Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (17.2005(2007))

TELL EL-LARKHA

EGYPT

EXCAVATIONS ON THE WESTERN KOM
The main objective of this campaign was to
complete the exploration of installations
revealed in 2004 and to excavate the under-
lying layers.2
A fourth brewery was found this year,
complementing the three discovered in the
previous season {Fig. 4}. Of greatest
importance is the distinct chronological
sequence formed by the complexes. The
earliest brewery was at some point destroyed
by Nile flooding. It has to be borne in mind
that the gezira on which the inhabitants
lived at the time did not rise much above
the river level and annual flooding would
have been a relatively frequent occurrence in
settlements of the Delta. After an indeter-
minate period the second and the third


Fig. 3. Western kom. Complex of features of Lo wer Egyptian culture
(Photo A. Biel)


Fig. 2. Western Kom. Flint knives of Lower
Egyptian culture (Photo A. Biel)

2 Cf. M. Chlodnicki, K.M. Ciaiowicz, PAM XVI, Reports 2004 (2005), 132-135.

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