Tell el-Farkha. Excavations, 2012–2013

Abstract

Excavations at Tell el-Farkha in 2012 and 2013 were conducted on all three komsmaking up the site. The upper layers excavated on the Western Kom during the first campaignwere 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. Alsopart of a brewery dated to Naqada IIIA1 was explored. A rectangular building with thick wallsdiscovered on the Central Kom was most probably the remains of a big Naqadian store. Resultsof geophysical research from 2000 were verified; excavations uncovered a round edifice, 7 m indiameter, surrounded by a wall almost 2 m thick. In a test trench on the Eastern Kom, a rectangularroom (2.50 m by 6 m) with two regular entrances from north and south was unearthed. In the maintrench, work concentrated on the area north and south of the monumental mastaba uncovereda few seasons earlier.

Keywords

• Nile Delta
• Tell el-Farkha
• Protodynastic
• Early Dynastic
• Naqada