The Date of P. Kell. I G.62 and the meaning of χωρίον

The Nile: Natural and Cultural Landscape in Egypt

“…45 StaDelmann, 1967colomBert/coulon, 2000, p. 217, tazaWa, 2009. 46 Daressy 1928iD., 1971, p. 446-73;staDelmann, 1967, p. 148-150;upHill, 1984, p. 200-202, 212, 233-234, 245 (Anta) 50 After an interval, the site is mentioned again in the late Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Dynasty. 51 The stratigraphy of the site parallels this information.…”

“…However, this final statement must remain a hypothesis until a real geomorphological prospection is realised between Karnak-north and Medamud. 50 46 The existence of an island at the end of the Old Kingdom has been suggested by gaBolDe, 2013b, p. 24, fig. b …”

“…50 This system depends on an adjustment of the natural flood basins by a series a dykes lining the Nile bed where levees are lacking, completed by transversal embankments extending from the river to the desert edges. Long feeder canals branching from the Nile are necessary to bring water to the desert's edge, while short canals feed levees near the riverbanks.…”

“…Both flights are 1 m wide and 20 steps were revealed in both descending 4.5 m. 49 Augering carried out by Matthieu Ghilardi (CNRS/CFEETK) suggested a platform might exist between the two sets of steps at ~ 69.2 m a.s.l. 50 If a platform does exist, given the freeboard of the large ceremonial boats the king and priests could embark and disembark with ease at levels between the highest inundation down to ~ 68.7 m a.s.l. A stepped gangplank could have assisted (dis)embarkation if the low Nile were even lower.…”

“…During the archaeological survey 50 we already noticed that there were two canals approaching the village from the east, one flowing by directly, the other continuing along the village farther to the north and on a lower level. It seemed that the "upper canal" was built to transport the water further on to Dionysias -indeed, until 6 years ago we could follow it to that next village over a distance of 5.5 km -while the lower, receiving water from the upper, fed huge basins in the north (Figure 8).…”