Tell el-Retaba from the Second Intermediate Period till the Late Period. Results of the Polish–Slovak Archaeological Mission, Seasons 2011–2012

10.1553/s39 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 39-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Rzepka ◽  
J. Hudec ◽  
A. Wodzińska ◽  
Ł. Jarmużek ◽  
L. Hulková ◽  
...  
2016 ◽  
Vol XXIV (1) ◽  
pp. 239-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patryk Chudzik

In the 2013/2014 season, a Polish team from the University of Wrocław started work in the northern part of the Asasif necropolis, near the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari. An archaeological survey was carried out on the Asasif slope. Cleaning work and documentation were undertaken of the architecture of four private tombs: MMA 509/TT 312, MMA 512, MMA 513/TT 314 and MMA 514, as well as the archaeological finds thereof. The rock-cut tombs belong to a Middle Kingdom necropolis and were all reused in later times, especially in the Third Intermediate Period and Late Period.


2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Keren ◽  
N. Keren ◽  
A. Eden ◽  
S. Tsangen ◽  
A. Weizman ◽  
...  

AbstractObjective:To study the impact of chronic, life-threatening stressors in the form of daily missile attacks, for five consecutive years, on pregnancy outcomes.Method:Charts of deliveries from two neighboring towns in the south of Israel, covering the years 2000 and 2003–2008, were reviewed retrospectively. One city had been exposed to missile attacks, while the other was not. For each year, 100 charts were chosen at random.Results:Significant association was found between exposure to stress and frequency of pregnancy complications (P = 0.047) and premature membrane rupture (P = 0.029). A more detailed analysis, based on dividing the stressful years into three distinct periods: early (2003–2004), intermediate (2005–2006) and late (2007–2008), revealed that preterm deliveries were significantly more frequent (P = 0.044) during the intermediate period, as was premature membrane rupture during the late period (P = 0.014).Conclusion:Exposure to chronic life-threatening stress resulted in more pregnancy complications and in particular more premature membrane ruptures. The impact was most significant during the middle period of the 5-year-exposure to the stressor. Hence it seems that factors of duration and habituation may play a role in the impact of chronic, life-threatening stressors on pregnancy.


Author(s):  
Albert Isidro ◽  

"The excavation work at the site of the Temple of Millions of Years of Thutmosis III (West Thebes) has revealed a large amount of human remains (skeletons and mummies) uncovered from two main locations: tombs placed within or next to the enclosure walls of the temple dated from the beginning of the Middle Kingdom to the Late Period and graves from a necropolis of the First Intermediate Period – 11th Dynasty close to the north-eastern enclosure wall. The aim of this anthropological and paleopathological study is to compare a population over time: the individuals of the Late Period to those of the Middle Kingdom. A total of 191 individuals have been studied (2016-2017):..154 from the tombs placed inside the wall of the temple and 37 from the tombs close to north-eastern wall. Preliminary conclusions showed a higher percentage of skeletal stress markers in the individuals from the First Intermediate Period – 11th Dynasty, compared with those from the Late Period"


2017 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 289-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patryk Chudzik

Investigations in the North Asasif necropolis, conducted by a team of Polish archaeologists in 2015, focused on three Middle Kingdom complexes: MMA 508/TT 311, MMA 511, and MMA 517/TT 240. A surface collection of finds from the courtyards was studied and prepared for storage, and artifacts from inside the tombs were documented. The overall picture of illicit penetration of the complexes in later periods and their reuse, mainly in the Third Intermediate Period and the Late Period, is supported by the finds. Moreover, proof of the presence of Coptic monks was found in tomb MMA 517/TT 240.


2016 ◽  
Vol XXIV (1) ◽  
pp. 164-172
Author(s):  
Anna Wodzińska

Archaeological remains excavated by the Polish–Slovak Archaeological Mission in Tell el-Retaba can be well dated to the New Kingdom till the Late Period. During the 2012 season domestic layers from the Hyksos period were found, indicating that the site was occupied for the first time around the end of the Thirteenth and beginning of the Fifteenth Dynasties. Next to the houses three Hyksos graves were found. Archaeological work also revealed houses from the early Eighteenth Dynasty located just above the Hyksos structures in Area 7. Very interesting material came from the late Twentieth Dynasty and Third Intermediate Period houses excavated in Area 9. Rich pottery assemblages mostly of domestic character have been recovered from all of the structures.


Author(s):  
Wolfram Grajetzki

The ancient Egyptians of later times saw the Middle Kingdom as their classical period. Its language was used in temple and tomb inscriptions until the Roman Period, and its literature was still read and copied hundreds years after it was written. Its sculpture was the prototype for that of the Late Period, more than a thousand years later. The basic outlines of this period are relatively straightforward: the Eleventh-Dynasty king Mentuhotep II unified the country around 2000 bc, and subsequently the kings of the Twelfth Dynasty built a strong administration and centralized the country. Lower Nubia was conquered and raids into Western Asia are attested. In the Thirteenth Dynasty there is a detectable process of political decline, with a high number of kings ruling over a short period of time. Around 1650 bc, foreign (Hyksos) rulers took over parts of the Delta, while, in the south, Egypt fought against the Nubian Kerma empire, but in about 1550 bc the Theban ruler Ahmose managed to defeat the Hyksos and unite the country.


Author(s):  
Javier Martínez Babón

So far, five tombs have been discovered in the northwest corner of the site of the Temple of Millions of Years of Thutmose III. These tombs date from the end of the Third Intermediate Period to the Late Period. From the architectural point of view, they correspond to two historical moments, on which the oldest one has evidence of a destructive flooding. Tomb no. XXII is especially interesting because many mummy and goods were found in it. This discovery will provide new information on the Late Period Theban necropolis


2016 ◽  
Vol XXIV (1) ◽  
pp. 701-707
Author(s):  
Patryk Chudzik ◽  
Andrzej Ćwiek

Excavations in the area of tomb MMA 1152 at Sheikh Abd el-Gurna, conducted since 2003, have uncovered a substantial set of faience objects coming from burials made there during the later Pharaonic Period, before the tomb became a hermitage for Coptic monks. Analysis of the material points to several episodes of reuse of the original Middle Kingdom structure in the Third Intermediate Period and the Late Period.


2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-134
Author(s):  
Sławomir Rzepka ◽  
Jozef Hudec ◽  
Jarosław Jarmużek ◽  
Veronika Dubcová ◽  
Lucia Hulková

Excavations of the Polish–Slovak Archaeological Mission in Tell el-Retaba in 2016 were continued in the western part of the site, uncovering remains of domestic and funerary structures from the Second Intermediate Period in Area 4. Houses from the first half of the Eighteenth Dynasty were also investigated in this area. In Area 9, several houses from the Third Intermediate Period were explored and, for the first time, also substantial remains of a Late Period settlement, including at least one “tower house”.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 52-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Łukasz Jarmużek ◽  
Sławomir Rzepka ◽  
Agnieszka Ryś

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