In addition to post-excavation processing and analysis of the ceramic and environmental collections from Kom Rabi'a, three field projects were carried out in 1989. Limited clearance was done for epigraphic recording at the west gate of the Ptah temple (site BAA), where there was evidence of modification to the pylon and hypostyle hall late in the reign of Ramesses II. Drill cores were taken to the west and north-west of Kom Tuman, where our information about the early occupation and flood defences of the city has been greatly extended. Resistivity meter survey continued in the south-east of the ruin field, where two major anomalies were recorded: at the site of faience kilns excavated by Petrie on Kom Helul, and on Kom Qal'a, where traces of a large stone structure, perhaps a Third Intermediate Period temple, were found.
The Society's Survey of Memphis programme continued at Mit Rahina, running from mid-September to mid-December 1990. There were several interrelated field projects: excavation at Kom Rabi'a, where the water table was reached towards the end of the season at the level of late Twelfth-Dynasty occupation; the processing and study of small finds, bones and environmental material from earlier work at the site; drill cores made in the cultivation to the north-west of the ruin field; and resistivity meter survey at the site of the ‘Siamun building’ on Kom Qal'a.
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