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Pottery of Manqabad: A Selected Catalogue of the Ceramic Assemblage from the Monastery of 'Abba Nefer' at Asuyt (Egypt)

by Ilaria Incordino
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781789695137
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Archaeopress Publishing
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  • Pages: 128
  • Original Price: GBP 30.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 363 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient / Egypt

Pottery of Manqabad presents a catalogue of selected pottery from the monastic site of Manqabad (Asyut, Egypt), which has, since 2011, been the object of an ongoing study and conservation project at the University of Naples 'L'Orientale' (UNIOR). The ceramic material, dated to the Late Antique Period, derives mostly from the SCA warehouse of el-Ashmunein, where it was kept soon after its accidental discovery in 1965. About 40 items derive from the surface collection and survey conducted on the site during the last fieldwork season (2018). The typologies identified include the most relevant Byzantine classes and a particular link with production from the Middle Egypt region. Part of the field survey was devoted to the analysis of the pottery material still in situ, found in the Northern Sector of the site where a 230m long row of monastic housing units is located. Further investigations will hopefully support the hypothesis of a local pottery production area, which could be identified in a large 'dump' at the southern end of the site. More generally, the analysis of the ceramics from Manqabad has underlined the undoubtedly high cultural level of the local monastic community, which can be deduced also from the textual, architectural and wall depiction evidence from the site. Manqabad was largely unknown to the scientific community, but since the first season of work by the Italian-Egyptian project, it has emerged as an important venue for the religious development of Coptic culture between the second half of the Vth to the end of the VIII- early IXth century AD.

Incordino, Ilaria: - Ilaria Incordino is Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Egyptology (BA) at the University of Naples 'L'Orientale' (UNIOR). Since 2011 she has been Deputy Director of the Italian-Egyptian Project of Study and Conservation of the Monastery of Manqabad, Asuyt, Egypt (UNIOR, Rome University, SCA), in charge of the study of the Late Antique pottery. She was promoter of several academic events at UNIOR: the Summer School 'Pottery of the Nile Valley. Classification, documentation and new technology of analysis' (2019), the 'Current Research in Egyptology conference' (2017), the MA in 'Egyptology: Research Methods and Technology' (2010) and the 'First Neapolitan Congress of Egyptology' (2008). In 2016 she was Curator of the new exposition of the Egyptian Collection of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples (MANN). She was member of the UNIOR excavations in the Eastern Central Desert (UNIOR, Helwan University, Cairo University) and at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis (UNIOR, Boston University).

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