British Museum publications on Egypt and Sudan, 2593-4996 ; 14 [More in this series]
Summary note
The Forts of North Omdurman volume presents research aimed at establishing when and why a group of nine forts were built in Upper Nubia (modern Sudan). These defences resemble late Roman fortlets commonly found in the Egyptian Eastern Desert and elsewhere in the Roman Empire. The nine forts were irregularly positioned within a 550km section of the Middle Nile Valley, a land which was never subject to Roman authority.0Excavations were conducted at the three southernmost forts situated on the outskirts of modern Omdurman. The methodology chosen was designed to define the possible chronological limits of the defences and to identify the remains left by the first settlers. The chapters include a detailed analysis of the forts' architecture, stratigraphy, pottery, beads, plaster, animal and plant remains supplemented by a series of radiocarbon dates. The result is a new insight into the dynamic beginnings of the forts and the challenges faced by the rulers of the medieval Kingdom of Alwa in the 6th and 7th centuries AD.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-146).
Contents
Forts in Upper Nubia / Mariusz Drzewiecki and Aneta Cedro
From theory to practice : going into the field / Mariusz Drzewiecki and Aneta Cedro
Architecture and stratigraphy / Mariusz Drzewiecki
The pottery assemblage : between function and chronology / Aneta Cedro
The animal remains / Marta Osypińska
An approximation of the chemical composition of the plaster from the Hosh el-Kab fort : as determined by instrumental methods (XRF, SEM-EDS, FTIR, Raman spectroscopy, XRD) / Dobroncha Zielińska, Barbara Wagner, Olga Syta, Paweł Bącal, Andrzej Ostrowski, Grażnya Zofia Żukowska
Radiocarbon dating / Mariusz Drzewiecki
Synthesis / Mariusz Drzewiecki.
ISBN
9789042948006
9042948000
LCCN
2022435759
OCLC
1355983636
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