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el-Qantara

Alternative site names: 
el Qantara; Qantara; el-Kantara; el Kantara; Kantara
Arabic site names: 
قنطرة
Site description: 

This site in the north-eastern delta with evidence of settlement of the Middle Kingdom and evidence of increased importance during the Second Intermediate and Ramessid periods. 

Type of site: 
Temple; fortified town
Timeframe: 
Temple (19th Dynasty, Graeco-Roman Period); fortified town (Middle Kingdom-Late Antique Period)
Relevant publications: 

Clédat, Jean 1916-1917. Nécropole de Qantarah (fouilles de mai 1914). Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes 38, 21-31.

 Daressy, Georges 1914. Sarcophages d'El Qantarah. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 11, 29-38.

Chabân, Mohammed 1912. Fouilles exécutées près d'el-Kantara. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 12, 69-76.

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