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The Red Sea in pharaonic times : recent discoveries along the Red Sea coast; proceedings of the colloquium held in Cairo / Ayn Soukhna 11th-12th January 2009 /

"The long-neglected Red Sea shore area has, over the past ten years, yielded a considerable amount of data that has enabled us to understand its specific role in pharaonic times. In 2001, fieldwork resumed in the former harbour of Mersa Gawasis, which was first identified by Abd el-Moneim Sayed...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tallet, Pierre, 1966-, Mahfouz, El-Sayed
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Le Caire : Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 2012.
Series:Bibliothèque d'étude ; t. 155.
Publications de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire ; 1058.
Subjects:
Excavations (Archaeology) > Egypt > Red Sea Coast.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Egypt > Eastern Desert.
ʻAyn Sukhnah (Egypt) > Congresses.
Mersa Gawasis Site (Egypt) > Congresses.
Shipbuilding > Egypt > Congresses.
Boats, Ancient > Egypt > Congresses.
Wooden boats > Egypt > Congresses.
Temple of Hatshepsut (Egypt)
Wadi Hammamât (Egypt) > Congresses.
Punt, Land of.
Boats, Ancient.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Shipbuilding.
Wooden boats.
Egypt.
Egypt > ʻAyn Sukhnah.
Egypt > Eastern Desert.
Egypt > Mersa Gawasis Site.
Egypt > Red Sea Coast.
Archäologische Stätte.
Funde.
Rotes Meer > Region.
Conference proceedings.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Dominique Valbelle
  • The Pharaonic site of Ayn Soukhna in the Gulf of Suez: 2001-2009 progress report / Mahmound Abd El-Raziq, Georges Castel, Pierre Tallet, Grégory Marouard
  • Archaeological investigations at Wadi/Mersa Gawasis, Egypt: 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2009 Field seasons / Rodolfo Fattovich, Kathryn A. Bard
  • Ships bound for Punt / Rodolfo Fattovich, Kathryn A. Bard
  • Ship remains at Ayn Soukhna / Patrice Pomey
  • Ancient Egyptian seafaring ships: archaeological and experimental evidence / Cheryl Ward
  • Ship components from Mersa Gawasis: recent finds and their archaeological context / Chiara Zassaro, Claire Calcagno
  • Ancient Egyptian stone anchors from Mersa Gawasis / Chiara Zassaro, Mohammed Abd El-Maguid
  • New inscriptions from Ayn Soukhna 2002-2009 / Pierre Tallet
  • New epigraphic material from Wadi Gawasis / El-Sayed Mahfouz
  • Wadi Hammamat and the Sea from the origins to the end of the new kingdom / Annie Gasse
  • How to fill in the gaps? New perspectives on exchanges between Egypt and the near East during the early Neolithic period / Yann Tristant
  • At the end of the trail? some implications of the mention of turquoise in Egyptian tombs and temples / Julie Masquelier-Loorius
  • The Red Sea in Pharaonic Egypt. Assessment and prospects / Pierre Tallet.