Acknowledgements -- List of Figures, Maps, Diagrams and Tables -- Introduction -- 1 What This Book Is About. Structure of the Book: Aims and Research Questions -- 2 Theban Necropolis and Dra Abu el-Naga: Main Characteristics and Development -- 3 Literature Review and Brief History of the Research in Dra Abu el-Naga -- Part 1 How the Tomb Owners Respond to the Landscape -- 1 Theoretical Approach: Landscape Archaeology -- 2 Distribution of the Tombs of Dra Abu el-Naga in the New Kingdom -- 1 Parameters and Methodology -- 3 A Cluster of Ramesside Tombs in Dra Abu el-Naga South -- 1 Chronology -- 2 Titles -- 3 Kinship -- 4 Architectonical and Archaeological Factors -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- 4 A Seemingly 'Unplanned' Territory -- 1 The Case of the Tombs Dated from the Co-regency of Hatshepsut-Thutmose  III , and the Reign of Thutmose  III -- 2 A Case of Territoriality Identity? Outsiders: Nobles of Non-Theban Origin -- 3 The 'Courtyard of Amun', a Ritual Space in Dra Abu el-Naga Reserved for the Officials of the Amun Temple in Karnak -- 4 Chronological or Administrative Entities' Organisation of the Research Area? -- Part 2 How the Landscape Affects the Tombs -- 5 Organisation of Dra Abu el-Naga and Its Religious Connection with Other Areas of the Theban Necropolis -- 1 Parameters and Methodology -- 6 Visibility Analysis between Dra Abu el-Naga and the Main Areas of the Theban Necropolis -- 1 A Tomb with a View: The Case of the Ramesside Cluster of Tombs in Dra Abu el-Naga South -- 2 Views from a Seemingly 'Unplanned' Territory -- 7 Reconstruction of the Ancient Paths and Processional Routes -- 1 Tombs Orientated to Processional Ways and Festival Routes -- 2 Distribution and 'Urbanism of the Necropolis' -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

In The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom, Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras offers the reconstruction of the physical, religious and cultural landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga south and its conceptual development from the 18th to the 20th Dynasties (1550-1069 BC). A wider insight into the Theban necropolis is provided, including the position played by the Dra Abu el-Naga cemetery within the Theban funerary context understood as an inseparable complex of diverse components. For this study, Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras has reconciled textual and archaeological perspectives with theories relating to Landscape Archaeology, which efficiently manages to compile and to link prosopographical-genealogical, archaeological and GIS (Geographical Information System) data.

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