The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu El-Naga During the New Kingdom

People Making Landscape Making People
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43567-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 113, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

In The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom, Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras offers the reconstruction of the physical, religious and cultural landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga south and its conceptual development from the 18th to the 20th Dynasties (1550-1069 BC). A wider insight into the Theban necropolis is provided, including the position played by the Dra Abu el-Naga cemetery within the Theban funerary context understood as an inseparable complex of diverse components. For this study, Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras has reconciled textual and archaeological perspectives with theories relating to Landscape Archaeology, which efficiently manages to compile and to link prosopographical-genealogical, archaeological and GIS (Geographical Information System) data.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Los Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras, María

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures, Maps, Diagrams and Tables

Introduction

1 What This Book Is About. Structure of the Book: Aims and Research Questions

2 Theban Necropolis and Dra Abu el-Naga: Main Characteristics and Development

3 Literature Review and Brief History of the Research in Dra Abu el-Naga

Part 1 How the Tomb Owners Respond to the Landscape

1 Theoretical Approach: Landscape Archaeology

2 Distribution of the Tombs of Dra Abu el-Naga in the New Kingdom

1 Parameters and Methodology

3 A Cluster of Ramesside Tombs in Dra Abu el-Naga South

1 Chronology

2 Titles

3 Kinship

4 Architectonical and Archaeological Factors

5 Concluding Remarks

4 A Seemingly ‘Unplanned’ Territory

1 The Case of the Tombs Dated from the Co-regency of Hatshepsut-Thutmose III, and the Reign of Thutmose III

2 A Case of Territoriality Identity? Outsiders: Nobles of Non-Theban Origin

3 The ‘Courtyard of Amun’, a Ritual Space in Dra Abu el-Naga Reserved for the Officials of the Amun Temple in Karnak

4 Chronological or Administrative Entities’ Organisation of the Research Area?

Part 2 How the Landscape Affects the Tombs

5 Organisation of Dra Abu el-Naga and Its Religious Connection with Other Areas of the Theban Necropolis

1 Parameters and Methodology

6 Visibility Analysis between Dra Abu el-Naga and the Main Areas of the Theban Necropolis

1 A Tomb with a View: The Case of the Ramesside Cluster of Tombs in Dra Abu el-Naga South

2 Views from a Seemingly ‘Unplanned’ Territory

7 Reconstruction of the Ancient Paths and Processional Routes

1 Tombs Orientated to Processional Ways and Festival Routes

2 Distribution and ‘Urbanism of the Necropolis’

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras, Ph.D. (2016), University of Liverpool, holds a ‘Juan de la Cierva’ Fellowship at CSIC (Madrid). She has published several articles about Dra Abu el-Naga, which includes her collaboration in the paper “Geomorphology of Dra Abu el-Naga (Egypt): The basis of the funerary sacred landscape”, Journal of African Earth Sciences 131 (2017): 233-250.