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Planning the earlier house uncovered beneath the floor of the house of Ranefer in the Main City.

Urbanism & Domestic Architecture

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Kemp, B.J., 1981. The character of the South Suburb at Tell el-'Amarna. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft zu Berlin 113, 81–97. Review article.

Kemp, B.J., 1983. Tell el-'Amarna. In H.S. Smith and R.M. Hall, ed., Ancient Centres of Egyptian Civilization. London: Egyptian Education Bureau, 57–72.

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Kemp, B.J., 1992. Amarna from the air. Egyptian Archaeology 2, 15–17.

Kemp, B.J., 1998. More of Amarna's city plan. Egyptian Archaeology 13, 17–18.

Kemp, B.J., 2000. A model of Tell el-Amarna. Antiquity 74, 15–16.

Kemp, B.J., 2000. Bricks and metaphor. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 10, 335–46. A comparative essay on the theme 'Were cities built as images?', which draws on Amarna.

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Kemp, B.J., 2012. The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and its People. London: Thames and Hudson.

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Mallinson, M., 1999. The sacred landscape. In R. E. Freed, Y. J. Markowitz and S. H. D'Auria, ed., Pharaohs of the sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamun. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 72–9.

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Owen, G., 1993. Looking down on Amarna. AARGnews (The Newsletter of the Aerial Archaeology Research Group) 6, 33–7.

Owen, G., 2003. Aerial Photography; the use of wheelbarrows. AARGnews (The Newsletter of the Aerial Archaeology Research Group) 27, 28–31.

Spence, K., 1999. The North Palace at Amarna. Egyptian Archaeology 15, 14–16.

Spence, K., 2004. The three-dimensional form of the Amarna house. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 90, 123–52.

Spence, K., 2009. The ‘Hall of Foreign Tribute’ (S39.2) at El-Amarna. In S. Ikram and A. Dodson, eds, Beyond the Horizon: Studies in Egyptian Art, Archaeology and History in Honour of Barry J. Kemp, vol. 2, Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 498–505.

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Stevens, A., 2003. The material evidence for domestic religion at Amarna and preliminary remarks on its interpretation. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 89, 143–68.

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