Egypt
Past Horizons
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Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi)
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- More Re Opening Of Medinet Maadi
Gadling Last week a new ancient site opened to the public in Egypt--a temple of the crocodile god Sobek. Medinet Madi is located in Egypt's Faiyum region, a fertile area around a lake at the end of a branch of the Nile called Bahr Yusuf ("The River...
- Celebrating The Site Of Madinet Madi
drhawass.com Press release. Medinet Madi in the Faiyum depression (to the southwest of Cairo) used to be very isolated. The idea of an eco-lodge being built on its doorstep sounds very odd. The Minister of State for Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, and the...
- Discoveries Along Avenue Of Sphinxes
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- Press Release: Faiyum Discoveries
drhawass.com Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced today that an Egyptian mission has discovered that an area to the north of Lake Qarun in the Faiyum region is rich in archaeological and paleontological remains dating back as far as 40 million...
- Weekly Websites - Faiyum Part 2
New Kingdom The New Kingdom is something of a black hole in the Faiyum. During the Middle Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period the Faiyum's vast lake was at around 20m above sea level but research has suggested that for a 200 period between 3100...
Egypt
Cache of Ostraca found in Faiyum
Past Horizons
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A cache of demotic ostraca has been discovered at the Greco-Roman site of Soknopaiou Nesos/Dime es-Seba, located two kilometres north of Qarun Lake in the Wadi Fayoum, Egypt.
The cache was uncovered during an excavation carried out by an Italian archaeological expedition from Università del Salento.
The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said that 150 ostraca had been found, each piece of pottery is inscribed with the name of a priest who had served in the temple dedicated to Soknopaios, god of fertility and power, who appeared as a man with a crocodile’s head.
Dr. Mario Capasso, director of the Italian mission, believes that the newly discovered ostraca were originally kept in a storeroom in a courtyard in front of Soknopaios’ temple but they were thrown out of the temple during clandestine excavations at the end of the 19th century.
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi)
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Broken pieces of clay pottery have revealed the names of dozens of Egyptian priests who served at the temple of a crocodile god, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced.
Engraved with text dating back to the Roman period, the small potsherds have been found by Italian archaeologists on the west side of the temple dedicated to the crocodile god Soknopaios in Soknopaiou Nesos, an Egyptian village in the Fayoum oasis.
Called ostraca from the Greek word ostrakon (meaning "shell") the inscribed pot fragments “have been very helpful in illuminating the religious practices and the prosopography of Greco-Roman Egypt," the SCA said in a statement.
- More Re Opening Of Medinet Maadi
Gadling Last week a new ancient site opened to the public in Egypt--a temple of the crocodile god Sobek. Medinet Madi is located in Egypt's Faiyum region, a fertile area around a lake at the end of a branch of the Nile called Bahr Yusuf ("The River...
- Celebrating The Site Of Madinet Madi
drhawass.com Press release. Medinet Madi in the Faiyum depression (to the southwest of Cairo) used to be very isolated. The idea of an eco-lodge being built on its doorstep sounds very odd. The Minister of State for Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, and the...
- Discoveries Along Avenue Of Sphinxes
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) With photo of Nilometer Egyptian archaeologists carrying routine excavations at the so-called “Avenue of Sphinxes,” have unearthed the remains of a 5th century Egyptian Christian church and a "nilometer," a structure...
- Press Release: Faiyum Discoveries
drhawass.com Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced today that an Egyptian mission has discovered that an area to the north of Lake Qarun in the Faiyum region is rich in archaeological and paleontological remains dating back as far as 40 million...
- Weekly Websites - Faiyum Part 2
New Kingdom The New Kingdom is something of a black hole in the Faiyum. During the Middle Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period the Faiyum's vast lake was at around 20m above sea level but research has suggested that for a 200 period between 3100...