Description
The ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna (or Amarna, ancient Akhetaten) was once the short-lived capital built by the controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten, probably the father of the famous Tutankhamun, and abandoned in a while after his death (c. 1336 BCE). It is without doubt one of the few Pharaonic cities to have been thoroughly excavated and is a wealthy source of information about the day-to-day life of the ancient Egyptians. This volume, the first of two, presents the leatherwork excavated on the website online by these quite a lot of expeditions. The book consists of two parts: the catalogue and the preliminary analysis. The former presents the detailed description of the objects (among which chariot leather and footwear), accompanied by colour photographs and, where essential, line- and construction drawings. The latter includes an explanation of the Amarna Leatherwork Project in addition to preliminary interpretations of the finds.