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This volume presents the proceedings of the Tenth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project held at the British Museum, London, on 7–8 September 2023. The event formed the British Museum’s Annual Egyptological Colloquium. Like previous conferences, the symposium focused on research in the Dakhleh Oasis and the broader Western Desert. The volume contains 19 papers that touch upon a variety of topics, from heritage management (Lamiaa Sayed Abdallah), the spread of domesticated animals in Egypt (Juliet V. Spedding et al.), rock art studies (Nourhan Moustafa Ahmed, John C. Darnell, Rita Simon, Paweł L. Polkowski, Nikolaos Lazaridis and Salima Ikram), dynastic and later iconography (Olaf E. Kaper, Laure Pantalacci, Günter Vittman), Ptolemaic and Roman settlements and temples (Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Arnault Gigante and Gaëlle Tallet, Colin A. Hope, Gillian E. Bowen and Iain Gardner, Paul Kucera, Marina M. Serena Nuovo), to Christianity in Dakhleh and Kharga (Gillian E. Bowen and Christian Turney, Victor Ghica, Rhiannon Williams). The paper by Colin A. Hope on Mut al-Kharab in Dakhleh presents a re-evaluation of its archaeology and ranges across all periods from the late Neolithic to late Roman periods, indicating its centrality in the study of Dakhleh. The contributions by Paul Kucera and Günter Vittmann were written specially for inclusion in this volume. Such a collection of papers offers a thorough overview of recent archaeological, environmental, prehistoric and historic research and analyses, and related issues across a broad chronological scope.

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Author:   Colin A. Hope (Senior Adjunct Research Fellow, Monash University) ,  Paweł L. Polkowski ,  Julie R. Anderson ,  Loretta Kilroe (Project Curator: Sudan and Nubia, The British Museum)
Publisher:   Archaeopress
Imprint:   Archaeopress Archaeology
Dimensions:   Width: 20.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 29.00cm
Weight:   2.500kg
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9781805832232

ISBN 10:   1805832239
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   18 December 2025
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Table of Contents

Preface Conference Programme Managing the Preservation of Archaeological Sites and Heritage in Parallel with Achieving the Goals of Sustainable Development – Lamiaa Sayed Abdallah The Church at Dayr Abu Matta, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt and its Implication for Dating Triconch Churches in the Nile Valley and Beyond – Gillian E. Bowen and Christian Turney Plaster Architectural Decoration from Domestic Contexts at Amheida – Roberta Casagrande-Kim Eastern Desert Signposts and Western Desert Annotations: Early Hieroglyphic Rock Inscriptions in Upper Egypt – John Coleman Darnell Christian Archaeology in Kharga Oasis: Recent Fieldwork – Victor Ghica The ‘Cult Hill’ of El-Deir: Reflections on the Typology of Temples in the Kharga Oasis – Arnault Gigante and Gaëlle Tallet Mut al-Kharab: The Archaeology of the Central Temple Area – Colin A. Hope The Abandonment of Kellis: Further Reflections – Colin A. Hope, Gillian E. Bowen and Iain Gardner A Stela for Harendotes from Amheida and the Changing Views on Horus and Seth in the Southern Oasis – Olaf E. Kaper Stratified Late Antique Ceramics from al-Qasr – Paul N. Kucera Footsteps in the Rock: Graffiti on an Outcrop in North Kharga – Nikolaos Lazaridis and Salima Ikram The So-Called ‘Water Mountain’ Symbol in the Chufu Region, Egyptian Western Desert: New Insights and Interpretations – Nourhan Moustafa Ahmed Lighting in Trimithis: Lamps from Late Roman Domestic Contexts – Marina Maria Serena Nuovo From the Valley, From the Desert: The Iconography of Seals from Balat in the Late Third Millennium – Laure Pantalacci Irrigated Stones: Interpreting Enigmatic Petroglyphs from the Western Desert – Paweł L. Polkowski A Reinterpretation of a Petroglyph Group at Djedefre’s Water Mountain and Other Early Boat Petroglyphs in Areas Adjacent to the Western Oases – Rita Simon The Spread of Domesticates across Egypt and their Potential Impact on Indigenous Wild Animal Species: Placing Dakhleh in a Wider Context – Juliet V. Spedding, Salima Ikram, Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, Chris Thomas and Jakob Bro-Jørgensen Blocks from a Late Period or Early Ptolemaic Period Tomb near Mut in Dakhleh Oasis – Günter Vittmann Dayr Mustafa Kashif and the Episcopate of Oasis Magna in Late Antiquity – Rhiannon Williams The Dakhleh Oasis Project Monographs

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Colin A. Hope and Paweł L. Polkowski are members of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, while Julie R. Anderson and Loretta Kilroe represent the Department of Egypt and the Sudan at the British Museum. Hope is Senior Research Adjunct in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Monash University and directs excavations in Dakhleh Oasis at Ismant al-Kharab and Mut al-Kharab; he is a founding member of the Dakhleh Oasis Project and focuses upon settlement archaeology in Dakhleh. Polkowski is the current director of the Project and head of its Petroglyph Unit. He is the senior custodian at the Poznań Archaeological Museum and an adjunct at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Julie Anderson is Curator for Egypt and the Sudan with a major interest in the Kushite and Saite Periods, while Loretta Kilroe is the IB Curator for Sudan and Nubia.

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