Ceramics from the mining site of Serabit el-Khadem, Sinai, stored at the Harvard Semitic Museum - Revisiting of an old collection through petrographic and chemical analysis (original) (raw)
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Ceramics from the mining site of Serabit el-Khadem, Sinai, stored at the Harvard Semitic Museum
When the results of the work carried out by the expeditions to Serabit el-Khadem by Petrie (1905), Starr and Valbelle (1935) and Bonnet (‘90s) are observed, it immediately becomes clear that the epigraphic, iconographic and architectural remains at Serabit have received a lot of attention. More mundane objects such as ceramics, faience and lithics have received much less attention. Despite this lack of attention these materials can still tell us much about the organization of the mining expeditions, the site of Serabit el-Khadem, and about their dependence on the Egyptian mainland. Moreover, the study of these objects might gain even more importance since new archaeological research at Serabit is hampered by the erosion and weathering of the steles and architectural remains caused by both human and natural factors. This study intends to step into the gap of material studies at Serabit el-Khadem by studying the ceramics from an assemblage which was collected in the temple area by Starr in 1935.5 Except for a short macroscopic study of ceramics gathered in the ‘90s under direction of Charles Bonnet and Dominique Valbelle, no pottery from Serabit el-Khadem was studied in detail. The material which will be used in this thesis comes from Starr’s expedition in 1935 and is currently stored at the Harvard Semitic Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The main goal of this study is to revisit this old museum collection in order to try and gain new information on Serabit el-Khadem and its mining expeditions without the need for new archaeological research on site.
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