Archaeological Excavations of a Bead Workshop in the Main City at Tell el-Amarna (original) (raw)
A domestic complex in the Main City South at Tell el-Amarna was excavated in late 2014. The work focused on a building complex that was called M50.14–16 when it was initially excavated for the Egypt Exploration Society in 1922, where it was described as a workshop for the manufacture of glass and faience objects. The recent project was developed after an area of vitrified mud-brick debris, an indicator of high-temperature industries, was discovered on the surface. A domestic structure was excavated, along with a large workshop area processing glass, faience and agate, amongst other materials.
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Between 18 October and 13 November 2014, excavations were undertaken in the Main City South at Amarna. The team consisted of Anna Hodgkinson (field director), Susan Kelly, Ashley Bryant, and Kimberley Watt, and inspector from the Ministry of State for Antiquities, Mohamed Khalil. The work was funded by grants from the G.A. Wainwright Fund, the Corning Museum of Glass (Rakow Grant), the Association for the History of Glass and the Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society.
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Sir Flinders Petrie’s excavations at Tell el-Amarna in Egypt (1891-1892) uncovered a large number of glass finds and vitreous debris from areas identified as palace trash heaps and industrial buildings, suggesting that glass was produced at the site as early as the fourteenth century BC. His findings, combined with those from recent archaeological investigations and chemical analyses, highlight the important role Amarna played in early glass technology and its significance as a location for glass production, both locally and abroad, during thelatter part of the Late Bronze Age (sixteenth-eleventh century BC).
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in B. Kemp, “Tell el-Amarna, 2015”, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 101, 2015, pp. 5-17., 2015