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English edition
Nov
2001
264 pp.
Hardbound
15X23 cm
$29.50
LE 120.00
ISBN
978 977 424 393 6
For sale worldwide
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Fustat Finds
Beads, Coins, Medical Instruments, Textiles, and Other Artifacts from the Awad Collection
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Edited by
Jere L. Bacharach
Corroded pieces of metal, stamped lumps of copper, broken bits of glass with partial inscriptions, fragments of textiles, tiny beads—these were the raw material found at al-Fustat, the site of the first Muslim settlement in Egypt in the seventh century and the heart of Cairo for many centuries following. From the 1950s Dr. Henri Amin Awad accepted from the poor in this area objects that had no obvious market value in return for medical services rendered. Over the years he built up an extraordinary and important collection of artifacts. Carefully cleaned, sorted, and then analyzed by specialists, this material illuminates many areas of the archaeological record neglected or missing from other studies.
The ten studies in this volume—covering beads, bone, coins, glass weights and vessel stamps, medical instruments, medical prescriptions, metal objects, and textiles—demonstrate the wide range of archaeological material once found in al-Fustat, a site no longer accessible since most of it has been buried under urban development or lost to a rising water table.
Contributors: Ibrahim Abd al-Rahman, Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Tawwab, Henri Amin Awad, Jere L. Bacharach, Michael L. Bates, Lidia Domaszewicz, Katharina Eldada, Peter Francis, Jr., Sami K. Hamarneh, Nancy Arthur Hoskins, Peter Mentzel, Norman D. Nicol, Elizabeth Rodenbeck, W. Luke Treadwell
Jere L. Bacharach is professor of history at the University of Washington and is the editor of Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt (AUC Press, 1995).
Author addresses:
Lidia Domaszewicz
419 E. Main Str.
Morehead, KY 40351
Tel. 606-783-0146
Dr. Henri Amin Awad
76 Sharia al-Nil
Apt. 33
Dokki, Cairo
Peter Francis, Jr.
Center for Bead Research
4 Essex Street
Lake Placid NY 12946-1236 USA
Katharina Eldada
169 Concord Ave.
Lexington, MA 02421
Nancy Arthur Hoskins
34494 Deerwood Drive
Eugene, Oregon 97405
Michael Bates
617 West 155th Street
New York, NY 10032-7598
Peter Mentzel
Department of History
UMC 0710
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322
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