EES Delta Survey - Discussion

For the third season running, during March and April 2011, Dr Patricia Spencer, the Society’s Director, will be posting regular updates from the Delta, Egypt.

Further information on the Egypt Exploration Society’s Delta Survey can be found at http://tinyurl.com/6vjngj.

Discussion

Interesting discussion following Manuela’s talk, about the nature, dating and longevity of casemate foundations and tower houses and parallels for the Late Period pottery that has been found at Tell el-Daba.

Dr Maksoud has opened up the discussion and pointed out how important geophysical surveys are, especially for sites in the Delta and Sinai. Within a few days of Tomasz Herbich starting scanning at Tell Hebua, they were able to identify previously-unknown structures, including temples. Dr Herbich pointed out that the results need interpreting and ground-truthing by excavation as what might appear to be, for example, tombs, may turn out to be natural cavities. Dr Pusch agreed, giving examples from Qantir.

Tomasz Herbich, Edgar Pusch, Jeffrey Spencer and Mohammed Abd el-Maksoud

Dr Pusch and Dr Maksoud

Dr Maksoud would like to have a specialist geophysical department in the SCA, but training would be necessary as operating the magnetometers requires skill and experience.

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