Stadt und Tempel von Elephantine - 25./26./27. Grabungsbericht

Abstract

The German Institute of Archaeology and the Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research conducted the 28 th , 29 th and 30 th campaigns at Elephantine from mid-October I998 to the beginning of April 1999, from mid-October 1999 until mid-April 2000, and from early October 2000 until early April 2001, respectively. After the opening of a part of the ancient town site and the excavation museum to the general public still under the direction of W. KAISER on March I st , I999, the campaigns' priority was the further examination of the finds and the complementary documentation of the excavation's results for publication. Field work was concentrated on the central town site at the area of the palaces of the Old and Middle Kingdom to the south of the temple of Khnum, the south-eastern approaches of the Old Kingdom town, the courtyard of the temple of Khnum, and the area near the Roman monumental staircase next to the city harbour in the north-east. Further investigations were carried out at the Jewish temple and the Late Period-Roman strata to the south and west of the temple of Khnum. Early History of the Town. In the palace of the Old and Middle Kingdom, extensively destroyed by sebbakhin, the western entrance and layer remnants on the inside along the west wall had already been investigated during the 25 th -27 th campaign. Deposits of cultic implements showed that during the I st Intermediate Period beside Heqa-ib other high officials had been worshipped as well. Through the continuation of the work further east where the kom breaks off south of the temple of Khnum and the clearance of the very much disturbed area in front of it, clues emerged in regard to the development and the sequence of the palaces as well as to the earlier use of the area. Remains of simple constructions of the Early Dynastic Period are covered by layers of debris heaped up from the north in order to level the area to the west of a high granite formation. A lar

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