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Architectural and Stratigraphic Overview Architectural and Stratigraphic Overview
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Distribution of Activities at Bi’r Samut Distribution of Activities at Bi’r Samut
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A Comparative View: Houses in Syene (Aswan) A Comparative View: Houses in Syene (Aswan)
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A Forthold in the Delta: Tell el-Herr A Forthold in the Delta: Tell el-Herr
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Transience and Domesticity at Bi’r Samut Transience and Domesticity at Bi’r Samut
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Notes Notes
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Works Cited Works Cited
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12 Domestic Activities in Alternative Settings: The Ptolemaic Fort at Bi’r Samut, Egypt
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Published:January 2024
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Abstract
This chapter cites an example of a place where people stayed, some potentially for lengthy periods, without necessarily feeling at home. It explores the Ptolemaic fort at B'ir Samut as a forthold, which is not a household per se but a place where soldiers, phylakites, and other personnel engaged in many of the same dwelling activities. The fortress at Bi'r Samut in Egypt's Eastern Desert presents a rare opportunity to observe the architecture and contents of a largely intact Hellenistic fortification abandoned in the last decade of the third century BCE. The chapter describes the flexibility of spatial use within the B'ir Samut's walls, which suggests an open and dynamic social configuration with loosely defined functional divisions and little hierarchy of access. It compares several of B'ir Samut's rooms, which can be characterized as housing domestic activities and as assemblages from the Late Period Fortification at Tell el-Herr.
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