![]() ![]() #NICE FIRE DOGS FOR A CHEAP PRICE HOW TO#Looking very much forward to the upcoming experiments in Asparn 2019, many thanks go for now to my great team of co-authors and supporters! Posted in Archaeology, Sai Island | Tagged dung, Experimental archaeology, Fire dog | 1 Reply How to cook like an Egyptian – experimental archaeology in Asparn/Zaya, Austria Of interest for future experiments would be, among others, to test a mixture of fuels and to trace the actual cooking activities in Bronze Age Egypt and Nubia further. This seems to be especially beneficial for dishes with long cooking or braising time like legumes, porridge and cereals. We briefly mention also our test with a fire dog and horse dung as fuel – which also turned out as very successful!Īll in all, the dung fires provide nice conditions for keeping good cooking temperatures – and this for a considerable long time, while preventing the fast cooling off of the fireplaces compared to our tests using wood only. ![]() For the measurements of the cooking pot we used a Colemeter WT700 Infrared Thermometer and a digital Type K Thermocouple, the latter especially for the fire and the pot filling. In the scientific article, we present all the results of our temperature measurements. Since AcrossBorders investigated the lived realities of people on Sai during the New Kingdom, this small sub-project is highly relevant. ![]() It’s the outcome of my practical class in experimental archaeology at Asparn 2018 and it gives an overview of our tests and possible future lines of research. I am very proud to announce the publication of a joint article about “ The question of fuel for cooking in ancient Egypt and Sudan” in the current issue of Experimental Archaeology. Posted in 18th Dynasty, Archaeology, Ceramics, Fieldwork, New Kingdom, Upper Egypt | Tagged Elephantine, Fire dog, House 55, Nubian pottery | Leave a reply Article on experiments of animal dung as fuel for cooking just published Research about the proper functional use of these devises thought to hold cooking pots above the fire will have to continue. At Elephantine, almost 50% of the ones found in 18 th Dynasty levels are coming from House 55! But the small number is completely different to the large amount of fire dogs we found within the New Kingdom town of Sai Island. These fire dogs continue to fascinate me – especially since my work at Sai. Among other interesting pieces, today I had the sixth piece of a so-called fire dog on my table. Today, I made a drawing of a very nice Black Topped beaker and was able to reconstruct its complete outline.īesides making drawings, I am busy with material excavated in the 26th and 27th seasons in House 55, thus more than 20 years ago. Within the fine ware, Kerma Black Topped cups and beakers dominate, sometimes with the silvery band on the outside characteristic of the Kerma Classique period. The Nubian cooking pots are mostly of Pan-Grave style with incised decoration, but a minority of the cooking vessels shows basketry impression and is very similar to pieces from Sai. Unique sherd of the famous Tell el-Yahudiya ware.Īmong my favourites are the Nubian sherds from House 55. Imports found in House 55, coming from the Levant and Cyprus, as well as a Of all three main categories during the last days, besides some very nice The importance can be of different character: 1) completely preserved vessel and thus significant for the corpus of shapes and pottery types 2) chronologically interesting piece and of significance for the ceramic phases and their fine-dating and 3) functionally relevant vessels including so-called hybrid vessels illustrating the intermingling of Nubian and Egyptian pottery making tradition on the island. ![]() I was busy in the last days with drawings of important pottery vessels from House 55. ![]()
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