Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (19.2007(2010))

TELL EL-LARKHA

EGYPT

TELL EL-LARKHA
PRELIMINARY REPORT, 2007
Marek Chlodnicki, Krzysztof M. Cialowicz

During the present campaign, which lasted from 3 March to 7 May 2007,1 work was
continued in previously established trenches on all three tellsforming the site of Tell el-Farkha.
The thickness of anthropogenic deposits and large numbers of artifacts fully justified the
effort. On the Western Kom, the trench which last year had yielded a few pots of
undoubtedly ritual character, one of them containing 62 miniature figurines made of
hippopotamus tusk (Chlodnicki, Cialowicz 2009: 128-147; Cialowicz 2009 [2010]),
was continued with more similar discoveries. On the Central Kom, which has been
investigated since 2000, the culturally sterile gezirah sand was expected. And on the
Eastern Kom, the trench was extended once again because of the need to examine several
graves clearly visible in outline either on the surface or in section in the trench excavated
in previous years.

1 The team, headed by Marek Chlodnicki and Krzysztof M. Cialowicz, included: Katarzyna Blaszczyk, Joanna D^bowska,
Eliza Jaroni, Piotr Kolodziejczyk, Ewa Kuciewicz, Malgorzata Kujawa, Anna Longa, Grzegorz Pryc, Michal Rozwadowski,
Michal Sip, archaeologists; Mariusz Jucha, Agnieszka Mqczyhska, ceramologists; Maria Ablamowicz, archaeozoologist;
Lucyna Kubiak-Martens, palaeobotanist; Maciej Pawlikowski, Michal Wasilewski, geologists; Robert Slabohski, Jacenty
Dfdek, photographers; Aleksandra Gl^b, Katarzyna Juszczyk, Marta Korczyhska, Michal Kurzyk, Magdalena Nowak,
Agnieszka Ogorek, Magdalena Sobas, Agnieszka Szymahska, Szymon Zdzieblowski, Agnieszka Zero, students of
archaeology. The Supreme Council of Antiquities was represented by Yosry Elsayed Ahmed from the Mansura
Inspectorate.

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