| Once part
of Tell Moqdam. Friedman-Buck survey 1992: Third Intermediate Period and
Roman remains. The western two-thirds of the site was cultivated until
cleared for excavation in about 1989 by SCA (Abdel Fattah), who dug 100
2 x 2 test pits revealing stratified mud brick architecture and pottery,
in an area now overbuilt by sports facility. Water-table lies approximately
one metre below surface. The remaining one-third of the site was uncultivated
and covered by halfa grass in 1992. Finds: Human bone, slag, granite and
limestone pieces, horse and rider figurine, imported amphorae, one pottery
base dated to Third Intermediate Period.
Listed in Koms à Sebakh:12. |
Photograph
© Renée Friedman
Low-lying mound of Tell Gadiya with test-trenches cut by SCA, about 1992 |
