Syene VI

A Center on the Edge. Early Islamic Pottery from Aswan
Buch | Hardcover
200 Seiten
2022 | 1. erste
PeWe-Verlag
978-3-935012-51-5 (ISBN)

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Syene VI - Gregory Williams
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In the 9th century CE, the city of Aswan, Egypt was a prosperous provincial capital on the pilgrimage route to Mecca and Medina via the Red Sea, as well as trade routes connecting the Nile River to the Wadi al-Allaqi mines, Egypt's main source of gold. The city was identified by medieval writers and geographers as situated at the frontier between Muslim Egypt and Christian Nubia. Salvage excavations under the auspices of the Swiss-Egyptian mission in Syene/Old Aswan have revealed considerable evidence of medieval Islamic activity. Evidence from 9th - 10th century ceramic assemblages uncovered during these investigations is compared and contrasted with a variety of historical sources concerning this same period. The evidence suggests that a particular style of common, utilitarian ceramics produced in the Aswan region was utilized frequently and carried or exported extensively throughout Upper Egypt, the Eastern Desert, and Lower Nubia during the 9th-10th centuries and beyond. The assemblages demonstrate a considerable distinction with the corpus of common ceramics of Fustat and Lower Egypt in the early Islamic period, as well as those of contemporary Upper Nubia and sites further south along the Nile into Northeastern Africa. Aswan and the First Cataract region came to function as a central node of a network marked by a regional material culture that transcended traditional political or religious divisions between Egypt and Nubia or Muslim and Christian. The evidence from Aswan provides an alternative interpretation of medieval landscapes and regionalism, one which prioritizes the material culture of daily life over the presumed divisions of political history or religious boundaries.
Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Beiträge zur ägyptischen Bauforschung und Altertumskunde ; 24
Zusatzinfo 55 meist farbige Abbildungen und 29 Farbtafeln
Verlagsort Gladbeck
Sprache englisch
Maße 245 x 350 mm
Gewicht 1300 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Schlagworte Ägypten • Asuan • Ausgrabung • Frühislamisch • Keramik • Syene
ISBN-10 3-935012-51-9 / 3935012519
ISBN-13 978-3-935012-51-5 / 9783935012515
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