The tombs of Asasif: archaeological exploration in the 2013/2014 season

2016 ◽  
Vol XXIV (1) ◽  
pp. 239-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patryk Chudzik
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Late Period ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
The University ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

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.

Middle Kingdom tombs of Asasif: archaeological activities in 2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 289-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patryk Chudzik
Keyword(s):  
Late Period ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

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.

scholarly journals Estudio preliminar sobre la tumba 22, hallada en el noroeste del templo de Millones de Años de Tutmosis III

2019 ◽  
pp. 217-226
Author(s):  
Javier Martínez Babón
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Late Period ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Information ◽  
Theban Necropolis ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

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

Faience objects from the Tomb MMA 1152 at Sheikh Abd el-Gurna

2016 ◽  
Vol XXIV (1) ◽  
pp. 701-707
Author(s):  
Patryk Chudzik ◽  
Andrzej Ćwiek
Keyword(s):  
Late Period ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
Material Points ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

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.

scholarly journals Deux fragments de portraits funéraires romains de Deir el-Bahari

2011 ◽  
pp. 259-266
Author(s):  
Zsolt Kiss ◽  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Context ◽  
Small Fragment ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

Two fragments of painted Roman funerary portraits on wooden panels of the Fayum type, discovered in 2001 during a revisiting of the Third Intermediate Period shaft tombs inside the Chapel of Hatshepsut in the Royal Mortuary Cult Complex at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari, come from 19th century excavations, hence are without anything but a general context. The pieces are very small—fragment of a robe, sliver of a face with one eye—but in a brilliant analysis of iconography and style Kiss identifies one as a depiction of a female, possibly a priestess of Isis, from the second half of the 2nd century AD, and the other as a male portrait from the 2nd century. The portraits may belong to what some scholars have called “Theban” painted funerary portraits and they must have come from a Roman necropolis in West Thebes, possibly Deir el-Medineh. On any case, they are proof that mummies with painted portraits of the deceased on wooden panels fitted into the cartonnages were not unknown in ancient Thebes.

scholarly journals Beiträge zur Geschichte der Dritten Zwischenzeit

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42
Author(s):  
Karl Jansen-Winkeln
Keyword(s):  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Genealogical Data ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

In this short Beiträge three points relevant to the history of the Third Intermediate Period are presented. 1. The genealogical data of the family of the army scribe Nespaqashuty written on a fragmentary block statue from Karnak have hitherto been misunderstood. The owner of the statue is not Nespaqashuty ii, who lived in the time of Siamun, but a grandson of Amenemone i. The statue may have been dedicated by his son Ankhefenkhons during the time of Osorkon ii. 2. According to stela Cairo je 66285, the Libyan chief and later king Shoshenq i had a statue of his father Nimlot A erected in the temple of Abydos. The offering established for this statue is written with a hieroglyph simply to be read ḥtp “offering,” not ẖntj “statue” or qnyt “portable image” as proposed before. 3. Some aspects of the chronological and political relations between Bocchoris and Shabako and their predecessors Tefnakhte and Piankhy are considered as well as the supposed reason for the attack on Bocchoris by “Sabakôn.”

Banganarti and Selib in 2011/2012 and 2013

2016 ◽  
Vol XXIV (1) ◽  
pp. 369-388
Author(s):  
Bogdan Żurawski
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Dam Construction ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period ◽  
Large Building ◽  
The Church

In the course of two seasons in 2012 and 2013 the team carried out excavations and research on the living quarters alongside the fortifications of Banganarti, including a large building (E.1) and eastern tower. Work on the restoration/conservation of the Upper Church progressed according to plan, combined with limited iconographic studies. The team also worked at the sites of Selib and Soniyat. At Selib explorations continued at three locations. The phasing of the church at Selib 1 was established (separate report by A. Cedro), leading to a reconstruction of the plan of the earliest two buildings. A Meroitic(?) structure was investigated at Selib 3 and the Meroitic settlement at Selib 2 continued to be investigated (separate report by R. Hajduga and K. Solarska). A tachymetric plan and magnetic map of the environs of the Kushite temple at Soniyat was accomplished, recording a huge building (palace?) of apparently Kushite date (Napatan ceramic forms and Egyptian imports dating from the Third Intermediate Period) to the north of the temple. A separate team undertook a reconnaissance in regions scheduled to be flooded due to new dam construction projects in Kajbar and Shereik (Third and Fifth cataracts), staying on to record in detail a number of Makurian fortresses.

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.

Remarks on royal statues in the form of the god Osiris from Deir el-Bahari

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-389
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Szafrański
Keyword(s):  
Burial Ground ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
Reconstruction Project ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period ◽  
North And South

This article recapitulates information available, and mostly not published yet, on the statues in the form of the god Osiris from the Upper (Coronation) and Lower Porticoes of the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. This includes the North and South Colossi, both of which were recently restored in a pilot reconstruction project undertaken by the Polish team, revising a missed restoration attempt by earlier excavators. Other examples include a sandstone painted statue of Amenhotep I, from Asasif, in the form of the mummiform figure of the god Osiris, which was also reconstructed, a fragmentary sandstone statue of Amenhotep III in the form of Osiris, as well as two fragments of statues of Osiris from the Third Intermediate Period burial ground discovered in the area of the temple of Hatshepsut.

scholarly journals El Templo de Millones de Años de Thutmosis III en Luxor: estudio paleopatológico preliminar y nuevas perspectivas

2019 ◽  
pp. 147-157
Author(s):  
Albert Isidro ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Late Period ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Stress Markers ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Excavation Work ◽  
First Intermediate Period ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Eastern Wall

"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"

Don’t Do What I Did!

2015 ◽  
Vol 142 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Biri Fay ◽  
Karl Jansen-Winkeln ◽  
Richard B. Parkinson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

SummaryThis small Middle Kingdom sculpture is approximately datable to the reign of King Amenemhat II and is one of the earliest preserved block statues. The inscription added hundreds of years after the statue’s creation, sometime between the Ramesside Period and the Third Intermediate Period reflects the regard in which the object was held, even in ancient times.

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