Title |
Asyut : guardian city / Ilona Regulski and Maria Golia, editors ; contributing authors Philip Booth, Judith Bunbury, Paolo Delvesco, Gersande Eschenbrenner-Diemer, Ann-Cathrin Gabel, Wolfram Grajetzki, Jochem Kal, Andrea Killian, Chiori Kitagawa, Jannik Korte, Bahar Landsberger, Nikolas Michel, Rosanna Pirelli, Ursula Verhoeven, Terence Walz. |
Publisher |
[London] : British Museum, [2018] |
Physical desc. |
100 pages ; illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (some colour) ; 25 cm. |
Note |
Includes material from the British Museum's Annual Egyptology Colloquium, "Asyut through Time: Conflict and Culture in Middle Egypt", July 2017--Cf. page 100. |
Donated by the authors. |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Asyut, guardian of memory -- Vignette: piecing together the past -- Vignette: an ancient criminal case, circa 522 BC -- Shashotep: Asyut's closest neighbour -- Vignette: a deeper look -- From here to eternity -- Vignette: a model life -- Cradle of Christianity -- Vignette: the fate of a Roman fortress -- Asyut in recent history -- Vignette: intelligent cultivation -- Vignette: the Sudanese connection -- Living history -- Vignette: a house of many stories -- Vignette: legendary lives. |
Subject |
Archaeology -- Egypt |
Egyptology |
Asyūṭ (Egypt) -- History |
Asyūṭ (Egypt) -- Antiquities |
Added name(s) |
Regulski, Ilona editor |
Golia, Maria |
Added name(s) - Corporate |
British Museum |