A Preliminary Report on the Pottery from Tell el Ghaba, a Saite Settlement in North Sinai.

FUSCALDO,P ; BASILICO, S; CREMONTE, M. B.

Cairo

Congreso; Proccedings of the 8th International Congress of Egyptologist.; 2003

TELL EL GHABA IS ONE OF THE SITES ON THE ANCIENT "WAYS OF HORUS", THE LAND BRIDGE BETWEEN THE EASTERN NILE DELTA AND THE LEVANT.IT IS LOCATED BETWEEN TELL HEBUA TO THE WEST AND TELL EL KEDUA TO THE EAST, AT THE EDGE OF THE EASTERN PART OF A LAGOON, NEAR THE FORMER PELUSIAC BRANCH OF THE NILE. THE SETTLEMENT IS DATED TO THE EARLY 26TH DYNASTY. THE IMPORTED POTTERY POINST OUT CONNECTIONS WITH THE lEVANT AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND THE OCCUPATION IN THE EXCAVATED AREA (I AND II) BELONG TO A SINGLE PERIOD