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Religious practices and beliefs in the "Red Land": religious building complexes and cult objects from the port of Berenike as a manifestation of the religiousness of the population of the Egyptian Red Sea coast and Eastern Desert from the mid 3rd century BC to the early 6th century AD

2014/13/N/HS3/04400

Keywords:

Berenike Egypt religion Roman period Late Antiquity Blemmyes Eastern Desert temple

Descriptors:

  • HS3_8: Archaeology (incl. archaeology of Greece and Rome, archaeology of Egypt and Nubia, archaeology of Near East, archeology of the New World, pre- and protohistorical archaeology, archaeology of early medieval period, medieval archeology, archeology of modern period)

Panel:

HS3 - The study of the human past: history, archaeology, ethnology, cultural anthropology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej im. prof. Kazimierza Michałowskiego

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

Iwona Zych 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 3

Call: PRELUDIUM 7 - announced on 2014-03-17

Amount awarded: 98 922 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2015-01-29

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2017-01-28

Project duration:: 24 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (3)
  • Articles in post-conference publications (2)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (1)
  1. Archaeological fieldwork in Berenike in 2014 and 2015: From Hellenistic rock-cut installations to abandoned temple ruins
    Authors:
    Iwona Zych, Steve E. Sidebotham, Martin Hense, Joanna K. Rądkowska, Marek Woźniak
    Academic press:
    Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (rok: 2016, tom: 25, strony: 315-348), Wydawca: Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej UW
    Status:
    Published
  2. Berenike Project. Hellenistic fort, Roman harbor, late Roman temple, and other projects. Archaeological work in the 2012 and 2013 seasons
    Authors:
    Steven E.Sidebotham, Iwona Zych, Joanna Rądkowska, Marek Woźniak
    Academic press:
    Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (rok: 2015, tom: 24/1, strony: 297-324), Wydawca: Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.5604/01.3001.0009.9914 - link to the publication
  3. The harbor of early Roman "Imperial" Berenike: overview of excavations from 2009 to 2015
    Authors:
    Iwona Zych
    Academic press:
    Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (rok: 2017, tom: 26/2, strony: 93-132), Wydawca: Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej UW
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.5604/01.3001.0012.1822 - link to the publication
  1. The 'Lotus Temple' in Berenike on the Red Sea: two phases of cultic and ritual activities in the late 4th and 5th century AD
    Authors:
    Joanna K. Rądkowska, Iwona Zych
    Conference:
    De la Gaule à l'Orient méditerranéen. Fonctions et statuts des mobiliers archéologiques dans leur contexte, (rok: 2018, ), Wydawca: Uniwresytet w Poitiers
    Data:
    konferencja 27-29 octobre 2014
    Status:
    Published
  2. Exotic cults in Roman Berenike? An investigation into two temples from the harbor temenos
    Authors:
    Joanna K. Rądkowska, Iwona Zych
    Conference:
    Stories of Globalisation: The Red Sea and the Persian Gulf from Late Prehistory to Early Modernity Selected Papers of Red Sea Project VII (rok: 2019, ), Wydawca: E.J. Brill
    Data:
    konferencja 26-30 maja 2015
    Status:
    Published
  1. The excavations
    Authors:
    Steven E. Sidebotham, Iwona Zych
    Book:
    Berenike 2010-2011. Report on two seasons of excavations at Berenike, including survey in the Eastern Desert and reports on earlier work (rok: 2017, tom: nie dotyczy, strony: 1-595), Wydawca: Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej UW
    Status:
    Published