The Classic Kerma tulip beaker (1650 BC) is stored at the Egyptian Museum -Georg Steindorff-Leipz... more The Classic Kerma tulip beaker (1650 BC) is stored at the Egyptian Museum -Georg Steindorff-Leipzig. The red and black ware is made of fine Nile silt and has a variegated grey-purple band on the exterior as a special decor. Besides of the egyptological classification of the Kerma beaker, the mineral phase composition should be investigated to discuss details of the production process, the raw materials and what is so special on the grey-purple band. As far as investigated by XRD, iron oxides like hematite, goethite, and magnetite are detected in the red part of the beaker but not in the black one. In contrast, graphite is detected in the black part only. Raman spectroscopy was used to verify the graphite found by XRD.
An attempt is made to place a few very characteristic Old Kingdom pottery types - Maidum bowls, b... more An attempt is made to place a few very characteristic Old Kingdom pottery types - Maidum bowls, beer jars and bread moulds - into their economic and social context. All of these vessels can be related to changes in food technology, which apparently took place over a rather ...
The 38 season of the German Institute of Archaeology and the Swiss Institute for Architectural an... more The 38 season of the German Institute of Archaeology and the Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt at Elephantine was carried out from October 30, 2008 till December 15, 2008 and from January 8 to April 4, 2009. The work on finds from earlier seasons was continued. This included studies of small finds, seal impressions and lithics dating to the Old Kingdom, pottery of the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms, and the Roman era, Nubian pottery, as well as botanical, animal and human remains. The study of architectural fragments of the temples of Satet of the Middle Kingdom, and the Greco-Roman temples of Khnum was continued, together with the conservation of the wooden columns from the palace bakery of the First Intermediate Period. Excavations were carried out in the area between the temple of Satet and the sanctuary of Heqaib, in the precinct of Khnum, and its later occupation layers and at the south-western part of the town enclosure of the 2 mille...
Members of the Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project have been working since 2005 in the West Ban... more Members of the Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project have been working since 2005 in the West Bank of the Nile, from Qubbet el-Hawa north to Kubbaniya north, Wadi Kubbaniya, Wadi Abu Subeira, and a section of the desert east of Kom Ombo. Both survey and rescue operations are performed, the latter as an answer to the urgency to save as many archaeological sites as possible from the destruction caused by quarrying and building activities in the area. This paper summarizes the main activities of the 2007―2008 field seasons. The geoarchaeological survey consists of both surface and sub-surface investigations, the second obtained with drill coring. Specific studies are also devoted to epigraphic evidence and to rock art. As for the rescue operations, they are mainly concerned with the Predynastic sites at Nag el-Qarmila and the Pan-Grave cemeteries in the West Bank. A small test-trench was excavated in a Ptolemaic rock necropolis at Hagar el-Ghorab.
Pendant le regne de Merenptah, le scribe de la correspondance royale, Tśy se fit construire un to... more Pendant le regne de Merenptah, le scribe de la correspondance royale, Tśy se fit construire un tombeau a El-Khokha. A partir de cet exemple significatif, l'A. dresse un inventaire des tombeaux prives au Nouvel Empire, notamment au niveau de la construction des chapelles funeraires
Description et etude epigraphique d'une stele mise au jour a Ain Shams et provenant d'une... more Description et etude epigraphique d'une stele mise au jour a Ain Shams et provenant d'une tombe privee du Nouvel Empire (XIXe ou XXe dynastie) remployee a la Basse Epoque
Recent fieldwork by the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Matariya/Heliopolis revealed parts of t... more Recent fieldwork by the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Matariya/Heliopolis revealed parts of the necropolis of the Middle Kingdom. Pottery vessels derived from the tomb chambers and can be dated from the 12 th to the early 13 th Dynasty. A stratum of the late Second Intermediate Period was found in the temple precinct of Heliopolis, north of the building project Suq el-Khamis. This date is suggested by the pottery of this stratum. The analysis makes a direct connection of the inhabitants of that part of Heliopolis with the Hyksos culture plausible. Although few in number, the sherds point in many aspects to the material culture of Tell el-Dab c a.
