This is a status report on the possibility of the existence of wood exploitation in ancient Egypt through our current botanical knowledge and a re-examination of particular textual and iconographic sources.
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Researches about wooded areas led to study the case of the word Sfnw. This term, which wasn't recorded in the Wörterbuch, was mentioned in several texts from the New Kingdom and one from the Ptolemaic Period. It covers an environmental... more
Researches about wooded areas led to study the case of the word Sfnw. This term, which wasn't recorded in the Wörterbuch, was mentioned in several texts from the New Kingdom and one from the Ptolemaic Period. It covers an environmental reality and Egyptologists tend to translate it as " bushes " or " undergrowth ". Through the analysis of these documents, this paper aims at bringing more details about this kind of vegetation, its conception in the popular imagination and its use for a clearer understanding of the Egyptian landscape.
Research Interests:
This is a status report on the possibility of the existence of wood exploitation in ancient Egypt through our current botanical knowledge and a re-examination of particular textual and iconographic sources.