KERMA HORIZON POTTERY FROM THE CEMETERIES IN EL-GAMAMIYA (with Appendix)
KERMA HORIZON POTTERY FROM THE CEMETERIES IN EL-GAMAMIYA (with Appendix)

Summary/Abstract: The excavations at site GM55 recorded 12 tumuli from whence came several dozen whole pots and numerous broken pieces left from the pillaging of the tombs already in antiquity. Testing of the tumulus cemetery at site GM19, where a number of graves was noted on the surface, yielded a surface collection of pottery as well as three vessels from the furnishings of a child’s tomb (T.1), these including a bottle imported from Egypt. The other excavated tomb yielded no ceramics. The pottery from the graves in the two cemeteries can be dated to the Kerma Moyen (2100–1750 BC) and Kerma Classique (1750–1580 BC) periods, known also as Old Kush II and Old Kush III, as well as the times of the Pan- Grave Culture (2000–1500 BC). The assemblage of Kerma Culture pottery from GM55 is of particular importance owing to the extensive repertoire of handmade forms with decoration (especially from tomb T.3) that is encountered also in Kerma and on the island of Saď. The Kerma- Culture cemetery at El-Gamamiya has yielded also a few pieces of ceramics imported from Egypt: one complete vessel and fragments of at least two others.

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