Finds from Recent Excavations at Tell Fara’in-Buto | ||||
| مجلة الدراسات الإنسانية والأدبية | ||||
| Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2025, Page 1114-1134 PDF (1.95 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/shak.2025.405817.1830 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Mohamed A. R. Abouarab& Penelope Wilson* | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This paper describes and discusses a group of objects and architectural fragments that were found in excavations of the joint Kafrelsheikh University and Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities at the site of Tell Fara’in, "Buto" on Kom C. The earlier levels of the excavation point to a Late Period date, as evidenced by some of the amulets and other objects, but the area seems to have been reconfigured and reused into the Ptolemaic and Roman period. Kom C is the location of the Ptolemaic and Roman expansion of the town, but the material here suggests that the city had grown to the south and south-west already from earlier periods and that it was consolidated later. The religious material found — amulets and terracotta figurines — also points to a religious function of some structures in the area, whether formal shrines or domestic ones, that highlight the continued importance of gods such as Horus, Isis, Bes and Beset into the Roman period. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Buto (Tell el-Fara'in)؛ Archaeological Excavation؛ Amulets; Roman | ||||
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