Release of MAPDAIK 5

Volume 5 of the open-access online series “Materialien und Arbeitsmittel aus Projekten des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo” (MAPDAIK) by Dirk Blaschta, entitled “Die Keramik vom unteren Aufweg und der Hafenanlage zur Knickpyramide in Dahschur”, is now available online on iDAI.repo:

https://doi.org/10.34780/1cfsy3pf

This volume presents the publication of a doctoral thesis completed in 2018, which offers a study of the ceramic finds from the lower causeway and the harbour leading to the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur. Excavations were conducted by the Cairo Department of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut between 2009 and 2018. The corpus includes material dating from the early Old Kingdom (early 4ᵗʰ Dynasty) to the New Kingdom (end of the 18ᵗʰ Dynasty). In addition to using traditional methods of ceramic analysis, the study explores questions concerning landscape transformation in the Memphite area during the 3ʳᵈ millennium B.C.