Review of: Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano and Juan Carlos Sánchez-León: Le Premier Nome du sud de l’à‰gypte au Moyen Empire, Fouilles de la mission espagnole à  Qoubbet el-Haoua (Assouan) 2008–2018

At the First Cataract of the Nile in southern Egypt, the sandstone hill of Qubbet el-Hawa is the site of a large necropolis, most notably home to the tombs of local ruling officials (c. 2345–1795 BCE), as well as other burials dating up to the Roman period, a Coptic church and monastery, and the tomb of an Islamic sheikh that gives the site its name. In the pharaonic era, the associated settlement of Elephantine served as the capital of the southernmost province, occupying a pivotal position geographically, politically, and economically on the frontier of Egypt and Nubia.