Abstract
Preliminary report on the 2012 season of the Gurob Harem Palace Project, describing a programme of survey and excavation undertaken by the Universities of Liverpool and Copenhagen, and their British and international collaborators, at the site of Medinet el-Gurob in the Faiyum region. The principal tasks accomplished were surface collection and analysis of pottery, topographical survey field-walking for small finds, and excavation of the following: a second mud brick kiln dating to the New Kingdom, in the so-called ‘industrial area' of the site; a 5 × 7 m square in the area presumed to be the southern half of the palace; and a 5 × 5 m square in the northern residential area of the site. The project also mapped and studied areas of the Gurob cemetery subject to illicit excavation and looting during 2011–12.
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