The West Bank survey from Faras to Gemai. 1, Sites of early Nubian, middle Nubian and Pharaonic age /

This volume is the last to be printed in a series describing in detail the results of the so-called West Bank Survey, an archaeological survey in the northernmost part of Sudanese Nubia, undertaken on the West Bank between the villages of Faras in the north and Gemai in the south during the period 1...

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Main Author: Nordström, Hans-Åke (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Text in English with summary in Arabic.
Published: Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2016.
Series:Publication (Sudan Archaeological Research Society) ; number 21.
BAR international series ; 2650.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This volume is the last to be printed in a series describing in detail the results of the so-called West Bank Survey, an archaeological survey in the northernmost part of Sudanese Nubia, undertaken on the West Bank between the villages of Faras in the north and Gemai in the south during the period 1960-64. This project was carried out in anticipation of the flooding of the Aswan High Dam. The whole series has been divided into three volumes, numbers 2 including sites from the Meroitic and Ballana periods (BAR S1335: Adams 2004), numbers 3 including sites of the Christian age (BAR S1421: Adams 2005), while the present volume, numbers 1, consists of detailed descriptions of sites and finds of the Early Nubian, Middle Nubian and Pharaonic New Kingdom periods.
Item Description:Previously issued in print: Oxford: Archaeopress, 2014.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 178, 33 pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781407342566
1407342568
DOI:10.30861/9781407312897