Fadrus
In archaeology, Fadrus refers to a cemetery excavated in Lower Nubia close to a place once called Hillet Fadrus or Qadrus. It was lying in the district of Debeira-East. The cemetery was excavated in the early 1960s by a team of archaeologists from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, hence the expedition was called The Scandinavian Joint Expedition to Sudanese Nubia. The excavations were part of an international rescue program as the building of the Aswan dam flooded this area shortly after. The area is composed of 690 tombs ranging from interments without grave goods to decorated tombs-chapels.[1]
680 burials were excavated at Fadrus. They date from the beginning to the end of the 18th Dynasty of the Egyptian New Kingdom.[2] The burials are mostly simple shaft tombs with a single body and some funerary goods. In 128 burials were found remains of coffins, otherwise the people were buried with personal adornments, with toilet equipment, weapons and many pottery vessels. Metal fittings found belong most likely to objects made of organic material. Many of them might once have belong to furniture.
Fadrus was in the Egyptian New Kingdom occupied by Egyptians. It is not known whether the burials belonged to Nubians or Egyptians. The burial customs are close to contemporary Egyptian customs of people of not high social standing.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Wendrich, Willeke (2011-09-26). Egyptian Archaeology. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781444359336.
- ^ Torgny Säve-Söderbergh: New Kingdom Pharaonic Sites, The Finds and the Sites, The Scandinavian Joint Expedition to Sudaneses Nubia, Volume 5:2, Uppsala 1991, ISBN 9170810303, pp. 247
- ^ Stuart Smith: Hekanefer and the Lower Nubian Princes: Entanglement, Double Identity or Topos and Mimesis? In H. Amstutz, A. Dorn, M. Müller, M. Ronsdorf, S. Uljas (editors), Fuzzy Boundaries Festschrift für Antonio Loprieno, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-943955-60-6, p. 772
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