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Overview Balat and research areas (D. Laisney, G. Soukiassian, after Jeuthe in print c, figure 1, Laisney 2011, figure 12, copyright IFAO).
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... area of Balat contains several sites, of which two are the most important for this paper. The main site is Ayn Asil, in particular the Southern Enclosure: the so-called Governor's palace (Fig. 1). It was built during the sixth dynasty and remained in use until the Early Middle Kingdom (ca. 2350-1900, and had three major building phases (see Soukiassian et al� A total of 1764 ground stone implements have been recorded at Balat since 2008. In the Governor's Palace, this number includes 381 already published items found in a ...
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... sites have direct access to sources for of this material, although not all the types of quartzitic sandstone are attested in the Balat area. However, the conglomerate (2)1 / (2)2 occurs approximately 30 km from Balat. In Aswan, possible corresponding quarries for variant (2)5 are known at Qubbet el-Hawa at the West bank (Harrell & Storemyr 2009: fig. 7, fig. ...
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... different stress marks, and the edges are (in some cases) rounded or appear to have a scraper-like shape. Tools within this category are often used in multiple ways, with whetstones designated as the tools with the most specific purpose. Whetstones bear clear whetting channels, either with a V-shape (possibly indicating edges such as knives etc.; Fig. 5: 3567-11) or more often a U-shape to rounded section (which may imply work on bone or wooden items; Fig. 5: 3927-37). A whetstone can also bear both kinds of channels ( Fig. 5: ...
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... designated as the tools with the most specific purpose. Whetstones bear clear whetting channels, either with a V-shape (possibly indicating edges such as knives etc.; Fig. 5: 3567-11) or more often a U-shape to rounded section (which may imply work on bone or wooden items; Fig. 5: 3927-37). A whetstone can also bear both kinds of channels ( Fig. 5: ...
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... category comprises all remaining netherstones (i.e. work boards, lapstones, slabs, …) without distinct traces of a specific use (Fig. 6: 3621-16). They are predominately made from harder stone materials and often from (broken) grinding stones. Netherstones are in most cases carefully made and relatively small; massive, non-portable items occur only exceptionally. They can bear multi-directional traces (such as multi- directional scratch marks; One may presume that they were ...
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... this way Egyptian Pharaonic culture, both in the Nile Valley and the oasis, demonstrate a specific pattern regarding grinding stones. Moreover, it should be noted that on-site production has never been identified. fig. 7, fig. 31). At first sight, the stone there strongly resembles our variant (2)5. This remains to be confirmed by petrographic analysis. Moreover, these workshops seem have been used specifically for the production of grinding stones, because the raw materials at these quarries were never the primary choice for other tools attested in our ...
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