Tell el-Dab'a XVII: Opferdeponierungen in der Hyksoshauptstadt Auaris (Tell el-Dab'a) vom spaten Mittleren Reich bis zum fruhen Neuen Reich Teil I: Auswertung und Deutung der Befunde und Funde Teil II: Katalog der Befunde und Funde

In the course of the long lasting excavations by Manfred Bietak in the Hyksos capital Avaris in the eastern Nile delta, pits were discovered in the context of temples, houses and tombs. They were filled with pottery vessels and some of them with animal bones as well. These deposits can be divided into two groups in terms of their contents: those with relics of offering meals, which also in part involved burning rituals and the ritual breakage of vessels, and those with symbolic fillings in ...