Excavations at Amheida – Publications

For the excavation’s Field Reports, please see here.

Publications:

Nicola Aravecchia. “Catechumens, Women, and Agricultural Laborers: Who Used the Fourth-Century Hall at the Church of ‘Ain el-Gedida, Egypt?”. Journal of Late Antiquity 15.1 (2022), pp. 193–230. DOI: 10.1353/jla.2022.0006

Paola Davoli (with a contribution by Nicholas Warner). The House of Serenos, Part II: Archaeological Report on a Late-Roman Urban House at Trimithis (Amheida VI) New York, ISAW/NYU Press (2022).

Nicola Aravecchia. The Hamlet of ʽAin el-Gedida in Dakhla Oasis: A Late Roman Epoikion?. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 57 (2021), pp. 13–31. DOI: 10.5913/jarce.57.2021.a001.

Roger S. Bagnall, Clementina Caputo. The Great Oasis in the Later Fourth Century. GRBS 61 (2021), pp. 527–50.

Roger S. Bagnall, Paola Davoli. Amheida (Dakhla Oasis): The First Fifteen Years. In: J. Kamrin et al., eds., Guardian of Ancient Egypt. Studies in Honor of Zahi Hawass (Prague, 2020), pp. 163–75.

Nicola Aravecchia. The changing sacred landscape of Egypt’s Western Desert in Late Antiquity: The case of ‘Ain el-Gedida. American Journal of Archaeology 124 (2020), pp. 301-20. DOI: 10.3764/aja.124.2.0301.

Nicola Aravecchia. Geometric Painting in Late-Antique Egypt: The Ceiling of a 4th-c. Church at Amheida (Dakhla Oasis). Journal of Roman Archaeology 33.1 (2020), pp. 449–66., https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759420001117.

Clementina Caputo. The House of Serenos – Part I: the pottery (Amheida V). New York, NYU Press & ISAW (2020). https://nyupress.org/9781479804658/the-house-of-serenos/.

Raffaella Cribiore. The encomium of an official. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 213 (2020), pp. 98–101.

Marina M.S. Nuovo, Silvia Prell. The mosaic that never was. Tesserae and raw material for an unlaid mosaic floor in Trimithis (Dakhla Oasis, Egypt). Journal of Mosaic Research 13 (2020), pp. 191-217. https://doi.org/10.26658/jmr.782363.

Nicola Aravecchia. ‘Ain el-Gedida – 2006-2008 excavations of a Late Antique site in Egypt’s Western Desert (Amheida IV). New York, NYU Press & ISAW (2019). https://nyupress.org/9781479803019/ain-el-gedida/.

Rodney Ast. Land and Resource Administration: farmers, managers, and soldiers in the Great Oasis. In: The Great Oasis of Egypt, the Kharga and Dakhla oases in antiquity; R. S. Bagnall, G. Tallet (eds.). Cambridge University Press (2019), pp. 105-121.

Roger S. Bagnall, Gaëlle Tallet. The Great Oasis: an Administrative Entity from Pharaonic times to Roman times. In: The Great Oasis of Egypt, the Kharga and Dakhla oases in antiquity; R. S. Bagnall, G. Tallet (eds.). Cambridge University Press (2019), pp. 83-104.

Pascale Ballet. And the potsherds? Some avenues of reflection and synthesis on the pottery of the Great Oasis. In: The Great Oasis of Egypt, the Kharga and Dakhla oases in antiquity; R. S. Bagnall, G. Tallet (eds.). Cambridge University Press (2019), pp. 152-167.

Anna L. Boozer. The Archaeology of Amheida (Egypt). In: The Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology; C. Smith (ed.). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_1108-2. (2019).

Jean-Paul Bravard. Water resources and irrigation in two oases of the Western Desert of Egypt: Kharga and Dakhla. In: The Great Oasis of Egypt, the Kharga and Dakhla oases in antiquity; R. S. Bagnall, G. Tallet (eds.). Cambridge University Press (2019), pp. 17-29

Clementina Caputo. Egyptian and imported amphoras at Amheida. In: The Great Oasis of Egypt, the Kharga and Dakhla oases in antiquity; R. S. Bagnall, G. Tallet (eds.). Cambridge University Press (2019), pp. 168-191.

