Some Comments on the Late EB I Sequence of Canaan and the Relative Dating of Tomb Uj at Umm el Gaʿab and Graves 313 and 787 from Minshat Abu Omar with Imported Ware: Views from Egypt and Canaan
Excavations at Cemetery U at Umm el Gaʿab1, Abydos, in Upper Egypt and Minshat Abu Omar2 in the Eastern Nile Delta, have unearthed numerous tombs. These can be relatively dated on the basis of traditional Egyptological approaches to the Nagada I—III period (Cemetery U) and to Nagada IIc—d — Nagada I...
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| Language: | English |
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Akademie
1998
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Ägypten und Levante
Year: 1998, Volume: 7, Pages: 71-94 |
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| Summary: | Excavations at Cemetery U at Umm el Gaʿab1, Abydos, in Upper Egypt and Minshat Abu Omar2 in the Eastern Nile Delta, have unearthed numerous tombs. These can be relatively dated on the basis of traditional Egyptological approaches to the Nagada I—III period (Cemetery U) and to Nagada IIc—d — Nagada IIIc2—3 (Minshat Abu Omar). A number of ceramic vessels of Canaanean3 origin or inspiration4 derived from several of these tombs, suggest the possibility of a sequence that is the reverse of that proposed by Egyptologists. The ceramic vessels in question are derived from Tomb Uj at UeG (dated to Nagada IIIa2; Hartung 1993) and two graves (313 and 787) in the cemetery of MAO (both dated to Nagada IIc—d; Kroeper and Wildung 1994; Kroeper and Wildung in press). They include several distinctive objects that are good indices for relative dating within a recently revised Early Bronze Age I5 sequence for Southern Canaan (Braun 1996). The following discussion considers the pertinent arguments for the chronological placement of these tombs, based on the relative dating of selected types of ceramic vessels of both Egyptian and Canaanean origin, and the merits of the two approaches. |
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| ISSN: | 1813-5145 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ägypten und Levante
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