TELL EL-BALAMUN GEOPHYSICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 2005
TELL EL-BALAMUN GEOPHYSICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 2005

Summary/Abstract: The British Museum expedition has been working at Tell el-Balamun in the northern Delta since 1991. Two temple enclosure walls of the Twenty-Sixth and Thirtieth Dynasties, the main temple of Amun, subsidiary temples of Nectanebo I and Psamtik I, the Fort and its Annex and Ptolemaic houses are the main features excavated and recorded by the expedition. The size of the complex (approx. 420 by 450 m) did not allow for its exploration by regular digging; this led the director of excavations, Jeffrey Spencer, to consider a geophysical survey as a means of recording the site. The geophysical survey in Tell el-Balamun is a joint project of the British Museum and the Polish Center of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw. The southern part of the temple enclosure was surveyed in 2005, including the area of the Fort and its Annexe, as well as the Temple of Psamtic I and its surroundings. The survey revealed structures that had not been registered previously during excavations, such as a temple, industrial zones and houses that proceeded the construction of the wall of Thirtieth Dynasty.

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