TELL EL-BALAMUN. GEOPHYSICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 2006
TELL EL-BALAMUN. GEOPHYSICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 2006

Summary/Abstract: The geophysical survey was carried out in the eastern part of the temple enclosure. In the northeastern part of the area, valuable information was produced about the outer enclosure wall from the Thirtieth Dynasty. The map confirmed the existence of a gap, c. 120 m long, in the outer enclosure wall. It also helps to reconstruct the run of the inner enclosure wall from the Twenty-sixth Dynasty. Moreover, it outlines precisely the sand-filled foundation of the subsidiary temple of Nectanebo I, traced during excavations. Previously unidentified structures were mapped to the southwest and northeast of the Nectanebo temple, including a suburb of Ptolemaic houses, with a discernible street grid. More substantial buildings were mapped on the southeast side of the enclosure, including large cellular platforms of mud brick, probably from the Saite Period. A series of anomalies correspond to furnaces. Excavation of features located by the survey continued parallel to ongoing geophysical work. The tested areas include a gate in the southeast side of the inner enclosure wall, a temple of the Third Intermediate period (Temple D) and a stone building in front of the Nectanebo temple.

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