The West Bank Survey from Faras to Gemai: 1 Sites of Early Nubian, Middle Nubian and Pharaonic Age

by British Archaeological Reports

Overview

Sudan Archaeological Research Society

Publication Number 21

This volume (Volume 1) is the last to be printed in a series describing in detail the results of the so-called West Bank Survey, an archaeological survey in the northernmost part of Sudanese Nubia, undertaken on the West Bank between the villages of Faras in the north and Gemai in the south during the period 1960-64. This project was carried out in anticipation of the flooding of the Aswan High Dam. The whole series has been divided into three volumes, no. 2 including sites from the Meroitic and Ballana periods (BAR S1335: Adams 2004), no. 3 including sites of the Christian age (BAR S1421: Adams 2005), while the present volume, no. 1, consists of detailed descriptions of sites and finds of the Early Nubian, Middle Nubian and Pharaonic New Kingdom periods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781407312897
Publisher:	British Archaeological Reports
Publication date:	07/11/2014
Series:	BAR International Series , #2650
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 11.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Hans-Åke Nordström