Late Middle Kingdom Temple Bakery at South Abydos

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Wegner
Keyword(s):  
Large Volume ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Urban Plan ◽  
Adjacent Buildings ◽  
Production Area ◽  
Senwosret Iii ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Town ◽  
Production Zone

Recent excavations have exposed the original bakery belonging to the mortuary temple of Senwosret III at South Abydos. Initially founded as a six-chambered building, the bakery was expanded in several phases to become a larger complex that housed a series of chambers dedicated primarily to large-volume hearth baking. Associated ceramics show that baking practices involved parallel use of rough-ware trays (aprt) and cylindrical bread molds (bDA). The bakery was linked by a walkway system with adjacent buildings also involved in the production and supply of offerings to the temple. One of the neighboring buildings appears to have been a companion brewery that was removed and replaced during a phase of alteration to the production area. The bakery and related structures are components of a larger shena or production zone that once extended nearly 300 meters along the edge of the Nile floodplain between the temple and town at the site of WAH-swt-¢akAwra-mAa-xrw-m-AbDw. Evidence from the bakery and neighboring structures shows that the layout of the shena was an extension of the urban plan of the town of Wah-Sut. Flanked by the main institutional buildings, the site was spatially organized around this multi-activity production zone which formed the site’s economic and industrial nucleus.

The tombs of Asasif: archaeological exploration in the 2013/2014 season

2016 ◽  
Vol XXIV (1) ◽  
pp. 239-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patryk Chudzik
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Late Period ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
The University ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

In the 2013/2014 season, a Polish team from the University of Wrocław started work in the northern part of the Asasif necropolis, near the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari. An archaeological survey was carried out on the Asasif slope. Cleaning work and documentation were undertaken of the architecture of four private tombs: MMA 509/TT 312, MMA 512, MMA 513/TT 314 and MMA 514, as well as the archaeological finds thereof. The rock-cut tombs belong to a Middle Kingdom necropolis and were all reused in later times, especially in the Third Intermediate Period and Late Period.

scholarly journals The natural environment in the sustainable development of towns: the exampleof Poznań

Dela ◽  
2004 ◽  
pp. 593-602
Author(s):  
Lidia Mierzejewska
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Plan ◽  
Natural Factors ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
The Town ◽  
House Building

In the eighties the environmental elements air, water and soils were examined in correlation with the situation of economic development. In the nineties green areas, which are particu-larly important for Poznan, were planned within the framework of the General urban plan-ning of the town. In the article, natural factors are represented as restrictive development factors. In the questionnaire, over 83 % of the inhabitants of Poznan pointed out green areas to be the most important factor with regard to further house building.

scholarly journals Urban plan of Uzice from 1863 by Emanuel Sefel: From oriental to European urban planning

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-292
Author(s):  
Dusko Kuzovic ◽  
Nedeljko Stojnic
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
The State ◽  
City Center ◽  
Urban Plan ◽  
Current State ◽  
State Administration ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Internal Affairs ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

The City of Uzice had 2490 inhabitants in mid 1862. Following the order of the state administration that every city must have an urban plan, firstly a Geodetic plan of the current state of the city center was made and based on it, in May 1863 the first urban plan proposal (author Emanuel Sefel) appeared. The Ministry of Internal Affairs, because of a large number of complaints of the population and of a short period time available to make changes to the plan sent the engineers Joseph Vesely and Joseph Klinar to Uzice so that they could assist. The second urban plan proposal was completed towards the end of 1863. The first urban plan of Uzice transformed the town, previously fully regulated by oriental principles, into a city organized according to European urban principles. The plan was effective from 1871 to 1891.

The Co-Regency of Thutmose III and Amenhotep II Revisited

2019 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-57
Author(s):  
Filip Taterka
Keyword(s):  
Simple Solution ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
The Temple

The aim of the article is to reconsider the question of the co-regency of Thutmose III and Amenhotep II in the light of recent research casting into doubt the existence of this institution in the Middle Kingdom. The author re-examines the sources cited in favour of the co-regency, showing that the co-regency hypothesis generates more problems than it allegedly solves. Instead of searching for one simple solution for all seemingly insurmountable problems raised up by the available evidence, the author proposes to explain each problem individually. As a result, it seems that questions such as the alleged double coronation date of Amenhotep II, the problem of his two ‘first victorious campaigns’, or the presence of the images of Thutmose III and Amenhotep II in the temple of Amada can be satisfactorily explained without any necessity to maintain that both pharaohs ever ruled together, even for a brief period of time.

