Gematon: Living and Dying in a Kushite Town on the Nile, Volume I : Excavations at Kawa, 1997-2018

Gematon: Living and Dying in a Kushite Town on the Nile, Volume I Excavations at Kawa, 1997-2018

<p>The first of a set of three volumes publishing the excavations at the site of Kawa, Northern Dongola Reach, between 1997 and 2018 by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society. Volume I contains a detailed study of the excavations carried out in Areas A, B, C, and F, as well as the t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Welsby, Derek A. editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [s.l.] : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd 2024.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication
Materias:
Social Science / Archaeology
Social sciences
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009817331906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • 1. Introduction
  • Figure 1.1. Green's sketch plan of Kawa.
  • Figure 1.2. Brick layout and bonding types A-O.
  • Figure 1.3. A floor file from Building F3.
  • 2. The Kushite town of Gematon
  • Figure 2.1. Archaeological sites in the vicinity of
  • Kawa overlain on the Google Earth satellite image.
  • Figure 2.2. Contour plan of the site with the major building remains (scale 1:5000
  • contour interval 1m).
  • Figure 2.3. Fluxgate gradiometer survey. The lower town, a - Areas A, B, C, F, G and H. The upper town, b - Area D
  • c - Area Z.
  • Figure 2.4. Buildings revealed by excavation, surface cleaning, fluxgate gradiometer and ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys.
  • a. the lower town, Areas A, B, C, F, G and H
  • b. the upper town, Areas D and T.
  • Figure 2.5. Ground Penetrating
  • Radar survey in the lower town, Area A, slice A (scale 1:2000).
  • Figure 2.6. Ground Penetrating
  • Radar survey in the upper town,
  • Area B, slice A (scale 1:2000).
  • Figure 2.7. Building plans. a. Building A1, phase 1
  • b. Building A1, phase 3
  • c. Building A2
  • d. Building A3
  • e. Building A4
  • (scale 1:200).
  • Figure 2.8. Building plans.
  • a. Building B1
  • b. Building B2
  • c. Building B3
  • d. Building B4
  • (scale 1:200).
  • Figure 2.9. Building plans.
  • a. Buildings B5, B12, B13 and B14
  • b. Building B7
  • c. Building B8
  • d. Building B9
  • (scale 1:200).
  • Figure 2.10. Building plans.
  • a. Building B10
  • b. Building B11
  • c. Building C1
  • d. Building C2
  • e. Building C3
  • f. Building C4
  • g. Building C5
  • (scale 1:200).
  • Figure 2.11. Building plans.
  • a. Buildings C6, C7 and C10
  • b. Buildings C8 and C11
  • c. Building C9
  • d. Building C12
  • e. Building C13
  • f. Building C14
  • g. Building C16
  • h. Building C17
  • i. Building C18 (scale 1:200).
  • Figure 2.12. Building plans.
  • a. Buildings C20
  • b. Buildings C21
  • c. Building C22
  • d. Building C23
  • e. Buildings C24 and C32 (green)
  • f. Building C25
  • g. Buildings C27 and C31
  • h. Building C33
  • (scale 1:200).
  • Figure 2.13. Building plans.
  • a. Buildings D1
  • b. Buildings F1
  • (scale 1:200).
  • Figure 2.14. Fluxgate gradiometer survey of the area to the south east of Temple T with certain and possible features indicated.
  • None of these have been investigated further (scale 1:500).
  • Figure 2.15. Building plans.
  • a. Building F2
  • b. Building F3
  • c. Building F7
  • d. Building F8
  • e. Building F9
  • f. Building F11
  • g. Building G1
  • (scale 1:200).
  • Figure 2.16. Building plans.
  • Buildings F4, F5 and F10
  • (scale 1:500).
  • Figure 2.17. Building plans.
  • a. Buildings H1, H2, H6 and H7
  • b. Building H8
  • c. Building H9
  • d. Building H10 (scale 1:200).
  • Figure 2.18. Building plans.
  • a. Buildings M2
  • b. Buildings H3, H4, H5 and H11
  • c. Buildings M1 and M3
  • (scale 1:200).
  • Figure 2.19. Building plans.
  • a. Buildings T6 and T7
  • b. Building T8
  • c. Building Z1
  • (scale 1:200).
  • 3. Excavations of the painted shrine
  • and other buildings in Area A
  • Figure 3.1. Area A, buildings of all periods (scale 1:200).
  • Figure 3.2 . Area A, Period 1, oven and pit
  • of various phases (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 3.3. Area A, Period 1.2, gullys
  • in surface (AC5)116 (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 3.4. Area A, Period 1.2, features. Walls in grey indicate the location of the later Building A3 (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 3.5. Area A, Period 2, wall (AC6)74 of Building A6 and walls of Building A5.
  • The ceramic oven may date to this period. Walls in grey indicate the location of
  • the later Building A3 (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 3.6. Area A, Building A3, Phase 1. The bricks depicted in green form the Phase 2 buttress. Walls in red may relate to the later Building A4 (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 3.7. Area A,
  • Building A4. Walls in blue retained from Building A3
  • (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 3.8 Building A1. Construction level (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 3.9. Building A1. Phase I with the mud-brick altar to the west (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 3.10. Building A1. Phase II (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 3.11. Building A1. Phase III (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 3.12. Building A1. Post-phase III (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 3.13. Building A2, phase 1 with
  • primary thresholds visible (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 3.14. Building A2
  • elevations of the party wall
  • between Rooms VI and VII (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 3.15. Building A2, Room III. Features of phase 2. The earliest features are the 'pot-sherd' hearth (AD5)197
