Overview

If you want to understand ancient Egypt, the Nile Delta is of key importance. Excavations and surveys in the Delta keep unearthing new information about how the ancient Egyptians lived, how they envisaged the afterlife and how they interacted with other cultures. The study of finds from the Delta gives us a glimpse into the beliefs and everyday life of the ancient Egyptians. From 1979 to 2014 Willem van Haarlem worked on several archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, focusing on the excavations at Tell Ibrahim Awad in the eastern Delta from 1991 onward. At the same time he was curator of Egyptian Antiquities at the Allard Pierson, the heritage collections of the University of Amsterdam. On the occasion of his retirement a number of archaeologists, Egyptologists and museum curators have written a series of short studies in his honour, varying from current excavation results from Delta sites to new or renewed research into museum objects from this region. This book offers a rich palette of subjects to scholars interested in Delta archaeology and above all provides hitherto unpublished materials from excavations and museum depots that will inspire the next generation of Nile Delta scholars.

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Author:   Ben van den Bercken
Publisher:   Sidestone Press
Imprint:   Sidestone Press
ISBN:  

9789464260090

ISBN 10:   9464260092
Pages:   130
Publication Date:   28 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Preface and acknowledgements Wim Hupperetz and Ben van den Bercken   Bibliography Willem M. van Haarlem   Tabula gratulatoria   Willem van Haarlem, an appreciation Manfred Bietak   Tell el-Iswid. A predynastic settlement in the eastern Delta Béatrix Midant-Reynes and Nathalie Buchez   ‘A curious feature was the presence of several ivory or bone rods.’ Ancient Mikado or something very different? Vincent Boele   An unusual ripple-flaked knife from Cemetery U at Abydos/Umm el-Qaab Thomas Hikade   Forgotten Excavations, part IV. The first excavation season at Kufur Nigm/Ezbet el-Tell (1961) Aiman Ashmawy Ali   Buto: towards a further investigation of the Old Kingdom? Clara Jeuthe and Rita Hartmann   Four notes on Tia and Iurudef Jacobus van Dijk   Worked mollusc remains from Qantir/Piramesse Chiori Kitagawa   An (un-)usual cooking pot from Qantir/Piramesse Henning Franzmeier   Diversity in the Delta. Egyptian portraits of Persians in the Allard Pierson collection Geralda Jurriaans-Helle and Laurien de Gelder   Once again about the term nw Galina A. Belova   A glass ba bird in the Allard Pierson René van Beek   Neilos and Euthenia Robert Lunsingh Scheurleer   A Ptolemaic king as Egyptian pharaoh Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter   Re-excavating Gheyta’s Roman-period cemetery. Some preliminary results on the recontextualisation of excavated artefacts Ben van den Bercken

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Ben van den Bercken is an archaeologist and curator for the Collection of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the Allard Pierson – the Heritage Collections of the University of Amsterdam. Formerly, he was assistant-curator Engraved Gems at the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden. His work on the collection of engraved gems include contributions to the collection’s history, Egyptian scarabs and cylinders seals. As an archaeologist he is working at excavations in Alexandria, Egypt.

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