GINDIYA, T. EL-  [182]   (also called GINIDBA)

 

The whole mound seems to be very low-lying, much of it at the same level as the surrounding fields. On the west is a modern cemetery and school. The site is dominated by the tomb of Sheikh Ginidba, from where the village gets its name. The tell is a low mound rising to only 1.5m in its centre and is covered with thick halfa grass. SCA excavations in 2007/8 by Mrs Maha Abd el-Aziz revealed mud-brick buildings, pottery and lithics from Dynasty I to Dynasty IV. Tracks from the fields cross the mound. Satellite imagery (2006) shows the original extent of this long, curved mound, cut in two by a path through the cultivation. The coordinates given by the EAIS in Amin, N. (ed), Ash-Sharqiyyah: Cahiers of Historical Sites, (e-book, Cairo 2006) at 30.885N 31.667E are in the fields some 200m SW of the mound.

References: Chlodnicki and Fattovich in CRIPEL 14 (1992), 45-53; Chlodnicki, Bull. GIECE 13 (1992), 24. See also Brink, in Krzyzaniak et al., Studies in African Archaeology, 4, 279ff, esp. Fig. 9 on p.300. Also Brink, “The Amsterdam University Survey to the north-eastern Nile Delta (1984-1986)”, in Brink,  Archaeology of the Nile Delta, 65-114.