The Excavations At Tell el-Retaba in 1977, 1978 and 1981 – Part 2 (In Memoriam of Hans Goedicke)

Year, pages: 2017, 163 - 184

In Part 2 the article brings the finds from the season 1978. The fragment of a stela found in level IV of the Central Test Pit resembles Ramesside ‘Horbeit stelae’; it was already re-used, similar to some other Ramesside stone objects at Tell el-Retaba, in early Third Intermediate Period. An excursus focuses on other inscribed and decorated stone fragments from the tell. In 1981, parts of Petrie’s Wall 2 and Wall 3 were unearthed, measured and described, among other structures in the 125 meters long eastern profile of the pipeline trench. The trench was dug out by the Egyptian authorities in the centre of the tell, cutting it into two parts in a N-S direction. Petrie’s Walls as well as some other loci documented in the profile are re-evaluated; the same concerns the burials discovered in the trench northwards of the tell. Date of yet another burials uncovered in the central southern part of the tell is re-considered with the conclusion that, as other child (jar) burials discovered at Tell el-Retaba, they are part of cemeteries at defence walls (in or outside the fortress), used during the New Kingdom from the late 18th/early 19th Dynasty onwards.

Hudáková, Ľ., Hudec, J. 2017. The Excavations At Tell el-Retaba in 1977, 1978 and 1981 – Part 2 (In Memoriam of Hans Goedicke). In Asian and African Studies, vol. 26, no.2, pp. 163-184. 1335-1257.

Hudáková, Ľ., Hudec, J. (2017). The Excavations At Tell el-Retaba in 1977, 1978 and 1981 – Part 2 (In Memoriam of Hans Goedicke). Asian and African Studies, 26(2), 163-184. 1335-1257.