The Island City of Tinnīs

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1 Alison L. Gascoigne The Island City of Tinnīs A Postmortem With contributions by Al-Sayyid ʿAgamī ʿArafa, John P. Cooper, Helen Fenwick, Matthew J. Harrison, Ṭāriq Ibrāhīm al-ḥusaynī, Benjamin T. Pennington, Gillian Pyke, ʿAbbās al-shinnāwī, Claire Stephens, Kristian Strutt, and Nicholas Warner Institut français d archéologie orientale Fouilles de l Ifao

2 Contents Acknowledgements... xi Note on Transliteration... xiii Note on Periodisation... xiii Introduction [Alison L. Gascoigne]... 1 Chapter 1. Tinnīs: from ancient town to archaeological site [Alison L. Gascoigne] Vignettes of Tinnīs The emergence of Tinnīs and its origins as an administrative centre The Tinnīs hinterland: environmental change Tinnīs as a Christian centre Tinnīs as a port and an industrial city Tinnīs as a ribāṭ The abandonment of Tinnīs and the history of its ruins Previous archaeological work at Tinnīs Chapter 2. The port of Tinnīs and its maritime connections [John P. Cooper] Introduction River, lake and sea connections Pre-Islamic connections Navigational conditions Tinnīs by Nile The Mediterranean connection The port of Tinnīs Topography of the port The ships and boats of medieval Tinnīs Conclusion... 45

3 VI the island city of tinnīs: a postmortem Chapter 3. The Genial Companion to the Affairs of Tinnīs: a translation of Ibn Bassām al-tinnīsī s Anīs al-jalīs fī akhbār tinnīs, with introduction [Alison L. Gascoigne and John P. Cooper] Introduction Translation of the text Chapter 4. An overview of the fieldwork and the survey methodology [Alison L. Gascoigne, Kristian Strutt, Helen Fenwick and Claire Stephens] The Tinnīs Archaeological Project: overview of the fieldwork The survey methodology The topographic survey The geophysical survey The auger survey The site GIS and the Atlas of Tinnīs Chapter 5. The topography of the city of Tinnīs [Alison L. Gascoigne, John P. Cooper, Matthew J. Harrison, Kristian Strutt and Claire Stephens] The topography of the site and its setting The fortifications of Tinnīs The enclosure wall The citadel Harbours, waterways, canals and associated features The west canal The south canal Other possible inlets Major buildings The basilica church and plaza The funduq The mosque(s) The north-western rectilinear compounds The south-western complex Urban zones, the street network and the built environment The street network The built environment: residential and commercial complexes Industrial activity Conclusion Chapter 6. The auger survey at Tinnīs [Benjamin T. Pennington] Introduction Auger survey methodology Representative sedimentary section History of the landscape at Tinnīs Aggradation history and relative sea-level rise Geoarchaeology of the intramural canals Conclusion Chapter 7. Excavations at Tinnīs ( ) [ʿAbbās al-shinnāwī, Al-Sayyid ʿAgamī ʿArafa and Ṭāriq Ibrāhīm al-ḥusaynī]

4 contents VII Chapter 8. The architecture of the cisterns [Nicholas Warner] Chapter 9. The ceramic material from Tinnīs [Gillian Pyke] Collection, processing and presentation Dating and comparanda Catalogue Red-slipped fine wares Imported wares Egyptian wares Glazed wares Chinese and imitation Chinese wares Iranian wares Egyptian wares Coarse wares Silt coarse wares Marl coarse wares Sphero-conical vessels Lamps Transport Wares Imported transport wares Egyptian transport vessels Discussion Ceramics of (Roman? ) Late Roman Tinnīs Ceramics of early Islamic Tinnīs Ceramics of medieval Tinnīs Conclusion Chapter 10. The objects from Tinnīs [Gillian Pyke and Alison L. Gascoigne] Metal objects Gold object Copper-alloy artefacts Glass objects Glass vessels Plain free-blown glass Free-blown glass with trailed decoration Free-blown (?) glass with pincered/tonged (?) decoration Free-blown (?) glass with probable facet-cut decoration Free-blown (?) glass with scratch-engraved decoration Free-blown glass with painted (?) decoration Free-blown glass with lustre(-stained?) decoration Mould-blown glass Glass used for personal adornment Glass used in an economic context Glass architectural elements Worked bone objects Worked stone objects Stone objects of domestic or industrial function Architectural stone Stone object of military function Conclusion

5 VIII the island city of tinnīs: a postmortem Chapter 11. City paradigms and the urban diversity of the Egyptian Mediterranean coast [Alison L. Gascoigne] European colonialism, traditions of scholarship and the creation of urban paradigms Alexandria Dumyāṭ Tell al-faramā (Pelusium) Tell al-filūsiyya (Ostrakine) and surrounds Al-ʿArīsh (Rinokolura) Complicating urbanism: understanding Tinnīs List of Figures and Maps The Atlas of Tinnīs [Alison L. Gascoigne, John P. Cooper and Matthew J. Harrison] Index Bibliography