Mostagedda

Mostagedda

Mostagedda Location in Egypt
Location	Asyut Governorate, Egypt
Region	Upper Egypt
Coordinates	27°4′59.99″N31°22′59.99″E / 27.0833306°N 31.3833306°E / 27.0833306; 31.3833306
Type	Necropolis
History
Cultures	Pan-Grave culture Badarian culture Ancient Egypt
Site notes
Archaeologists	Guy Brunton Winifred Brunton

Mostagedda is an archaeological site in Upper Egypt, 10 km south of Asyut and on the east bank of the Nile, which includes a necropolis that covers several different periods of Egyptian history from predynastic Badarian culture to Greco Roman. Notably, the site also includes burials from the Pan-Grave culture of ancient Nubia. ^[1]

British Egyptologist Guy Brunton and his wife Winifred excavated at Mostagedda and the broader El Badari district in the 1920s. ^[2]

Gallery

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  Badarian culture female figures
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  Vase in the shape of a hippopotamus
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  Axe with an inscription of Nebmaatre

See also

• Media related to Mostagedda at Wikimedia Commons

Further reading

• Brunton, Guy (1937). Mostagedda and the Tasian Culture: British Museum Expedition to Middle Egypt, First and Second Years, 1928, 1929. London: Quaritch.

References

1. Mourad, Anna-Latifa (31 October 2015). Rise of the Hyksos: Egypt and the Levant from the Middle Kingdom to the Early Second Intermediate Period. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. ISBN   978-1-78491-134-8.
2. Pleşa, Alexandra D. (2017). "Religious Belief in Burial: Funerary Dress and Practice at the Late Antique and Early Islamic Cemeteries at Matmar and Mostagedda, Egypt (Late Fourth–Early Ninth Centuries CE)". Ars Orientalis. 47. doi: 10.3998/ars.13441566.0047.002 . hdl:2027/spo.13441566.0047.002. ISSN   2328-1286.