Raffaella Cribiore. Was there an interest in literary culture in the Great Oasis? Some answers. In: The Great Oasis of Egypt, the Kharga and Dakhla oases in antiquity; R. S. Bagnall, G. Tallet (eds.). Cambridge University Press (2019), pp. 269-280.

Paola Davoli. Trimithis: a case study of Proto-Byzantine Urbanism. In: The Great Oasis of Egypt, the Kharga and Dakhla oases in antiquity; R. S. Bagnall, G. Tallet (eds.), Cambridge University Press (2019), pp. 46-80.

Olaf E. Kaper. Temple building on the Egyptian margins: the geopolitical issues behind Seti II and Ramesses IX’s activity at Amheida. In: The Great Oasis of Egypt, the Kharga and Dakhla oases in antiquity; R. S. Bagnall, G. Tallet (eds.). Cambridge University Press (2019), pp. 221-236.

Susanna McFadden. The house of Serenos and wall painting in the Western Oases. In: The Great Oasis of Egypt, the Kharga and Dakhla oases in antiquity; R. S. Bagnall, G. Tallet (eds.). Cambridge University Press (2019), pp. 281-296.

Irene Soto Marín. Kegs from Amheida. In: The Great Oasis of Egypt, the Kharga and Dakhla oases in antiquity; R. S. Bagnall, G. Tallet (eds.). Cambridge University Press (2019), pp. 192-200.

Rodney Ast, Roger S. Bagnall. Amheida III. Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 2: Greek texts from the 2008-2013 seasons. New York, NYU Press & ISAW (2017). https://nyupress.org/books/9781479853748/

Roger S. Bagnall, Clementina Caputo, Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Irene Soto Marín. New dating from ostraca for the dating of 4th-century ceramic assemblages. Bulletin de la liaison céraqmique égyptienne 27: 195–212.

Paola Davoli. A new public bath in Trimithis (Amheida, Dakhla Oasis). In: Collective Baths in Egypt 2. Recent Discoveries and Perspectives; B. Redon (ed.). Cairo, IFAO-Etudes urbaines 10 (2017), pp. 193-220.

Günter Vittmann. An abnormal hieratic letter from Dakhleh Oasis (ostracon Amheida 16003). In: A true scribe of Abydos. Essays on First Millennium Egypt in Honour of Anthony Leahy; C. Jurman, B. Bader and D. A. Aston (eds.). Leuven, Peeters (2017), pp. 491-503.

Rodney Ast, Paola Davoli. Ostraka and stratigraphy at Amheida (Dakhla Oasis, Egypt): a methodological issue. In: Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology Warsaw, 29 July – 3 August 2013; T. Derda, A. Łajtar, J. Urbanik (eds.). Warsaw, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplements XXVIII (2016), pp. 1447-1471.

Boozer, Anna Lucille. Amheida II: A Late Romano-Egyptian House in the Dakhla Oasis: Amheida House B2. New York, USA: New York University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479842230.001.0001.

Roger S. Bagnall, Nicola Aravecchia, Raffaella Cribiore, Paola Davoli, Olaf E. Kaper, Susanna McFadden. An Oasis City. New York, NYU Press & ISAW (2016). http://nyupress.org/books/9781479889228/.

Raffaella Cribiore, Günter Vittmann, Roger S. Bagnall. Inscriptions from tombs at Bir esh-Shaghala. Chronique d’Égypte 90 (2015), pp. 335-349 http://www.brepolsonline.net/loi/cde.

Rodney Ast, Roger S. Bagnall. New evidence for the Roman garrison of Trimithis. Tyche 30 (2015), pp. 1–4 (tafeln 1-3). https://doi.org/10.15661/tyche.2015.030.01.

Anna L. Boozer. A Late Romano-Egyptian house in the Dakhla Oasis: Amheida House B2. (With contributions from Douglas V. Campana, Angela Cervi, Pam J. Crabtree, Paola Davoli, Delphine Dixneuf, David Ratzan, Giovanni Ruffini, Ursula Thanheiser, and Johannes Walter). New York, NYU Press & ISAW (2015). Open access version: http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/amheida-ii-house-b2/.

