TY  - Type of reference 
TI  - The agrarian landscape and the fertile silts of the Nile in the Luxor alluvial plain: environmental rereading of demotic texts 
AU  - Giulia NICATORE
 
AU  - Damien AGUT
 
AU  - Christophe PETIT 
AB  - From Herodotus and his vision of Egypt as a gift from the Nile to the present day, Egyptian civilization has been examined in many aspects. By observing the Egyptological Bibliography, the perception of the agrarian landscape and its exploitation seem to remain generalist, with imprecise knowledge, although certain geophysical and geological analyzes have been conducted in the plain for ten years. In addition to these geoarcheological approaches, the reading of notarial acts of the Ptolemaic era (4th centuries before J.-C.) makes it possible to discern and reposition precisely in the landscape of the study area (Louxor) of the Topographic elements and types of cultivated fields. The lexicographic analysis of four demotic terms used to qualify the types of land shows not only that the Egyptians distinguished soil by its characteristics (real or potential yield, composition, color) and its location but also shows how an environmental reading of these contracts allows us to advance our knowledge and better understand the nuances of the agrarian landscape. 
DO  - 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2025.1345 
JF  - Archaeology, Society and Environment 
KW  - Demotic, Egyptology, Paleoenvironment, Agrarian landscape, Pedology, Démotique, égyptologie paléoenvironnement, paysage agraire, pédologie,  
L1  - https://www.openscience.fr/IMG/pdf/iste_ase25v5n1_4.pdf 
LA  - en 
PB  - ISTE OpenScience 
DA  - 2025/08/29 
SN  - 2752-4507 
TT  - Le paysage agraire et les limons fertiles du Nil dans la plaine alluviale de Louxor : relecture environnementale des textes démotiques 
UR  - https://www.openscience.fr/The-agrarian-landscape-and-the-fertile-silts-of-the-Nile-in-the-Luxor-alluvial 
IS  - Issue 1 
VL  - 5 
ER  -