Oasis Papers 10: The Land Where the Sun Goes Down. The Archaeology of Egypt’s Western Desert

Colin A. Hope and Paweł L. Polkowski are members of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, while Julie R. Anderson and Loretta Kilroe represent the Department of Egypt and the Sudan at the British Museum. Hope is Senior Research Adjunct in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Monash University and directs excavations in Dakhleh Oasis at Ismant al-Kharab and Mut al-Kharab; he is a founding member of the Dakhleh Oasis Project and focuses upon settlement archaeology in Dakhleh. Polkowski is the current director of the Project and head of its Petroglyph Unit. He is the senior custodian at the Poznań Archaeological Museum and an adjunct at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Julie Anderson is Curator for Egypt and the Sudan with a major interest in the Kushite and Saite Periods, while Loretta Kilroe is the IB Curator for Sudan and Nubia.

• PrefaceConference ProgrammeManaging the Preservation of Archaeological Sites and Heritage in Parallel with Achieving the Goals of Sustainable Development – Lamiaa Sayed AbdallahThe Church at Dayr Abu Matta, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt and its Implication for Dating Triconch Churches in the Nile Valley and Beyond – Gillian E. Bowen and Christian Turney Plaster Architectural Decoration from Domestic Contexts at Amheida – Roberta Casagrande-KimEastern Desert Signposts and Western Desert Annotations: Early Hieroglyphic Rock Inscriptions in Upper Egypt – John Coleman DarnellChristian Archaeology in Kharga Oasis: Recent Fieldwork – Victor GhicaThe ‘Cult Hill’ of El-Deir: Reflections on the Typology of Temples in the Kharga Oasis – Arnault Gigante and Gaëlle TalletMut al-Kharab: The Archaeology of the Central Temple Area – Colin A. HopeThe Abandonment of Kellis: Further Reflections – Colin A. Hope, Gillian E. Bowen and Iain GardnerA Stela for Harendotes from Amheida and the Changing Views on Horus and Seth in the Southern Oasis – Olaf E. KaperStratified Late Antique Ceramics from al-Qasr – Paul N. KuceraFootsteps in the Rock: Graffiti on an Outcrop in North Kharga – Nikolaos Lazaridis and Salima IkramThe So-Called ‘Water Mountain’ Symbol in the Chufu Region, Egyptian Western Desert: New Insights and Interpretations – Nourhan Moustafa AhmedLighting in Trimithis: Lamps from Late Roman Domestic Contexts – Marina Maria Serena NuovoFrom the Valley, From the Desert: The Iconography of Seals from Balat in the Late Third Millennium – Laure PantalacciIrrigated Stones: Interpreting Enigmatic Petroglyphs from the Western Desert – Paweł L. PolkowskiA Reinterpretation of a Petroglyph Group at Djedefre’s Water Mountain and Other Early Boat Petroglyphs in Areas Adjacent to the Western Oases – Rita SimonThe Spread of Domesticates across Egypt and their Potential Impact on Indigenous Wild Animal Species: Placing Dakhleh in a Wider Context – Juliet V. Spedding, Salima Ikram, Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, Chris Thomas and Jakob Bro-JørgensenBlocks from a Late Period or Early Ptolemaic Period Tomb near Mut in Dakhleh Oasis – Günter VittmannDayr Mustafa Kashif and the Episcopate of Oasis Magna in Late Antiquity – Rhiannon WilliamsThe Dakhleh Oasis Project Monographs