The Delta Survey workshop : proceedings from conferences held in Alexandria (2017) and Mansoura (2019)

The Delta Survey Workshop comprises the proceedings of two conferences organised by the Delta Survey Project and held in Alexandria in 2017 and Mansoura in 2019. The 23 papers contain the results of the latest fieldwork in the Nile Delta and Sinai, from survey work that records and documents unknown and new sites such as Kom Dabaa and Mutubis or sites in Kafr Dawar and Wadi Tumilat, to excavation reports from established projects at major sites such as Qantir, Bubastis, Tell Heboua, Tell el-Maskhuta, Akademia, Taposiris Magna and Tell Fara’in (Buto). New work is also reported from Tell Tebilla, urban funerary sites in Alexandria, and Arab el Hisn (Heliopolis). There are also thematically focussed papers covering ovens recorded in archaeological and ethnological fieldwork, tower houses, amphorae and pottery and human remains. In addition, there are mapping and remote sensing reports from Mariut and the Buto area, rock inscriptions in Sinai and a catalogue project of material in the St Mark antiquities collection in Alexandria. Ayman Wahby is Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, University of Mansoura, Egypt. He is the Field Director of the Tell Tebilla mission of the University of Mansoura. Penelope Wilson is Associate Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at Durham University, UK and the Director of the Delta Survey Project, a special project of the British Academy administered through the Egypt Exploration Society. Cover 1 Title page 3 Copyright info 4 Sponsors and logos 5 Contents 7 INTRODUCTION 9 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9 FOREWORD 11 EGYPTIAN INFLUENCE IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD: A CASE STUDY FROM THE EL-ABD SITE, ALEXANDRIA AHMED M. EL-SEBAEI, MENNATALLAH MAGDI AND DOAA ALI ZAIN 13 THE RESULTS OF RESCUE EXCAVATIONS IN EL-HADDAD SITE (2016-2017) AYA M. SALEM, HANAA MAGDY, MAGDA M. IBRAHIM, AHMED ABO ZAID AND MAHMOUD ABD EL-KADER 25 AMPHORAE AND TRADE IN TAPOSIRIS MAGNA SHERIF MOHAMED ABD EL-MONEIM 35 THE EARLY IMPERIAL ERA WINE AMPHORA WORKSHOP OF AKADEMIA, MAREOTID AREA VALÉRIE PICHOT 45 INVESTIGATING THE WESTERN DELTA: A REGIONAL SURVEY IN KAFR EL-DAWAR MARKAZ, BEHEIRA PROVINCE, SEASON 2018. ELENA TIRIBILLI 59 RECOVERING THE LANDSCAPE OF THE WATERFRONT AT LAKE IDKU: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY AT KOM EL-DIBAa SO HASEGAWA and SHIN-ICHI NISHIMOTO 67 RECENT WORK IN TELL EL-FARA‘IN: PTOLEMAIC AND ROMAN BUTO (2016-2019) PASCALE BALLET, LOÏC MAZOU, ROMAIN SEGUIER 77 THE RAILWAY LINE FROM BUEILI TO SIDI GHAZI, KAFR EL-SHEIKH IMPACT ON TELL MUTUBIS AND TELL SHEIKH IBRAHIM MAHMOUD ALI ARAB 93 RECONSTRUCTING THE TANGLED ANCIENT WATERSCAPE OF THENORTHWESTERN DELTA ROBERT SCHIESTL 97 THE THRONE CHAPEL OF RAMESSES II IN ARAB EL-HISN MAMDOUH EL-DAMATY 111 PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE EXCAVATION IN THE PRECINCT OF THE TEMPLE OF BASTET IN BUBASTIS/TELL BASTA (AREA A), SEASONS 2009-2017 EVA LANGE-ATHINODOROU 127 PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE POTTERY FROM AREA A IN TELL BASTA RABEA REIMANN 153 THE CASEMATE FOUNDATION PLATFORM OF TELL HEBOUA I, NORTH SINAI EL-SAYED ABD EL-ALIM 177 MANSOURA UNIVERSITY EXCAVATIONS AT TELL TEBILLA: A PRELIMINARY REPORT AYMAN WAHBY, HAMDI ABDEL AZIM, MOHAMED ABDEL MAWLA 187 THE HUMAN REMAINS FROM TELL TEBILLA: EXCAVATION SEASON 2018 SARA AL-DESOKY AL-EMARY 197 QANTIR-PI-RAMESSE — PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE 2016 AND 2017 SEASONS (SITE Q VIII) HENNING FRANZMEIER 207 TELL EL-MASKHUTA, A KEY SITE ALONG THE WADI TUMILAT: REASSESSMENT AND NEW DATA ANNALINDA IACOVIELLO 221 DISCOVERING SODWOD EL-BANAT 2: A NEW NABATAEAN SITE IN SOUTH SINAI MUSTAFA NOUR ELDIN, MAHMOUD SALEM... 231 CITIES OF THE DELTA ON THE MOSAIC OF THE CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, UMM EL-RASAS, JORDAN MANUELA LEHMANN AND MOHAMED KENAWI 237 TANNUR-OVENS AND MAEEFA IN EGYPT: BETWEEN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT WARDA ELNAGAR AND MONA ABBADY 255 Arabic Title Page 267 Private Collections in Alexandria: Saint Mark College Museum Hany Ahmed Abu El-Azem (ARABIC) 268 Archaeological Map of the Lake Mariut region : principles, methods and potential of GIS Ismael Awad. (ARABIC) 290 Archaeological Sites in Wadi Tumilat Mustafa Nour el–Din (ARABIC) 306 This volume comprises the proceedings of two conferences organised by the Delta Survey Project held in Alexandria in 2017 and Mansoura in 2019. The papers contain the results of the latest fieldwork from the Nile Delta and Sinai.