GURNA

EGYPT

TOMB CORRIDOR

Further work inside the corridor leading to
the inner chamber of Tomb 1152 resulted
in another section of the fill being re-
moved. Small finds in the rubble included
objects of Coptic date, but also of Middle
Kingdom, New Kingdom and Late Period
origin. We are still unable to state with
any certainty how far the hermitage ex-
tended inside the tomb. All that was dis-
covered was a loosely laid floor of tiles made

of different kinds of stone. On one tile,
a reused piece of limestone, a few shallowly
carved hieroglyphic signs could be dis-
cerned. At the far end of the excavated
section of the corridor (c. 7.00 m from the
entrance), a transversal partition of mud
brick was detected. Since only one course
of bricks has survived, it could have been
a low step just as well as a provisional par-
tition wall.

RUBBISH DUMP

The rubbish dump to the sotith of the
presumed tower (B) yielded considerable
evidence of pottery. Over a dozen more or
less complete examples of amphorae and
many sherds thereof represented Egyptian
vessels: LRA 7 type, products of Aswan
workshops and their imitations in Nile
silt. Other pottery categories from the rub-
bish dump included storage jars, water

vessels and tableware, mostly from Aswan
workshops. Predominant among the latter
were imitations of Hayes form 84.
By far the most important category of
finds from the rubbish dump were the
Coptic ostraca. A few had the full Coptic
alphabet inscribed on them, and on one
limestone flake letters of the Greek
alphabet had been written in smaller size


Fig. 4- Egyptian amphorae of LRA 7 type, except for the vessel second from right, which is an Aswan
product (Photo T. Gorecki)

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