DOI article:
Reisner, George Andrew: The archaeological survey of Nubia: progress of survey
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18102#0017
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of the delta had taken place previous to the early dynastic period. The
rapid and general denudation must have ceased when the present deep
channel on the south was cut out.
It is clear that at Khor Ambukol we have a series of small cemeteries
from a local population supported by the cultivation of the delta fan of
the khor. A number of members are missing from the series, but they
may have been swept away by spates. There is no Mohammedan
cemetery, but that is because the place was cultivated from Tondi, and
the burial ground for the people of Tondi was beside that village and
is now under water.
Cemetery No. 15.
At the village of Godi, there is a deep bay in the rock wall which
is called Sharifa-tod. In the middle, next to the river, rises a high
rocky hill. The floor of this bay seems to consist of gravel and mud
strata. To the south is a promontory, and beyond that a smaller bay
of similar character. On the south side of the rocky hill, there are
a number of graves of several different types in a dark alluvial bank.
One type * consists of a broad pit with a broad side-chamber, and Graves of type
contains burials slightly contracted on the left side, head south. These
graves contain a number of pots', some of which are undoubtedly late,
subsequent at any rate to the late New Empire. A few resemble, in
form and ware, well-known Roman-Coptic pots. A number of beads,
a castor oil plant, an iron needle, etc., all point to the same period.
The second type of grave has a long narrow pit about 100-150 centi- Type 2.
metres deep, with a chamber at the bottom, half recessed and half in
the bottom of the pit. The chamber was closed by leaning stones
across from the higher part in the bottom of the pit to the pit wall
above the chamber. The burials were not uniform, being sometimes
extended on the back, and sometimes extended on either the right or
the left side with the knees slightly bent. The heads were uniformly
west. The bodies were wrapped in cloth, but the graves contained no
objects of any sort. They were undoubtedly not previous to the
Christian period (possibly very early Moslem f) in date.
* This type is important and is referred to throughout this bulletin M " Typo 1 of Cemetery 15."
t The Moslem cemeteries on Biga and at Meshed contain graves oriented cast and west, hut
the Nubian Moslems of the present day all bury with the head south, face east.
of the delta had taken place previous to the early dynastic period. The
rapid and general denudation must have ceased when the present deep
channel on the south was cut out.
It is clear that at Khor Ambukol we have a series of small cemeteries
from a local population supported by the cultivation of the delta fan of
the khor. A number of members are missing from the series, but they
may have been swept away by spates. There is no Mohammedan
cemetery, but that is because the place was cultivated from Tondi, and
the burial ground for the people of Tondi was beside that village and
is now under water.
Cemetery No. 15.
At the village of Godi, there is a deep bay in the rock wall which
is called Sharifa-tod. In the middle, next to the river, rises a high
rocky hill. The floor of this bay seems to consist of gravel and mud
strata. To the south is a promontory, and beyond that a smaller bay
of similar character. On the south side of the rocky hill, there are
a number of graves of several different types in a dark alluvial bank.
One type * consists of a broad pit with a broad side-chamber, and Graves of type
contains burials slightly contracted on the left side, head south. These
graves contain a number of pots', some of which are undoubtedly late,
subsequent at any rate to the late New Empire. A few resemble, in
form and ware, well-known Roman-Coptic pots. A number of beads,
a castor oil plant, an iron needle, etc., all point to the same period.
The second type of grave has a long narrow pit about 100-150 centi- Type 2.
metres deep, with a chamber at the bottom, half recessed and half in
the bottom of the pit. The chamber was closed by leaning stones
across from the higher part in the bottom of the pit to the pit wall
above the chamber. The burials were not uniform, being sometimes
extended on the back, and sometimes extended on either the right or
the left side with the knees slightly bent. The heads were uniformly
west. The bodies were wrapped in cloth, but the graves contained no
objects of any sort. They were undoubtedly not previous to the
Christian period (possibly very early Moslem f) in date.
* This type is important and is referred to throughout this bulletin M " Typo 1 of Cemetery 15."
t The Moslem cemeteries on Biga and at Meshed contain graves oriented cast and west, hut
the Nubian Moslems of the present day all bury with the head south, face east.