Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (17.2005(2007))

TELL EL-BALAMUN

EGYPT

TELL EL-BALAMUN
GEOPHYSICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL
SURVEY, 2005
Tomasz Herbich, A. Jeffrey Spencer

The British Museum expedition has been working at Tell el-Balamun in the northern Delta
since 1991. Two temple enclosure walls of the Twenty-Sixth and Thirtieth Dynasties, the main
temple of Amun, subsidiary temples ofNectanebo I and Psamtik I, the Fort and its Annex and
Ptolemaic houses are the main features excavated and recorded by the expedition.1 The size of
the complex (approx. 420 by 430 m) did not allow for its exploration by regular digging; this
led the director of excavations, Jeffrey Spencer, to consider a geophysical survey as a means of
recording the site.
The geophysical survey in Tell el-Balamun is a joint project of the British Museum and the
Polish Center of Mediterranean Archaeology of Warsaw University and will be completed by
2007. The whole area of the temple enclosure will be investigated. The geophysical survey was
carried out by Tomasz Herbich with the assistance of Da wid Switch.

1 A. Jeffrey Spencer, Tell el Balamun, vols 1-3 (London 1996-2001).

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