DOI Artikel:
Firth, C. M.: The archaeological survey of Nubia
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18107#0016
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at a distance from the cultivation, and yet close to the river, can
only be explained by supposing that a house and garden stood at
this spot, and that the same device which was employed to raise
water for the fields was also used to fill the cisterns, which are so
constructed as to obviate the least waste, the surplus being all
stored in a deep underground tank. The steepness of the river
banks at this point may have made it difficult to water animals
direct from the Nile.
Cemetery 134 : East bank, one and a half kilometres south of Sheikh
Sharaf.
Period:—Early Dynastic and C-group. One of the earliest graves
contained a fine stone vessel with perforated side-handles in
gray brecchia marble ; and with another Early Dynastic burial
was a flake, apparently of obsidian.
Cemetery 135 : East bank, Seyala.
Period :—C-group and New Empire.
Cemetery 136 : Seyala.
Period:—Early Dynastic, C-group and New Empire. In the
Early Dynastic grave of a girl was a fine mirror of mica
or talc.
Cemetery t37 : Seyala.
Period:—First Dynasty. Contained a series of graves which,
although plundered, yielded some remarkable objects of the
art which is associated with the reign of Narmer at Hiero-
konpolis.
Grave 1: Contained large double-bird slate palettes, a quantity of
copper chisels and axes of the First Dynasty, and the gold
sheathing of the wooden handles of two pear-shaped mace-
heads of brecchia and rose quartz. The gold handles were
ribbed or corrugated horizontally, but one bore in addition
the design of rows of animals in very fine repousse work,
(Fig. 3, page 18). The drawing of the animals is wonder-
fully fine, the markings of the fur or skin being very
slightly conventionalized, and treated as if the artist was quite
conscious that they were the decoration of the animals. A
full discussion of this piece of gold work, and a comparison
of it with the few known pieces of the period, must be reserved
for the Annual Report dealing with this season's work. The
at a distance from the cultivation, and yet close to the river, can
only be explained by supposing that a house and garden stood at
this spot, and that the same device which was employed to raise
water for the fields was also used to fill the cisterns, which are so
constructed as to obviate the least waste, the surplus being all
stored in a deep underground tank. The steepness of the river
banks at this point may have made it difficult to water animals
direct from the Nile.
Cemetery 134 : East bank, one and a half kilometres south of Sheikh
Sharaf.
Period:—Early Dynastic and C-group. One of the earliest graves
contained a fine stone vessel with perforated side-handles in
gray brecchia marble ; and with another Early Dynastic burial
was a flake, apparently of obsidian.
Cemetery 135 : East bank, Seyala.
Period :—C-group and New Empire.
Cemetery 136 : Seyala.
Period:—Early Dynastic, C-group and New Empire. In the
Early Dynastic grave of a girl was a fine mirror of mica
or talc.
Cemetery t37 : Seyala.
Period:—First Dynasty. Contained a series of graves which,
although plundered, yielded some remarkable objects of the
art which is associated with the reign of Narmer at Hiero-
konpolis.
Grave 1: Contained large double-bird slate palettes, a quantity of
copper chisels and axes of the First Dynasty, and the gold
sheathing of the wooden handles of two pear-shaped mace-
heads of brecchia and rose quartz. The gold handles were
ribbed or corrugated horizontally, but one bore in addition
the design of rows of animals in very fine repousse work,
(Fig. 3, page 18). The drawing of the animals is wonder-
fully fine, the markings of the fur or skin being very
slightly conventionalized, and treated as if the artist was quite
conscious that they were the decoration of the animals. A
full discussion of this piece of gold work, and a comparison
of it with the few known pieces of the period, must be reserved
for the Annual Report dealing with this season's work. The