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Fustat Finds - Beads, Coins, Medical Instruments, Textiles and Other Artifacts from the Awad Collection (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Fustat Finds - Beads, Coins, Medical Instruments, Textiles and Other Artifacts from the Awad Collection (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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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
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