FARKHA, T EL-  [334]

 
 
 
 
 
 

The finds from this site have proved to be quite exceptional for the study of the Predynastic Period and Old Kingdom in Lower Egypt. Details of the fine discoveries of 2006-7 includng gilded figures and ivories, may be found in the bibliography cited here and the link to the Polish expedition's website at the foot of the opposite column. In 2009-11 work was carried out on all three mounds at Tell el-Farkha. Below the Early Dynastic chapel on the west komnumerous rooms were unearthed, part of the administrative complex found in 2006-8. Remains of buildings of the Lower Egyptian Predynastic culture were discovered on the central kom, built from organic materials. To the west, early mud brick structures of the Lower Egyptian Predynastic and transition to Naqada culture were found. On the eastern kom the cemeteries from the beginning of the dynastic period to the beginning of the Old Kingdom were excavated. The wealth of the burials declined over this period.

References: Chlodnicki, in Bull. GIECE 13, 23; Chlodnicki, Fattovich and Salvatori, in Brink, NDIT, 171-90; id., in Rivista di Archeologia, Anno XV (1991); id., "The Italian Archaeological Mission of the C.S.R.L.-Venice to the Eastern Nile Delta: A Preliminary Report of the 1987-1988 Field Season", CRIPEL14, (1992), 45-62. Fattovich, Report of 1987 Field Season, (unpub. MS), 13-14, 93; Salvatori and Usai, Revista di Archaeologia XV (1991), 34-45. Leclant and Clerc, Or. 66 (1997), 235; Or. 68 (1999), 328-9; Or. 69 (2000), 222. Chlodnicki, M. 2003. “Stratigraphy and Chronology of the Central Tell in Tel Farkha”, in Hawass and Pinch-Brock 2003, 117-22. Cialowicz, K.M. 2003. “Tell el-Farkha: Excavation at the Western Kom (1998-1999)”, in Hawass and Pinch-Brock 2003, 130-7. Jucha, M. 2003. “Tell el-Farkha 1998-1999: Pottery from Predynastic and Early Dynastic strata”, in Hawass and Pinch-Brock 2003, 262-71. Chlodnicki, M. and Cialowicz, K. M. 2006. "Preliminary Report of the Archaeological Activity of the Polish Archaeological Mission 2004: Tell el Farkha (Ghazala), in ASAE 80 (2006), 97-132. Chlodnicki, M. and Cialowicz, K. M., "Tell el-Farkha 2006. Preliminary Report". PAM XVIII. Cialowicz, K. M., Slabowski, R. and Kolockiejczyk, P., 2007. Ivory and Gold, Beginnings of Egyptian Art. Excavations of the Insitute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University and Poznan Archaeological Museum (Exhibition publication). Cracow. Cialowicz, K. M., "Excavations of the western kom at Tell el-Farkha in 2006". Recherches Archéologiques de 2003-6. For full details of the Polish excavations at Tell el-Farkha, with reports and photographs, see the website at http://www.farkha.org/english/english.html