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el-Amra

Alternative site names: 
el Amrah; el-Amrah; el Amrah; Nag' el-Amra; Nag' el Amra; Nag' el-Amrah; Nag' el-Amrah; el-Amra
Site description: 

The Predynastic and Early Dynastic cemetery of el-Amra contained over a 1,000 burials. The site’s distinct material culture led to material being described as Amratian (=Naqada I). Material remains like stone vessels indicate trade with the north of Egypt and either Sinai or Nubia on account of copper, obsidian and gold.

Type of site: 
Cemetery
Timeframe: 
Cemetery (Predynastic Period, Early Dynastic Period)
Overlay map: 
Excavator's sketch map of el-Amra, superimposed on a modern Google map image. Created by Kristian Brink, 2015.
Relevant publications: 

Catalogue of antiquities of the earliest dynasties: found by Prof. Flinders Petrie at Abydos, Mr Randall-MacIver at El Amrah (Egypt Exploration Fund) and Mr J. Garstang at Beit Khallaf (Egyptian Research Account), 1901 ; exhibited at University College, Gower Street, London, July 1st to 27th.  [London], [1901].

Griffith, Francis Llewellyn 1901. Excavations at Abydos : the prehistoric cemeteries at El Amrah, Archaeological Reports 1900-1901, 1-3.

Hill, Jane A. and Tomasz Herbich 2011. Life in the cemetery: late predynastic settlement at el-Amra. In Friedman, Renée F. and Peter N. Fiske (eds), Egypt at its origins 3: proceedings of the Third International Conference "Origin of the state: predynastic and early dynastic Egypt", London, 27th July - 1st August 2008, 109-135. Leuven: Peeters.

Randall-MacIver, David 1901. A prehistoric cemetery at El Amrah in Egypt: preliminary report of excavations.  Man 1, 49-54.

 Randall-MacIver, David 1902. El Amrah and Abydos, 1899-1901. London : Egypt Exploration Fund.

Site gallery: 

El Amrah Map.jpg

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