buried here lived and died, and from further afield, place each type in its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.
This volume is the first of a series on the ceramics from the Egypt Exploration Society's excavations in the Anubieion at Saqqara. The desert edge overlooking the Nile Valley was intensively used for two and a half millenia before its selection as the site of the mainly Ptolemaic temple.About the AuthorPeter French was a Visiting Scholar at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. he graduated from Cambridge with a degree in modern languageslater obtaining the London University Extra-Mural Diploma in Archaeology. During 35 years of fieldwork in Egypt at sites ranging from Buto to Qasr Ibrim he concentrated on ceramics and small finds. Janine Bourriau is a Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute. She has excavated in Egypt at Saqqara, Memphis and Buto for the EES from 1984. Her particular interest lies in Egypt's Middle Kingdom but the study of ceramics has taken her into all historic periods. She was previously Keeper of Antiquities in the Fitzwilliam Museum.
Book InformationISBN 9780856982149
Author Peter FrenchFormat Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Egypt Exploration SocietyPublisher Egypt Exploration Society
Weight(grams) 1555g
Dimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 25mm