  • in the south-west corner and to the north oven (AD5)150. In the next sub-phase the hearth went out of use
  • but ovens (AD5)174 and (AD5)194 replaced it (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 3.16. Building A2, Room III. Features of phase 2, oven (AD5)90 and feature (AD5)137 (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 3.17. Building A2, Room IV. Features of phase 2. a. Phase 2.1 - surface (AD5)128
  • b. Phase 2.2 - surface (AD5)110
  • c. Phase 2.3 - surface (AD5)102
  • d. Phase 2.4 - surface (AD5)88 (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 3.18. Building A2, Room IV. Features of phase 2.
  • Phase 2.5 - surface (AD5)59 (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 3.19 Building A2, Room V/VI - mud-brick features on surface (AD5)107 (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 3.20. Building A2, Rooms V and VI - mud-brick and stone features on surface (AD5)84 (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 3.21. Building A2, Room VII. a. surface ((AD5)97
  • b. surface (AD5)69 (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 3.22. Building A2, features of the final structural phase (scale 1:100).
  • 4. Excavations in Area B.
  • Figure 4.1. The location of the sondages in the area later enclosed
  • by the walls of Building B14, Room XXV (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 4.2. Sondage B. Section of the east, north and south faces - all contexts in ARea (BD2) (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 4.3. Area B. Plan of the excavated buildings, B1, B5 and B12-B15 (scale 1:200).
  • Figure 4.4. Building B13, plan (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 4.5. Building B12. a. Elevation of the east face of the wall between Rooms XVIII and XXI
  • b. Elevation of the north face of the south wall of the building [(BE2)98] visible in Rooms XVIII and XXI (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 4.6. Building B12, plan (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 4.7. Building B12. Sketch drawing of the section
  • through the east wall of the building.
  • Figure 4.8. Buidling B14, plan (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 4.9. Building B14, Room XXVI. a. Period 1
  • b. Period 2 (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 4.10. Building B5, period 1 plan (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 4.12. Building B5, Room X/XII. Period 1.2 hearth and brick pavement, the former overlain by hearth (BD3)15
  • (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 4.11. Building B5, Room VI/IX. Features on and set into surface (BE4)65 (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 4.13. Building B5, Room X/XII. Sketch sections,
  • north-south and east-west, through feature (BD3)57.
  • Figure 4.14. Building B5, period 2 plan (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 4.15. Building B5, Room IX. Rectangular bin (BE4)55 and 'D'-shaped pit (BE4)55 (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 4.16. Building 1, Period 1 with feature (BF3)39 (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 4.17. Building 1, Period 2, Phase 1 (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 4.18. Building 1, Period 2, Phase 2 (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 4.19. Building 1, Period 2, Phase 2. Features dug into surface 31 and the Phase 3 buttresses in Room II (scale 1:50). All context numbers
  • are in grid square (BF3).
  • Figure 4.20. Robber pits in the southern part of Building B5, in Building B14 and in the area to the east (scale 1:100).
  • 5. Excavations in Area C
  • Figure 5.1. Chronological sequence of
  • the buildings excavated in Area C.
  • Figure 5.2. Buildings excavated in Area C (scale 1:600).
  • Figure 5.3. Buildings C27 and C31 (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 5.4. Building C20 including 'Room' D - see Building C26 (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 5.5. Building C25 with phase 1 and 3
  • storage bins and pots (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 5.6. Building C25 with phase 4
  • storage bin and pots (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 5.7. Building C21 (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 5.8. Building C23 (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 5.9. Buildings C32 (green) and C24 (yellow) (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 5.10. Building C26 with fragments of surviving floors and pits (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 5.11. Building C26 with pottery vessels set into the floors (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 5.12. Isolated wall fragment (CE4)27 overlying Building C26
  • (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 5.13. Building C22 (scale 1:100).
  • 6. Excavations in Area F - Building F1,
  • adjacent streets and Building F11
  • Figure 6.1. Building F, phase 1 plan with the additional room, Room XII (scale 1:200).
  • Figure 6.2. Building F1. Suggested restoration of the stairway in Room I (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 6.3. Building F1, Room VI. Location of the human skeleton (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 6.4. Building F1, Rooms VIII-IX: the stone floor
  • (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 6.5. Building F1, Room IX. Remains of basketry (FO6)29 (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 6.6. Building F1, Room XII. Surface (FP6)161 with hearths
  • and the bank of ovens along the east wall (scale 1:100).
  • Figure 6.7. Building F1, Room XII. Two periods of ovens alongside the east wall.
  • The ovens in red may have remained in use into the second phase (scale 1:50).
  • Figure 6.8. Building F1. The buttress by the north-west.

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