Asyut - centre of ancient trade

艾斯尤特 - 古代贸易中心

• 批准号: 426702318
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Jochem Kahl
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Ägyptologisches Seminar
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/426702318?language=en
• 关键词: Asyut; centre; ancient; trade

Asyut, situated 375 km to the south of Cairo, on midway between two ancient Egyptian capitals Memphis and Thebes, was a political and cultural centre of Middle Egypt since the First Intermediate Period (c. 2100 BCE) at the latest, and remained such to the decline of the Pharaonic epoch. The city formed a part of the cultural memory of Ancient Egypt and also had a highly strategic importance thanks to its location. Moreover, during the Byzantine and Islamic Periods, Asyut played, and still plays, an important superregional role in Christianity. Asyut must also have been an important place on the map of the trade centres that took part in exchange already in the Antiquity. For the Pharaonic Period and Late Antiquity, the role of Asyut as a centre of merchandise became well-defined thanks the most recent research done by the project applicants on Gebel Asyut al-gharbi.The aim of the project is to clarify the role of Asyut as a hub of trade during Pharaonic and Byzantine Periods (i.e. 3rd millennium BCE to 1st millennium CE) as well as to reveal what factors had shaped this trade in particular historical epochs.Four pillars of scholarly activities are planned in the frame of the project i.e. A) fieldwork including a) excavation of the so-called Byzantine building, which could have given access to the Darb el-Arba’in route (the famous Forty Days Road) towards the Western desert; b) surveying three areas on Gebel Asyut al-gharbi: around the Tomb of the Dogs, at geological steps 7 and 8 of the Gebel; c) at Tomb V.B) studying objects: especially pottery, plant and faunal (molluscs) remains and textiles. Planned methodology involves for pottery the formal (typological) analysis, comparative and statistical studies as well as petrographic analysis and chemical tests (GC/MS) that may help to identify various organic substances within a sample extracted from a vessel such as fats (animal and vegetable), wine, resins, etc. As to the textile material, the work assumes identifying raw materials, weaves and decorative patterns, that would allow identification of the type of workshop (domestic/professional, local/imports). Portable technologies such as multispectral imaging (MSI) and fibre optic reflectance spectroscopy (FORS) might be applied in order to identify the dyes. C) studying Greek and Coptic dipinti on Roman and Byzantine amphorae;D) studying the history of Asyut with a special focus on cultural contact. Information and data concerning Asyut from the 4th Millennium BCE to the end of the 1st millennium CE will be collected and will be combined with the results of the above mentioned case studies.The project will reconstruct the exchange of goods between Asyut and different countries/regions in Europe, Africa and Asia. It will show how closely connected the world was from the 2nd millennium BCE at the latest to the 1st millennium CE.

Asyut位于开罗南部375公里处，中途，两座古埃及首都孟菲斯和底比斯之间是自发布第一个中级（c。2100公元前）以来埃及的政治和文化中心，并且一直保持着法拉蒙族时代的衰落。这座城市构成了古埃及文化记忆的一部分，也非常具有战略意义，感谢其位置。此外，在拜占庭和伊斯兰时期，阿萨特（Asyut）在基督教中扮演了重要的超级区域角色。 Asyut还必须是贸易中心地图上的重要地点，该地图已经在古代交换了。在短篇小说期间和古代晚期，Asyut作为商品中心的作用得到了明确的明确的感谢，感谢该项目申请人在Gebel Asyut al-Gharbi上所做的最新研究。该贸易特别是历史时期。学术活动的四大支柱是在项目的框架内计划的，即a）野外工作，包括a）挖掘所谓的拜占庭建筑，该建筑物可以访问朝西沙漠的Darb El-Arba'in路线（著名的四十天）； b）在盖贝尔的地质步骤第7和8号狗的坟墓周围，对Gebel Asyut Al-Gharbi的三个地区进行调查； c）在坟墓中）研究物体：尤其是陶器，植物和动物（软体动物）和纺织品。计划中的方法涉及陶器的形式（类型学）分析，比较和统计研究以及岩石学分析和化学测试（GC/MS），可能有助于识别从脂肪（脂肪和植物和植物，葡萄酒，葡萄酒，葡萄酒，树脂等）中提取的样品中提取样品中各种有机物质的质地。本地/进口）。为了鉴定染料，可以应用诸如多光谱成像（MSI）和光纤反射光谱（FORS）之类的便携式技术。 c）在罗马和拜占庭式两栖动物上研究希腊语和科普特迪皮蒂（Coptic Dipinti）； d）研究阿萨特（Asyut）的历史，特别关注文化接触。从公元前4千年到第1千年结束的有关Asyut的信息和数据将收集，并将与上述案例研究的结果结合在一起。该项目将重建在欧洲，非洲和亚洲的Asyut和不同国家/地区/地区/地区之间的商品交换。它将展示世界上公元前第二千年与公元1千年的联系之间的联系。