Gaza
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Gaza
Convergent streams of evidence indicate that the city, during the period of the Egyptian Empire in the Levant, served as the chief Egyptian garrison and administrative centre for the region of the southern Levant in the first instance, and held a coordinating role for more far flung regions of administration.
Recent petrographic analysis reveals that a large number of tablets were despatched to the Egyptian court from Gaza or its immediate vicinity, including at least 15 tablets from unprovenanced city rulers who must have been attendant and / or passing through Gaza when their letters were sent.
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Bibliography
- Clarke, Joanne and Steel, Louise [2000], “The Gaza Research Project”, PEQ 132 (2000), pp.189-191.
- [2002], “Update on Field Work in Gaza – el-Moghraqa”, Newsletter of the Council for British Research in the Levant 2002, pp.20-21.
- Clarke, J., Steel, L. and Sadeq, Moain [2004], “Gaza Reseach Project: 1998 Survey of the Old City of Gaza”, Levant 36 (2004), pp.31-36.
- Clarke, J., Manley, W., Sadeq, M. and Steel, L. [2001], “The Gaza Research Project: 1998 Field Season”, JPA 2.1 (2001), pp.4-11.
- Katzenstein, H. Jacob [1982], "Gaza in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom", JAOS 102 (1982), pp.111-113.
- Steel, L., Clarke, J., Sadeq, M., Manley, B., McCarthy, Andrew and Munro, R. Neil [2004], “Gaza Research Project: Report on the 1999 and 2000 Seasons at al-Moghraqa”, Levant 36 (2004), pp.37-88.
