entity · site_amara_west
Amara West
Also known as: Amara West
A New Kingdom administrative and residential town in Upper Nubia between the Second and Third Nile Cataracts.
Review and provenance
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Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1300 BCE–1050 BCE
Precision: approximate relevant occupation
- informs · contextualizes
Multi-Scale Characterization of Unusual Green and Blue Pigments from the Pharaonic Town of Amara West, Nubia — Fulcher, Kate, Siddall, Ruth, Emmett, Trevor F., Spencer, Neal (2021)Provides the broad c.1300-1050 BCE occupation and pharaonic-town context.
Locator: Abstract and archaeological background - informs · locates
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Record 7594091: Amara West — Getty Vocabulary ProgramProvides a representative archaeological-site coordinate.
Locator: TGN 7594091
Research description
Amara West was founded as a pharaonic colonial centre and remained occupied through substantial internal reorganization into the late New Kingdom and its aftermath. The relevant archaeological sequence includes conversion of earlier storage and administrative space to housing and expansion beyond the original walled town. This record does not treat the settlement as culturally homogeneous or equate Egyptian-style institutions with an exclusively Egyptian population.
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
Multi-Scale Characterization of Unusual Green and Blue Pigments from the Pharaonic Town of Amara West, Nubia — Fulcher, Kate, Siddall, Ruth, Emmett, Trevor F., Spencer, Neal (2021)Provides the broad c.1300-1050 BCE occupation and pharaonic-town context.
Locator: Abstract and archaeological background - informs · locates
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Record 7594091: Amara West — Getty Vocabulary ProgramProvides a representative archaeological-site coordinate.
Locator: TGN 7594091
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_amara_west · geography assertion