Nicola Aravecchia, Tosha L. Dupras, Dorota Dzierzbicka, Lana Williams. The church at Amheida (ancient Trimithis) in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt: A bioarchaeological perspective on an Early Christian mortuary complex. Bioarchaeology of the Near East 9 (2015), pp. 21–43. http://www.anthropology.uw.edu.pl/09/bne-09-02.pdf.

Olaf E. Kaper. Petubastis IV in the Dakhla oasis: new evidence about an early rebellion against Persian rule and its suppression in political memory in: Political memory in and after the Persian Empire; J. M. Silverman and C. Waerzeggers (eds.). Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature (2015), pp. 125-149. http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/books_anemonographs.aspx.

Dorothea Schulz. Colours in the oasis: the villa of Serenos. Egyptian Archaeology 46 (2015), pp. 23-26.

Anna L. Boozer. Urban change at Late Roman Trimithis (Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt). In: Egypt in the First Millennium AD: Perspectives from New Fieldwork; E. O’Connell (ed.). Leuven, Peeters (2014), pp. 23-42.

Clementina Caputo. Amheida/Trimithis (Dakhla Oasis): results from a pottery survey in area 11. Bulletin de liaison de la céramique égyptienne 24 (2014), pp. 163-177.

Paola Davoli. UniSalento nel deserto occidentale egiziano: dieci anni nell’Oasi di Dakhla. Il Bollettino dell’Università del Salento IV/5 (2014), pp. 23-26.

Susanna McFadden. Art on the edge: the late Roman wall painting of Amheida, Egypt. In: Akten des XI. Internationalen Kolloquiums der AIPMA (Association international pour la peinture murale antique). Archäologische Forschungen 23 (2014), pp. 359-370.

Roger S. Bagnall. Eine Wüstenstadt: leben und kultur in einer ägyptischen Oase im 4. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Stuttgart, Steiner Franz Verlag (2013).

Anna L. Boozer. The archaeology of Amheida (Egypt). In: The Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology; C. Smith (ed.). Springer (2013).

Anna L. Boozer. Archaeology on Egypt’s Edge: archaeological research in the Dakhleh Oasis, 1819-1977. Ancient West & East 12 (2013), pp. 117-156.

Anna L. Boozer. Frontiers and borderlands in imperial perspectives: exploring Rome’s Egyptian frontier. American Journal of Archaeology 117 (2013), pp. 275-292.

Raffaella Cribiore, Paola Davoli. New literary texts from Amheida, ancient Trimithis (Dakhla Oasis, Egypt). Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 187 (2013), pp. 1-14.

Nicola Aravecchia. The church complex of ‘Ain el-Gedida, Dakhleh Oasis. In: The Oasis Papers 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project; R. S. Bagnall, P. Davoli, C. A. Hope (eds.). Oxford, Oxbow (2012), pp. 391-408. http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/the-oasis-papers-6.html.

Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore. Christianity on Thoth’s Hill. In: The Oasis Papers 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project; R. S. Bagnall, P. Davoli, C. A. Hope (eds.). Oxford, Oxbow (2012), pp. 409-415. http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/the-oasis-papers-6.html.

Roger S. Bagnall and Giovanni R. Ruffini. Amheida I. Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 1: Texts from the 2004-2007 seasons. New York, NYU Press & ISAW (2012). Open access version: http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/amheida-i-otrim-1.

Anna L. Boozer. Globalizing Mediterranean identities: the overlapping spheres of Egyptian, Greek and Roman worlds at Trimithis. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 25 (2012), pp. 93-116. http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JMA/article/view/16355.

Paola Davoli. Amheida 2007-2009: new results from the excavations. In: The Oasis Papers 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project; R. S. Bagnall, P. Davoli, C. A. Hope (eds.). Oxford, Oxbow (2012), pp. 263-278. http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/the-oasis-papers-6.html.

