The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom

Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras, Ph.D. (2016), University of Liverpool, holds a ‘Juan de la Cierva’ Fellowship at CSIC (Madrid). She has published several articles about Dra Abu el-Naga, which includes her collaboration in the paper “Geomorphology of Dra Abu el-Naga (Egypt): The basis of the funerary sacred landscape”, Journal of African Earth Sciences 131 (2017): 233-250.

Acknowledgements

List of Figures, Maps, Diagrams and Tables



Introduction

 1 What This Book Is About. Structure of the Book: Aims and Research Questions

 2 Theban Necropolis and Dra Abu el-Naga: Main Characteristics and Development

 3 Literature Review and Brief History of the Research in Dra Abu el-Naga



Part 1 How the Tomb Owners Respond to the Landscape



1 Theoretical Approach: Landscape Archaeology



2 Distribution of the Tombs of Dra Abu el-Naga in the New Kingdom

 1 Parameters and Methodology



3 A Cluster of Ramesside Tombs in Dra Abu el-Naga South

 1 Chronology

 2 Titles

 3 Kinship

 4 Architectonical and Archaeological Factors

 5 Concluding Remarks



4 A Seemingly ‘Unplanned’ Territory

 1 The Case of the Tombs Dated from the Co-regency of Hatshepsut-Thutmose III, and the Reign of Thutmose III

 2 A Case of Territoriality Identity? Outsiders: Nobles of Non-Theban Origin

 3 The ‘Courtyard of Amun’, a Ritual Space in Dra Abu el-Naga Reserved for the Officials of the Amun Temple in Karnak

 4 Chronological or Administrative Entities’ Organisation of the Research Area?



Part 2 How the Landscape Affects the Tombs



5 Organisation of Dra Abu el-Naga and Its Religious Connection with Other Areas of the Theban Necropolis

 1 Parameters and Methodology



6 Visibility Analysis between Dra Abu el-Naga and the Main Areas of the Theban Necropolis

 1 A Tomb with a View: The Case of the Ramesside Cluster of Tombs in Dra Abu el-Naga South

 2 Views from a Seemingly ‘Unplanned’ Territory



7 Reconstruction of the Ancient Paths and Processional Routes

 1 Tombs Orientated to Processional Ways and Festival Routes

 2 Distribution and ‘Urbanism of the Necropolis’



Conclusion



Bibliography

Index