 Tell er-Rubʿ excavation site | ||
| Tell er-Rubʿ · تل الربع Mendes · Μένδης | ||
| Governorate | Daqahlīya | |
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| height | 11 m | |
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Tell er-rub ' (also Tell el-Rub ', Tell el-Ruba, Arabic:تل الربع, Tall ar-Rubʿ) is an archaeological site in the Nile Delta in the Egyptian governorate ed-Daqahlīya in place of the ancient Mendes (Greek Μένδης). It is about 35 km southeast of el-Mansura and 1.5 kilometers southwest of the village er-Rubʿ located. Archaeologists and Egyptologists are likely to be interested in the excavation site, which requires a permit to visit.
background
history
The Tell er-Rubʿ area has been settled since the beginning of the Old Kingdom. The ancient Djedet or. Per-banebdjedet was the capital of the 16th Lower Egyptian Gaus and in the 29th Dynasty the capital of Ancient Egypt. In Greek times the city was Mendes called. Initially, the goddess became here Hatmehit revered, but her companion, the ram god, took her place as early as the 2nd dynasty Ba-neb-djedet (Ba (soul) of the Lord of Djedet). Your son was the god Hor-pa-chered, Horus-the-child.
The Tell er-Rubʿ excavation mound is the location of the below Amasis (29th Dynasty) built a temple for Ba-neb-djedet, whose widely visible symbol is the Naos des Schu is made of rose granite. However, the temple had a previous building from the 18th dynasty, as founding pits from this time and cartouches by Ramses ’II prove.
The settlement area was south of this in Tell Timai.
Research history
Reports of this city are from Herodotus and the Arab geographer Subh el-A'sha (15th century). In the 15th century, the temple must have been almost completely preserved. A brief description was given by scientists of the Napoléon expedition. Brief descriptions of the site including Tell Timai have been available since the late 19th century without any scientific excavation. More recent research is by Chr. L. Soghor from 1965[1] and by the Canadian Egyptologist Donald B. Redford from 1991 onwards, but the latter has not yet been completed.
getting there
Coming from el-Manṣūra you drive to Sandūb (Arabic:سندوب) To here at 1 31 ° 1 ′ 6 ″ N.31 ° 23 '38 "E to the east towards Talbāna (Arabic:تلبانة) Branch off. In Talbāna one bends in 2 30 ° 58 ′ 44 ″ N.31 ° 27 ′ 20 ″ E to the right (southeast) and continue via Minschāt Ṣabrī Abū ʿAlam (Arabic:منشاة صبري أبو علم). There you join 3 30 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ N.31 ° 29 ′ 19 ″ E to the left (to the east) and after about 3 kilometers you will reach the excavation house on the south side of the street. The village of Er-Rubʿ is about 1.5 kilometers to the east.
mobility
The terrain can only be explored on foot.
Tourist Attractions
A permit from the Supreme Antiquities Authority in Cairo is required to visit the excavation site!
Before the 1 Dig house(30 ° 57 '44 "N.31 ° 30 ′ 55 ″ E) there are various building fragments such as sphinxes, a seated statue, part of the lower body of a statue, coffins, a small shrine as well as fragments of columns and capitals. These fragments probably come from recent excavations.
The 2 Naos of Amasis(30 ° 57 ′ 28 ″ N.31 ° 30 '53 "E) has been uncovered in recent years. On the posts of this approx. 10 meter high naos there are inscriptions of this king, who was loved by the ram god. This Naos des Shu belonged to a set of four shrines and stood at the southern end of a temple about 150 meters long with its entrance in the north. The shrines, set up in pairs, stood in the back of a room about 30 × 40 meters in size. The Naos stands on a foundation of approx. 1 meter high limestone blocks. These shrines once housed the cult images of the four gods Re, Schu, Geb and Osiris.
There is also a 3 Limestone sarcophagus(30 ° 57 ′ 29 ″ N.31 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E) with inside basalt tub.
Remains of adobe walls can also be made out.
kitchen
Restaurants can be found el-Manṣūra.
accommodation
There are accommodations el-Manṣūra.
trips
Visiting the excavation site can be done with the from el-Manṣūra and other sites in the governorate ed-Daqahlīya connect.
literature
- : A visit from Mendes. In:Announcements from the German Institute for Egyptian Antiquity in Cairo, Vol.1 (1930), Pp. 130-134.
- : Mendes; Vol.2. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1976.
- : Mendes: city of the ram-god. In:Egyptian Archeology: Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society, Vol.26 (2005), Pp. 8-12.
- : City of the Ram-man: the story of ancient Mendes. Princeton [et al.]: Princeton University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0691142265 .
Individual evidence
- ↑Soghor, C.L. : Mendes 1965 and 1966: II. Inscriptions from Tell el Ruba, in: Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE), Volume 6 (1967), pp. 16-23.
