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Egypt
DOI article:Górecki, Tomasz: Sheikh Abd el-Gurna: Hermitage in tomb 1152 and chapel in tomb 1151
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42093#0304
SHEIKH ABD EL-GURNA
EGYPT
TOMB 1151
The ground in front of the entrance to
Tomb 1151 was cleared of all modern
rubbish and testing was completed of the
archaeological dump from H.E. Winlock’s
excavations carried out in the 1930s.2 This
lies just north of the tomb entrance. Some
objects from the Pharaonic period were
recorded, these having been either missed or
neglected at the time: ushebti fragments,
bits of faience amulets, textiles [Fig. 1 ] and
mummy bandages. Potsherds are less
Fig. 1. Fragment of a linen textile with
representation of Re-Horakhty(l).
H. figure c. 15 cm (Photo M. Jaivornicki)
numerous. The rare Coptic find is
represented almost exclusively by pottery
and a single ostracon.
A rock niche just east of the tomb
entrance yielded evidence of a small, perhaps
one-time hearth and next to it, a storage
container made of unfired clay.
In the entrance corridor the monks had
introduced a pavement running 14 m inside
the tomb. Most of it was a hard, neatly
smoothed lime mortar except for some
Fig. 2. Cross outlined in the floor of the
corridor entrance (Photo T. Gorecki)
2 Information about H.E. Winlock’s excavations and relevant documentation, including apian and section of Tomb 1151,
were kindly provided, with permission from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Dr. Andrzej Cwiek, who happened on
them during his study of fieldnotes in the MMA archives.
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EGYPT
TOMB 1151
The ground in front of the entrance to
Tomb 1151 was cleared of all modern
rubbish and testing was completed of the
archaeological dump from H.E. Winlock’s
excavations carried out in the 1930s.2 This
lies just north of the tomb entrance. Some
objects from the Pharaonic period were
recorded, these having been either missed or
neglected at the time: ushebti fragments,
bits of faience amulets, textiles [Fig. 1 ] and
mummy bandages. Potsherds are less
Fig. 1. Fragment of a linen textile with
representation of Re-Horakhty(l).
H. figure c. 15 cm (Photo M. Jaivornicki)
numerous. The rare Coptic find is
represented almost exclusively by pottery
and a single ostracon.
A rock niche just east of the tomb
entrance yielded evidence of a small, perhaps
one-time hearth and next to it, a storage
container made of unfired clay.
In the entrance corridor the monks had
introduced a pavement running 14 m inside
the tomb. Most of it was a hard, neatly
smoothed lime mortar except for some
Fig. 2. Cross outlined in the floor of the
corridor entrance (Photo T. Gorecki)
2 Information about H.E. Winlock’s excavations and relevant documentation, including apian and section of Tomb 1151,
were kindly provided, with permission from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Dr. Andrzej Cwiek, who happened on
them during his study of fieldnotes in the MMA archives.
298
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 19, Reports 2007