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                "modern_name": "Dayr al-\u1e24amm\u0101m",
                "ancient_name": "",
                "typology": "monastic settlement",
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                "place_names": [
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                        "language": "Arabic",
                        "pl_name": "\u062f\u064a\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0651\u0627\u0645"
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                        "language": "English",
                        "pl_name": "Dayr el-Hammam | Deir el-Hammam | Deir Abu Ishaq "
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                "description": "\"The monastery known as Dayr al-\u1e24amm\u0101m or Dayr Ab\u016b Is\u1e25\u0101q or Monastery of the Virgin is located in the south area of the Fayy\u016bm, about 7 km north of the Middle Kingdom pyramid of al-L\u0101h\u016bn. The first two names of the monastery are mentioned together, for the first time, in the \u201cBook of the Hidden Pearls\u201d (Daressy 1917, 198). The \u201cmodern\u201d monastery \u2013 that is the result of several restorations and adaptations of the original structure \u2013 is built on top of a little hill. It is clear that the small structure that stands today represents only a little part of the original monastic complex, as is demonstrated by the enormous quantity of pottery sherds scattered on the surface of the kom and the remains of mud brick walls emerging from the sand... Within the surrounding wall of the modern monastery, the church dedicated to the Virgin Mary is located inre-uses several materials of the ancient church, in particular in the northeastern area and the khurus. A big capital has been reused, upside down, as a base of a column. In 1889 the collaborators of F. Petrie found in the area several literary and documentary manuscripts that are now preserved in the British Library. Petrie wrote to W.E. Crum: \u201cThe Deir has been rebuilt a few centuries ago, but there are outlines of a much larger Deir showing on the ground. Outside the older Deir are rubbish-mounds. Here we found plenty of scraps of papyrus\u201d which the natives \u201dbrought and sold to me in scrap lots. I never had any occasion to suspect any outside admixture. Most of the Hammam pieces had evidently just been dug up; certainly they had never passed through a dealer\u2019s hand. The Hawara papyri were all found, scrap by scrap, by my own workmen. There were no circumstances to suggest in the least that these were found elsewhere or imported\u201d (Crum 1893, v). The monastery is mentioned by Ab\u016b \u1e62\u0101li\u1e25 al-Arm\u0101ni, but not by al-Maqr\u012bz\u012b, a fact that suggests that in the fifteenth century was abandoned for some centuries, until the modern revival.\"\r\n-\u00a0Paola Buzi and Agostino Soldati",
                "archaeological_research": "The first \u2018archaeological\u2019 work was the exhumation of numerous Coptic manuscripts in 1889. It is impossible to know from exactly where these manuscripts came, however, due to the lack of documentation. Additionally, the surface area of the monastery was cleaned in the mid-2000s, revealing pillars and capitals likely of the original monastery (Buzi 2005: 279-296).",
                "bibliography": "\u2022 Buzi, P. 2005. \u201cTra ascetismo e cenobitismo: Gli insediamenti monastici fayyumici.\u201d Aegyptus 85: 279\u2013296.\u2022 Buzi, P. 2012. \u201cIl settore cristiano.\u201d In Bakchias. Dall\u2019archeologia alla storia, edited by E. Giorgi and P. Buzi, 179\u2013211. Bologna: Bononia University Press.\u2022 Crum, W. E. 1893. Coptic Manuscripts Brought from the Fayyum by W.M. Flinders Petrie, Esq. D.C.L. Together with a Papyrus in the Bodleian Library. London: David Nutt.\u2022 Kamal, A. B. 1902. \u201cRapport sur la n\u00e9cropole d\u2019Arabe-el-Borg.\u201d Annales du Service des antiquit\u00e9s de l\u2019\u00c9gypte 3: 80-84\u2022 Timm, S. ed. 1984-1992. Das Christliche-Koptische \u00c4gypten in Arabischer Zeit: Eine Sammlung Christicher St\u00e4tten in \u00c4gypten in Arabischer Zeit unter Ausschyss von Alexandria, Kairo, des Apa-Mena-Klosters (Der Abu Mina), der Sketis (Wadi n-Natrun) und der Sinai-Region, vol. 2, 587-588. Weisbaden: Dr Ludwig Reichert.",
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                "authors": [
                    {
                        "author": "Victor Ghica",
                        "year": "2020"
                    },
                    {
                        "author": "Paola Buzi ",
                        "year": "2019"
                    },
                    {
                        "author": "Agostino Soldati",
                        "year": "2019"
                    },
                    {
                        "author": "Rhiannon Williams",
                        "year": "2020"
                    }
                ]
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