Le Deir Anba Hadra à Assouan : nouveau départ pour les recherches

Resume. — Des prospections ont lieu dans la partie orientale du wadi Abu Subeira (région d'Assouan), depuis 2013, menées par une équipe franco-égyptienne. Elles ont abouti à la découverte de sites paléolithiques et méso-lithiques et de plus d'une centaine de nouvelles stations d'art rupestre. Parmi celles-ci, quarante-huit panneaux comportent des représentations humaines. Exclusivement masculines, elles s'insèrent dans des scènes de chasse, de navigation, d'équitation, de danse, de triomphe et peut-être de pastoralisme. Les plus anciennes seraient à attribuer à l'épipaléolithique, les plus récentes sont modernes, mais elles sont prédynastiques (IV e mil lénaire) en majorité. Certaines de ces représentations sont placées sur des parois verticales de manière à être très visibles, d'autres sont plus difficiles à trouver, voire cachées. Cette variable nous amènera à étudier la topographie de leurs emplacements pour comprendre le marquage, voire le maillage des lieux, qui atteste de différents types d'activité dans le proche désert. Ces usages ont certes une finalité fonctionnelle mais aussi une forte dimension idéologique qui nous conduira à traiter des représentations du pouvoir et de ceux qui l'exercent. Enfin, nous essaierons de prendre la mesure de la continuité d'occupation des lieux, de la fin de la préhistoire à la période contemporaine.

Chronique Des Activites Archeologiques De L Ecole Francaise De Rome, 2013

Chronique Des Activites Archeologiques De L Ecole Francaise De Rome, 2014

The wadi of Abu Subeira coincides with a valley which is today dry and crossed by a fossil stream, on the rock plateau of the eastern desert. It connects the Nile river valley it merges into to the Red Sea. This passage has been used since very remote time, as proved by the evidence of rock art dating back to the Upper Paleolithic up to the contemporary age. The site is included in the area commonly referred to as 'Lascaux on the Nile' . There can be found engravings dating back to the Paleolithic, the Pre-dynastic Period, the Pharaonic period, the Hellenistic and Roman periods, the Middle Ages and contemporary ages. The terraces of the wadis also present remains of dwelling sites used since the Middle and Upper Paleolithic. The entrance to the wadi is irrigated and nowadays people of Bedouin origin, members of the Ababda tribe, dwell in it and have made contemporary engravings. The placement of rock art sites shows the demarcation and structuring of the territory. Engravers chose the passage ramifications and the hills in the landscapes. The iconographic themes constitute evidence for the importance of the exploitation of the rich natural resources,access to which is made possible by the wadi: there can be found representations of ships and camel caravans recalling the route to the Red Sea, as well as hunting scenes with wild animals of the desert. More recently, the wadi of Abu Subeira was used to reach the Arabian Peninsula during the Hajj, till about the mid-20th century. The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities granted the author of this paper permission to lead a study and inventory survey of the rock art and archeological heritage in the area. The intervention will show the early results of the fieldwork, as well as the methodological and scientific aims of the 'Engraved landscapes' project, which includes the work led at Assuan.

2007

This paper reports on the three seasons of excavations conducted at Eynan (Ain Mallaha) from 2003 to 2005. It is also aimed at recording the laboratory work that took place since the last report published (Valla et al. 2004). Following the presentation of new '4C dates, the paper describes Early Natufian burials (Locus 239), one of which includes two decorated skeletons in a plastered grave. The next sections are devoted to analyses of Final Natufian findings. Because most of the sequence inside each excavated structure is now known, special interest is devoted to the succession of the phases in their occupation. This results in a dynamic vision, which suggests that some buildings (possibly houses) were used intermittently, whereas others may have been occupied on a more continuous basis. Among new features uncovered during those last seasons, a fire pit in structure 228 and a structure that includes a deep mortar in working position are worth mentioning. New graves are describe...

