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one of the largest surviving mounds of the west delta, with a long history
of occupation.
Commentary in Bernand,
Delta Grecs, 1, pt. 4, with quotes of Petrie, Griffiths and Edgar, and
accounts of SCA excavations in 1950s, after Leclant. These located many
tombs from MK to Ptolemaic in date. American work in Roman and Ptolemaic
upper levels with 3IP at depth of 3.50m in one test. SCA dig of Late cemetery
by M. Basta. Chris Kirby reported in 1996 that much of the temple enclosure
seems to have survived according to local SCA inspectors. Neal Spencer
began survey and excavation in 2002 for the British Museum. A modern map
has been made and a combination of magnetometry and excavation has already
located the sand-bed of the Ramesside temple, within a buttressed enclosing
wall. Reports on future seasons will be published by Neal Spencer.
A detailed set of web-pages about the work directed by Neal Spencer for the British Museum at Kom Firin can be found at this address: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/aes/excavations/firin1.html
A map of the site
will be found through this link Firin-map
References: PM IV, 50-1; Petrie,
Naukratis
I, 94-5; Edgar, ASAE 11 (1911), 277; Coulson, COD, I, 70-73
and figs. 33-36; JARCE 19 (1982), 79ff. On sketch map by Coulson,
in Brink, Archaeology of the Nile Delta, 260. Basta, M., in CdE
54, no.108 (July 1979), 183-96.
Bernand, Delta Grecs, 1, pt.4, 1046-9; Leclant, Or 19 (1950), 494; Or 21 (1952), 247 n.19b, pl.47-50, fig. 26-31; Or 22 (1953), 100 n.18, pl.24-6; Or. 69 (2000), 216. Smoláriková, Kveta, "Recent identifications of Greek imports from Kom Firin", in JEA 92 (2006), 263-267. Spencer, Neal, Kom Firin I: The Ramesside Temple and the Site Survey. |
Photographs
© Neal Spencer 2003
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