Bois travaillé du Ier au XVe sc.1st to 15th century worked wood
Iwona Zych
FAKHRY, Ahmed
A fortnight’s digging at Medinet Qûta (Fayoum)
ASAE 40
Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, Le Caire | Cairo, 1940, p. 897-909
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domaine agricole agricultural sphere domaine artistique artistic sphere domaine domestique domestic sphere domaine sacré sacral sphere
amulette/objet religieux
amulet, religious article oeuvres d'art, objets avec décoration
artworks, decorated articles figurine, jouet
figurine, toy élément de mobilier
furniture parts poulie
pulley wheel and case
bois avec d'autres materiaux wood with other materials sculpture carving tournage turning travaillé worked
Site identified by Daressy (ASAE I, 1898, 44-47) with Dionysias. Registered wooden artifacts:
- J.32089 small hexagonal wooden altar with small feet, rough Roman work, H. 0.10 m; Dia. 0.08 m;
- animal (lion? cat?), presumed figurine, roughly worked, L. 0.085 m.
Fakhry’s excavations in 1940, recorded wooden artifacts (p. 907 for list and pls CXXX and CXXXI):
- pulley with attached rope of palm fiber, for leading animals (khattaf in Arabic), pegging tents (kom rommeh, four per tent);
- leg of couch, lathe-turned, H. 23 cm (cf. G.A. Wainwright, ASAE XXV, 112-119, turnery from Kom Washim);
- long artifact, 55 cm, with 9 pegs fixed to it at one end, use uncertain to Fakhry (currently can be interpreted tentatively as an agricultural implement).
- J.32089 small hexagonal wooden altar with small feet, rough Roman work, H. 0.10 m; Dia. 0.08 m;
- animal (lion? cat?), presumed figurine, roughly worked, L. 0.085 m.
Fakhry’s excavations in 1940, recorded wooden artifacts (p. 907 for list and pls CXXX and CXXXI):
- pulley with attached rope of palm fiber, for leading animals (khattaf in Arabic), pegging tents (kom rommeh, four per tent);
- leg of couch, lathe-turned, H. 23 cm (cf. G.A. Wainwright, ASAE XXV, 112-119, turnery from Kom Washim);
- long artifact, 55 cm, with 9 pegs fixed to it at one end, use uncertain to Fakhry (currently can be interpreted tentatively as an agricultural implement).
Version 1, données dudata date 18 mars 2012March 18th 2012