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Evidence for Urban Walling in the Third Millennium bc

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2005

Nadine Moeller
Nadine Moeller
Affiliation:
University College, Oxford, OX1 4BH, UK.
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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.

Keywords

city wallsEgyptian wallsancient urban wallingdefence, ancient urban
Type
Research Article
Information
Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , October 2004 , pp. 261 - 265
Copyright
2004 The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

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