Ayn Soukhna IV. The material of the gallery-shops. FIFAO 82.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 23004 |
| Format | 24.5 x 33 |
| Détails | 464 p., numerous illustrations and plates, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782724707540 |
This volume brings together several studies concerning the most characteristic material discovered in the sector of the gallery-stores of the site of Ayn Soukhna (published in 2016 in the previous work of this series). We successively present all the inscriptions that were found during the excavation of this area, providing additions to those that have, due to their historical importance, already been reported, and by studying all the small inscribed objects from different periods unearthed. A specific study was also devoted to the exceptional deposit of flint knives from the Old Kingdom collected in the entrance of gallery G1. The analysis of nearly a hundred utilitarian stone objects (grindstones, polishers, sharpeners, anvils) is then proposed here, with the determination of the precise use of all this material. A chapter is also devoted to the dry pulleys and tenons discovered near the galleries, which could be rigging elements of the boats used on the site. Finally, two studies are devoted to one of the faunal remains – which provide an insight into food consumption at the time of the pharaonic expeditions – the other to hundreds of fragments of crucibles discovered in this area, which correspond to metallurgical activity dating from the beginning of the Middle Kingdom.
This volume brings together several studies concerning the most characteristic material discovered in the sector of the gallery-stores of the site of Ayn Soukhna (published in 2016 in the previous work of this series). We successively present all the inscriptions that were found during the excavation of this area, providing additions to those that have, due to their historical importance, already been reported, and by studying all the small inscribed objects from different periods unearthed. A specific study was also devoted to the exceptional deposit of flint knives from the Old Kingdom collected in the entrance of gallery G1. The analysis of nearly a hundred utilitarian stone objects (grindstones, polishers, sharpeners, anvils) is then proposed here, with the determination of the precise use of all this material. A chapter is also devoted to the dry pulleys and tenons discovered near the galleries, which could be rigging elements of the boats used on the site. Finally, two studies are devoted to one of the faunal remains – which provide an insight into food consumption at the time of the pharaonic expeditions – the other to hundreds of fragments of crucibles discovered in this area, which correspond to metallurgical activity dating from the beginning of the Middle Kingdom.