DOI Heft:
Egypt
DOI Artikel:Chłodnicki, Marek; Ciałowicz, Krzysztof M.: Tell el Farkha (Ghazala): interim report, 2000
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41368#0097
TELL EL LARKHA '
EGYPT
which like all the later ones was oriented
to the NE, must have had walls of organic
substances. All that remains of the
structure are relatively narrow furrows
(from 10 to 30 cm wide) filled with a
brown soil or flood silt. Explorations
revealed two or even three phases of
rebuilding. The principal part of the
youngest structure was at least 11m long
and 4.50 m wide, divided into many small
compartments and containing many mud-
lined pits (from 0.20 to 1.00 m in
diameter). Some of these, especially the
ones within the outline of the furrows,
Fig. 10. Western Kom. Last layer of the furrow
structure (Photo R. Slabonski)
must have been of structural importance,
serving to position posts that had once
supported the walls and roof. Other pits,
which were found inside the room, could
have served as vessel stands. The biggest of
these pits, sometimes bearing obvious
evidence of burning and yielding
D-shaped bricks, could have been used as
fireplaces.
West of the main building there is
a room or courtyard with a wall of organic
substances to the north, but without the
interior division into compartments. The
rest of the structure is to be found
presumably in the as yet unexplored part of
the site.
The older phase is characterized by
reduced dimensions on both the east and
the south. The building measured 8 by
3.20 m, although the northern extent is
still hidden in the unexplored part of the
structure. The number of mud-lined pits
drops significantly, and in their place
there appear storage pits filled with black
soil and dissected by the structural
furrows, pits that are characteristic of the
oldest occupational phase on Tell el-
FarkhaA This is particularly evident in
the lowest layer (Fig. 10), where traces of
the described building are practically
nonexistent, while the pits remain very
well visible. It should also be noted that
on this level we are probably dealing with
two structures located next to each other.
One is open to the east and divided into at
least two rooms. The other, open to the
west, bears no evidence of divisions.
Instead, it yielded a considerable, if
unshapely scatter of D-shaped bricks
burned a bright red — apparently the
remains of a fireplace.
5) Cf. PAM XI, op. cit., 61.
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EGYPT
which like all the later ones was oriented
to the NE, must have had walls of organic
substances. All that remains of the
structure are relatively narrow furrows
(from 10 to 30 cm wide) filled with a
brown soil or flood silt. Explorations
revealed two or even three phases of
rebuilding. The principal part of the
youngest structure was at least 11m long
and 4.50 m wide, divided into many small
compartments and containing many mud-
lined pits (from 0.20 to 1.00 m in
diameter). Some of these, especially the
ones within the outline of the furrows,
Fig. 10. Western Kom. Last layer of the furrow
structure (Photo R. Slabonski)
must have been of structural importance,
serving to position posts that had once
supported the walls and roof. Other pits,
which were found inside the room, could
have served as vessel stands. The biggest of
these pits, sometimes bearing obvious
evidence of burning and yielding
D-shaped bricks, could have been used as
fireplaces.
West of the main building there is
a room or courtyard with a wall of organic
substances to the north, but without the
interior division into compartments. The
rest of the structure is to be found
presumably in the as yet unexplored part of
the site.
The older phase is characterized by
reduced dimensions on both the east and
the south. The building measured 8 by
3.20 m, although the northern extent is
still hidden in the unexplored part of the
structure. The number of mud-lined pits
drops significantly, and in their place
there appear storage pits filled with black
soil and dissected by the structural
furrows, pits that are characteristic of the
oldest occupational phase on Tell el-
FarkhaA This is particularly evident in
the lowest layer (Fig. 10), where traces of
the described building are practically
nonexistent, while the pits remain very
well visible. It should also be noted that
on this level we are probably dealing with
two structures located next to each other.
One is open to the east and divided into at
least two rooms. The other, open to the
west, bears no evidence of divisions.
Instead, it yielded a considerable, if
unshapely scatter of D-shaped bricks
burned a bright red — apparently the
remains of a fireplace.
5) Cf. PAM XI, op. cit., 61.
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