The Oasis papers 6 : proceedings of the sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project / edited by Roger S. Bagnall, Paola Davoli and Colin A. Hope ; production editor, Bruce E. Parr
"This volume contains the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project held in Lecce in 2009 plus one paper that was to have appeared in the proceedings of the previous conference held in Cairo, which is still being prepared for publication"--Preface
English with one contribution in French
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Contents
Major archaeological sites in Kharga Oasis and some recent discoveries by the Supreme Council of Antiquities / Bahgat A. Ibrahim -- Wanderers in the desert : the North Kharga Oasis survey's exploration of the Darb ʻAin Amur / Salima Ikram -- Demotische und kursivhieratische Ostraka aus Mut al-Kharab / Günter Vittmann -- Cultural heritage management of the archaeological resources of the deserts of Egypt / Sayed Yamani -- The culture of the oases : late Neolithic herders in Farafra, a matter of identity / Barbara E. Barich -- Geomatics resources for archaeological survey in desert areas : some prospects from Farafra Oasis, Egypt / Barbara E. Barich, Mattia Crespi, Ulisse Fabiani and Giulio Lucarini -- Beyond the shale : pottery and cultures in the prehistory of the Egyptian Western Desert / Maria C. Gatto -- The Gebel Souhan problem : local innovation in the Middle Stone Age? / Maxine R. Kleindienst and Marcia F. Wiseman -- Early craftsmen of the desert : traces of Predynastic lithic technology at Farafra during the Mid-Holocene / Giulio Lucarini -- Levallois lithics on a Middle Stone Age playa : finds at Bir el-Obeiyid, Northern Farafra Depression, Egypt / Giuseppina Mutri -- Wadi Sura and the Gilf Kebir National Park : challenge and chance for archaeology and conservation in Egypt's south-west / Heiko Riemer and Rudolph Kuper -- The Khargan industry revisited / Marcia F. Wiseman -- Technique and content in the rock art of the Libyan Fezzan : some Saharan stereotypes / Daniela Zampetti -- Egyptian connections with Dakhleh Oasis in the Early Dynastic Period to Dynasty IV : new data from Mut al-Kharab / Colin A. Hope and Amy J. Pettman -- Epigraphic evidence from the Dakhleh Oasis in the Late Period / Olaf E. Kaper -- An Old Kingdom trading post at ʻAin el-Gazzareen, Dakhleh Oasis / Anthony J. Mills -- The date of the occupation of ʻAin el-Gazzareen based on ceramic evidence / Amy J. Pettman -- Provisions for the journey : food production in the "bakery" area of ʻAin el-Gazzareen, Dakhleh Oasis / Amy J. Pettman, Ursula Thanheiser and Charles S. Churcher -- Ptolemaic Period pottery from Mut al-Kharab, Dakhleh Oasis / James C.R. Gill -- An agricultural account from the Gemellos Archive / Giuseppina Azzarello -- Cemeteries in Dakhleh / Maher Bashendi -- Amheida 2007-2009 : new results from the excavations / Paola Davoli -- Les nécropoles d'el-Deir (Oasis de Kharga) / Françoise Dunand, Jean-Louis Heim and Roger Lichtenberg -- Yale University Nadura Temple Project : 2009 season / David Klotz -- al-Qasr : the Roman castrum of Dakhleh Oasis / Paul Kucera -- Five Roman-period tunics from Kellis / Rosanne Livingstone -- A remark on the poll tax rate in Kysis / Fabian Reiter -- Controlling the borders of the empire : the distribution of Late-Roman "forts" in the Kharga Oasis / Corinna Rossi -- Painted surfaces on mud plaster and three-dimensional mud elements : the status of conservation treatments and recommendations for continuing research / Constance S. Silver -- The survey project at el-Deir, Kharga Oasis : first results, new hypotheses / Gaelle Talle, Jean-Paul Bravard, Romain Garcier, Stephanie Guedon and Ashraf Mostapha -- Amheida : architectural conservation and site development, 2004-2009 / Nicholas Warner -- Vine and acanthus : decorative themes in the wall-paintings of Kellis / Helen Whitehouse -- The church complex of ʻAin el-Gedida, Dakhleh Oasis / Nicola Aravecchia -- Christianity on Thoth's Hills / Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore -- Coins as tools for dating the foundation of the large east church at Kellis : problems and a possible solution / Gillian E. Bowen -- The church of Dayr Abu Matta and its associated structures : an overview of four seasons of excavation / Gillian E. Bowen -- The Christian necropolis of el-Deir in the north of Kharga Oasis / Magali Coudert -- Ceramics from ʻAin el-Gedida, Dakhleh Oasis : preliminary results / Delphine Dixneuf -- Coptic ostraka from Qasr al-Dakhleh / Iain Gardner -- Naqlun : the earliest hermitages / Wlodzimierz Godlewski -- Contribution of textiles as archaeological artefacts to the study of the Christian cemetery of el-Deir / Fleur Letellier-Willemin