Archaeology, Epigraphy, Philology
- Archaeology, Epigraphy, Philology
In 2009, the University of Hawai'i began excavating at Tell Timai the remains of a limestone temple foundation platform situated in the northwest area of the site. The foundations were partially recorded in survey work conducted in 1930 and again in the 1960s; however, as far as is known, investigations of the structure were not conducted. In 2017, excavations were renewed with a view to finalizing the understanding of the temple's construction techniques, and the date of the temple. The foundations were, it was determined, of a casemate design with internal fills of alternating silt and limestone chips. The ceramic evidence found within the construction fills dates the foundation's construction in the period from the end of the Ptolemaic to the early Roman Period; the temple's superstructure was most likely taken down and the blocks reused in the late Roman Period (4th–5th cents. c.e.). [Adapted from published abstract—V.H.M.]
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Recent petrographic and chemical studies of IA II pottery from Jerusalem and other sites in Judah indicate the use of a specific kind of clay and potter technology in the production of cooking ware in this period. Cooking pots were usually made from non-calcareous clay (mostly derived from terra rossa soil) and were tempered with calcareous sand and/or quartz. Cooking ware imported from outside the region of Judah also occurs. In my paper, I examine several issues regarding the process in question: Were there specialized production centers for the production of cooking pots in Judah and its surroundings (one possibly [End Page 408] at Jerusalem)? Was cooking ware during this period mobile between sites and regions? Can a major technological shift during IA IIB-C towards the quartz-tempered cooking pots that dominate the cooking ware assemblage in the southern Levant from the Hellenistic period onwards be identified? My essay includes a compositional analysis and investigation of technological aspects of cooking pots from several Judean sites. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.]
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The authors publish a fragmentary female statue found during excavations undertaken by the University of Pisa at the site Dra Abu el-Naga, situated within the Theban Necropolis. The artifact probably dates to the period between the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th dynasty. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.]
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The Egypt Exploration Society archive houses unpublished pencil drawings by A. Klasens of seal impressions found in the Step Pyramid complex of Saqqara. Digitally inked versions of these drawings are published here for the first time. The seal impressions seem to derive from the Northern Galleries of the complex. The impressions were sealed on clay, formerly plastered on a wall, and also bore the imprints of the end(s) of cylinder seals. To explain the presence of seal impressions of Khasekhemwy among those drawn by Klasens, B. attempts to trace the construction and use history of the Northern Galleries and the contemporary Western Galleries at Saqqara. She also discusses possible parallels between some of the Step Pyramid sealings and Beit Khallaf sealings. [Adapted from...
