Egypt
Bloomsbury Academy
Thanks to Lucia Gahlin for highlighting the following news from Gurob (with photo):
- Follow The Gurob Excavation
Gurob Harem Palace Blog The main area of settlement remains at the site can be clearly identified as the remains of an independent establishment relating to royal women (a 'harem-palace'), founded in the reign of Thutmose III (1479-1425...
- Gurob Harem Palace Website
Gurob Harem Palace Project Thanks to the Friends of the Petrie newsletter I found that there's another excavation website that I hadn't know about before. The Gurob Harem Palace Project looking at both urban and funerary remains at Medinet el...
- Daily Photo - String Of Beads
Mixed string of beads: blue glass scaraboid, three blue-green glass barrels, four blue-green faience barrels, one larger faience barrel, two carnelian barrels, two large carnelian barrels, 21 small carnelian spheroids, one blus glass spheroid, five blue-green...
- Daily Photo - Mycenean Vase At Gurob
UC16631. Mycenean IIIB1 stirrup vase of pottery, cream with broad black and thin brown circular line decoration - piece of spout missing. Black patch from burning. Late Dynasty 18 (1295BCE-1550BCE). Found at Gurob. Height 8.6 cms max diameter 11.1 cms....
- Daily Photo - Faience At The Petrie
The last of the photographs on this page, one of the clay moulds used to form this type of ornament, is one of the reasons that I like the Petrie so much. As well as all the spectaucular, pretty and unusual items that the Egyptian cultures produced, the...
Egypt
Quick update from Gurob
Bloomsbury Academy
Thanks to Lucia Gahlin for highlighting the following news from Gurob (with photo):
Ian Shaw, Director of the Gurob Harem Palace Project (GHPP) in Egypt.
Following another successful season at Medinet el-Gurob in April Ian updates us:
We continued to work on the first comprehensive map of this large New Kingdom palace, town and multi-period necropolis, using the latest GIS software. We re-excavated areas of the town site, revealing traces of at least one kiln possibly used for working glass during the New Kingdom. Among the more unusual surface finds this season were a faience scaraboid of a duck with its head reversed; a fragment of a late 18th-Dynasty blue glass vessel with feathered design in yellow, black and white; a small tile decorated with a fish in cream and brown glaze (pictured here) similar to those found at Amarna; two ‘lady on a bed’ figurines; and two fragments of shabtis (one in faience and one of Nile silt clay).
If you would like to find out more about this fascinating project or make a donation to it, or perhaps arrange to make an exclusive visit to the site during the 2010 season, contact Ian Shaw ([email protected]) or Jan Picton ([email protected]).
- Follow The Gurob Excavation
Gurob Harem Palace Blog The main area of settlement remains at the site can be clearly identified as the remains of an independent establishment relating to royal women (a 'harem-palace'), founded in the reign of Thutmose III (1479-1425...
- Gurob Harem Palace Website
Gurob Harem Palace Project Thanks to the Friends of the Petrie newsletter I found that there's another excavation website that I hadn't know about before. The Gurob Harem Palace Project looking at both urban and funerary remains at Medinet el...
- Daily Photo - String Of Beads
Mixed string of beads: blue glass scaraboid, three blue-green glass barrels, four blue-green faience barrels, one larger faience barrel, two carnelian barrels, two large carnelian barrels, 21 small carnelian spheroids, one blus glass spheroid, five blue-green...
- Daily Photo - Mycenean Vase At Gurob
UC16631. Mycenean IIIB1 stirrup vase of pottery, cream with broad black and thin brown circular line decoration - piece of spout missing. Black patch from burning. Late Dynasty 18 (1295BCE-1550BCE). Found at Gurob. Height 8.6 cms max diameter 11.1 cms....
- Daily Photo - Faience At The Petrie
The last of the photographs on this page, one of the clay moulds used to form this type of ornament, is one of the reasons that I like the Petrie so much. As well as all the spectaucular, pretty and unusual items that the Egyptian cultures produced, the...