Paola Davoli. Reflections on urbanism in Graeco-Roman Egypt: a historical and regional perspective.. In: The Space of the city in Graeco-Roman Egypt : image and reality; E. Subías; P. Azara, J. Carruesco, I. Fiz, R. Cuesta (eds.). Tarragona, Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (2012), pp. 69-92.

Delphine Dixneuf. Ceramics from ‘Ain el-Gedida, Dakhleh Oasis: preliminary results. In: The Oasis Papers 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project; R.S. Bagnall, P. Davoli, C.A. Hope (eds). Oxford, Oxbow (2012), pp. 459-470. http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/the-oasis-papers-6.html.

Olaf E. Kaper. Epigraphic evidence from the Dakhleh Oasis in the Late Period. In: The Oasis Papers 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project; R.S. Bagnall, P. Davoli, C.A. Hope (eds). Oxford, Oxbow (2012), pp. 167-176. http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/the-oasis-papers-6.html.

Constance S. Silver. Painted surfaces on mud plaster and three-Dimensional mud elements: The status of conservation treatments and recommendations for continuing research. In: The Oasis Papers 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project; R. S. Bagnall, P. Davoli, C. A. Hope (eds.). Oxford, Oxbow (2012), pp. 337-347. http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/the-oasis-papers-6.html.

Nicholas Warner. Amheida: Architectural conservation and site development, 2004-2009. In: The Oasis Papers 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project; R. S. Bagnall, P. Davoli, C. A. Hope (eds.). Oxford, Oxbow (2012), pp. 363-379. http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/the-oasis-papers-6.html.

Anna L. Boozer. Forgetting to remember in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt. In: Cultural Memory and Identity in Ancient Societies; M.Bommas (ed.). London and New York, Continuum (2011), pp. 109-126.

Olaf E. Kaper. Tempel an der “Rückseite der Oase”: Aktuelle Grabungen decken eine ganze Kultlandschaft auf. Antike Welt 2 (2011), pp. 15-19.

Dorothea Schulz. Die neue villa des Serenus: Rekonstruktionsarbeiten in der Wüste. Antike Welt 2 (2011), pp. 20-23.

Anna L. Boozer. Memory and microhistory of an empire: domestic contexts in Roman Amheida, Egypt. In: Archaeology and Memory; D. Boric (ed.). Oxford, Oxbow (2010), pp. 138-157.

Paola Davoli, Raffaella Cribiore. Una scuola di greco del IV secolo d.C. a Trimithis (Oasi di Dakhla, Egitto). Atene e Roma (2010).

Olaf E. Kaper. A Kemyt ostracon from Amheida, Dakhleh Oasis. Bulletin de l’Institut Français Archéologie Orientale 110 (2010), pp. 115-126.

Dorothea Schulz. De Villa van Serenus – een reconstructie. Monumenten 31/6 (2010).

Olaf E. Kaper. Epigraphic evidence from the Dakhleh Oasis in the Libyan Period. In: The Libyan Period in Egypt, Historical and Cultural Studies into the 21st – 24th Dynasties: Proceedings of a conference at Leiden University, 25-27 October 2007 Egyptologische Uitgaven 23, Leiden; G. P. F. Broekman; R. J. Demarée and O. E. Kaper (eds.). Netherlands Institute for the Near East, 2009, pp. 149-159.

Sander Muskens. Een romeinse stad in de Egyptische woestijn. Recent veldwerk in Amheida, Dachla Oase. Ta-Mery 2 (2009), pp. 7-12.

Raffaella Cribiore, Paola Davoli, David M. Ratzan. A teacher’s dipinto from Trimithis (Dakhleh Oasis). Journal of Roman Archaeology 21 (2008).

Anna L. Boozer. Housing empire: the archaeology of daily life in Roman Amheida, Egypt. Department of Anthropology. New York, Columbia University. Unpublished PhD Thesis, 2007.

Roger S. Bagnall, Paola Davoli, Olaf E. Kaper, Helen Whitehouse. Roman Amheida: excavating a town in Egypt’s Dakhleh oasis. Minerva 17/6 (2006).

Paola Davoli (with contributions by Roger S. Bagnall, Olaf E. Kaper). I Romani nel deserto. Pharaon (Sep.2006).