Through an analysis of recently discovered Ptolemaic pottery from
Mut al-Kharab, as well as a re-examination of pottery collected by
the Dakhleh Oasis Project during the survey of the oasis from
1978-1987, this book challenges the common perception that Dakhleh
Oasis experienced a sudden increase in agricultural exploitation
and a dramatic rise in population during the Roman Period. It
argues that such changes had already begun to take place during the
Ptolemaic Period, likely as the result of a deliberate strategy
directed toward this region by the Ptolemies. This book focuses on
the ceramic remains in order to determine the extent of Ptolemaic
settlement in the oases and to offer new insights into the nature
of this settlement. It presents a corpus of Ptolemaic pottery and a
catalogue of Ptolemaic sites from Dakhleh Oasis. It also presents a
survey of Ptolemaic evidence from the oases of Kharga, Farafra,
Bahariya and Siwa. It thus represents the first major synthesis of
Ptolemaic Period activity in the Egyptian Western Desert.
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