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Delta Reports
Research in Lower Egypt
Donald B. Redford
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Research in Lower Egypt
Donald B. Redford
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Delta Reports is a new series that will make available the substantial amount of archaeological work that has been undertaken in the Delta region of Egypt over recent decades. Volume I contains work done in and around the temple of Ba-neb-djed in the North-west temenos at Tel er-Rub'a (Mendes), material that was previously published in the ATP newsletter by the Akhenaten Temple Project (now discontinued).
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AN INTERIM REPORT ON THE TEMPLE OF THE RAM-GOD AT MENDES
The early campaigns at Tel er-Rubâa/Mendes,1 from 1992 to 1995, were devoted to the excavation of the royal necropolis in Field AL, due east of the main temple. It was not until 1994 that the decision was taken to transfer our efforts to the elucidation of the Baugeschichte and context of the main temple of the ram-god, Ba-neb-djed. Consequently, between 1995 and the present, all but two seasons were devoted to the main temple area. The first three were conducted under the aegis of the University of Toronto, the remainder under the sponsorship of the Pennsylvania State University. These investigations are ongoing.
The âgazeteerâ contained within the stela of Ptolemy II2 reveals the names of a variety of installations of a sacred nature at the site; but the âHouse of the Ram, Lord of Djedetâ can only be identified with the large structure, today a total ruin, lying within the great north-west enclosure. The NNE orientation of this structure (12 degrees off true north) is ancient, probably antedating the Old Kingdom; but the reason for this alignment has yet to be revealed. The temple structure sits upon rising terrain which juts northward into relatively low-lying land, like a peninsula. On the north and west sides this âpeninsulaâ rises nearly two meters above the surrounding flats, and slightly less on the east. This promontory cannot be adequately explained by human occupation-differential, the height and the surrounding flats yielding alike a surface scatter of Late Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period pottery. It seems more likely that, whatever may have happened at the close of the 6th Dynasty, the difference in elevation was originally occasioned by the sometime presence of water, in the form of either lagoons or water courses, which more or less isolated the terrain on which the original shrine was built.3
THE FIRST PYLON AND FORECOURT
The temple ruins still visible above ground are oriented towards the (local) north and comprise several distinct parts (see plan, Fig. 1). The first, i.e. the northernmost unit, is a court or open space, approximately 35 meters long and 60 meters wide. The floor of the court was presumably of beaten earth, but any remaining surface has disappeared partly through natural erosion and partly through excavation. The side walls of mud-brick have similarly been completely removed, although on the east side the sand foundations could partly be detected. Forming the northern side of the court was a pylon of limestone. Although only about 32 blocks have survived,4 and these wholly disarticulated, the foundation trench filled with fine sand5 is still in evidence. Excavations revealed the following over all dimensions of the pylon: each massif 28.5 meters long and approximately 6â8 meters wide, with a gate in the center 3â4 meters wide. These dimensions fall only slightly short of those of the Luxor pylon, although the first court at Mendes is considerably smaller than its Luxor counterpart. The pylon sits somewhat precariously on the northern edge of the âpeninsulaâ described above, and two meters above the depression to the north; yet it obviously survived into the Middle Ages.6
The date of the pylon would have been difficult to ascertain archaeologically. We attempted to retrieve a foundation deposit in the east wing, but found that everywhere, east and west, the sand-fill had been churned up. Sections revealed pits and declivities in the sand, back-filled with limestone chips, where robbers had removed blocks for the lime kilns (Pl. 1). More modern diggers had also been present: pieces of modern glass and about a dozen bullets were found in the fill, along with two newspaper fragments, one dated to 1946, the other (French) with no date, but mentioning Sir Reginald Oakes. While the former puts one in mind of Labib Habachiâs work at the site in the postwar years,7 the latter must attest the presence of Naville in the late 19th century.
Two items of inscriptional evidence helped to clinch the date of the first pylon. One was a limestone block, long known,8 lying today about 10 meters inside the pylon gate. It bears two horizontal bands of text with parts of the cartouches of Ramesses II and Merenptah. The whole resembles similar bands inscribed at the base of reveals of pylon doors at other sites, and dating from the same two reigns.9 In the present case the block must originally have stood on the east side of the pylon gateway. A second inscription (Pl. 2) was uncovered in the 1994 campaign on a block from the east wing of the pylon. Here a horizontal band of text reads Mr.n-[pt]áž„. Although additional fragments of limestone have turned up in the foundation sand, some painted, no further clue was recovered as to how the facade of the pylon had been decorated. But that it was the work of the 19th Dynasty cannot now be denied.