Mostagedda
Mostagedda Location in Egypt | |
| Location | Asyut Governorate, Egypt |
|---|---|
| Region | Upper Egypt |
| Coordinates | 27°4′59.99″N 31°22′59.99″E / 27.0833306°N 31.3833306°E |
| Type | Necropolis |
| History | |
| Cultures | Pan-Grave culture Badarian culture Ancient Egypt |
| Site notes | |
| Archaeologists | Guy Brunton Winifred Brunton |
Mostagedda is an archaeological site in Upper Egypt, 10 km south of Asyut and on the east bank of the Nile, which includes a necropolis that covers several different periods of Egyptian history from predynastic Badarian culture to Greco Roman. Notably, the site also includes burials from the Pan-Grave culture of ancient Nubia.[1]
British Egyptologist Guy Brunton and his wife Winifred excavated at Mostagedda and the broader El Badari district in the 1920s.[2]
Gallery
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Badarian culture female figures
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Vase in the shape of a hippopotamus
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Axe with an inscription of Nebmaatre
See also
- Media related to Mostagedda at Wikimedia Commons
Further reading
- Brunton, Guy (1937). Mostagedda and the Tasian Culture: British Museum Expedition to Middle Egypt, First and Second Years, 1928, 1929. London: Quaritch.
References
- ^ Mourad, Anna-Latifa (31 October 2015). Rise of the Hyksos: Egypt and the Levant from the Middle Kingdom to the Early Second Intermediate Period. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78491-134-8.
- ^ Pleşa, Alexandra D. (2017). "Religious Belief in Burial: Funerary Dress and Practice at the Late Antique and Early Islamic Cemeteries at Matmar and Mostagedda, Egypt (Late Fourth–Early Ninth Centuries CE)". Ars Orientalis. 47. doi:10.3998/ars.13441566.0047.002. hdl:2027/spo.13441566.0047.002. ISSN 2328-1286.