- Paperback: 142 pages
- Publisher: Rutherford Press Limited (31 Dec 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 095476224X
- ISBN-13: 978-0954762247
- Product Dimensions: 2.9 x 2.2 x 0.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,749,001 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The site of Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham, on Egypt's Mediterranean coast 300 km west of Alexandria, was one of the largest and most important of the fortresses built by Ramesses II. It was constructed in order to protect Egypt's trade links in the Eastern Mediterranean and to guard Egypt itself from the invasions of Libyan tribesmen. The site was briefly investigated by the archaeologist Labib Habachi in the 1950s and, since 1994, has been the subject of a major archaeological project under the auspices of the University of Liverpool, led by Dr. Steven Snape. In this first volume of a series describing the work of the Liverpool Mission, Dr Snape and co-author Dr Penny Wilson discuss Habachi's work in the main Temple at the site and in the adjacent Chapels. There is a discussion of the Liverpool University work on the same buildings, including a detailed set of plans, sections and photographs. The architecture of the Temple is set in the context of a wider discussion of similar structures in other parts of Egypt and the Sudan, and gives an integrated overview of early Ramesside temple building. In the final section of the book, an important series of inscribed stelae, erected by military officers in the Temple and Chapels are illustrated and discussed.
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Dr Steven Snape is Senior Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool and Director of the University's Garstang Museum of Archaeology. Dr Penny Wilson is Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, and Director of the EES/Durham University excavations at Sais (Sa el-Hagar).
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