Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (19.2007(2010))

TELL EL-BALAMUN

EGYPT

TELL EL-BALAMUN
GEOPHYSICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL
SURVEY 2007-2008
Tomasz Herbich, A. Jeffrey Spencer

As previously reported (Herbich, Spencer 2006; 2007; 2008), the geophysical survey
at Tell el-Balamun, commenced in 2005 as a joint project of the British Museum
and the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw,
is aimed at generating a complete magnetic map of the temple precinct (21 ha) in
support of the British Museums site excavation program. The work is now nearing
completion. It is directed by Tomasz Herbich, who is assisted in the field by Dawid
Switch and Artur Buszek. Archaeological testing of the structures mapped by the
survey is carried out by the British Museum team excavating Tell el-Balamun,
headed by Jeffrey Spencer with the assistance of Patricia Spencer.1 The survey ran one
week in March 2007, supplemented with a few days in March 2008

1 One of the instruments used for magnetic surveying was provided by the Programma de Lstudios de Egiptologia (Consejo
Nacional de Investigationes Cientificas y Tecnicas, Buenos Aires) on the grounds of a cooperation agreement with the
Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw.

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