Tell el-Retaba, season 2012/ Appendix: Tell el-Retaba 2012. Preliminary report on archaeobotanical investigations

2016 ◽  
Vol XXIV (1) ◽  
pp. 139-163
Author(s):  
Sławomir Rzepka ◽  
Jozef Hudec ◽  
Łukasz Jarmużek ◽  
Lucia Hulková ◽  
Veronika Dubcová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
New Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
First Time ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Third Intermediate Period ◽  
Clear Change

The sixth season of fieldwork of the Tell el-Retaba Archaeological Mission has brought a number of significant results. For the first time remains of a Hyksos settlement (beside the previously known cemetery) were uncovered. Exploration of a large, regularly planned building, divided into a number of standardized flats, brought new evidence for the reconstruction of the function and organization of a strongly fortified town, which existed on the site during the Twentieth Dynasty. Remains of a Third Intermediate Period settlement showed that after the New Kingdom there was a clear change in the settlement pattern in Tell el-Retaba.

The Tomb-Chambers of Iurudef: Preliminary Report on the Saqqâra Excavations, 1985

1986 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Geoffrey T. Martin ◽  
Maarten J. Raven ◽  
David A. Aston
Keyword(s):  
Ceramic Material ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
New Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
Preliminary Examination ◽  
Skeletal Material ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

The tomb chambers of Iurudef are on two levels, both used for burials of the owner and, doubtless, members of his family. Much skeletal material was found, together with an extensive group of funerary furnishings. Associated with the New Kingdom ceramic material were two fragments of Mycenaean stirrup jars, one dated to LH IIIA, 2-B. The chambers in the upper level were, after firing, reused for multiple burials provisionally dated to the Third Intermediate Period. Evidence of some seventy-five burials, including many children, was found and a large deposit of coffins, decorated and undecorated, was recovered, as well as papyrus coffers and reed mat burials. A few of the coffins are inscribed, mostly in pseudo-hieroglyphs and only one with a personal name. Burial gifts found in the coffins included necklaces, amulets, wooden staves, and a curious wooden sceptre. Preliminary examination of the mummies and skeletal material has yielded evidence of various diseases.

Tell el-Retaba 2012: the pottery

2016 ◽  
Vol XXIV (1) ◽  
pp. 164-172
Author(s):  
Anna Wodzińska
Keyword(s):  
New Kingdom ◽  
Late Period ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Eighteenth Dynasty ◽  
Area 7 ◽  
Archaeological Work ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
First Time ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

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.

Tomb Robberies at the End of the New Kingdom

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Gasperini
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
New Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
New Information ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
And Function ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
First Time ◽  
Egyptian History

At the end of the 19th century W.M.F. Petrie excavated a series of assemblages at the New Kingdom Fayum site of Gurob. These deposits, known in the Egyptological literature as 'Burnt Groups', were composed by several and varied materials (mainly Egyptian and imported pottery, faience, stone and wood vessels, jewellery), all deliberately burnt and buried in the harem palace area of the settlement. Since their discovery these deposits have been considered peculiar and unparalleled. Many scholars were challenged by them and different theories were formulated to explain these enigmatic 'Burnt Groups'. The materials excavated from these assemblages are now curated at several Museum collections across England: Ashmolean Museum, British Museum, Manchester Museum, and Petrie Museum. For the first time since their discovery, this book presents these materials all together. Gasperini has studied and visually analysed all the items. This research sheds new light on the chronology of deposition of these assemblages, additionally a new interpretation of their nature, primary deposition, and function is presented in the conclusive chapter. The current study also gives new information on the abandonment of the Gurob settlement and adds new social perspective on a crucial phase of the ancient Egyptian history: the transition between the late New Kingdom and the early Third Intermediate Period. Beside the traditional archaeological sources, literary evidence ('The Great Tomb Robberies Papyri') is taken into account to formulate a new theory on the deposition of these assemblages.

The Fate of Sennefer and Senetnay at Karnak Temple and in the Valley of the Kings

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-129
Author(s):  
M. Eaton-Krauss
Keyword(s):  
New Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

The ‘artists' signatures' on the statue of Sennefer and Senetnay are revealed to be additions dating to the Third Intermediate Period. A review of the circumstances of the statue's excavation at Karnak leads to reconsideration of the so-called ‘chapel of Hatshepsut’. Budge's account of the chapel's discovery is shown to be credible after all, with North Karnak proposed as its location. Finally, the arguments for the attribution of a tomb in the Valley of the Kings (KV 42) to Sennefer and his wife are analyzed, and the implications for the Valley's history in the aftermath of the New Kingdom explored.

The Twenty-Fifth Dynasty Theban Mortuary Temple of the Vizier Nebneteru, Reused by Khonsuirdis and Others

2021 ◽  
pp. 030751332110429
Author(s):  
Kathryn Howley ◽  
Pearce Paul Creasman
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Textual Evidence ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
Western Side ◽  
The University ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

The Third Intermediate Period temple tomb, or mortuary temple, of Nebneteru, most often referred to as the tomb of Khonsuirdis, was described by Petrie as ‘one of the most prominent landmarks of the western side of Thebes’, yet remains little discussed in the scholarly literature. It was excavated by Petrie in the 1890s and more fully by an Italian team in the 1970s, but never fully published. The scattered references to archaeological and textual evidence for the monument and those interred within it are surveyed in this article, including new evidence from the University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition’s excavations at the adjoining site of the Tausret Memorial Temple. In light of recently updated understandings of Third Intermediate Period material culture, an argument is made for a revised early Twenty-Fifth Dynasty dating of the monument. The mortuary temple of Nebneteru, though little known, offers a rare and interesting glimpse into the funerary belief and practice of the Egyptian high élite in the early Twenty-Fifth Dynasty.

A Third Intermediate Period openwork piece of funerary equipment from the Chapel of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari

2016 ◽  
Vol XXIV (2) ◽  
pp. 169-182
Author(s):  
Anastasiia Stupko-Lubczyńska
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
Single Piece ◽  
Female Deities ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

A set of wooden figures representing female deities with painted fronts and flat backs was identified in the archaeological material coming from recent excavations in the Chapel of Hatshepsut. The fragments were scattered through the shafts of Third Intermediate Period date. Most probably they had once formed a single piece of funerary equipment from one of the burials. Remains of nine figures were distinguished. These were divided into two groups by size. The smallscale figures had outstretched arms, while the big-scale ones were shown with one arm raised and the other lowered alongside the body. They are presumed to have been attached to a flat wooden background. Both iconographical types are attested in the decoration of mortuary equipment from the New Kingdom on, though no object decorated with the same set of goddesses has been found so far.

New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period in Tell el-Retaba

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 129-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Rzepka ◽  
A. Wodzińska ◽  
C. Malleson ◽  
J. Hudec ◽  
L. Jamurźek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Intermediate Period
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