The sacred landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom : : people making landscape making people / / by Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras.

• Superior document: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; Volume 113
• VerfasserIn: Jiménez-Higueras, Ángeles,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; Volume 113.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom, Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras offers the reconstruction of the physical, religious and cultural landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga south and its conceptual development from the 18th to the 20th Dynasties (1550-1069 BC). A wider insight into t...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures, Maps, Diagrams and Tables
• Introduction
• 1 What This Book Is About. Structure of the Book: Aims and Research Questions
• 2 Theban Necropolis and Dra Abu el-Naga: Main Characteristics and Development
• 3 Literature Review and Brief History of the Research in Dra Abu el-Naga
• Part 1 How the Tomb Owners Respond to the Landscape
• 1 Theoretical Approach: Landscape Archaeology
• 2 Distribution of the Tombs of Dra Abu el-Naga in the New Kingdom
• 1 Parameters and Methodology
• 3 A Cluster of Ramesside Tombs in Dra Abu el-Naga South
• 1 Chronology
• 2 Titles
• 3 Kinship
• 4 Architectonical and Archaeological Factors
• 5 Concluding Remarks
• 4 A Seemingly 'Unplanned' Territory
• 1 The Case of the Tombs Dated from the Co-regency of Hatshepsut-Thutmose  III , and the Reign of Thutmose  III
• 2 A Case of Territoriality Identity? Outsiders: Nobles of Non-Theban Origin
• 3 The 'Courtyard of Amun', a Ritual Space in Dra Abu el-Naga Reserved for the Officials of the Amun Temple in Karnak
• 4 Chronological or Administrative Entities' Organisation of the Research Area?
• Part 2 How the Landscape Affects the Tombs
• 5 Organisation of Dra Abu el-Naga and Its Religious Connection with Other Areas of the Theban Necropolis
• 1 Parameters and Methodology
• 6 Visibility Analysis between Dra Abu el-Naga and the Main Areas of the Theban Necropolis
• 1 A Tomb with a View: The Case of the Ramesside Cluster of Tombs in Dra Abu el-Naga South
• 2 Views from a Seemingly 'Unplanned' Territory
• 7 Reconstruction of the Ancient Paths and Processional Routes
• 1 Tombs Orientated to Processional Ways and Festival Routes
• 2 Distribution and 'Urbanism of the Necropolis'
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.