KUFR NIGM  [193]

 
 
 

University of Zagazig cleared 60 tombs of dynasty 1 in 1983-4. Previous SCA dig in 1962. Site divided into three parts by roads and canals - 1st part lies immediately SE of village of Ezbet et-Tell; is 7 feddan and 0.5 - 1.5m high; 2nd part is just to S and separated from 1st by a dirt road - it is 4 feddan and rises 2.5-4m. This part appears on SoE 1:25,000 series as Tell el-Fagi (Registered in the Sharqiya list of the SCA as no. 13170106). Third part of only 1/3 feddan is directly E of 2nd. Tell covered by wild vegetation in 1984. Satellite imagery (2006) shows the mound with the outlines of old excavation trenches still visible. Part of the east side is scored with tracks and looks as if it is being levelled. The mound is clear of any overbuilding. Excavation history described by I M Bakr in reference opposite: Eskander Saad in April-June 1960 found archaic objects; SCA pre-agriculture work in 1978, then Zagazig University from 1984 - 60: tombs of archaic period. Listed in Amsterdam University 1984 survey as having been partly levelled. Early Dynastic and OK sherds noted.

I M Bakr, “The New Excavations at Ezbet et-tell, Kufr Nigm; The First Season 1984”, in Brink, Archaeology of the Nile Delta, 49-62; id. in MDAIK 43 (1986), 20, 23. I.M. Bakr, “Ezbet et-Tell: Kufur Nigm, the Third and Fouth Seasons (1988 and 1990)”, in Hawass and Pinch-Brock 2003, 30-43.