The sacred landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom : people making landscape making people /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jiménez-Higueras, Ángeles (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Series:Culture and history of the ancient Near East, volume 113
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. What This Book Is About. Structure of the Book: Aims and Research Questions
  • 2. Theban Necropolis and Dra Abu el-Naga: Main Characteristics and Development
  • 3. Literature Review and Brief History of the Research in Dra Abu el-Naga
  • pt. 1 How the Tomb Owners Respond to the Landscape
  • 1. Theoretical Approach: Landscape Archaeology
  • 2. Distribution of the Tombs of Dra Abu el-Naga in the New Kingdom
  • 1. Parameters and Methodology
  • 1.1. Chronology
  • 1.2. Kinship
  • 1.3. Administrative Entities
  • 1.4. Architectonical and Archaeological Factors
  • 3. Cluster of Ramesside Tombs in Dra Abu el-Naga South
  • 1. Chronology
  • 1.1. Sequences
  • 2. Titles
  • 2.1. Inheritance of Titles as a Possible Indication of Tomb Construction Sequence
  • 2.2. Clear Succession of Titles
  • 2.3. Unclear Succession of Titles
  • 2.4. Unclear Title Links between Owners
  • 2.5. Sequences
  • 3. Kinship
  • 3.1. Family Relationships
  • 3.2. Political Marriages
  • 3.3. Inherited Power?
  • 4. Architectonical and Archaeological Factors
  • 4.1. Sequences
  • 5. Concluding Remarks
  • 5.1. Tomb Building Development Sequence
  • 5.2. Spatial Distribution of Titles
  • 4. Seemingly `Unplanned' Territory
  • 1. Case of the Tombs Dated from the Co-regency of Hatshepsut-Thutmose III, and the Reign of Thutmose III
  • 2. Case of Territoriality Identity? Outsiders: Nobles of Non-Theban Origin
  • 3. `Courtyard of Amun', a Ritual Space in Dra Abu el-Naga Reserved for the Officials of the Amun Temple in Karnak
  • 4. Chronological or Administrative Entities' Organisation of the Research Area?
  • pt. 2 How the Landscape Affects the Tombs
  • 5. Organisation of Dra Abu el-Naga and Its Religious Connection with Other Areas of the Theban Necropolis
  • 1. Parameters and Methodology
  • 1.1. Topographical Survey
  • 1.2. Superficial Geological and Geomorphological Studies: Digital Elevation Model (dem)
  • 1.3. ArcGIS Analytical Tools: Visibility Analysis and Hypothetical Reconstruction of the Ancient Paths and Processional Ways
  • 1.4. Grouping of Tombs
  • 6. Visibility Analysis between Dra Abu el-Naga and the Main Areas of the Theban Necropolis
  • 1. Tomb with a View: The Case of the Ramesside Cluster of Tombs in Dra Abu el-Naga South
  • 2. Views from a Seemingly `Unplanned' Territory
  • 7. Reconstruction of the Ancient Paths and Processional Routes
  • 1. Tombs Orientated to Processional Ways and Festival Routes
  • 2. Distribution and `Urbanism of the Necropolis'.