DOI Artikel:
Myśliwiec, Karol: Polish-Egyptian excavations at Tell Atrib in 1990
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26389#0032
occupied by buildings of a public or official nature. The workshop quarter was situated
further to the south.
Among the important finds of Roman date there is a headless statue representing
a man standing beside a herm which is crowned with the head of a bearded man wearing
a headband. The composition and the modelling of the sculpture betray the rather
clumsy hand of a local copyist.
Objects of Ptolemaic and Roman date were found inside some of the walls which
had to be removed or cleared in order to facilitate further exploration. Among these
there is a round terracotta seal which may be dated to the second half of the Ptolemaic
Period (Fig. 2). Its flat surface bears a sunken relief representing a cupid riding a
dolphin.
The drilling carried out with a hand drill reached a depth of ca Am below the
lowermost of the excavated strata. An examination of the core samples demonstrated that
this area was in use In the Late Dynastic Period (probably from the XXX^ Dynasty on).
There seem to be no artifacts of earlier date in this material. These early strata contain
lots of pottery sherds, and in one of the examined spots there were also fragments of
various stone objects (a stonecutting atelier /?/).
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further to the south.
Among the important finds of Roman date there is a headless statue representing
a man standing beside a herm which is crowned with the head of a bearded man wearing
a headband. The composition and the modelling of the sculpture betray the rather
clumsy hand of a local copyist.
Objects of Ptolemaic and Roman date were found inside some of the walls which
had to be removed or cleared in order to facilitate further exploration. Among these
there is a round terracotta seal which may be dated to the second half of the Ptolemaic
Period (Fig. 2). Its flat surface bears a sunken relief representing a cupid riding a
dolphin.
The drilling carried out with a hand drill reached a depth of ca Am below the
lowermost of the excavated strata. An examination of the core samples demonstrated that
this area was in use In the Late Dynastic Period (probably from the XXX^ Dynasty on).
There seem to be no artifacts of earlier date in this material. These early strata contain
lots of pottery sherds, and in one of the examined spots there were also fragments of
various stone objects (a stonecutting atelier /?/).
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