SIX UNUSUAL BOATS FROM TELL AWLAD DAWOOD IN THE NILE DELTA

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Lecturer at Department of History and Archeology, Faculty of Arts, Benha University, Egypt

2 Lecturer at Department of History and Archeology, Faculty of Arts, Benha University, Egypt.

Abstract

(En)
Tell Awlad Dawood is a Predynastic and Early Dynastic settlement located in Sharqiya Province. The site is a small Tell. It has been occupied from the beginning of the 4th millennium BC to the Late Period, but its main occupation took place during the Predynastic and Early Dynastic times. The site of Tell Awlad Dawood in the eastern Nile Delta has been the focus of excavation since 1978. Until 1997, the main discoveries made at the site were: some buildings, bowls, platters and vats, ovoid and globular pots, large pots with a wide opening, jars, some lithic industry, and six pottery boats. The current paper is concerned with the study and publication of Six Unusual Boats which were discovered in Tell Awlad Dawood in 1997. The six boats are made of pottery, particularly of Nile Clay, and the used shaping technology is handmade. The research has proved that these boats are dated to Naqada IID2 or the Beginning of Naqada III A-B at the latest from Late Chalcolithic to Proto-Dynastic period (3600- 3300 BC) according to the division of relative chronology of Naqada culture by S. Hendrickx. All the six boats are currently housed in the Grand Egyptian Museum magazine in Cairo.

(Ar)
تل أولاد داوود واحدًا من المواقع الهامة فى محافظة الشرقية، وهو عبارة عن مستوطنة ترجع إلى عصر ما قبل الأسرات وأوائل الأسرات، وهو تل صغير تم استيطانه بداية من الألفىة الرابعة قبل الميلاد وحتى العصر المتأخر، لکن الاستيطان الرئيسى للموقع حدث خلال عصور ما قبل الأسرات وأوائل الأسرات. کان موقع تل أولاد داوود فى شرق دلتا النيل محور عمليات التنقيب منذ عام 1978 حتى عام 1997، وکانت الاکتشافات الرئيسية التى تم إجراؤها حتى الآن فى الموقع عبارة عن: بعض بقايا المبانى، أوانى فخارية، الأوانى البيضاوية والکروية، الجرار، بعض الصناعات الحجرية، وستة قوارب فخارية. تهتم هذه الورقة البحثية بدراسة ونشر ستة قوارب غير تقليدية تم اکتشافها فى تل أولاد داوود عام 1997، وهى مصنوعة من الفخار، والطين المستخدم فى هذا الفخار من نوع الطفلة النيلية Nile Clay، وتقنية التشکيل المستخدمة هي تقنية التشکيل يدويًا، وقد أثبت البحث أن هذه المراکب تؤرخ بفترة نقادة الثانية  [D2]، أو بداية نقادة الثالثة [A-B] على أقصى تقدير[3600-3300 ق.م] وفقًا لتقسيم التسلسل الزمني النسبي لحضارة نقادة، والقوارب محفوظة حاليًا فى مخازن المتحف المصري الکبير فى القاهرة.

Highlights

  • Introduction

  • Description of Six Boats

  • Commentary

  • Boats Of Tell Awlad Dawood (Use Of) 

  • Dating

  •  Conclusions

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