IN THE SHADE OF THE NEKLONI MONASTERY (DEIR MALAK GUBRAIL, FAYUM) Cover Image

IN THE SHADE OF THE NEKLONI MONASTERY (DEIR MALAK GUBRAIL, FAYUM)
IN THE SHADE OF THE NEKLONI MONASTERY (DEIR MALAK GUBRAIL, FAYUM)

Author(s): Włodzimierz Godlewski
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Fayum; Naqlun; cemetery; tomb; cartonnage; shroud; textiles; burial practices

Summary/Abstract: Investigations of two cemeteries, A and C, in Naqlun have presented a singular opportunity to study changes of burial practices occurring in the Christian community in Fayum over eight centuries, straddling a period of signicant political, social and religious changes. Adaptation processes of Byzantine society in Egypt to the new legal and religious regulations introduced successively by the Fatimids and Ayyubids can be traced on the basis of the Naqlun graves.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: XX
  • Page Range: 467-482
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English