2016

Cet article revient sur la lecture de la courte inscription hiéroglyphique révélée suite à la redécouverte récente d’un bas-relief prédynastique à Nag el-Hamdulab qui avait été aperçu et photographié une première fois il y a près d’un demi-siècle. L’exécution rudimentaire de la gravure rend malheureusement l’identification des signes qui la composent extrêmement compliquée. Alors que dans le dernier numéro de la revue J.C. Darnell y a reconnu une référence à la cérémonie royale Sms-Hr « La suite d’Horus » - ce que le contexte de la scène dominée par plusieurs navires pourrait justifier -, nous proposons en réétudiant chacun des signes d’y voir une légende beaucoup plus anecdotique faisant simplement référence à la confection de vases en pierre. Les affleurements rocheux rencontrés au niveau de la première cataracte ont offert à cette industrie, extraordinairement prospère au tout début de l’histoire égyptienne, des pierres dures particulièrement appréciées donnant à cette nouvelle lecture un sens particulier puisqu’elle place l’inscription en relation avec les carrières d’Assouan qui seront exploitées de façon quasiment continue durant les trois millénaires suivants par le pouvoir pharaonique. This paper focuses on the reading of the short hieroglyphic inscription revealed after the recent rediscovery of a royal Predynastic relief at Nag el-Hamdulab that had been found and photographed for the first time nearly half a century ago. Unfortunately, the rudimentary execution of the engraving makes the identification of its signs extremely difficult. While in the latest issue of the journal Darnell has recognised a reference to the royal ceremony Sms-Hr "The following of Horus" – what the context of the scene dominated by several ships can justify – in re-examining each individual sign, we propose to see a much more anecdotal legend simply referring to the manufacture of stone vessels. Rocky outcrops encountered at the First Cataract provided very sought-after hard stones to this extraordinary prosperous industry at the beginning of Egyptian history. This gives this new reading a special meaning. Indeed, it associates the inscription with the Aswan quarries that were exploited almost continuously during the following three millennia by the Pharaonic power.

Link to the map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/fr/map/assouan_1033914. In this article, we have set ourselves two objectives: To describe ­ contemporary manifestations of the cult of saints in Aswan, and to study the genesis and development of the geography of places of worship in the city. To do this, we have drawn not only on written sources in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, and Western languages, but also on in-depth fieldwork carried out during three visits to Aswan lasting several weeks between 2013 and 2015. After drawing up a table of the one hundred and thirty-nine places of wor- ship that we have identified in the necropolis and in the city of Aswan, we analyze the various ­ associated social practices: Burial and visits to the dead, visits to the saints, ­ vigils and pilgrimages, and the Sufi brotherhoods that control them. We ­ conclude this article with an attempt to reconstruct the history of the ­ establishment of these mausoleums, which nevertheless remains relatively obscure, due to the silence of the sources and the inadequacy of the epigraphic data. In the appendices, we provide a list and description othese one hundred and thirty-nine places of worship, together with maps and illustrations designed to make them easier to use.

Textes édités par Jacqueline DENTZER-FEYDY et MICHÈLE VALLERIN Volume I Ouvrage publié avec le concours du ministère des Affaires étrangères (DGCID) et du Centre national de la recherche scientifique (UMIFRE 6, USR 3135) et avec le soutien de la Direction générale des Antiquités et des Musées de Syrie (DGAMS) et de la Mission archéologique française en Syrie du Sud BEYROUTH 2010 Responsable : Nadine MÉOUCHY Site de Beyrouth Infographie et PAO : Rami YASSINE Technicien supérieur PAO : Antoine EID Site de Damas Techniciennes PAO : Lina KHANMÉ-SBERNA -Nadima KREIMEID -Rana DARROUS Diffusion Coordination et diffusion générale Liban et étranger : Lina NACOUZI Tél./Fax : + 961 (0) 1 420 294 Diffusion Syrie : Lina CHAMCHIKH, Fatina KHOURY-FEHDE Fax : + 963 (0) 11 332 50 13/332 78 87 Diffusion Jordanie : Mohammed al-KHALAF Fax : + 962 (0) 6 461 11 171 Courriel : [email protected] Traduction en arabe : Hassan HATOUM, Chadi HATOUM et Jeanine ABDUL MASSIH Traduction de résumés vers l'anglais : Kate MEEKINGS Révision de textes : Frédéric ALPI Mots-clefs : Syrie du Sud, Hauran, occupation du sol, urbanisme, architecture civile, architecture sacrée, usages funéraires, sculpture, épigraphie, céramique.

The African Archaeological Review, 1988

associated with the lithic materials is dominated by animals of the open savanna (Alcelaphini and Antilopini); and its detailed study will allow us to specify the strategies used in the procurement of game and its subsequent consumption. Without doubt, the reasons for hominid occupation at this particular site will be impossible to explain fully. However, choice of this location, where evidence for several different activities has been uncovered, should be considered in terms of the proximity both of water and of outcrops ofphonolite, the principal raw material for tool-making. Repeated occupation by hominids over a short time may, perhaps, correspond to the periodicity of their subsistence behaviour.