V Max Brown

Biographic Data

ID6042905
NAMEV Max Brown
GIVEN NAMESV Max
FAMILY NAMEBrown
SIGNATUREBROWN V M
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX2

  • Dolerite Pounders

    Adel Kelany, James A Harrell et al.ARTICLELithic Technology2010Cited by: 2References: 6

    Dolerite pounders are hand-held stone took that were widely used in Egypt from the third to late first millennium BCE for quarrying and dressing granite and other hard rocks. In addition to documenting the size distribution of 1,419 pounders from Aswan and describing red paint markings (owner labels, in part) found on about 4 percent of these, this study refutes two popular misconceptions about the dolerite pounders. First, the desired form of th…

  • An Early Dynastic Quarry for Stone Vessels at Gebel Manzal El-Seyl, Eastern Desert

    Open AccessJames A Harrell, Virginia Brown et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Egyptian Archaeology2000

    The quarry that supplied two of the stones used for vessels during the Early Dynastic Period, green tuff and tuffaceous limestone, has been found on Gebel Manzal el-Seyl in Egypt's Eastern Desert. Scattered across this 3 km long ridge are about 200 excavations, and littering the ground around them are hundreds of roughed-out vessel blanks, several of which are inscribed with the sign ∩. The blanks were carried across the desert at least 200 km to…

  • An Early Dynastic Quarry for Stone Vessels at Gebel Manzal el-Seyl, Eastern Desert

    James A Harrell, V Max Brown et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Egyptian Archaeology2000

  • The Oldest Surviving Topographical Map from Ancient Egypt

    James A Harrell, Virginia Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Research…1992Cited by: 2

    James A. Harrell, V. Max Brown, The Oldest Surviving Topographical Map from Ancient Egypt: (Turin Papyri 1879, 1899, and 1969), Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. 29 (1992), pp. 81-105