Pepinakht, called Heqaib, was an expedition leader of the late 6th Dynasty. Recent fieldwork in E... more Pepinakht, called Heqaib, was an expedition leader of the late 6th Dynasty. Recent fieldwork in Elephantine has revealed some objects that suggest it was customary to perform processions, which started at the ka-chapels in the administrative center of Elephantine, for the mortuary cult of a number of late Old Kingdom officials, among them Pepinakht/Heqaib. Heqaib’s sanctuary is an excellent example of the cult of a private person who had the characteristics of a saint, within a settlement context in the Middle Kingdom and the early 2nd Intermediate Period. The sanctuary was a place of pilgrimage of supra-regional importance and has revealed a well-dated series of extraordinary Middle Kingdom sculpture, stelae, and shrines.
Publication de six fragments architecturaux decouverts a Matariya. Description, translitteration ... more Publication de six fragments architecturaux decouverts a Matariya. Description, translitteration des inscriptions
The German Institute of Archaeology and the Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological ... more The German Institute of Archaeology and the Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research conducted the 28 th , 29 th and 30 th campaigns at Elephantine from mid-October I998 to the beginning of April 1999, from mid-October 1999 until mid-April 2000, and from early October 2000 until early April 2001, respectively. After the opening of a part of the ancient town site and the excavation museum to the general public still under the direction of W. KAISER on March I st , I999, the campaigns' priority was the further examination of the finds and the complementary documentation of the excavation's results for publication. Field work was concentrated on the central town site at the area of the palaces of the Old and Middle Kingdom to the south of the temple of Khnum, the south-eastern approaches of the Old Kingdom town, the courtyard of the temple of Khnum, and the area near the Roman monumental staircase next to the city harbour in the north-east. Further investig...
Publication de fragments de jambages inscrits d'Heliopolis mentionnant Ankhwas et Usermaatren... more Publication de fragments de jambages inscrits d'Heliopolis mentionnant Ankhwas et Usermaatrenakht, deux fonctionnaires d'epoque ramesside
Carte commentee des fouilles menees depuis les annees 70 dans le temple, l'habitat et le cime... more Carte commentee des fouilles menees depuis les annees 70 dans le temple, l'habitat et le cimetiere d'Heliopolis, sur les sites de Matariya, Arab el-Hisn, Tell Hisn, Mostorod et Ain Shams
The Classic Kerma tulip beaker (1650 BC) is stored at the Egyptian Museum -Georg Steindorff-Leipz... more The Classic Kerma tulip beaker (1650 BC) is stored at the Egyptian Museum -Georg Steindorff-Leipzig. The red and black ware is made of fine Nile silt and has a variegated grey-purple band on the exterior as a special decor. Besides of the egyptological classification of the Kerma beaker, the mineral phase composition should be investigated to discuss details of the production process, the raw materials and what is so special on the grey-purple band. As far as investigated by XRD, iron oxides like hematite, goethite, and magnetite are detected in the red part of the beaker but not in the black one. In contrast, graphite is detected in the black part only. Raman spectroscopy was used to verify the graphite found by XRD.
An attempt is made to place a few very characteristic Old Kingdom pottery types - Maidum bowls, b... more An attempt is made to place a few very characteristic Old Kingdom pottery types - Maidum bowls, beer jars and bread moulds - into their economic and social context. All of these vessels can be related to changes in food technology, which apparently took place over a rather ...
The 38 season of the German Institute of Archaeology and the Swiss Institute for Architectural an... more The 38 season of the German Institute of Archaeology and the Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt at Elephantine was carried out from October 30, 2008 till December 15, 2008 and from January 8 to April 4, 2009. The work on finds from earlier seasons was continued. This included studies of small finds, seal impressions and lithics dating to the Old Kingdom, pottery of the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms, and the Roman era, Nubian pottery, as well as botanical, animal and human remains. The study of architectural fragments of the temples of Satet of the Middle Kingdom, and the Greco-Roman temples of Khnum was continued, together with the conservation of the wooden columns from the palace bakery of the First Intermediate Period. Excavations were carried out in the area between the temple of Satet and the sanctuary of Heqaib, in the precinct of Khnum, and its later occupation layers and at the south-western part of the town enclosure of the 2 mille...
