Tell el-Kuʿ (Arabic تل الكوع), also written as Tell el-Ku'a and Tell el-Koa, is an archaeological site in Egypt, located in the eastern Nile Delta at the Wadi Tumilat. The excavated areas of the site were used at different times as a cemetery and a settlement. The finds from the site date mostly from the Second Intermediate Period, encompassing the period from the late Middle Kingdom to the early New Kingdom. The site exhibits burial practices of non-Egyptian origin, including donkey burials, attested at other eastern Delta sites during the period (such as Tell el-Dab'a, Tell Basta, Tell el-Yahudiya). The settlement architecture is comparable to that of the nearby site Tell el-Maskhuta. Along with other sites at the Wadi Tumilat, Tell el-Kuʿ is considered to be involved in trade contacts between Second Intermediate Period Egypt and the Levant.
The site was excavated in 1987 by Ibrahim M. Soleman, later by Nabil el-Sherif, M. Salem el-Hangury, Nasr Allah el-Kelany, and Soleman Mahmoud, and since 2018 by Aiman Ashmawy Ali.
Tell el-Mansheya
Just 200 meters to the west of Tell el-Kuʿ lies another Second Intermediate Period archaeological site Tell el-Mansheya (Arabic تل المنشية) Salvage excavations conducted in 2015 revealed settlement remains and burials. It is considered to have been a hamlet or a satellite of the Tell el-Kuʿ settlement. Tell el-Mansheya burials are comparable to those from other Second Intermediate Period sites at Wadi Tumilat.
References
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- ^ Mahmud Ahmed, Mostafa Hassan; Elsaid Hashem, Sameh Ahmed; Hulková, Lucia; Wodzińska, Anna (2018). "Egyptian salvage excavations at Tell el-Mansheya". Ägypten und Levante. 28: 24–54. doi:10.1553/AEundL28s25.
- ^ Ashmawy Ali, Aiman (2023). "Forgotten Excavation Part 2: Tell El-Kuʿ". In el-Aguizy, Ola; Kasparian, Burt (eds.). ICE XII: proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists, 3rd-8th November 2019, Cairo. Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale. pp. 21–29. ISBN 9782724709537. Retrieved 2024-09-16.
- Ashmawy Ali, Aiman (2019). "Donkey burials at Tell El-Yahudia". In Ikram, Salima; Pasquali, Stéphane; Porcier, Stéphanie (eds.). Creatures of earth, water, and sky: essays on animals in ancient Egypt and Nubia. Leiden: Sidestone. pp. 39–46. ISBN 9789088907722. Retrieved 2024-09-16.
- Ksiezak, Aleksandra E. (2021). "The Middle Bronze Age settlement pattern in the Wadi Tumilat (eastern Nile Delta)". In Bietak, Manfred; Prell, Silvia (eds.). The enigma of the Hyksos, volume IV: Changing clusters and migration in the Near Eastern Bronze Age. Collected papers of a workshop held in Vienna 4th-6th of December 2019. Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant. Vol. 12. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pp. 365–393. doi:10.13173/9783447117371. ISBN 9783447117371.
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