DOI issue:
Egypt
DOI article:Karkowski, Janusz; el-Bialy, Mohammed: Gurna: new find of decorated blocks in Gurna
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41368#0249
GURNA
EGYPT
by the expedition of the Marquis of
Northampton,9) then cleared in 1985 by
Mohammed el-Bialy and Mohammed
Abdalla, and finally surveyed by the Polish
Epigraphic Mission in 1996.10) All these
monuments were built of reused blocks
including many that date to the
Tuthmoside Period.
A further study of this material is of
great importance for the restoration of the
historical topography of the West Bank of
ancient Thebes during the New Kingdom.
9) Marquis of Northampton, W. Spiegelberg, P. Newberry, Report on Some Excavations in the Theban Necropolis during
the Winter of 1898-9 (1908), 38, Fig. 30; cf. PM II 2 (1972), 424 (“Colonnaded temple of Ramesses IV”) — at least three
distinct temples of the Ramesside Period were located in Lower Assassif, cf. topographical remark in Karkowski, PAM Vlll,
op. cit., 55-58, quoted in note 3 above.
10) See note 3 above.
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EGYPT
by the expedition of the Marquis of
Northampton,9) then cleared in 1985 by
Mohammed el-Bialy and Mohammed
Abdalla, and finally surveyed by the Polish
Epigraphic Mission in 1996.10) All these
monuments were built of reused blocks
including many that date to the
Tuthmoside Period.
A further study of this material is of
great importance for the restoration of the
historical topography of the West Bank of
ancient Thebes during the New Kingdom.
9) Marquis of Northampton, W. Spiegelberg, P. Newberry, Report on Some Excavations in the Theban Necropolis during
the Winter of 1898-9 (1908), 38, Fig. 30; cf. PM II 2 (1972), 424 (“Colonnaded temple of Ramesses IV”) — at least three
distinct temples of the Ramesside Period were located in Lower Assassif, cf. topographical remark in Karkowski, PAM Vlll,
op. cit., 55-58, quoted in note 3 above.
10) See note 3 above.
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