The Qubbet al-Hawa Project : first results of the excavations of tombs QH32, QH34bb, QH35n, QH35p and QH36 during th 10th season
Abstrakt
During January, February and March 2018 the University of Jaén Project in Egypt has carried out the 10th Archaeological Campaign in Qubett el-Hawa (Aswan, Egypt). This season we have proceeded to the archaeological excavation and historical documentation of the hypogea and burial chambers catalogued as QH32 (Aku), QH34bb (Ii-Shemai), QH35n, QH33 and QH36 (Sarenput I).
Complementing the excavation works, different analyses of artefacts and ecofacts have been carried out. In the present paper the preliminary results and the progress of the investigations of the pottery, chamical analysis, anthropological, carpological, dendrochronological, architectural, epigraphic, restoration, anthropological, papyrological, topographic and cartographic analyses are presented.
All these heterogeneous studies constitute the base to reconstruct the history of the inhabitants of the southernmost Egypt and the region of the First Cataract, as well as the history of the necropolis, its origin, and the role played in Upper Egypt and the Nubian border.