Egyptian Ceramics Liaison Bulletin 29. BCE 29.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 22869 |
| Format | 16.5 x 24.5 |
| Détails | 396 p., illustrations, hardcover. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782724707625 |
This new issue of the Bulletin de liaison de la céramique égyptienne (BCE 29) presents in a first part the latest research in the field of ceramic studies with its "Regional Journey". It is enriched this year again with the contribution of recent archaeological work such as that carried out at Medamoud in the Theban region with the exceptional discovery of limestone ceramic kilns from the 17th-18th dynasties (cf. BARAHONA MENDIETA et al.). Several other articles offer ceramic assemblages in archaeological contexts for various periods: a tomb from the Saqqara necropolis from the very beginning of the 27th dynasty (cf. HUSSEIN, MARCHAND) or a district on the walls of Cairo at Bab el-Gedid in the medieval and Ottoman periods (cf. MONCHAMP). Still in our regional logic, other contributions present specific ceramic furniture belonging to a site: the characterization of marginal Phoenician productions discovered on the site of Tell el-Herr during the Persian period (cf. DEFERNEZ), a specific series, with red slip and of atypical shape, belonging to the emblematic family of "Beer Jars of the Old Kingdom" for a sector of the site of Giza (cf. MALYKH), decorated jar supports from the Byzantine period unearthed during the excavations of the sector of the temple of Ptah in the enclosure of the temple of Amun of Karnak (cf. DURAND), and for the same period the presentation of a vase with painted decoration representing a bearded figure with a halo seen from the front discovered in the monastery of Qubbet el-Hawa near Aswan (cf. BARBA COLMENERO, AUBER DE LAPIERRE). An article questions the presence of holes in the wall, made before or after firing on a series of "Blue Painted Pottery" jars in limestone paste, dated to the 18th Dynasty and discovered in the Khaemouaset monument at Saqqara (cf. TAKAHASHI). Finally, a final presentation proposes a chrono-typological sequencing in 9 phases (called formations in the article) of the ceramic furniture of Elephantine which ranges between the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom, at the beginning of the Second Intermediate Period with the 13th Dynasty (cf. KOPP). The author relies on complex seriations of several ceramic markers discovered in stratigraphy at Elephantine, and compares them with the well-dated ceramic material of other archaeological sites. He also takes into account, in order to better align his chronology, other categories of archaeological furniture, including seal impressions. The second part of the book includes three studies which address very different themes. The first study is ethnological. It proposes a function for a common archaeological series unearthed in dwellings dated to the Second Intermediate Period in Egypt, that of terracotta briquettes (cf. ASTON). The link between Egypt and the Levant, throughout the Bronze Age, is once again highlighted thanks to the presentation of an ancient collection of ceramic vessels preserved at the Louvre Museum, coming from Jericho (cf. CHARBIT NATAF). Finally, the last article of the volume looks back on 30 years of studies of ceramic material in Egypt (cf. OWNBY, BRAND): it presents the main petrographic analysis techniques available to ceramologists for a better characterization of ceramic furniture. This contribution echoes a workshop organized on the same subject at the IFAO by Mary F. Ownby in 2017.
This new issue of the Bulletin de liaison de la céramique égyptienne (BCE 29) presents in a first part the latest research in the field of ceramic studies with its "Regional Journey". It is enriched this year again with the contribution of recent archaeological work such as that carried out at Medamoud in the Theban region with the exceptional discovery of limestone ceramic kilns from the 17th-18th dynasties (cf. BARAHONA MENDIETA et al.). Several other articles offer ceramic assemblages in archaeological contexts for various periods: a tomb from the Saqqara necropolis from the very beginning of the 27th dynasty (cf. HUSSEIN, MARCHAND) or a district on the walls of Cairo at Bab el-Gedid in the medieval and Ottoman periods (cf. MONCHAMP). Still in our regional logic, other contributions present specific ceramic furniture belonging to a site: the characterization of marginal Phoenician productions discovered on the site of Tell el-Herr during the Persian period (cf. DEFERNEZ), a specific series, with red slip and of atypical shape, belonging to the emblematic family of "Beer Jars of the Old Kingdom" for a sector of the site of Giza (cf. MALYKH), decorated jar supports from the Byzantine period unearthed during the excavations of the sector of the temple of Ptah in the enclosure of the temple of Amun of Karnak (cf. DURAND), and for the same period the presentation of a vase with painted decoration representing a bearded figure with a halo seen from the front discovered in the monastery of Qubbet el-Hawa near Aswan (cf. BARBA COLMENERO, AUBER DE LAPIERRE). An article questions the presence of holes in the wall, made before or after firing on a series of "Blue Painted Pottery" jars in limestone paste, dated to the 18th Dynasty and discovered in the Khaemouaset monument at Saqqara (cf. TAKAHASHI). Finally, a final presentation proposes a chrono-typological sequencing in 9 phases (called formations in the article) of the ceramic furniture of Elephantine which ranges between the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom, at the beginning of the Second Intermediate Period with the 13th Dynasty (cf. KOPP). The author relies on complex seriations of several ceramic markers discovered in stratigraphy at Elephantine, and compares them with the well-dated ceramic material of other archaeological sites. He also takes into account, in order to better align his chronology, other categories of archaeological furniture, including seal impressions. The second part of the book includes three studies which address very different themes. The first study is ethnological. It proposes a function for a common archaeological series unearthed in dwellings dated to the Second Intermediate Period in Egypt, that of terracotta briquettes (cf. ASTON). The link between Egypt and the Levant, throughout the Bronze Age, is once again highlighted thanks to the presentation of an ancient collection of ceramic vessels preserved at the Louvre Museum, coming from Jericho (cf. CHARBIT NATAF). Finally, the last article of the volume looks back on 30 years of studies of ceramic material in Egypt (cf. OWNBY, BRAND): it presents the main petrographic analysis techniques available to ceramologists for a better characterization of ceramic furniture. This contribution echoes a workshop organized on the same subject at the IFAO by Mary F. Ownby in 2017.