Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt's Dakhla Oasis), A Fourth-Century Church : Volume I, The Excavations (Amheida VII) / Nicola Aravecchia.
2024
DT73.D33
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Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt's Dakhla Oasis), A Fourth-Century Church : Volume I, The Excavations (Amheida VII) / Nicola Aravecchia.
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9781479813490
1479813494
1479813494
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[S.l.]: NYU Press, 2024.
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English
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DT73.D33
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An archaeological, historical, and art historical study of a remarkable early church excavated at Amheida in Egypt's Dakhla Oasis Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt's Dakhla Oasis): A Fourth-Century Church. Volume 1: The Excavations is an archaeological, historical, and art historical study of a remarkable basilica-church excavated at Amheida in Dakhla Oasis. This church, excavated between 2012 and 2023, dates to the fourth century CE and therefore is among the earliest purpose-built churches in Egypt. It also contains one of the oldest, if not the oldest, excavated Christian funerary crypts in the country. The church at Amheida thus offers a wealth of new data on early Christianity in Egypt, particularly with respect to the earliest phases of Christian art and architecture and burial customs. Aravecchia presents a systematic treatment of the stratigraphy, building techniques, materials, features, architecture, decoration, and finds of the church, carefully contextualized in the early Christianity of the late antique Great Oasis and Egypt more broadly.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Early Christianity in the Great Oasis
Chapter 3: Area 2.3: The Church
Chapter 4: Survey and Excavations to the South the Church
Chapter 5: The Underground Funerary Crypts
Chapter 6: The Painted Ceiling of the Church
Chapter 7: Discussion of the Archaeological Evidence
Chapter 8: Epilogue
Table of Chronology
Bibliography
Index
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Early Christianity in the Great Oasis
Chapter 3: Area 2.3: The Church
Chapter 4: Survey and Excavations to the South the Church
Chapter 5: The Underground Funerary Crypts
Chapter 6: The Painted Ceiling of the Church
Chapter 7: Discussion of the Archaeological Evidence
Chapter 8: Epilogue
Table of Chronology
Bibliography
Index