Louise Steel

Gaza Research Project: 1998 Survey of the Old City of Gaza

Abstract This article presents results of the first season of fieldwork conducted by the Gaza Research Project in 1998. Fieldwork comprised small-scale topographic survey around the old city of Gaza and reconnaissance of other second millennium tell sites in the region, namely Tell Ali Muntar. The primary aims were to examine the chronological and topographical relationship of two proximate tell sites lying at the southern limits of the Levantine coastal plain, between the Wadi al-Hasi and the Wadi Gaza, and to assess the feasibility of excavation of ancient Gaza.

Vassos Karageorghis a Athanasia Kanta . Pyla-Kokkinokremos: a late 13 th century BC fortified settlement in Cyprus. Excavations 2010–2011 (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 141). 2014. xxvi+279 pages, numerous baw illustrations, 11 tables. Uppsala: Åströms; 978-91-981535-0-7 hardback €80.

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Egyptian ‘Funerary Cones’ from El-Moghraqa, Gaza

In 1996 the Palestinian Department of Antiquities, Gaza, identified a previously unknown site dating to the second millennium BC, in the area of el-Moghraqa, some joom north of the Wadi Gaza. The cultural remains recovered from the surface included a series of terracotta cones stamped with the cartouches of Thutmose III and Hatshepsut. These artefacts are unique amongst the cultural assemblages of the Levant and are most closely paralleled by Egyptian funerary cones of the Eighteenth Dynasty from Thebes. Fieldwork conducted by the Gaza Research Project (GRP) in 1999 and 2000 examined the archaeological context of the cones, with the purpose of identifying their function and assessing the symbolic significance of this Egyptianizing material within a Levantine context.