Work

Tell el-Murra (Northeastern Nile Delta Survey): preliminary excavation report for the 2014 and 2015 seasons

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: The paper deals with the results of excavation in 2014 and 2015 at the Tell el-Murra site in the northeastern part of the Nile Delta. The investigations covered a settlement mostly from the Old Kingdom period found in trench T5; more specifically, the investigated features seem primarily connected with food production. Settlement remains from the Naqada III–possibly Early Dynastic and Protodynastic(?) periods were also explored in trench S3B. Continued research on the Early Dynastic cemetery in trench S3 yielded 16 more graves, including simple pit burials and chamber graves. In several cases bodies had been placed in pottery coffins. The presence of several mud-brick walls, possibly associated with older settlement structures, was also confirmed within the lattermost trench. Altogether the research provided new data on the settlement architecture, site development processes and burial customs invoked in the beginnings of the Egyptian state.

Source: Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean

DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0012.1772

Authors: Mariusz A. Jucha, Grzegorz Bąk-Pryc, Natalia Małecka-Drozd, Magdalena Kazimierczak

Institution: Jagiellonian University

Language: English

Topic: Ancient Egypt and Archaeology

Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Narodowym Centrum Nauki

Award: G2093741046