Members of the Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project have been working since 2005 in the West Ban... more Members of the Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project have been working since 2005 in the West Bank of the Nile, from Qubbet el-Hawa north to Kubbaniya north, Wadi Kubbaniya, Wadi Abu Subeira, and a section of the desert east of Kom Ombo. Both survey and rescue operations are performed, the latter as an answer to the urgency to save as many archaeological sites as possible from the destruction caused by quarrying and building activities in the area. This paper summarizes the main activities of the 2007―2008 field seasons. The geoarchaeological survey consists of both surface and sub-surface investigations, the second obtained with drill coring. Specific studies are also devoted to epigraphic evidence and to rock art. As for the rescue operations, they are mainly concerned with the Predynastic sites at Nag el-Qarmila and the Pan-Grave cemeteries in the West Bank. A small test-trench was excavated in a Ptolemaic rock necropolis at Hagar el-Ghorab.
Pendant le regne de Merenptah, le scribe de la correspondance royale, Tśy se fit construire un to... more Pendant le regne de Merenptah, le scribe de la correspondance royale, Tśy se fit construire un tombeau a El-Khokha. A partir de cet exemple significatif, l'A. dresse un inventaire des tombeaux prives au Nouvel Empire, notamment au niveau de la construction des chapelles funeraires
Description et etude epigraphique d'une stele mise au jour a Ain Shams et provenant d'une... more Description et etude epigraphique d'une stele mise au jour a Ain Shams et provenant d'une tombe privee du Nouvel Empire (XIXe ou XXe dynastie) remployee a la Basse Epoque
Recent fieldwork by the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Matariya/Heliopolis revealed parts of t... more Recent fieldwork by the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Matariya/Heliopolis revealed parts of the necropolis of the Middle Kingdom. Pottery vessels derived from the tomb chambers and can be dated from the 12 th to the early 13 th Dynasty. A stratum of the late Second Intermediate Period was found in the temple precinct of Heliopolis, north of the building project Suq el-Khamis. This date is suggested by the pottery of this stratum. The analysis makes a direct connection of the inhabitants of that part of Heliopolis with the Hyksos culture plausible. Although few in number, the sherds point in many aspects to the material culture of Tell el-Dab c a.
Pepinakht, called Heqaib, was an expedition leader of the late 6th Dynasty. Recent fieldwork in E... more Pepinakht, called Heqaib, was an expedition leader of the late 6th Dynasty. Recent fieldwork in Elephantine has revealed some objects that suggest it was customary to perform processions, which started at the ka-chapels in the administrative center of Elephantine, for the mortuary cult of a number of late Old Kingdom officials, among them Pepinakht/Heqaib. Heqaib’s sanctuary is an excellent example of the cult of a private person who had the characteristics of a saint, within a settlement context in the Middle Kingdom and the early 2nd Intermediate Period. The sanctuary was a place of pilgrimage of supra-regional importance and has revealed a well-dated series of extraordinary Middle Kingdom sculpture, stelae, and shrines.
Publication de six fragments architecturaux decouverts a Matariya. Description, translitteration ... more Publication de six fragments architecturaux decouverts a Matariya. Description, translitteration des inscriptions
The German Institute of Archaeology and the Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological ... more The German Institute of Archaeology and the Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research conducted the 28 th , 29 th and 30 th campaigns at Elephantine from mid-October I998 to the beginning of April 1999, from mid-October 1999 until mid-April 2000, and from early October 2000 until early April 2001, respectively. After the opening of a part of the ancient town site and the excavation museum to the general public still under the direction of W. KAISER on March I st , I999, the campaigns' priority was the further examination of the finds and the complementary documentation of the excavation's results for publication. Field work was concentrated on the central town site at the area of the palaces of the Old and Middle Kingdom to the south of the temple of Khnum, the south-eastern approaches of the Old Kingdom town, the courtyard of the temple of Khnum, and the area near the Roman monumental staircase next to the city harbour in the north-east. Further investig...
Publication de fragments de jambages inscrits d'Heliopolis mentionnant Ankhwas et Usermaatren... more Publication de fragments de jambages inscrits d'Heliopolis mentionnant Ankhwas et Usermaatrenakht, deux fonctionnaires d'epoque ramesside
Carte commentee des fouilles menees depuis les annees 70 dans le temple, l'habitat et le cime... more Carte commentee des fouilles menees depuis les annees 70 dans le temple, l'habitat et le cimetiere d'Heliopolis, sur les sites de Matariya, Arab el-Hisn, Tell Hisn, Mostorod et Ain Shams
Uploads
Papers by Dietrich Raue