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Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean

New evidence of metallurgical production during the Ptolemaic period in the ancient harbor of Berenike (Eastern Desert) in Egypt

2020, 29, Numer 1


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31.12.2020

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Recent excavations in the southwestern part of the embayment that served as the ancient harbour of Berenike uncovered, among others, a metallurgical furnace from late Hellenistic times. An analysis of this discovery, made in trench BE14/15-102, offers insight into metallurgical production taking place in the harbour zone in the last years of the Ptolemaic kingdom. The early Roman phase, as attested in this trench, indicates a restructuring of this part of the harbour and its new, changed function as an open-circulation area, probably with some wealthy residences nearby.

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