British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 24

Abstract

• Editorial This special issue of BMSAES publishes papers and additional reflections arising from two workshops organised at the British Museum in 2011 and 2013 as part of the British Museum’s Naukratis Project. Contributions by archaeologists, Classicists, Egyptologists and other specialists explore the diverse and sometimes contrasting narratives of the different disciplines and the underlying ancient realities. The first workshop – entitled ‘The Nile Delta as a landscape of connectivity’ – concentrated on the subjects of transport networks; trade and consumption; Delta industry; and Delta communities. The second workshop was dedicated to ‘Religious Naukratis in context’. Some studies put the primary emphasis on cults, sanctuaries and offerings at Naukratis itself, while others aimed to situate Naukratis in the wider perspective of religious phenomena in the Mediterranean area, especially in the context of trading ports, but also in contemporary sites in the Delta and elsewhere. Aurélia Masson-Berghoff and Ross Thomas Contents: Naukratis in Context: programme and bibliography (Aurélia Masson-Berghoff and Ross Thomas) The Nile Delta as a landscape of connectivity: The evolving environment of the Nile Delta from 6000 BP to the present (Judith M. Bunbury, Ben Pennington and Laurence Pryer) Greek landings and Hellenic appropriations in ‘the island’ (the Egyptian Delta) (Jean-Yves Carrez-Maratray) Identifying the amphora stamps from Naukratis (Alan Johnston) Faience finds from Naukratis and their implications for the chronology of the site (Virginia Webb) Ten lead containers from Thonis-Heracleion: tackling the problem of dating (Elsbeth M. van der Wilt) Religious phenomena in Naukratis: The wool of Naukratis. About the stela Michigan Kelsey Museum 0.2.5803 (Damien Agut-Labordère) Votive inscriptions from Naukratis (Alan Johnston) A new relief fragment from the soubassement of the Ptolemaic temple of Amun-Ra at Naukratis (Ahmed Said el-Kharadly) Naukratis: Egyptian offerings in context (Aurélia Masson-Berghoff) Absent, invisible or revealed ‘relics’? X-radiography and CT scanning of Egyptian bronze votive boxes from Naukratis and elsewhere (Aurélia Masson-Berghoff and Daniel O’Flynn) Terracotta and stone figurines from Naukratis (Ross I. Thomas) Naukratis: religion in a cross-cultural context (Alexandra Villing) Cults, sanctuaries and offerings in Egypt and the Mediterranean world Cypriot terracotta figurines in the East Aegean as evidence for a technical and cultic innovation transfer? (Jan-Marc Henke) Votive offerings and ritual practice in the Ionian sanctuary of Apollo at Klaros (Ireen Kowalleck) Attic vases in Miletos (Norbert Kunisch †) The significance of faience in the religious practices at Naukratis and beyond (Virginia E. S. Webb) Gateway to the underworld: the cult areas at Sais (Penelope Wilson)