(contains bibliography from Roman to Islamic times)
(under construction)
Monographs:
Bernand, A., De Thèbes à Syéne (Paris 1989).
Engelbach, R., The Aswân obelisk: with some remarks on the ancient engineering, Le Caire Institution Français d’Archéologie Orientale (Alexandria 1922).
Gaballa, G. A, Nubia Museum. The Ministry of Culture, The Higher Council for Antiquities, Museums’ Sector, Save Nubia Fund (1997).
Locher, J., Topographie und Geschichte der Region am Ersten Nilkatarakt in griechisch-römischer Zeit (Stuttgart 1999).
Morenz, L. D., Höveler-Müller, M., El Hawary, A. (eds.), Between Worlds. Finds from tombs on Egypt’s southern border (Rahden 2011).
Articles/Book chapters:
Almarawy, M., “Deplacement de Sable vers la Rive Gauch du Nil à Assouan”, BIE 84 (2008-9) no page ref.
Arishie, M., “Nubia Museum” (1997) no page ref.
Arnold, F., “The First Cataract as a Border between Two Traditions of Architecture?”, in: Raue, D., Seidlmayer, S. J., Speiser, P. (eds.), The First Cataract of the Nile. One Region – Diverse Perspective (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschriften, vol. 36) (Berlin 2013) 5-8.
Bacqué-Grammont, J.-L., Lurson, B., Soler, R., “Le voyage d’Evliyâ Çelebi de Louksour à Assouan en 1671”, JA 304 (2016) 9-32.
Betina, L., Katzjäger, D., Rembart, L., “Trade and Production in Upper Egypt. A Ceramic Production Centre in the Aswan Region and its Distribution”, in: Viegas, C. (ed.), Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum: Acta 46 . Congressus Tricesimus Primus Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum Napocae Habitus MMXVIII (Oxford 2020) 585-590.
Björnesjö, S., “The History of Aswan and its Cemetery in the Middle Ages”, in: Raue, D., Seidlmayer, S. J., Speiser, P. (eds.), The First Cataract of the Nile. One Region – Diverse Perspective (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschriften, vol. 36) (Berlin 2013) 9-14.
Björnesjö, S., Speser, P., “The South Necropolis of the Fatimid cemetery of Aswan”, AI 48,2 (2014) 117-34.
Bloxam, E., “Mapping ancient quarry landscapes”, Egyptian Archaeology 34 (2009) 35-6.
Dijkstra, J. H. F., “Syene (Aswan)”, in: O. Nicholson (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, 2 vols. (Oxford 2018) 2.1433.
Dijkstra, J. H. F., “Patermouthis, archive of”, in O. Nicholson (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, 2 vols. (Oxford 2018) 2.1143.
Dijkstra, J. H. F., “The Reuse of the Temple of Isis at Aswan as a Church in Late Antiquity”, Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies 1 (2010) 33-45.
Dijkstra, J. H. F., van Loon, G. J. M., “A Church Dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the Temple of Isis at Aswan?”, Eastern Christian Art 7 (2010) 1-16.
Dijkstra, J. H. F., “New Light on the Patermouthis Archive from Excavations at Aswan. When Archaeology and Papyrology Meet”, BASP 44 (2007) 179-209.
Dijkstra, J. H. F., Worp, K. A., “The Administrative Position of Omboi and Syene in Late Antiquity”, ZPE 155 (2006) 183-7.
Frelih, M., “Above the Cataracts: Slovenian Perspective of Ancient Nubia between 19th and 20th Centuries”, in: Macková, A. J., Storchová, L., Jun, L. (eds.), Visualizing the Orient: Central Europe and Near East in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Egypt and Austria, vol. 10) (Prague 2016) 145-52. online available
Gatto, M. C., “Late Prehistoric Sites in the Area between Aswan and Kom Ombo”, in: Raue, D., Seidlmayer, S. J., Speiser, P. (eds.), The First Cataract of the Nile. One Region – Diverse Perspective (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschriften, vol. 36) (Berlin 2013) 59-66.
Gatto, M. C., de Dapper, M., Eyckerman, M., Gerisch, R., Joris, H., Newton, C., Hendrickx, S., “Landscape reconstruction of the Predynastic site at Nag el-Qarmila (Upper Egypt)”, Sahara 20 (2009) 63-9.
Gatto, M. C., Hendrickx, S., Roma, S., Zampetti, D., “Rock art from West Bank Aswan and Wadi Abu Subeira”, Archéo-Nil. Revue de la société pour l’étude des cultures prépharaoniques de la vallée du Nil 19 (2009) 151-68.
Guiliani, S., “C-Group and Pan-Grave between Aswan and Kom Ombo”, in: Raue, D., Seidlmayer, S. J., Speiser, P. (ed.), The First Cataract of the Nile. One Region – Diverse Perspective (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschriften, vol. 36) (Berlin 2013) 67-76.
Heldal, T., “Constructing a quarry landscape from empirical data. General perspectives and a case study at the Aswan West Bank, Egypt”, in: Abu-Jaber, N., Bloxam, E., Degryse, P. & Heldal, T. (eds.), QuarryScapes. Ancient stone quarry landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean (Geological Survey of Norway Special Publication, vol. 12) (2009) 125-53.
