Kom el-Hisn is located near the western edge of the Nile delta,
midway between Cairo and Alexandria, and about 13 km west of the
Rosetta branch of the Nile. It is composed of primarily Old Kingdom
deposits (Dynasties V and VI, ca. 2500-2290 BC) but the site was
also occupied in the Middle and New Kingdom periods. (It has been
suggested that some First Intermediate burials are included within
the Old Kingdom architecture, and Kom el-Hisn clearly flourished
during the height of Old Kingdom power.) After a detailed
introduction, the author reviews the development of Egyptian
settlement patterns and structures to provide the Old Kingdom
context, before continuing to discuss the specific issues relating
to the current research and some of the explanations offered by
other researchers for the development of Egypt's particular brand
of complex society. Chapter four describes the research programme
that provided the data on which this study relies, and subsequent
headings contain detailed descriptions of the deposits associated
with each excavation unit in the analysis.Before the full summary
in the ultimate chapter, there are statistical analyses that build
the model of functional differentiation found within the excavated
areas. The study as a whole places Kon el-Hisn within the larger
context of the Egyptian state structure and allows some conclusions
to be drawn as to how this important site functioned within this
structure.
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