DOI Artikel:
Firth, C. M.: Archaeologcal report
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18106#0012
(ii) Side-chambered graves designed for one burial.
(iii) End-chambered graves for one burial.
(iv) Eectangular long graves for one to three burials.
Cemetery 106.
Small C-group cemetery of 25 graves dug in sand with traces of
circular stone superstructures. The pottery was, with the exception
of three pieces, broken and dispersed and the graves plundered.
Cemetery 107.
Roman cemetery lower down in the alluvial plain, graves all of
pit and end-chamber type (with a few side-chambers) containing
extended burials.
Cemetery 107 : 85 axd 87.
Large New Empire communal burial-places containing large
quantities of pottery.
Cemetery 108.
A cemetery of New Empire graves, all very much plundered, of
side-chamber or rectangular type.
Cemeteries 107 and 108 were on the boundary between the modern
districts of Qurta and Dakka, at which point the higher desert again
approaches the river and leaves only a narrow strip of ground between
it and the cultivated fields of Qurta available for excavation. Further
south the cultivation becomes discontinuous and almost disappears.
The whole of the ground between Maharraqa and Korosko, especially
the mouths of the side valleys, remains to be examined next season.
What time can be spared will be devoted to clearing and planning
the fortress of Kubban opposite Dakka on the east bank. It is
hoped that the examination of this place will add materially to the
existing knowledge of the old mining industry of the Eastern Desert.
The great quantity of material illustrative of the C-group period
obtained during the present season should go far towards elucidating
the problem of the origin of the race which produced this remarkable
culture. The theory tentatively advanced in the second annual report *
* In the press.
(iii) End-chambered graves for one burial.
(iv) Eectangular long graves for one to three burials.
Cemetery 106.
Small C-group cemetery of 25 graves dug in sand with traces of
circular stone superstructures. The pottery was, with the exception
of three pieces, broken and dispersed and the graves plundered.
Cemetery 107.
Roman cemetery lower down in the alluvial plain, graves all of
pit and end-chamber type (with a few side-chambers) containing
extended burials.
Cemetery 107 : 85 axd 87.
Large New Empire communal burial-places containing large
quantities of pottery.
Cemetery 108.
A cemetery of New Empire graves, all very much plundered, of
side-chamber or rectangular type.
Cemeteries 107 and 108 were on the boundary between the modern
districts of Qurta and Dakka, at which point the higher desert again
approaches the river and leaves only a narrow strip of ground between
it and the cultivated fields of Qurta available for excavation. Further
south the cultivation becomes discontinuous and almost disappears.
The whole of the ground between Maharraqa and Korosko, especially
the mouths of the side valleys, remains to be examined next season.
What time can be spared will be devoted to clearing and planning
the fortress of Kubban opposite Dakka on the east bank. It is
hoped that the examination of this place will add materially to the
existing knowledge of the old mining industry of the Eastern Desert.
The great quantity of material illustrative of the C-group period
obtained during the present season should go far towards elucidating
the problem of the origin of the race which produced this remarkable
culture. The theory tentatively advanced in the second annual report *
* In the press.