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- Title
Evidence for Urban Walling in the Third Millennium bc.
- Authors
Nadine Moeller
- Abstract
A tradition of enclosure walls developed in Egypt very early on. Until recently the evidence was primarily artistic, in the shape of depictions on several late prehistoric palettes of symbols representing enclosed areas of square layout with rounded corners and numerous external buttresses. These images seem to depict walled inhabited settlements, and they belong to artistic compositions that also portray fighting and other violence; and together such scenes are often seen as reflecting local struggles along the road of state formation.
- Subjects
EGYPT; CURTAIN walls; EXTERIOR walls; VIOLENCE; SIGNS &; symbols
- Publication
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2004, Vol 14, Issue 2, p261
- ISSN
0959-7743
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0959774304220169