Town and House in ancient Egypt 3101-DW0074
Ancient Egypt is usually seen as a place with well preserved funerary, for example pyramids, and sacral (large temple complexes) buildings.
But where the ancient Egyptians lived? What they did? How their houses looked like? What do we know about the Egyptian town? What elements it consisted of?
An oral exam is planned at the end of the class.
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Assessment criteria
The lecture ends with an oral examination
Bibliography
Basic literature:
Adams, M. D. "Houshold Silos, Granary Models, and Domestic Economy in Ancient Egypt." In The Archaeology and Art of Ancient Egypt : Essays in Honor of David B. O'connor, edited by Zahi A. Hawass and Janet E. Richards, 1-23. Cairo: Conseil Supreme des Antiquites de l'Egypte, 2007.
Bietak, Manfred. Haus und Palast im alten Ägypten, Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie. Bd. 14. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1996.
Ciałowicz, Krzysztof. Początki cywilizacji egipskiej. Kraków: PWN, 1999.
Czerny, Ernst. Tell el-Da´ba IX: Eine Plansiedlung des frühen Mittleren Reiches. Wien, 1999.
Dreyer, Günter, and Horst Jaritz. "Anhang B. Die Arbeiterunterkünfte Am Sadd-El-Kafara." In Der Sadd-El-Kafara. Die älteste Talsperre der Welt (2600 V. Chr.), edited by Günter Garbrecht and H.-U. Bertram, B1- B20, Pl. 1-19, 1983.
Eigner, Dieter. "A Palace of the Early 13th Dynasty at Tell El-Dab'a." In Haus Und Palast Im Alten Ägypten, edited by Manfred Bietak, 73-80. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1996.
Hassan, Selim. "Excavations at Giza IV (1932-1933)." Cairo, 1943.
Kemp, Barry J. Ancient Egypt : Anatomy of a Civilization. 2nd ed. London ; New York: Routledge, 2006.
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Kromer, Karl. Siedlungsfunde aus dem frühen Alten Reich in Giseh : Österreichische Ausgrabungen 1971-1975. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1978.
Kuhlmann, Klaus Peter. "Serif-Style Architecture and the Design of the Archaic Egyptian Palace ("Königszelt")." In Haus und Palast im alten Ägypten, edited by Manfred Bietak, 117-37. Wien, 1996.
Lacovara, Peter. The New Kingdom Royal City, Studies in Egyptology. London, New York: Kegan Paul International, Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1997.
Lehner, Mark. The Complete Pyramids. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997.
O'Connor, David B. "The Geography of Settlement in Ancient Egypt." In Man, Settlement and Urbanism, edited by P. J. Ucko, R. Tringham and G. W. Dimbleby, 681-98. London: Duckworth & Co., 1972.
Rizkana, Ibrahim, and Jürgen Seeher. Maadi : Excavations at the Predynastic Site of Maadi and Its Cemeteries Conducted by Mustapha Amer and Ibrahim Rizkana on Behalf of the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts of Cairo University, 1930-1953. Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1987.
Saleh, Abdel-Aziz. "Excavations around Mycerinus Pyramid Complex." MDAIK 30, no. 1 (1974): 131-54.
Seidelmayer, Stephan J. "Town and State in the Early Old Kingdom: A View from Elephantine." In Aspects of Early Egypt, edited by A. Jeffrey Spencer, 108-27. London: British Museum Press, 1996.
Smith, H.S. "Society and Settlement in Ancient Egypt." In Man, Settlement and Urbanism, edited by P. J. Ucko, R. Tringham and G. W. Dimbleby, 705-20. London: Duckworth & Co., 1972.
Śliwa, Joachim. "Die Siedlung des Mittleren Reiches bei Qasr El-Sagha. Grabungsbericht 1987 und 1988." MDAIK 48 (1992): 177-91.
---. "Middle Kingdom Settlement at Qasr El-Sagha 1979-1988." SAAC 5 (1992): 19-38.
Uphill, Eric P. Egyptian Towns and Cities, Shire Egyptology. 8. Princes Risborough, Aylesbury, Bucks, UK: Shire Publications, 1988.
Van Siclen III, Charles C. "Remarks on the Middle Kingdom Palace at Tell Basta." In Haus und Palast im alten Ägypten, edited by Manfred Bietak, 239-46. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1996.
Way, Thomas von der, Joachim Boessneck, and E. Christiana Köhler. Tell El-Fara'în, Buto. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1997.
Wenke, Robert J, and Douglas J. Brewer. "Old Kingdom Delta: The Evidence from Mendes and Kom El-Hisn." In Haus und Palast im alten Ägypten, edited by Manfred Bietak, 265-85. Wien: Verlag der Öst
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