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Sudan
DOI Artikel:Šíp, Michal: Preliminary report on the excavation of a kerma-horizon cemetery at Hagar el-Beida 11
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42091#0392
FOURTH CATARACT - HAGAR EL-BEIDA
SUDAN
bead of bone and the other made of green
glass. The fill also produced pieces of leather
dyed with ocher.
Tumulus 39 (Dia. 1.68 m; D. 0.68 m)
was very much like the preceding two
tombs with the stone circle still well
preserved on the south and east, a stone
blockage at 0.46 m depth and a rock ledge
on the eastern side of the shaft. The skeleton
was only partly preserved, but the long
bones of the lower limbs were in anatomical
position.
The only one not to be plundered was
Tumulus 40 (Dia. 2.80 m; D. 0.94 m). The
stone-and-gravel mound was 0.40 m high.
Blockage of big rock fragments was
Fig. 1. Plan of the tumuli excavated in 2005
(Drawing M. Sip)
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SUDAN
bead of bone and the other made of green
glass. The fill also produced pieces of leather
dyed with ocher.
Tumulus 39 (Dia. 1.68 m; D. 0.68 m)
was very much like the preceding two
tombs with the stone circle still well
preserved on the south and east, a stone
blockage at 0.46 m depth and a rock ledge
on the eastern side of the shaft. The skeleton
was only partly preserved, but the long
bones of the lower limbs were in anatomical
position.
The only one not to be plundered was
Tumulus 40 (Dia. 2.80 m; D. 0.94 m). The
stone-and-gravel mound was 0.40 m high.
Blockage of big rock fragments was
Fig. 1. Plan of the tumuli excavated in 2005
(Drawing M. Sip)
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