Mirgissa VI, The City Outside the Walls. FIFAO 89.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 25316 |
| Format | 25 x 33 |
| Détails | first volume: 290 p., 196 pages of text, 89 B&W plates, 44 figures, publisher's hardcover second volume: 35 plans in publisher's folder. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782724707977 |
Volume VI of the Mirgissa series is devoted to the publication of the Egyptian civil city MI, one of the oldest settlements on the site. Located north of the fortress to which it was connected by one of the first walls, it closed the port area of the mnnw Iqen. It was probably built under Sesostris I , like Buhen at the other end of the rapids of the second cataract. This settlement, close to the Nile, has the shape of a vast quadrangle; it is protected by its own stone wall. The plan differs from the "workers' villages". In the shade of the alleys, vast patrician residences - built of mud bricks sheltered by their sinusoidal wall, with their domestic installations and sometimes their own small garden - intermingle with more modest houses built of stone, or even pottery workshops, bakeries. A large garden or vegetable garden occupies the center of the village. The furnishings, almost entirely ceramic, date the occupation from the second half of the 12th Dynasty to the end of the Middle Kingdom. This edition includes a volume of text and a slipcase presenting thirty-seven plans of the site.
Volume VI of the Mirgissa series is devoted to the publication of the Egyptian civil city MI, one of the oldest settlements on the site. Located north of the fortress to which it was connected by one of the first walls, it closed the port area of the mnnw Iqen. It was probably built under Sesostris I , like Buhen at the other end of the rapids of the second cataract. This settlement, close to the Nile, has the shape of a vast quadrangle; it is protected by its own stone wall. The plan differs from the "workers' villages". In the shade of the alleys, vast patrician residences - built of mud bricks sheltered by their sinusoidal wall, with their domestic installations and sometimes their own small garden - intermingle with more modest houses built of stone, or even pottery workshops, bakeries. A large garden or vegetable garden occupies the center of the village. The furnishings, almost entirely ceramic, date the occupation from the second half of the 12th Dynasty to the end of the Middle Kingdom. This edition includes a volume of text and a slipcase presenting thirty-seven plans of the site.