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Friday 17 December
For this day off we went to visit Deir el-Medina. After doing the temple and tombs, we went for a walk around the back of Sheikh Abdel Qurna, and visited the so-called 'Sankhkare temple', named so as it was thought to be a temple of the 11th dynasty successor to Nebhepetre Mentuhotep. No evidence of this attribution has been found, and a case was made in the early 1990s that it was actually the mortuary temple of Amenemhat I before he moved north to Lisht. Then on round the hill, where we ended up in the courtyard of the Middle Kingdom tomb of Dagi (TT103), which later became the Coptic monastery of Epiphanius. The inside of this tomb was occupied by a number of large bats, and going in there was like one of those horror films which has bats whooshing over your head!
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Above the Great Pit at Deir el-Medina |
The Graeco-Roman temple of Deir el-Medina |
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Cliffs near the 'Sankhkare temple' |
The tomb of Dagi |
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The Dig Diary 1999--Part 6
