Szymon Popławski, Urszula Kraśniewska, Filippo Mi, Jerzy Oleksiak
{"title":"Trash from a temple: a deposit next to the Isis Temple at Berenike (Egypt)","authors":"Szymon Popławski, Urszula Kraśniewska, Filippo Mi, Jerzy Oleksiak","doi":"10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.2.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.2.18","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the stratigraphy and chronological phasing of a late antique trash deposit discovered just outside the north wall of the Isis Temple courtyard. It appears to be consumption waste collected from a large-scale event taking place in the immediate vicinity over a short period of time. Several elements of architectural decoration were found among the rubble, including three fragments of ‘Ionic’ cornice blocks that are an indication of the presence of at least one building with a classical-style architecture in the urban landscape. The fragments are quite unusual in the southern part of the Eastern Desert of Egypt and the first and somewhat unexpected attestation of this style recorded from Berenike.","PeriodicalId":156819,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean","volume":"320 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120884595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Test of the Nabataean Painted Fine Ware typology in Aila’s Area K","authors":"Sarah Wenner","doi":"10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"Although Nabataean Painted Fine Ware (NPFW) has been examined in light of Stephan Schmid’s chronological typology since the late 1990s, few stratified contexts with NPFW from outside Petra have been published, and none derived from contexts occupied continuously from the Nabataean through Byzantine periods. Questions remain about the dating of later dekorphases (3–4) due to a lack of contexts. This paucity is remedied, however, by Area K at Roman Aqaba/Aila, Jordan. Area K was a domestic complex, just inside the later Byzantine city wall, excavated from 1994 through 2002. Using associated numismatic evidence and imported fine wares (primarily Eastern Sigillata A and African Red Slip), this paper argues that NPFW Dekorphase 3b appeared at Aila in the second half of the 1st century CE, and Dekorphase 3c appeared shortly afterwards, around the time of the Roman annexation in the beginning of the 2nd century.","PeriodicalId":156819,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131257472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Un édifice au nom du roi Héqataoui (Ahmosé Ier) dans la nécropole thébaine","authors":"F. Colin","doi":"10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.1.07","url":null,"abstract":"While there is massive evidence of the mortuary cult of Ahmose I’s family at Abydos, in the form of pyramids, cult buildings and texts, the Theban necropolis is virtually devoid of archaeological testimony on the building activities of the founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty. However, the king’s mummy was discovered in Thebes, in the royal cache (TT 320), together with other members of his entourage. This apparent paradox is puzzling and has indeed inspired various hypotheses to explain this split in the documentation between Thebes and Abydos.\u0000The discovery in 2019 of nine mudbricks stamped with the name of a king, called simply HqA tA.wy, in the French excavations in al-Asasif, provided new data to resolve this question. This paper aims to support the identification of King Ahmose as the author of these bricks and to shed light on the ideological value of this eponymous title, based on the analysis of a key passage in the Ahmose Stele from Karnak (Cairo Museum, CGC 34001). It will also discuss the issue of the displacement of materials and royal bodies organised by the public authorities and search for a possible initial burial context of Ahmose’s mummy in light of new evidence of his building activities in the necropolis of the Theban Residence.","PeriodicalId":156819,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean","volume":"42 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114121835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lintel decoration types from the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari and their meaning","authors":"A. Madej","doi":"10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"Examination of the set of preserved gate lintels from the Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari has revealed two models of the iconographic decoration: one that emphasizes pictorial content in the form of scenes of a cultic or symbolic nature, with inscriptions playing merely a complementary role, and the other based on the textual message alone. The use of a given model of lintel decoration appears to be a measure either of the function of the room or, more broadly, of the space, accessed through the gate, or of the context of the wall decoration around the entrance.","PeriodicalId":156819,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114897070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secondary epigraphy in the North Asasif tombs: The \"restoration label\" of Paser in Khety's tomb TT 311, year 17 of Ramesses II","authors":"C. Ragazzoli","doi":"10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"Recent work by the Polish mission in Asasif brought to light 11 fragments of an inscription in the name of the vizier Paser, found inside the chapel, the cult space of Khety’s tomb (TT 311). The fragments, along with two found earlier and exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, form an almost complete inscription, which sheds light on Paser’s self-fashioning as a scholar and a kind of Khaemwaset of the South. This hieroglyphic graffito can be considered as a restoration label in the name of Paser on a monument of an illustrious predecessor. By raising himself to the level of his eminent ancestors whose monuments marked the sacred landscape of his time, Paser demonstrated his scholarship and social pre-eminence close to the king.","PeriodicalId":156819,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116941755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wojciech Ejsmond, Olivier Rochecouste, Taichi Kuronuma, P. Witkowski
