Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean

Tell el-Farkha. Excavations, 2012–2013

2015, 24, No. 1

Marek Chłodnicki

0000-0002-1728-464X

Krzysztof M. Ciałowicz

0000-0001-9448-703X

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0009.9717

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28.02.2016

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Humanities

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archeology

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English

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Abstract

Excavations at Tell el-Farkha in 2012 and 2013 were conducted on all three koms making up the site. The upper layers excavated on the Western Kom during the first campaign were connected with the beginning of phase 4 at Tell el-Farkha and the lower layers with phase 3. A few poorly preserved rooms were unearthed, mainly in the southern part of the trench. Also part of a brewery dated to Naqada IIIA1 was explored. A rectangular building with thick walls discovered on the Central Kom was most probably the remains of a big Naqadian store. Results of geophysical research from 2000 were verified; excavations uncovered a round edifice, 7 m in diameter, surrounded by a wall almost 2 m thick. In a test trench on the Eastern Kom, a rectangular room (2.50 m by 6 m) with two regular entrances from north and south was unearthed. In the main trench, work concentrated on the area north and south of the monumental mastaba uncovered a few seasons earlier.

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