Nel deserto occidentale d'Egitto - Archeoincontri 2015

Newsletter di Archeologia CISA, Volume 6, 2015, pp. 165-177 , 2015

This article deals with the results of the 2012 fieldwork in the Central-Eastern Desert of Egypt and the studies in progress on some of the major related subjects. The project - promoted by the Italian Embassy in Egypt and directed by Irene Bragantini - is a joint collaboration of different Italian and Egyptian institutions (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, University of Cairo, Faculty of Geology, and University of Helwan, Faculty of Archaeology), and is aimed at investigating the central area of the Eastern Desert. The cooperation between archaeologists and geologists aims at conducting a geo-archaeological survey of the region in order to investigate the natural resources, their exploitation in the different periods, and the economic and commercial potential of the area. The methodology followed and the problems confronted with, demanded in fact the cooperation of different scientific grounds in order to reconstruct a geo-economic landscape. The Archaeological activity is sponsored by UNO and the Ministero Italiano degli Affari Esteri (MAE). The technical instrumentation for graphic and photographic records is provided by CISA (Centro Interdipartmentale di Servizi per l’Archeologia of UNO). The area to be investigated is that part of the Eastern Desert which extends just east of the Theban region, an area extremely important in almost all the periods of the Egyptian history; the zone is located in a strategic position because of the roads which bound the Nile Valley to the Red Sea (where they are closest to one another), and the geological nature of the area, characterized by a large outcrop of pre-Cambrian basement, which brought to the location of numerous rock quarries (particularly igneous), used for Egyptian architecture and statuary, and mines of different metals such as gold, copper, lead, iron and talc. In Roman period, the imperial administration has put on and maintained a complex system, in order to control the exploitation of the natural resources and the commercial potential of the area: the joint archaeological activity plans to investigate this system, in order to “read” the landscape on the basis of its natural resources. The northern limits of the grant includes the Wadi Hamamah, while the southern passes to the north of Wadi Hammamat, a way that - because of its importance and of the very numerous inscriptions and rock carvings scattered along most of its course - has been much studied in the past as well as in more recent times. Therefore we can regard the area as limited northwards and southwards by numerous other archaeological projects of surveys and excavations conducted by Institutions of different countries; one may mention the investigations on Mons Claudianus and Mons Porphyrites to the North, and the whole area from Qoptos to Qusseir and Qusseir al Qadim to the South.

This article deals with the results of the 2012 fieldwork in the Central-Eastern Desert of Egypt and the studies in progress on some of the major related subjects. Information on other subjects, still waiting for future analyses and studies (Site 2: a ancient - ? - square shaped well; Site 5-6: petroglyphs sites and Site 10: Umm el Howeitat el Bahri) can be found in Bragantini, Pirelli (2012). For a short report see also Bragantini, Pirelli (2013). The Italian project in the Central-Eastern Desert - promoted by the Italian Embassy in Egypt and directed by Irene Bragantini - is a joint project of different Italian and Egyptian institutions (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, University of Cairo, Faculty of Geology, and University of Helwan, Faculty of Archaeology), and is aimed at investigating the central area of the Eastern Desert1. The cooperation between archaeologists and geologists aims at conducting a geoarchaeological survey of the region, in order to investigate...

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Premises This article deals with the results of the 2012 fieldwork in the Central-Eastern Desert of Egypt and the studies in progress on some of the major related subjects. Information on other subjects, still waiting for future analyses and studies (Site 2: a ancient ? square shaped well; Site 5-6: petroglyphs sites and Site 10: Umm el Howeitat el Bahri) can be found in Bragantini, Pirelli (2012). For a short report see also Bragantini, Pirelli (2013). The Italian project in the Central-Eastern Desert promoted by the Italian Embassy in Egypt and directed by Irene Bragantini is a joint project of different Italian and Egyptian institutions (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, University of Cairo, Faculty of Geology, and University of Helwan, Faculty of Archaeology), and is aimed at investigating the central area of the Eastern Desert. The cooperation between archaeologists and geologists aims at conducting a geoarchaeological survey of the region, in order to investigate...

TOPOI (special issue on loneliness), 2023

Feeling lonely, being a lonely person, and living through lonely times can all be construed in terms of the emotional experiences of individuals. However, we also speak of lonely places. Sometimes, a place strikes us as lonely even when we do not feel lonely ourselves. On other occasions, finding a place lonely also involves feeling lonely, isolated, and lost. In this paper, I reflect on the phenomenological structure of loneliness by addressing what it is to experience a place as lonely. I suggest that approaching loneliness in this way can help us to see how it involves not merely the lack or absence of something but, more specifically, the sense of being unable to access social and personal possibilities that may still appear accessible to others.

Expressions artistiques des sociétés des âges du Fer. Actes du 46e colloque international de l’AFEAF (Aix-en-Provence, 26-28 mai 2022), 2024

The rock engravings of Valle Camonica represent an exceptional ensemble of signs dating back to prehistoric and protohistoric times and offer unique opportunities for studying the ideological world of the ancient people who lived in this place. The Iron Age phase of the phenomenon has been widely studied and has led scholars to some interpretations of the social structure of the 1st millennium BCE in the region, usually assuming the existence of a structured, vertical hierarchy and sometimes using the definition of “warrior aristocracy”. This paper examines the dynamics that have led scholars to make this social interpretation and focuses on the most recent archaeological data to propose a reconstruction of Iron Age society in the Valle Camonica. Finally, the iconographic data are compared with the archaeological data to find common ground and propose alternative social constructions.

The Epistle to the Hebrews and Christian Theology ed. R. J. Bauckham, D. R. Driver, T. A. Hart, N. MacDonald , 2009

The burden of the first part of this paper is to think with Hebrews about Christ as priest-king. The burden of the second part is to think with Ernst Troeltsch, recalling a treatise almost as intricate, about the difficulty of this kind of thinking today. That leads to a few rather cryptic remarks about the need to reconsider some of the intervening developments, and to rediscover the theology of the priest-king in its ecclesial and political dimensions.