Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis), A Fourth-Century Church: Volume I, The Excavations...

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Nicola Aravecchia

Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis), A Fourth-Century Church

Volume I, The Excavations (Amheida VII)

Nicola Aravecchia

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New York University Press
10 September 2024

Archaeology by period & region

Series: ISAW Monographs

An archaeological, historical, and art historical study of a remarkable early church excavated at Amheida in Egypt's Dakhla Oasis

Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis): A Fourth-Century Church. Volume 1: The Excavations is an archaeological, historical, and art historical study of a remarkable basilica-church excavated at Amheida in Dakhla Oasis. This church, excavated between 2012 and 2023, dates to the fourth century CE and therefore is among the earliest purpose-built churches in Egypt. It also contains one of the oldest, if not the oldest, excavated Christian funerary crypts in the country. The church at Amheida thus offers a wealth of new data on early Christianity in Egypt, particularly with respect to the earliest phases of Christian art and architecture and burial customs. Aravecchia presents a systematic treatment of the stratigraphy, building techniques, materials, features, architecture, decoration, and finds of the church, carefully contextualized in the early Christianity of the late antique Great Oasis and Egypt more broadly.

By: Nicola Aravecchia
Imprint: New York University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm,
ISBN: 9781479813506
ISBN 10: 1479813508
Series: ISAW Monographs
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 10 September 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nicola Aravecchia is Associate Professor of Classics and of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis and Archaeological Field Director of the NYU Amheida Excavations. In addition to numerous articles about archaeology and early Christian architecture, he is also the author of ʿAin el-Gedida: 2006–2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's Western Desert (Amheida IV) and the co-author of An Oasis City, both published by ISAW and the NYU Press.