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region of the modern Suez Canal, northwestern Sinai, the Nile Delta and Valley to its adjacent desert areas and the oases. There are royal, “elite” and “non‐elite” sources; representational and functional sources; “state,” temple, and “private” sources; sources in situ, in progress of excavation, in collections, and lost sources (i.e. having been transferred or destroyed since antiquity). Moreover, the sources reveal sacral, funerary, profane, and representational activities. Still unrivaled collections of data are provided by Posener (1936) and Bresciani (1958).

      The old scientific paradigm notwithstanding, building and cultic activities in the king's name, continued in all regions of the Egyptian realm: in the canal region with a focus on Persian cultic activities, in the Nile Valley, the Delta, and northwestern Sinai with a focus on the continuation of Egyptian cultic traditions and fortification, and in the oases with boosting cultivation and settlement (see Wasmuth 2017a including the map on pl. I; see already Gamer‐Wallert and Schefter 1993). Apart from actual in‐situ finds, this can also be deducted from the Achaemenid period quarry inscriptions found in the Eastern desert (e.g. Bongrani Fanfoni and Israel 1994; Posener 1936: pp. 98–130).

      Photo depicts the reconstruction of the Egyptian faces of the Kabret stela. Photo depicts the reconstruction of the Persian faces of the Kabret stela.

      Source: From the Suez canal region; Wasmuth 2017a: Pls. II‐III.

Schematic ilustration of stater commemorating the reconquest of Egypt.

      Source: From Susa; Wasmuth 2017a: p. 201 Abb. 50.

Schematic illustration of darius in the role of the god Hapi.