Dietrich Raue

Leipzig University · Institute of Egyptology

We present the results of geographic-archaeological surveys and soundings that have been carried out in the Rama area of northern central Tigray between 2018 and 2019. This area so far received little attention despite its possible connecting function between the prominent pre-Aksumite sites of Yeha and its surroundings in Tigray and, e.g., the Sud...

X-ray diffraction measurements on Nubian crafts provided by the Egyptian Museum – Georg Steindorff – of Leipzig University, revealed the mineral scolecite to have been carved for one visually unsuspicious pendant from Lower Nubia (1900–1600 BCE, excavated in 1914, inv. No. ÄMUL 4483). The collection catalog notes only "white-red pebble" as material...

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Salbgefäße aus altägyptischen Gräbern enthalten nicht nur oft die vielzitierten „Heiligen Öle“, sondern auch Antworten auf unterschiedliche wissenschaftliche Fragestellungen. Zwei 3500 Jahre alte nubische Exemplare aus Calcitalabaster, bereitgestellt vom Ägyptischen Museum – Georg Steindorff – der Universität Leipzig, sind diesbezüglich von gesonde...

Bei der Expedition des Leipziger Ägyptologischen Instituts nach Aniba im Jahr 1912 mutmaßte Georg Steindorff über die Schäden dieses Fundes, es habe „der Inhalt die äußere Wandung gesprengt.“ Moderne archäometrische Untersuchungen rücken die Geschichte dieses 3.500 Jahre alten Gefäßes in ein neues Licht.

Since the first French and German archaeological investigations on the island of Elephantine at the beginning of the 20th century, and the Egyptian excavations in the 1930s and 1940s, during which the shrine of Heqaib with its considerable collection of private statues from the Middle Kingdom was unearthed, there have been 30 campaigns of the Germa...

The Classic Kerma tulip beaker (1650 BC) is stored at the Egyptian Museum -Georg Steindorff-Leipzig. The red and black ware is made of fine Nile silt and has a variegated grey-purple band on the exterior as a special decor. Besides of the egyptological classification of the Kerma beaker, the mineral phase composition should be investigated to discu...

The town and cemeteries of Aniba are located on the west bank of the river Nile in the southernmost part of Egypt (Lower Nubia). The area was submerged under the reservior created by the dam. The tomb S91 at Aniba was discovered by Georg Steindorff and the expedition of the Leipzig Egyptology institute in 1912. Two unguent vessels were the subject...

During the 36th-38th season (autumn 2006 - spring 2009) at Elephantine the German Institute of Archaeology and the Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt continued excavations and work on finds from earlier seasons. Excavation work focussed on the area between the temple of Satet and the sanctuary of Heqaib,...

Members of the Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project have been working since 2005 in the West Bank of the Nile, from Qubbet el-Hawa north to Kubbaniya north, Wadi Kubbaniya, Wadi Abu Subeira, and a section of the desert east of Kom Ombo. Both survey and rescue operations are performed, the latter as an answer to the urgency to save as many archaeol...

The excavations of the joint mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the German Archaeological Institute at Matariya/Heliopolis in autumn 2005 were located immediately north of the building project Suq el-Khamis. Little is known so far about the exact position of the multitude of sanctuaries, shrines and altars that are attested by textua...

Recent fieldwork by the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Matariya/Heliopolis revealed parts of the necropolis of the Middle Kingdom. Pottery vessels derived from the tomb chambers and can be dated from the 12 th to the early 13th Dynasty. A stratum of the late Second Intermediate Period was found in the temple precinct of Heliopolis, north of the...

The German Archaeological Institute and the Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research conducted the 31st and 32nd campaigns at Elephantine from mid-October 2001 until mid-April 2002 and from October 2002 until mid-April 2003. The priority of the campaigns was the further study of finds from previous seasons and the architectural...

An attempt is made to place a few very characteristic Old Kingdom pottery types - Maidum bowls, beer jars and bread moulds - into their economic and social context. All of these vessels can be related to changes in food technology, which apparently took place over a rather short period of time during the second half of the 1st Dynasty. Particular a...

The German Institute of Archaeology and the Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research conducted the 28th, 29th and 30th campaigns at Elephantine from mid-October 1998 to the beginning of April 1999, from mid-October 1999 until mid-April 2000, and from early October 2000 until early April 2001, respectively. After the opening of...

In the fourth millennium BC, a settlement with a small island necropolis to its south started to develop in a restricted area in the eastern part of the southern tip of the island (fig. 1). In about 2700 BC, the town occupied the entire eastern part of the southern tip of the island; later on, the western part was used as the necropolis. During the...