Tell el-Retaba, season 2010; Appendix: Tell el-Retaba 2010. Preliminary report on archaeobotanical investigations Cover Image

Tell el-Retaba, season 2010; Appendix: Tell el-Retaba 2010. Preliminary report on archaeobotanical investigations
Tell el-Retaba, season 2010; Appendix: Tell el-Retaba 2010. Preliminary report on archaeobotanical investigations

Author(s): Clair Malleson, Jozef Hudec, Łukasz Jarmużek, Sławomir Rzepka
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Tell el-Retaba; New Kingdom; Third Intermediate Period; migdol; fortress; stable

Summary/Abstract: The fourth season of archaeological fieldwork by a Polish–Slovak team at Tell el-Retaba in Wadi Tumilat in the Nile Delta led to the excavation of barracks or workshops belonging to a fortress of Ramesses II . The strategically located New Kingdom fortresses guarded the passage from Egypt to Sinai and Syria-Palestine. Investigations also focused on a monumental migdol gate leading to a fortress built in the reign of Ramesses III . Among the most interesting discoveries is a Third Intermediate Period stable with tethering stones made of blocks quarried from a New Kingdom temple.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: XXII
  • Page Range: 79-95
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English