Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (11.1999(2000))

DEIR EL-BAHARI

EGYPT

or 1st century BC.18) A Greek text on an
ostracon is a note made by a professional
scribe, whose cursive writing with many
abbreviations is clearly a Roman documen-
tary hand.1
Explorations yielded a considerable
pottery assemblage. Numerous sherds of
amphorae, bowls and vessels of local origin
are both Late Roman and Coptic.
Unfortunately, the archaeological context
is completely disturbed. Finds from the
shafts and burial chambers include numer-

ous small blue-glazed ushebti figurines,
remains of cloth, painted fragments of car-
tonnages, human bones, wooden sticks,
and small fragments of sarcophagi.
Among the decorated blocks discovered
in the shafts there are two with a represen-
tation of offerings from the southern wall
of the Upper Court, and one depicting
a procession of the Beautiful Feast of the
Valley from the northern section of the
eastern wall {Fig. 10). Other elements
belong to the Ptolemaic sanctuary portal.


Fig. 10. Block with a procession of soldiers from the Beautiful Feast of the Valley
(Drawing E. Rozmarynowska)

18) To be published by J. K. Winnicki.
19) To be published by A. tukaszewicz.

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