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978-90-5789-025-3

476 pp.

Leiden 1999

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Berenike '97. Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations at Shenshef

Steven Sidebotham and Willemina Wendrich (eds.)

Berenike '97 is the report of the fourth season of excavations at the important Egyptian Red Sea harbour of Berenike. This harbour was used during the Roman period for trade with the coastal regions along the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. The book includes an Introduction and a long series of separate reports on various aspects of the excavations and surveys of the hinterland.
See also Berenike '96, Berenike '95, and Berenike '94.
The reports are edited by Steven E. Sidebotham, Professor of History at the University of Delaware (USA), and Willemina Z. Wendrich, archaeologist and co-director of the Berenike excavations.
(In English, 476 pp.+ xiv with illustrations, photographs, large map)

Special Series No.4

ISBN 978-90-5789-001-7

478 pp.

Leiden 1998

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Berenike '96. Report of the Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert

Steven Sidebotham and Willemina Wendrich (eds.)

Berenike '96 discusses the results of the third season of archaeological work at the important Egyptian Red Sea harbour of Berenike. The harbour was used during the Roman period for trade with the coastal areas along the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. The book includes an Introduction, followed by 22 chapters that deal with various aspects of the excavations and the surveys of the hinterland.
The chapters deal respectively with the excavations themselves; the geology; the pottery; the coins; Greek and Latin texts; metal finds; textiles; cordage; basketry and matting; amphora stoppers; glass; archaeobotanical remains; wood and charcoal; faunal remains; human bones and burials; finds' conservation; and surveys of the hinterland, including that of Shenshef.The book ends with an interpretative summary and conclusion.
The book includes an extensive bibliography and an index, and is published together with two large fold-out maps.
Berenike '96 is the third in the series of reports of the excavations. The first and second reports were published in 1995 and 1996, also by CNWS Publications. The reports are edited by Steven E. Sidebotham, Professor of History at the University of Delaware (USA), and Willemina Z. Wendrich, archaeologist employed by the Netherlands Institute of Archaeology and Arabic Studies, Cairo.
(In English, 478 pp. with illustrations, photographs, two large maps)

Special Series No.3

ISBN 978-90-73782-70-9

484 pp.

Leiden 1996

Price: € 46,80

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Berenike '95. Preliminary report of the excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert

Steven Sidebotham and Willemina Wendrich (eds.)

Berenike '95 discusses the results of the second season of archaeological work at the important Egyptian Red Sea harbour of Berenike. The harbour was used during the Roman period for trade with the coastal areas along the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. The book includes an Introduction, followed by 23 chapters that deal with various aspects of the excavations and the surveys of the hinterland. The chapters deal respectively with the excavations themselves; the geology; the pottery; the coins; Greek and Latin texts; a Tamil-Brƒhmi graffito; a `South Arabian/Axumite' depinto; metal finds; statuary and cult objects; textiles; cordage and basketry; plaster jar stoppers; worked wood; a ship graffito; archaeobotanical remains; faunal remains; and surveys of the hinterland, including that of the Roman settlement of Hitan Rayan. The book ends with an interpretative summary and conclusion. The book includes an extensive bibliography and an index, and is published together with two large fold-out maps of Berenike and Hitan Rayan.
Berenike '95 is the second in the series of reports of the excavations. The first was published in 1995, also by CNWS Publications. Both reports were edited by Steven E. Sidebotham, Professor of History at the University of Delaware (USA), and Willemina Z. Wendrich, archaeologist employed by the Netherlands Institute of Archaeology and Arabic Studies, Cairo.

(In English, 484 pp., with two large site plans)

Special Series No.2

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