Colin Reader

Biographic Data

ID6042797
NAMEColin Reader
GIVEN NAMESColin
FAMILY NAMEReader
SIGNATUREREADER C
AFFILIATIONSIndependent researcher
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX1

  • An Early Dynastic Ritual Landscape at North Saqqara

    Open AccessColin ReaderARTICLEThe Journal of Egyptian Archaeology2017

    Drawing on previously published work by the current author, the aim of this article is to undertake a wider exploration of the influence that landscape may have had on the development of North Saqqara during the first three dynasties of the pharaonic era. After discussing the topography of the site, the article presents a summary of the current understanding regarding known Early Dynastic monuments at Saqqara, together with an account of previous…

  • The Meidum Pyramid

    Colin ReaderARTICLEJournal of the American Research…2015

    Located more than 70 km south of Cairo, the Meidum pyramid is noteworthy because of its square, tower-like shape and the difficulties associated with its attribution. Drawing from previously published material together with the author's own observations from the site, the following paper will explore these two issues in order to reexamine the origins of this structure

  • The Netjerikhet Stela and the Early Dynastic Cult of Ra

    Open AccessColin ReaderARTICLEThe Journal of Egyptian Archaeology2014

    This paper presents an assessment of a distinctive standing stone which is currently on display in the Imhotep Museum, Saqqara. The prominent snake decoration of the stela is compared with other examples of snake stelae from Ancient Egypt, leading to the proposed identification of the monument as part of an Early Dynastic senut(i) shrine, a shrine associated with the cult of Ra

  • On Pyramid Causeways

    Open AccessColin ReaderARTICLEThe Journal of Egyptian Archaeology2004

    The work of the Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project has involved a close examination of the landscape of this important necropolis, prompting a reconsideration of the role landscape may have played in the selection of sites for Early Dynastic royal burials at Saqqara. In this paper, the ideas of other authors are developed to argue that our modern view of Saqqara, which tends to regard the site from the perspective of the Nile Valley, is different…

  • A Geomorphological Study of the Giza Necropolis, with Implications for the Development of the Site

    Open AccessC D Reader, Colin ReaderARTICLEArchaeometry2001Cited by: 1

    There are a number of features of weathering and erosion within the enclosure surrounding the Great Sphinx of Giza that suggest the action of flowing water. That this erosion is not uniformly distributed is consistent not with erosion by rainfall per se but by rainfall run‐off—an erosive agent that is known to have been experienced at Giza until the late Fifth Dynasty. When the spatial relationship of various features within the Giza necropolis i…

  • The National Museums of Scotland Saqqara Survey Project, Earth Sciences 1990-1998

    Ian Mathieson, Elizabeth Bettles et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Egyptian Archaeology1999

    Ian Mathieson, Elizabeth Bettles, Jon Dittmer, Colin Reader, The National Museums of Scotland Saqqara Survey Project, Earth Sciences 1990-1998, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 85 (1999), pp. 21-43

  • The National Museums of Scotland Saqqara Survey Project, Earth Sciences 1990–1998

    Open AccessIan Mathieson, Elizabeth Bettles et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Egyptian Archaeology1999

    The National Museums of Scotland are engaged in producing an up-to-date archaeological and subsurface geophysical map of an interesting and little explored area of the necropolis of Memphis at Saqqara. The area comprises the Gisr el-Mudir (also known as the ‘Great Enclosure’) at the southern boundary, the open valley between the Sekhemkhet complex and the Gisr el-Mudir stretching north to the Serapeum and containing the L-shaped enclosure at the …