Henein, N. H., “Notes sur l’extraction de l’obélisque inachevé dans les carrières d’Assouan”, BIAO 109 (2009) 221-37.
Höber-Kamel, G., “Assuan. Vom Marktflecken zur Großstadt”, Kemet 22,4 (2013) 4-5.
Hüttner, M., “Die lange und abenteuerliche Reise der drei Wiener Papyrusbündelsäulen von Assuan nach Wien”, Amun 48 (2014) 43-8.
Ikram, S., Knoblauch, C., “Elephantine and Aswan” in: Fisher, M. M., Lacovara, P., Ikram, S., D’Auria, S. (eds.), Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile (Cairo 2012) 406-10.
Jenkins, M. R., “The ‘Other’ Unfinished Obelisk”, Kemet 21/2 (2010) 54-61.
Kheir, El-H. H. M. (ed.), “Ibn Sulaym al-Aswāni’s Kitāb Akhbār al-Nūba wa-l-Maqurra wa-l-Beja wa-l-Nīl”, Arabica 36 (1989) 36-80.
Laskowska-Kusztal, E., “L’Isis d’Assouan et son armée”, Études et Travaux. Travaux du Centre d’Archéologie Méditerranéenne de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences 21 (2007) 56-68.
MacCoull, L. S. B., “Christianity at Syene-Elephantine-Philae”, BASP 27 (1990) 151-62.
Meguid, O. A., “The Nubian Museum in Aswan”, in: Kendall, T. et al. (eds.), International Society for Nubian Studies, Ninth International Conference, August 21-26, 1998 (Boston 1998) 38-9.
Moiso, B., Lovera, G., La Missione Archeologica Italiana in Egitto. Missione Egitto. 1903 – 1920. L’avventura Archeologica M.A.I. Racconta. Torino Museo Egizio 11 mazo – 10 settembre 2017 (2017) no page ref.
Mokhtar, G. “The National Museum of Nubia at Aswan” Davies, W.V., Egypt and Africa: Nubia from Prehistory to Islam London: BM 1991, 5.
Mostafa, D., “Glimpses on Tombs and Funerary Equipment from Provincial Sites in Middle and Upper Egypt in the First Intermediate Period. Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Egyptologists – Actes du neuvième congrès international des égyptologues. Volume II”, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 150,2 (2007) 1327-34.
Müller, W., “Hellenistic Aswan”, in: Raue, D., Seidlmayer, S. J., Speiser, P. (eds.), The First Cataract of the Nile. One Region – Diverse Perspective (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschriften, vol. 36) (Berlin 2013) 123-34.
Naguib, A., “Christian Objects in the Aswan and Nubia Museums” in: Gabra, G. (ed.), Christianity and Monasticism in Aswan and Nubia (Cairo, New York 2013) 231-6.
Näser, C., “Structures and Realities of Egyptian-Nubian Interactions from the Late Old Kingdom to the Early New Kingdom”, in: Raue, D., Seidlmayer, S. J., Speiser, P. (eds.), The First Cataract of the Nile. One Region – Diverse Perspective (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschriften, vol. 36) (Berlin 2013) 135-48.
Riemer, H., Lange, M., Kindermann, K., “When the Desert Dried Up: Late Prehistoric Cultures and Contacts in Egypt and Northern Sudan”, in: Raue, D., Seidlmayer, S. J., Speiser, P. (eds.), The First Cataract of the Nile. One Region – Diverse Perspective (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschriften, vol. 36) (Berlin 2013) 157-84.
Rose, P., Warner, N., “Architectural Conservation at Hisn al-Bab in Aswan”, ARCE Bulletin 207 (2015/6) 33-9. Online available
Rösing, F. W., “Die Menschen aus dem alten Assuan und wie sie beforscht wurden/The People in ancient Aswan and how they have been studied”, in: Morenz, L. D., Höveler-Müller, M., El Hawary, A. (eds.), Between Worlds. Finds from tombs on Egypt’s southern border (Rahden/Westphalen 2011) 209-30.
Schmidt, S., “Viel Verpackung, wenig Trauben – Überlegungen zum Weinanbau im römischen Syene” (in Begutachtung, Festschrift 2023).
Schmidt, S., “Aswan (Syene) between Late Antiquity and early Muslim Egypt”, in: Bruning, J., De Jong, J., Sijpesteijn, P.M. (eds.), Incorporating Egypt. From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE (Cambridge 2021), in press.
Schmidt, S., “Border trade between Egypt and Nubia in the 8th century and some considerations on the baqṭ”, in: Esders, S., Polla, S., Richter, T.S. (eds.), The 8th Century. Patterns of transition in economy and trade throughout the Late Antique, Early Medieval and Islamic Mediterranean in multidisciplinary perspectives (2021), in press.
