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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Myra Wysinger: [QB] [b]A Few "Pan Grave" Sites[/b] Members of the "Pan Grave" culture (ca. 2500-1500 BC), named for its shallow circular graves, served as bowmen and mercenaries in the Egyptian military and are attested in burials not only in Nubia but in Egypt itself. [b]Site 1[/b] The term "Pan Grave" was created by Flinders Petrie for a culture first discovered by him during cemetery excavation in Kahun, Upper Egypt in 1898-99. Kahun is known as the pyramid builders' town. [IMG]http://wysinger.homestead.com/maap.jpg[/IMG] [b]Site 2[/b] Friedman, Renée, Pebbles, Pots and Petroglyphs. Excavations at HK64, in: [i]The Followers of Horus.[/i] Studies Hoffman, 99-106. "The remote locality Hierakonpolis HK64 contains numerous graffiti and petroglyphs, and abundant surface ceramics and quartz pebbles. The evidence reveals a strong Nubian component and the presence of the nomadic Pan Grave people in the Pre- and Protodynastic Periods." [URL=http://www.hierakonpolis.org/site/hk64.html] [b]Hierakonpolis: The city of the hawk[/b][/URL] [IMG]http://wysinger.homestead.com/map7.jpg[/IMG] [b]A painted ox skull with a portrait of a Pan Grave chief from Mostagedda, Middle Egypt. Second Intermediate Period. (Now in the British Museum.)[/b] [IMG]http://wysinger.homestead.com/pan7.jpg[/IMG] At Mostagedda, Brunton excavated several small Predynastic villages consisting of hut circles and middens. Cemeteries range in date from the Badarian and Predynastic to Dynastic and Pan-grave (Second Intermediate Period, following the Middle Kingdom; Brunton 1937: 3-4). North of Mostagedda at Matmar more Predynastic graves were excavated, mainly in Cemetery 2600-2700. Scattered in different areas at Matmar were graves with Sequence Dates of 74-81 (late Predynastic, early Dynastic; Brunton 1948: pl. 8-10, 20). [b]Site 3[/b] SLIWA, Joachim, Siedlung des Mittleren Reiches bei Qasr el-Sagha, in: [i]Atti VI Congresso.[/i] I, 565-571. "The site of Qasr el-Sagha has a west and east settlement dating from the M.K., of which the first, probably destined for workmen, shows a strictly geometrical ground plan. The site was fortified and contained a number of 30 living units of equal size, possibly having sleeping room for 40 persons. The ceramics confirm the M.K. dating, at the latest the S.I.P. An interesting, typically XIIth Dynasty feature was the regularly curved "snake" wall, which here served no constructional or other function, since it was found below street level. Its symbolic function may be connected with a foundation ritual. The inhabitants of the town were probably engaged in mining activities at the nearby Gebel Qatrani. The finds in the eastern settlement point to a more workshop-like character there than in the western one. There is evidence for the Pan Grave culture at the site." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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