‘How Dare they Leave all this Unexcavated!’: Continuing to Discover Roman Bath

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Davenport
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
The West ◽  
The North ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Baths ◽  
The City ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Town

The frustrated cry of the young Barry Cunliffe has an odd echo in these days of preservation in situ. Sitting in the Roman Baths on his first visit as a schoolboy in 1955, he was astonished at how much was unknown about the Baths, despite their international reputation: large areas ‘surrounded by big question marks . . . all around . . . the word ‘‘unexcavated’’ ’ (Cunliffe 1984: xiii; figure 1). His later understanding of the realities and constraints of excavation only sharpened his desire to know more. Now, fifty years on and more, due in large part to that drive to know, his curiosity, we can claim to have made as much progress in our understanding of the baths and the city around them as had occurred in all the years before his visit, a history of archaeological enquiry stretching back over 400 years. In 1955 the baths were much as they had been discovered in the 1880s and 1890s. They were not well understood. The town, or city, or whatever surrounded it, were almost completely unknown, or at best, misunderstood. It was still possible in that year to argue that the temple of Sulis Minerva was on the north of the King’s Bath, not, as records of earlier discoveries made clear, on the west (Richmond and Toynbee 1955). Yet as the young Cunliffe sat and mused, the archaeological world was beginning to take note and a modern excavation campaign was beginning; indeed had begun: Professor Ian Richmond, in a short eight years to become a colleague, had started ‘his patient and elegant exploration of the East Baths’ the summer before (Cunliffe 1969: v). Richmond initiated a small number of very limited investigations into the East Baths, elucidating a tangle of remains that, while clearly the result of a succession of alterations and archaeological phases, had never been adequately analysed. Richmond’s main aim was to understand the developmental history of the baths, and this approach, combined with a thoughtful and thorough study of the rest of the remains, led to a still broadly accepted phasing and functional analysis (Cunliffe 1969).

The Old Akkadian presence in Nineveh: Fact or fiction

Iraq ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 7-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Goodnick Westenholz
Keyword(s):  
Seventh Century ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Northern Site ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Town

The goal of this article is to investigate the enigma of the Old Akkadian presence at Nineveh. After reviewing the written and archaeological evidence for such a presence, the lack of evidence at Nineveh will be compared with the comparatively richer testimony of the Old Akkadian occupation at Assur. The thesis of this paper is that Šamši-Adad's claim that Maništušu was the original builder of the temple of Ištar of Nineveh should be regarded as suspect in the absence of any other data to back up his claim. I would like to make it clear that I am not insisting that Nineveh was a desolate site with no inhabitants during the Old Akkadian period. On the contrary, I do believe that it was inhabited at this time, although the evidence is meagre. However, who these inhabitants were is a question that needs to be answered. An official residence or presence of the Old Akkadians at the site seems unlikely, and I hope that I can prove this thesis to you.The previously cited proof of an Old Akkadian presence in Nineveh rests on primary and secondary evidence. The primary evidence said to reflect such a presence implies Old Akkadian texts and objects. However, the Old Akkadian texts consist of a few fragments of two broken stone inscriptions bearing royal dedications of the Old Akkadian king Naram-Sin. The fragments were found in the area of the first-millennium Nabû temple. These dedications apparently recorded Naram-Sin's rebuilding of the Ekur in Nippur and were not concerned with any northern site. Consequently, the original inscriptions, of which these fragments are remnants, were probably brought to Nineveh in the seventh century from Nippur. They were carried there presumably at the same time as the Šulgi foundation document from Kutha and the Warad-Sin inscription from Ur, so they can hardly be used as evidence of an official Old Akkadian residence in Nineveh. Moreover, there is not one reference to the town of Nineveh in Old Akkadian sources.

