This volume is the result of a comprehensive analysis of one of Tell el-Dabʿa's residential areas, the ancient Avaris, one of the largest cities of the Eastern Mediterranean in the second millennium BCE. The presentation of the domestic architecture and material culture aims at reconstructing the socio-economic setting of one neighborhood (F/I) of the site and its inhabitants. On the basis of the theoretical foundations and methodological considerations from the field of household archaeology,...

Tell el-Dab’a gained importance by its identification with Avaris, capital of the Hyksos and the Delta residence of the Ramessides. After the silting up of the Pelusiac Nile branch at the end of the Ramesside Period this important town was abandoned and disappeared from world history. Largely unknown is the fact that after the re-activation of the Pelusiac branch in the Late Period a large town of over 100 ha developed at this strategically important place. This settlement mirrors the...

The current volume presents the final excavation report of three late Middle Kingdom settlement layers at the site of Tell el-Dab‘a in the Egyptian Nile delta. These settlement layers comprise a number of dwellings, which belonged to non-elite people judging by their size and remaining inventories, who lived in the marsh-like environment in the north of Egypt in the late Middle Kingdom (ca 1830–1700 BC). Beside the mud brick architecture typical for ancient Egyptian housing, storage facilities...

In vorliegendem Band werden die Grabanlagen eines Teilbezirkes in Tell el-Dabʿa, dem antiken Avaris, der Hyksoshauptstadt, im östllichen Nildelta aus dem 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr. vorgestellt. Das Areal A/II ist geprägt durch seinen sakralen Bezirk mit Tempeln ägyptischen und Vorderasiatischen Typs und den daran angeschlossenen Friedhöfen. Die Bewohner von Avarsi waren größtenteils vorderasiatischer Herkunft, deshalb sind ihre Gräber von besonderem Interesse über den Bereich der Ägyptologie...

Tell el-Dab'a XXII is the comprehensive final publication of the results of an excavation by the Cairo branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in the area of Ezbet Rushdi, northeast of Tell el-Dab'a (area R/I). A first excavation at that site in the 1950s by the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation had revealed the existence of a large mud brick temple plus surrounding settlement structures of 12th dynasty date. The Austrian archaeological work in 1996 under the directorship of Manfred...

Levantine Painted Ware is one of the most distinctive types of pottery from the Middle Bronze Age and a hallmark of the beginning of this period as it appears almost exclusively in early Middle Bronze Age contexts at sites in the Levant. Examples are found from northern Syria along the eastern Mediterranean coast and somewhat inland down to Tell el-Dabʿa in the eastern Nile Delta and at other sites in Egypt even as far south as Elephantine on the southern border. The fact that LPW appears as...

The pottery assemblage from two execration pits and a foundation deposit located in the south-eastern part of the palace district at ʿEzbet Helmi/Avaris, that belong to a transitional phase (D/1) dating to the beginning of the 18th Dynasty, is published here. Execration pit L1055 contained human skulls and fingers, and some pottery sherds as filling material. Execration pit L1016 was filled with two human skeletons at the bottom of the pit, some animal bones and a large amount of broken pottery...

The present volume is a collection of papers given at a workshop on urban development in Ancient Egypt which was held at the AAS in November 2006. The articles cover a wide variety of themes within the frame of this general topic, and aspects of urban development are dealt with from very different points of view. The structure of specific building types (F. Doyen, S. Hendrickx), as well as the spacial (E. Czerny, I. Forstner-Müller, M. Lehner) and social (M. Bietak, K. Spence) organisation of...

This volume presents the results of excavations conducted in West Thebes (Luxor) by the Austrian Archaeological Institute in collaboration with the Institute for Egyptology of the University of Vienna, fieldwork that was begun in the fall of 1969 in the eastern part of Asasif. Because of the wealth of findings, the work was continued until 1977. Until now, the only publication about these excavations has been on the monumental tomb of Anch-Hor (TT 414) and the objects found there; most of the...

The main aim of this study was to synchronise the various excavation areas of Tell el-Dabʿa with each other by the means of pottery seriation. 9 phases dating to the period between the late Middle Kingdom until the beginning of the New Kingdom were taken into consideration. The publication consists – due to practical reasons – of two volumes. Vol. I contains the description of the various shapes divided into the 2 main groups of Egyptian and Middle Bronze Age pottery. The description of the...

This volume presents the data used for the synchronisation of the stratigraphic levels of two Egyptian settlement sites, one of the late Middle Kingdom and the other, the Second Intermediate Period (ca. 1770 – 1550/40 BC). The analysis is based on the ceramic finds from the settlement layers of the ancient capitals of Tell el-Dab´a (Avaris) in the eastern Delta and of Kom Rabica (Memphis) just south of modern Cairo. Whilst the main focus of the research project was synchronising the relative...