Tales of a Delta Site: The 1995 Field Season at Tell el-Muqdam

Redmount, Carol A.; Friedman, Renée

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“…106 This situation is also similar to the Tel el-Moqdam and Karnak terracottas, where the figurines were built into the lower courses of walls, not directly in the foundation levels. 107 Of almost greater significance for our purposes, however, is another deposit at Tanis discovered just below that one. Beneath the Nefertem and child god statuette (after the removal of the wall), the excavators found a deep pit filled with layers of sand, ash, and ashy earth -part of the foundation fill.…”

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Defining the Foundation Deposit in the Late and Ptolemaic Periods

Heinz¹,

Wilt²

2019

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

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In this article, we take a closer look at the process and contents of caching in the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara. Most of the contents of the approximately 68 caches are unpublished, but we are using the information preserved in the excavation archive held at the Egypt Exploration Society in London. This study has three parts. First, we take a closer look at the conceptual categorization of caches, followed by a review of a particular deposition practice, that of foundation deposits. Then we consider in detail four caches of bronzes found during British excavations at the North Saqqara Sacred Animal Necropolis. Finally, we argue that these caches point towards a conceptual blending of foundation deposits with other categorizations of caches in the Late and Ptolemaic periods, opening up the possibility that new types of foundation deposits, otherwise unrecognized, may be added to the known corpus.

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Defining the Foundation Deposit in the Late and Ptolemaic Periods

Heinz¹,

Wilt²

2019

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

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“… 18. Carol A. Redmount and Renée F. Friedman, “Tales of a Delta Site: The 1995 Field Season at Tell El-Muqdam,” JARCE 34 (1997): 57–83. …”

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Artapanus as a Source for the Building of the Temple of Onias in Egypt

Piotrkowski

2020

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha

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In scholarly literature, one frequently encounters the claim that Artapanus supplies the only reference to the building of the Temple of Onias in the entire extant corpus of Jewish-Hellenistic literature. While this assumption has found acceptance, this article wishes to investigate that claim. While Artapanus indeed incorporated a reference to the building of a temple by Jews in Heliopolis—the same place, where Josephus located the Temple of Onias—it seems, however, that what Artapanus had in mind was not the Jewish Temple of Onias, but the famed Egyptian Temple of Atum-Ra. This insight is supported by passages of ancient Hellenistic writers such as Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, who, as Artapanus, contain similar references, to which the latter appears to allude. Artapanus’ note may thus be explained by the notion that the piece of information about Jews being responsible for the building of a famous Egyptian temple fulfills an apologetic purpose and served to aggrandize the Jewish presence in the Egyptian Diaspora.

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“…Stations. The first of these, Camel Station, had four major occupational phases; Phase 4 (seventh-early sixth centuries), Phase 3 (early sixth-mid-fifth centuries), Phase 2 (fifth-forth centuries), and Phase 1 (third century) (Redmount and Friedman 1997).…”

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“…Houses in Amarna and Deir el-Medina had fixed cult spaces: wall niches, raised altars, and stepped pedestals define cultic areas within residential structures (Stevens 2009: 4) which strongly suggest the presence of household religious practice. In Tell el-Muqdam's Camel Station, many amulets were found in a sunken jar deposited in a southwest corner of a small room (Redmount and Friedman 1997). The amulets of Ashkelon do not come from the same kind of space, and do not appear to have been intentionally deposited in the same manner.…”

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Sacred Shields

McCully¹

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List of Figures2.1 Hieroglyphic passage detailing the Opening of the Mouth ritual, from Una's pyramid 4.1 A comparative chronological table for the Persian phases in grids 38, 50, and 51 4.2 Labeled phase plan with marked amulet locations from Grid 38's phase 10 4.3 Labeled phase plan with marked amulet locations from Grid 51's phase 7 4.4 Labeled phase plan with marked amulet locations from Grid 51's phase 6 4.5 Faience Taweret amulet from Beirut 4.6 Architectural layout of Maresha's Complex 70, a subterranean system 4.7 Reconstruction of House P47.28 in Amarna 4.8 Image of a wall niche with cult deposition in a 19 th Dynasty house in Deir el-Medina 4.9 Terracotta fertility figurine from Tel el-Muqdam All images in Chapter Three's catalogue are omitted from this list.

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Tales of a Delta Site: The 1995 Field Season at Tell el-Muqdam

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Defining the Foundation Deposit in the Late and Ptolemaic Periods

Defining the Foundation Deposit in the Late and Ptolemaic Periods

Artapanus as a Source for the Building of the Temple of Onias in Egypt

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