Title Egypt and the desert / John Coleman Darnell

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource Series Cambridge elements. Elements in ancient Egypt in context Contents Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Egypt and the Desert -- Contents -- 1 The Red Land -- 1.1 Desert Roads -- 1.2 Geographic Overview of the Egyptian Deserts and RoadNetworks -- 1.3 Water Resources -- 1.4 About This Element -- 2 The Deserts and Their Administration -- 2.1 Protodynastic and Early Dynastic Organization of the Desert(ca. 3250-2686 BCE): The Deserts Become Outer Regions -- 2.2 The Old Kingdom in the Egyptian Deserts (ca. 2686-2160 BCE):Expressions of Egyptian Domination in the Outer Regions 2.3 The Deserts during the First Intermediate Period and EarlyMiddle Kingdom (ca. 2160-1870 BCE): Incorporation of the OuterRegions -- 2.4 The Late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period(1870-1550 BCE) in the Deserts: Bipartite Administration and anUrban Population in the Southern Oases -- 2.5 Desert Activities during the New Kingdom (ca. 1550-1069BCE): Expanding Horizons and the Importance of the King's Sonof Kush -- 2.6 Desert Activities during the First Millennium BCE: Expansionof the Oasis Ring Road -- 2.7 Roman Egypt and Indigenous Desert Groups (30 BCE -- 600 CE) 3 Desert as Numinous Space -- 3.1 Being-in-the-Landscape -- 3.2 The Desert Landscape as Entity -- 3.3 The Desert as Repository of Sacred Objects in ovo -- 3.4 Worship in the Desert -- 3.5 Rock Inscriptions as Records of Religious Activity -- 3.6 Shrines Natural and Constructed -- 3.7 The Hemispeos -- 3.8 Cairn Shrines and Cairn Fields -- 3.9 The Ruler as Intercessor in the Desert -- 4 Writing and Drawing in the Desert -- 4.1 Upper Egyptian and Lower Nubian Rock Art of the FourthMillennium -- 4.2 The Proto-history of Hieroglyphs: The Developmentof Iconographic Syntax 4.3 Rock Inscriptions and the Earliest Writing in Egypt -- 4.4 Setting a Royal Seal on the Desert -- 5 Self-Presentation of Foreigners in the Egyptian Deserts -- 5.1 Nubians and Egyptians -- 5.2 Lapidary Hieratic and the Origins of the Alphabet -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication Summary Deserts, the Red Land, bracket the narrow strip of alluvial Black Land that borders the Nile. Networks of desert roads ascended to the high desert from the Nile Valley, providing access to the mineral wealth and Red Sea ports of the Eastern Desert, the oasis depressions and trade networks of the Western Desert. A historical perspective from the Predynastic through the Roman Periods highlights how developments in the Nile Valley altered the Egyptian administration and exploitation of the deserts. For the ancient Egyptians, the deserts were a living landscape, and at numerous points along the desert roads, the ancient Egyptians employed rock art and rock inscriptions to create and mark places. Such sites provide considerable evidence for the origin of writing in northeast Africa, the religious significance of the desert and expressions of personal piety, and the development of the early alphabet.-- Provided by publisher Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 22, 2021) Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Egypt. Deserts -- Egypt. Antiquities Civilization Deserts Excavations (Archaeology) SUBJECT Egypt -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041263 Nile River Valley -- Antiquities Nile River Valley -- Civilization Subject Egypt Nile River Valley Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108902038 1108902030 9781108900683 1108900682

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