Open Access Journal: Études et travaux / Centre d'archéologie méditerranéenne de l'Académie polonaise des sciences

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Études et travaux / Centre d'archéologie méditerranéenne de l'Académie polonaise des sciences
p-ISSN: 0079-3566 (until 2010), 2084-6762 (from 2011)
e-ISSN: 2449-9579

Études et Travaux

Scholarly annual of the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures
of the Polish Academy of Sciences dealing with archaeology of ancient and early medieval cultures of the Mediterranean Basin, Near East and North Africa

Indexed by the European Reference Index for Humanities (ERIH) and is edited primarily in a print version

Invites every scholar willing to share results of her/his studies on Mediterranean archaeology

Études et Travaux XXXVIII / 2025

Editorial

Authors: – | Pages: 7–9 | DOI: –

An Appraisal of Pharaonic Egyptian Boundary Studies

Pharaonic Egypt
borderscapes
boundary studies
theories of practice
territoriality
border theory

Author: Oren Siegel | Pages: 11–34 | DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.38.001

Technical Traditions and Social Boundaries. The Case of Predynastic Egypt

borderscapes
pottery technology
social boundaries
Predynastic Egypt

Author: Jade Bajeot | Pages: 35–59 | DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.38.002

Borders and Frontiers of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. The Case of Lower Nubia

Roman period
Ptolemaic period
Lower Nubia
kingdom of Meroe
Dodekaschoinos

Author: Audrey Eller | Pages: 61–84 | DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.38.003

Tracing Tangible Borderscapes Between the First and the Second Nile Cataracts Ceramics in the Ninth–Tenth Centuries CE

Aswan
pottery
Nubia
Makuria
Faras
Egypt
borderscapes
Fatimids

Author: Katarzyna de Lellis-Danys | Pages: 85–112 | DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.38.004

A Mathematical Borderscape in Eratosthenes’ Geographika: North-South Distances of the Oikoumene

borderscapes
Eratosthenes
third century BC
Near East
ancient Libya
ancient geography
ancient science
ancient mathematics

Author: Samantha Sink | Pages: 113–135 | DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.38.005

Late Roman Fine Pottery from North-Western Asia Minor Found in Nea Paphos: The Evidence from Maloutena

Nea Paphos
terra sigillata
late Roman Cyprus
Villa of Theseus
House of Aion
red slip wares
Pergamon
Phokaia/Phocaea

Authors: Krzysztof Domżalski, Monika Miziołek | Pages: 137–162 | DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.38.006

The Collection of Ancient Art at the National Museum in Warsaw during the Second World War (1939–1945)

National Museum in Warsaw
University of Warsaw
Second World War
mummies
coffins
cartonnages
Tell Edfu
Deir el-Medina

Author: Kacper Laube | Pages: 163–186 | DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.38.007

Black-on-Red Pottery in the Levant: A Petrographic Contribution from Tell Keisan

Levant
Iron Age
Tell Keisan
Cyprus
Black-on-Red pottery
petrography
micropaleontology

Authors: Jacek Michniewicz, Andrzej Szydło, Mariusz Burdajewicz | Pages: 187–217 | DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.38.008

Covering the Deceased’s Heads with Pottery Vessels: Insight from Late and Ptolemaic Period Necropolis in Saqqara West

Saqqara
Roman period
Ptolemaic period
Late period
pot burials
cartonnage mask
funerary ritual

Author: Małgorzata Radomska | Pages: 219–241 | DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.38.009

Evolution of Water Management in the Maloutena Residential Quarter of Nea Paphos. The Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods

Nea Paphos
Hellenistic period
Cyprus
water management
early Roman period
Maloutena

Author: Marcin M. Romaniuk | Pages: 243–280 | DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.38.010

Clay Tobacco Smoking Pipes from Tell el-Retaba: An Archaeological and Ethnographic Examination within the Context of Ottoman Egypt

Ottoman Empire
Tell el-Retaba
clay pipes
tobacco smoking

Author: Piotr Sójka | Pages: 281–310 | DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.38.011

Abbreviations

Author: – | Pages: 311–314

Études et Travaux XXXVII / 2024

Editorial

Authors: –    |   Pages: 7–8   |   DOI: –

Professor Stefan Jakobielski (11.08.1937–13.10.2024) in Memoriam

Author: Bogdan Żurawski | Pages: 9–12   |   DOI: –

Tadeusz Andrzejewski (1923–1961) and His Contribution to Polish Egyptology

National Museum in Warsaw
University of Warsaw
Tadeusz Andrzejewski
Egyptology
Egyptian archaeology
Polish excavations

Author: Kacper Laube | Pages: 13–26   |   DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.37.001

Tadeusz Smoleński (1884–1909): A Pioneer of Polish Egyptology

history of science
Central Europe
history of Polish Egyptology
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Smoleński Tadeusz Samuel

Authors: Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska, Leszek Zinkow | Pages: 27–38   |   DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.37.002

Typology and Provenance of Early Roman Cooking Ware from the Residential Quarter of Nea Paphos (Cyprus)

typology
Nea Paphos
cooking ware
Cyprus
early Roman period

Authors: Monika Miziołek, Edyta Marzec | Pages: 39–74   |   DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.37.003

Bordering Power: Reinterpreting Three First Cataract Inscriptions of King Merenra

Old Kingdom Egypt
inscriptions
Merenra
Sixth Dynasty
bordering
power

Authors: Oren Siegel, Brendan Hainline, Serena Nicolini, Maria Carmela Gatto | Pages: 75–99 |   DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.37.004

Nouvelle interprétation du bâtiment méroïtique XLIII de Meinarti (Nubie soudanaise) : Quelques pistes de réflexion pour distinguer entrepôts, greniers et marchés

Nubia
Meroitic period
storage
suspended floor
cereals
wine
food processing
warehouse

Author: Gabrielle Choimet | Pages: 101–129 |   DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.37.005

Les monuments inachevés de l’époque romaine au Liban. Une approche analytique du phénomène

Roman period
Lebanon
unfinished temples
monumentality
epigraphy
construction techniques

Author: Hany Kahwagi-Janho | Pages: 131–163 |   DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.37.006

Authors Correction

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Abbreviations

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