Gematon: Living and Dying in a Kushite Town on the Nile, Volume I

Contents

1. Introduction – Derek A. Welsby

2. The Kushite town of Gematon – Derek A. Welsby

3. Excavations of the painted shrine and other buildings in Area A – Derek A. Welsby

4. Excavations in Area B – Derek A. Welsby                           

5. Excavations in Area C – Derek A. Welsby

6. Excavations in Area F – Building F1, adjacent streets and Building F11 – Derek A. Welsby

7. Excavations in Area F – grid squares (FQ3), (FQ4), (FR3), (FR4), (FS3) and (FT3) – Derek A. Welsby

8. Excavations in Area F – Grid squares (FZ1) and (FZ2) – Derek A. Welsby

9. Excavations in the temenos gateway, grid square (TG5) – Derek A. Welsby

10. Excavations of Building Z1 – Mahmoud Suliman Bashir and Derek A. Welsby

11. Excavations within the Kushite cemetery at Gematon (site R18) – Derek A. Welsby

12. The Kushite cemetery at Gematon (site R18) – Derek A. Welsby

13. Magnetic survey at Kawa – Tomasz Herbich

14. Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey at Kawa – Stephen Kay and Sophie Hay

15. Radiocarbon dating – Derek A. Welsby

16. Preservation, Conservation and Display – Derek A. Welsby

17. Concluding remarks – Derek A. Welsby

18. Bibliography for Volume I

Arabic summary

About the Author

Derek A. Welsby, while a curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum, was the project director, and one of the field directors, of the SARS Amri to Kirbekan Survey from 1999 to 2007. He has directed excavations and surveys in Sudan on a wide range of sites since 1982. Many of the other contributors, from a variety of disciplines, participated in the fieldwork for one or more seasons.