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Gärten im alten Ägypten und in Nubien 2000 v.Chr. - 250 n.Chr.
By Sven Kappel
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Description
Sources on antique gardens in the Nile Valley are manifold. They were described in Early Egyptian texts, there are innumerable representations, some 50 alone in graves of the New Kingdom in Thebes-West, and many were excavated in Egypt and Sudan, amongst them also the recently dug residential garden of Abydos-South, probably the earliest garden of mankind hitherto attested. The volume contains six contributions. They deal with Egyptian gardens as the oldest testimonies of plant cultivation by man [Loeben], the residential garden of Tell el-Dab'a [Eigner], farm and garden of the superintendent of cattle at the Temple of Aten at Amarna [Loth], the garden of the Great Complex at Musawwarat es-Sufra, Sudan [Wolf], garden plants of the Ancient Egyptians [Kappel, Loeben] as well as Egyptian palms, domestic trees, and other domestic plants [Kappel]. With regard to palm trees, mentioning is made of date, dum, and argun palm, with regard to domestic trees there are sycamore, fig, pomegranate, willow, tamarisk, boswellia, and myrrh, amongst other domestic plants there are e.g. grapevine, papyrus, lotus, mandrake, cornflower, camomile, lily, ginger, lettuce, onion, poppy, and safflower.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 80
- Publication Date:
- 2011-09-30
- Publisher:
- VML Verlag Marie Leidorf
- Languages:
- Original: German
- ISBN10:
- 3867575312
- ISBN13:
- 9783867575317
- Weight:
- 228 g
- Height:
- 159 cm
- Width:
- 238 cm
- Thickness:
- 7 cm
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