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Rubbish or Technology? A Short Discussion

    Lucia Hulková, Anna Wodzińska

Ägypten und Levante 27, pp. 151-158, 2017/12/27

Internationale Zeitschrift für ägyptische Archäologie und deren Nachbargebiete
International Journal for Egyptian Archaeology and Related Disciplines

doi: 10.1553/AEundL27s151

doi: 10.1553/AEundL27s151

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doi:10.1553/AEundL27



doi:10.1553/AEundL27s151



doi:10.1553/AEundL27s151

Abstract

This short article presents a case of intentional use of a layer consisting of a large number of pottery sherds along with the more usual clean yellow sand in a shallow foundation trench under a fragmentary New Kingdom mudbrick wall encountered in Tell el-Retaba in the Wadi Tumilat. Various possible explanations for the use of these sherds as a part of an architectural feature are explored with the aim of drawing attention to a hitherto under-studied cultural practice in Egyptian New Kingdom settlement architecture.

Keywords: Tell el-Retaba, foundation trenching, sandbox foundation, New Kingdom, settlement architecture