Schmidt, S., “Early Roman Syene – A gate to the Red Sea?”, JAC 36/2 (2021) 269-97. Online available
Schmidt, S., “Zum Grenzhandel am Ersten Katarakt. Regionale Entwicklungen zwischen Spätantike und frühislamischer Zeit”, in: Haensch, R., von Rummel, P. (eds.), Himmelwärts und Erdverbunden? Religiöse und wirtschaftliche Aspekte spätantiker Lebensrealität (Menschen – Kulturen – Traditionen, vol. 16) (Berlin 2021) 323-335.
Schmidt, S., “Economic Conditions for Merchants and Traders at the Border between Egypt and Nubia in early Islamic Times”, in: Garosi, E., Huebner, S.R., Marthot, I., Müller, M, Schmidt, S., Stern, M. (eds.), Living the End of Antiquity. Individual Histories from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt (Millenium Studies in the culture and history of the first millenium C.E., vol. 84) (Berlin 2020) 265–87. Online available
Sethe, K., “Schoinos und Dodekaschoinos”, Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 41-42,1 (1905) 58-62.
Shohoumi, N. El-, “Die Heilige Landschaft in und um Aswan. Die Kulte muslimischer Heiliger (Teil 1)”, MDAIK 73 (2017) 235-54.
Shohoumi, N. El-, “Die Heilige Landschaft in und um Aswan. Die Kulte muslimischer Heiliger (Teil 2)”, MDAIK 75 (2020) 283-300.
Sigl, J., “Kleine Götter oder Kuscheltiere? Ein Befund der frühen Römerzeit aus Syene/Assuan”, in: Flossmann-Schütze, M. C. et al (eds.), Kleine Götter – Große Götter. Festschrift für Dieter Kessler zum 65. Geburtstag, in: Tuna el-Gebel, vol. 4 (Haar bei München 2013) 465-76.
Sigl, J., “Food and Luxury Goods – Animal Remains as an Indicator for Trade Connections Based on the Example of Faunal Material from Ancient Syene/Aswan, Egypt. Commerce and Economy in Ancient Egypt. Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Young Egyptologists 25-27 September 2009, Budapest”, British Archaeological Reports International Series 2131 (2010) 125-34.
de Simone, C., “The Documentation Center on Nubia at the Nubia Museum of Aswan”, Egyptian & Egyptological Documents, Archives, Libraries 1 (2009) 173-9.
Storemyr, P., “A Prehistoric Geometric Rock Art Landscape by the First Nile Cataract”, Archéo-Nil, Revue de la société pour l’étude des cultures prépharaoniques de la vallée du Nil 19 (2009) 121-50.
Storemyr, P., Kelany, A, Negm, M. A., Tohami, A., “More ‘Lascaux along the Nile? Possible Late Palaeolithic rock art in Wadi Abu Subeira, Upper Egypt”, Sahara 19 (2018) 155-8.
Speiser, P., Fior, M., Lindemann, J., Nogara, G., Strasse, C., Zahn, D., “Umayyad, Tulunid, and Fatimid Tombs at Aswan”, in: Raue, D., Seidlmayer, S. J., Speiser, P. (eds.), The First Cataract of the Nile. One Region – Diverse Perspective (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschriften, vol. 36) (Berlin 2013) 211-20.
Swain, S. A. M., “A Bowl in the Nubian Museum, Aswan”, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 77 (1991) 165-7.
Tovar, S. T., Zomeño, A. R., “New Discoveries from Syene. The Ostraka of the Swiss Institute, Aswan”, in: Proceedings of the 27th Congress of Papyrology (Varsovia 2013) no page ref.
Tovar, S. T., Zomeño, A. R., “Notas sobre la ocupación cristiana de la orilla oeste de Asuán: a propósito de una campaña arqueológica española a orillas del Nilo”, in: Moreno, L. A. G., Medina, E. S. (eds.), Fernández, L. F. (coord.), Del Nilo al Guadalquivir. II Estudios sobre las fuentes de la conquista islámica. Homenaje al Profesor Yves Modéran, Real Academia de la Historia (Madrid 2013) 393-403.
Tovar, S. T., Zomeño, A., R. “De nuevo en la orilla oeste del Nilo: campaña en los restos arqueológicos cristianos de Qubbet-el-Hawa (Asuán)”, Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 8 (2011) 305-8.
Tovar, S. T., “Cristianismo en Asuán: nuevos y viejos hallazgos epigráficos en la orilla oeste del Nilo”, Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 7 (2010) 297-9.
Urbanik, J., „Eulogios’ cell and Tapia’s banquet hall: transfer of ownership as security for debt in late Antiquity“, in: du Plessis, P. (ed.), New Frontiers: Law and Society in the Roman World, Edinburgh: Edinburgh Scholarship Online (2013) 151–174.
Vergnieux, R., “Granite rose d’Assouan dans Rome”, Bibliothèque d’Étude de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale du Caire 143 (2008) 401-7.
Warnemünde, G. “Die Steinbrüche um Assuan”, Kemet 22,4 (2013) 26-32.
Wilkinson, T., “Aswan: Source of the Nile”, in: Wilkinson, T. (ed.), The Nile. Downstream through Egypt’s Past and Present (London 2014) 27-61.