ʿAin el-Charāb - ʿAin el-Charāb

Settlement hill of ʿAin el-Charāb
ʿAin el-Charāb · ‏عين الخراب‎
ʿAin et-Turba · ‏عين التربة‎
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ʿAin el-Charāb

'Ain el-Charab (also Ain el-Kharab, Arabic:عين الخراب‎, ʿAyn al-Charab, „Ruin Spring") Or 'Ain et-Turba (also 'Ain / Ayn el-Turbeh, Arabic:عين التربة‎, ʿAin at-Turba) is an archaeological site in the north of the egyptian Sink el-Chārga in the Western desert. There is a Roman settlement and a Ptolemaic-Roman cemetery here. Archaeologists are most likely to be interested in this site.

background

The site is between the temple of Hībis and the El-Bagawāt cemetery. In the west there is a settlement mound dating to the Roman and Christian times, and rock tombs in the east were dug from Ptolemaic or Roman times. This site belonged to the urban area of ​​the ancient Hībis. It is possible that there was no relationship between the local pre-Christian inhabitants and the cemetery of el-Bagawāt.

As part of the investigations of el-Bagawāt cemetery by the Egyptian Expedition of Metropolian Museum of Art (new York) since 1907 became ʿAin et-Turba 1907/1908[1][2] and 1930/1931[3] briefly examined. The finds from 1908 included undecorated and decorated ceramics, glazed and glass beads, ornaments, a plaster statuette, coins from the time between emperors Diocletian (Reigns 284–305), emperor Maximian (Reigns 286–305) and Constantine the Elder Size (Reigns 306–337) as well as glass objects. Some of the glassware belonged to the multi-colored so-called millefiori glasses (thread glasses). Another 2.7 centimeter glass beaker fragment shows a tiger ripping off an antelope.[4]

The settlement area in particular has been used by the Egyptian Antiquities Service, the Supreme Council of Antiquities, investigated under the direction of Manṣūr 'Osmān. During the excavations, a mural was also uncovered that shows Jesus healing the sick.[5]

getting there

In the street

One leaves el-Chārga towards Asyūṭ past the temple of Hībis to a junction going north 1 Branch(25 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ N.30 ° 33 '43 "E). Follow the asphalt road to the entrance of the cemetery el-Bagawāt. There is a large parking lot in front of the entrance.

On foot

The archaeological site can also be reached on foot, either along the road described or, better, via the "detour" Hībis then on a direct route through the desert.

In the following one does not walk north to el-Bagawāt, but south.

mobility

The archaeological site can only be explored on foot.

Tourist Attractions

Entrance to grave 30
Inside the grave 30

Of the 1 settlement(25 ° 28 ′ 52 ″ N.30 ° 33 '22 "E) in the west there were already numerous Houses and streets exposed. The houses were built from adobe bricks and once had barrel vault ceilings. The arrangement of the rooms was irregular. The walls were plastered and whitewashed. Individual houses still had remains of frescoes on the interior walls.

In the west and south of the excavation mound are the Palm gardens of today's residents.

About 30 were found in the rocks on the east side Graves created. The graves are on the plain or on the rocky slope. Usually a staircase leads to the grave. The graves have no jewelry (anymore). Some have four square pillars in their chambers. In at least one grave there are four pillars as supports.

The 2 Grave 30(25 ° 28 '49 "N.30 ° 33 '29 "E) has an undecorated entrance to which a staircase leads down. The sacrificial hall was roughly hewn out of the rock, the four pillars were worked out much more carefully. The pillars seem to stand on stone blocks. In front of the back wall of the hall there is a shaft leading to the burial place. Side graves also belong to the grave.

kitchen

There are restaurants in town el-Chārga and in the entrance area to the cemetery of el-Bagawāt.

accommodation

Accommodation is usually in the city el-Chārga elected.

trips

The archaeological site can be connected to various destinations in the north of el-Chārga: with the temples of Hibis and en-nadura or with the monastery of 'Ain Mustafa Kaschif and the Gebel et-Teir.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑Lythgoe, Albert M.: The Oasis of Kharga. In:The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (BMMA, BMetMuseum), ISSN0026-1521, Vol.3,11 (1908), Pp. 203-208, especially p. 208.
  2. ↑Lythgoe, Albert M.: The Egyptian Expedition. In:The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (BMMA, BMetMuseum), ISSN0026-1521, Vol.4,7 (1909), Pp. 119–123, especially 121–123, Figs. 4, 7.
  3. ↑Hauser, Walter: The Christian Necropolis in Khargeh Oasis. In:The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (BMMA, BMetMuseum), ISSN0026-1521, Vol.27,3 (Part 2: The Egyptian Expedition 1930-1931) (1932), Pp. 38-50, especially p. 38, PDF.
  4. ↑Acc. no. 15.1.1. Please refer:Alexander, Christine: Accessions of Greek and Roman Antiquities. In:The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (BMMA, BMetMuseum), ISSN0026-1521, Vol.32,7 (1937), Pp. 175–177, in particular pp. 176 f., Fig. 3, PDF. Rest of the essay.
  5. ↑Archaeological mural on Christ’s miracles discovered in New Valley, News dated September 2, 2012 on Egypt Online.
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