The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom : People Making Landscape Making People /

The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom : People Making Landscape Making People /

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...

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Main Author: Jiménez-Higueras, María de los Ángeles (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East ; 113.

Subjects:

Tombs > Egypt > Dra Abu el-Naga Site.
Cemeteries > Egypt > Dra Abu el-Naga Site.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Egypt > Dra Abu el-Naga Site.
Dra Abu el-Naga Site (Egypt)
Egypt > History > New Kingdom, ca. 1550-ca. 1070 B.C.

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Call Number: DT73.D73

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.