Archaeology in Greece (1910–1911)

1911 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 296-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Dawkins
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Greek Government ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Town

The Season of 1910–1911 has witnessed the continuation of most of the excavations mentioned in the last of these reports, and the beginning of work in the island of Corfou (Kerkyra), which has, up to now, hardly yielded its full share of antiquities. This year, however, it has given us the most important discovery of the season, an almost complete sculptured pediment of an archaic Doric temple.This discovery was made near the monastery of Goritsa, which lies to the south of the town of Corfou. Here the chance finding of a sculptured slab led to an excavation by the Ephor Versakis on behalf of the Greek Archaeological Society. The work was presently supported by the Emperor of Germany, Doctor Doerpfeld assisting at the excavation, and the Greek Government was represented later by the Ephor Rhomaios. The temple itself is much destroyed; the importance of the discovery consists in the almost complete preservation of the sculpture of one of the pediments.

scholarly journals XXIX. An Account of some Druidical Remains in the Island of Guernsey. By Joshua Gosselin, Esq. in a Letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B. P.R.S. F.S.A.

Archaeologia ◽  
1814 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 254-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Gosselin
Keyword(s):  
Back Ground ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Town

A small temporary redoubt was constructed some few years back, on a height near the shore, on the left of Lancresse Bay, three miles from the town in this island. The ground on which this redoubt stood, being composed of a sandy turf, was by degrees levelled by the wind, and the edges of some stones were thereby discovered, which, upon inspection, I immediately knew to belong to a Cromlech or Druidical Temple. I send you a drawing of this Temple, (Plate XVIII.) as it appeared after the sand, which had covered it to the depth of three or four feet, was removed. The two parallel black lines on the back ground, I imagine to have been the sod covered, at different times, with an accumulation of sand blown on it by the wind. I send you also a plan of the surface of the Temple, with the respective measurements of the stones. (Pl. XIX.) They are of a greyish granite, such as form the rocks in that neighbourhood, and are of a rude shape, having the under part flat. The largest of these stones weighs about 20 tons. They are supported by stones of the same kind; of the number and breadth marked in the plan with a dotted line, the highest being about 6½ feet above the ground.

scholarly journals Emergence and Development of the Uybat Town (Khakassia). The Town – Forming Role of Temples in the Middle of the 8th – Early 13th Centuries

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
И.Л. Кызласов
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Production Areas ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Town ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

Л. Р. Кызласовым в 1971 1981 гг. в Хакасии на Среднем Енисее были обнаружены и изучались раскопками два раннесредневековых городских центра, отличавшихся монументальными манихейскими храмами, святилищами и монастырями VIII XIII вв. Особый интерес представляет скопление сакральных построек в Уйбатском городе, расположенном в стороне от рек, размещение и планировочная обособленность храмово монастырского квартала от жилых и производственных частей геометрически правильно спроектированного города, возникшего благодаря сакральному комплексу. Этот городской и монастырско храмовый центр, согласно археологическому исследованию, существовал не менее 400 лет. И все это время вокруг него и рядом с ним развивалась храмовая и городская культура южносибирского общества. In 1971 1981 L. R. Kyzlasov discovered two early medieval urban centers on the Middle Yenisei in Khakassia. He excavated these sites and examined monumental Manichaean temples, sanctuaries and monasteries of the 8th 13th centuries. Of special interest is a concentration of sacral constructions in the Uybat town located at a distance from rivers (Figs. 1 3), and the location of the temple and the monastery quarter and its layout which made it isolated from the residential and production areas (Fig. 3) of the geometrically regular town (Figs. 4 5) built around the sacral ensemble. The archaeological excavations demonstrate that this town and the monastery temple center existed for at least 400 years, with the temple and the urban culture of the southern Siberian community developing around and near it.

scholarly journals El Templo de Millones de Años de Thutmosis III en Luxor: estudio paleopatológico preliminar y nuevas perspectivas

2019 ◽  
pp. 147-157
Author(s):  
Albert Isidro ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Late Period ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Stress Markers ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Excavation Work ◽  
First Intermediate Period ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Eastern Wall

"The excavation work at the site of the Temple of Millions of Years of Thutmosis III (West Thebes) has revealed a large amount of human remains (skeletons and mummies) uncovered from two main locations: tombs placed within or next to the enclosure walls of the temple dated from the beginning of the Middle Kingdom to the Late Period and graves from a necropolis of the First Intermediate Period – 11th Dynasty close to the north-eastern enclosure wall. The aim of this anthropological and paleopathological study is to compare a population over time: the individuals of the Late Period to those of the Middle Kingdom. A total of 191 individuals have been studied (2016-2017):..154 from the tombs placed inside the wall of the temple and 37 from the tombs close to north-eastern wall. Preliminary conclusions showed a higher percentage of skeletal stress markers in the individuals from the First Intermediate Period – 11th Dynasty, compared with those from the Late Period"

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