The chapters in this volume are organized in such a way as to provide windows onto constructing, remaking, and dismantling sacred landscapes in cities in the north western Delta of Egypt, notably Thonis-Heracleion and Alexandria, and also more widely in Lower Egypt. They are drawn from a conference on the Religious Landscapes of Lower Egypt held at the University of Zurich and present case studies that examine different aspects of the long-term life-histories of the landscape and the unfolding relationships between the people of Egypt and the sacred spaces in which they lived and went about their daily tasks. Through the examination of objects, buildings, cities and landscapes, the papers aim to capture a sense of how space was actively constructed and how these social spaces change through their active manipulation.
Introduction: Constructing, Remaking and Dismantling Sacred Landscapes - Damian Robinson and Franck Goddio (eds)
Part One: Constructing, remaking, and dismantling
1. Ship 11 and the sacred landscape of the ‘Grand Canal’ of Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt - Damian Robinson and Franck Goddio
2. The Caesarium - Franck Goddio
3. The fasciculated column from the Portus Magnus of Alexandria: Pharaonica in context - Jean Yoyotte with Veronique Laurent
4. Haroeris of Letopolis and the colossal Canopus Nile - Sylvie Cauville
Part Two: Ritual and organisation in the sacred landscapes of the kingdom
5. Magic and Ritual in the Late Dynastic Period at Kom Wasit - Urška Furlan and Mohamed Kenawi
6. Ritual versus mercantile, or ritual and mercantile? Temple treasury weights and some thoughts on the connection between ritual and landscape and trade in Egypt - Elsbeth van der Wilt
7. Amun-Gereb and Osiris in Thonis-Heracleion: about the great naos of the temple - Anne-Sophie von Bomhard
8. A New Version of ‘Philensis I’ from Taposiris Magna - Kathleen Martinez and Daniel von Recklinghausen
9. The cultural appropriation of Egypt in Hellenistic Alexandria: The Ptolemies and the heritage of the Pharaohs - Stefan Pfeiffer
10. The Order of the Nomes of Lower Egypt in Geographical Lists - Françoise Ghiringhelli
