Delta Reports 1: Research in the Cultural History of the Ancient Egyptian Nile Delta(51 Archaeopress Egyptology)

Following two Delta Conferences (funded through the British Academy Special Project of the Egypt Exploration Society), the first online in 2021 and the other at Ain Shams University in 2023, selected papers have been gathered in this first volume of a new series of Delta Reports. They detail archaeological work in the north of Egypt in the form of a series of reports from Predynastic sites at Minshat Abu Omar and the eastern delta, survey work in the Wadi Tumilat, and ongoing work at the fortress of Tjaru (Tell Hebou II) and the Tell el Basta ka-chapel of Pepi II. On the western side of the Delta, Ptolemaic and Roman material is reviewed from Tell Trugi, Taposiris-Magna and Naukratis. An overview article by the BEAST project discusses a method for calculating population distributions in the delta over the whole of ancient times to provide a broader context for the archaeological reports.

Table of Contents:
Editorial – Eva Lange-Athinodorou, Penelope Wilson Vineyards and Winemaking in Tell Heboua II (pA xtm n TArw) During the New Kingdom: Archaeological and Textual Sources – Elsayed Abd El-Alim The Ancient Townscape and Hinterland of Kom Trugi during the Graeco-Roman Period – Ahmed Rezk Al Arabi, Bassem Morsi, and Alaa Ragab Second Preliminary Report on the Excavations in the Ka-temple of Pepi I in Tell Basta/ Bubastis, Seasons 2022-2024 – Eva Lange-Athinodorou, Veronika Appel, Daniel Elcoat, Dina Faltings, Ashraf El-Senussi In Search of Individual Pottery Production: A Study of Small, Bag-Shaped Jars from the Predynastic Graves at Minshat Abu Omar (Eastern Nile Delta, Egypt) – Agnieszka Mączyńska Remains of the Processional Way of the Amun-Ra Temple at Naukratis – Bassem Morsi, Ahmed Rezk Al Arabi, and Walid Nosir Mapping Wadi Tumilat Archaeological Sites – Mustafa Nour el-Din, Laura Penzesova Early Evidence of a “Jar-Killing” Ritual from Predynastic Sites in the East Delta – Ashraf El-Senussi and Zeinab Soliman New Research on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Pottery from Dakhalia – Zeinab Souliman Calculating Ancient Human Population Distributions in the Egyptian Delta: A Preliminary Examination of Methods and Available Evidence – Juliet V. Spedding, Steven Snape, Salima Ikram, Ignacio A. Lazagabaster and Jakob Bro-Jorgensen Taposiris-Magna (Abusir-Mariout): Gleanings from Ancient Historical Sources – Abdou A. Youssef