{"title":"The Gebelein Archaeological Project in 2019: Northern necropolis and the temple complex","authors":"Wojciech Ejsmond, Olivier Rochecouste, Taichi Kuronuma, P. Witkowski","doi":"10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.2.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.2.14","url":null,"abstract":"Continued archaeological surveys at two sites in the Gebelein area, the Northern Necropolis and the temple complex, have contributed new data for a better understanding of the ancient remains. Geophysical anomalies detected in 2015 in the western part of the Northern Necropolis should now be interpreted most probably as tombs with mud-brick walls. Mounds of earth in the central part of the necropolis yielded numerous artifacts dating from between the Naqada I and the early Old Kingdom periods; they are likely to have been dumped from a nearby settlement site, probably the ancient town of Sumenu. Work in the temple complex was aimed at protecting the structure made of inscribed mud-bricks dating from the Twenty-first Dynasty.","PeriodicalId":156819,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115810645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The skeletal remains from Umm an-Nar tomb QA 1-1: spatial distribution and anthropological analysis","authors":"Łukasz Rutkowski, Marta Parol","doi":"10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.2.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.2.27","url":null,"abstract":"Collective aboveground circular tombs of stone are one of the main categories of architectural structures from the Umm an-Nar period (2500–2000 BC) in the Oman peninsula. The tombs have been known since the late 1950s but various aspects of their functioning still await a full explanation. Most of them survived in poor condition, often empty, only a dozen or so actually yielding any human remains. Tomb QA 1-1, one of ten Umm an-Nar-type tombs at Wadi al-Fajj in northwestern Oman, has yielded a substantial assemblage of human skeletal remains (estimated MNI 25) from the two of four burial chambers excavated between 2016 and 2018. While the excavation of the tomb should be continued, a presentation of the bone assemblage recovered to date, including a distribution analysis of the remains, deposition characteristic, and preliminary osteological analysis, adds to the existing source base of Early Bronze Age populations in the ancient land of Magan.","PeriodicalId":156819,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125938575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cooking ware from Northern Jordan: preliminary report on the pottery","authors":"G. Schörner, N. Voss","doi":"10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.2.0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.2.0","url":null,"abstract":"Cooking vessels collected during three surveys that took place in 2014 and 2015 around the ancient settlements of Abila, Gadara and Umm al-Jimal in the north of Jordan are the subject of this paper. The fragmentation and poor surface preservation of the sherds from this assemblage resulted in the study being focused on an analysis of clay fabrics in relation to vessel forms and their provenance. An examination of fabrics grouped into wares and cooking vessel forms demonstrated an apparent shift from wares produced in the region around Lake Tiberias, which had dominated at the sites of Abila and Gadara until the 4th century CE, to wares produced most likely in Gerasa. Thus, the results of pottery studies from the three sites located at the core of the Austrian Decapolis survey project shed light on the pattern of changes in regional ceramic trade in the Decapolis and adjoining regions.","PeriodicalId":156819,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128177182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Braziers and the Hellenistic koiné in the kitchen: the case of Paphos, capital of Cyprus","authors":"Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka","doi":"10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Portable braziers played a very important role in ancient kitchens. Stoves with a stand, fire bowl and three supports were very common in Middle and Late Hellenistic times (2nd century BCE and late 2nd century to 30 BCE, accordingly), but they do not seem to have been imported in large numbers to Cyprus. The paper discusses the finds from Cyprus, and from Paphos in particular, the island’s capital from the end of the 3rd century BCE, which is where most of the finds come from. The research entails a re-examination of the stoves from the House of Dionysos (original spelling after Hayes 1981) and the mostly unknown material from the University of Warsaw excavations in the Maloutena area. Fabrics were distinguished by macroscopic observation with the naked eye using a hand lens, identifying macroscopic groups (MG). Paphos is suggested as a potential place of production, as well as a major importer of stoves, an idea that should be clarified by future archaeometric analyses.","PeriodicalId":156819,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean","volume":"55 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113935784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pottery from Tomb MMA 28 at Deir el-Bahari: preliminary remarks","authors":"Ania Weźranowska, Anna Wodzińska","doi":"10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam30.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"The clearance of Tomb MMA 28 at Deir el-Bahari yielded mixed pottery material dating from the Middle Kingdom to modern times. The article presents, in chronological order, some of the most characteristic vessels representing each phase (with the exception of the late Roman period, which is to be studied separately). Among them are Middle Kingdom pointed bottles and Marl C jars, New Kingdom double and triple bottles, kernoi, beer jars and blue-painted pottery, as well as Ptolemaic painted pottery.","PeriodicalId":156819,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123054803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}