The Tomb of Maket and its Mycenaean Import

Abstract

In 1889 Petrie discovered and cleared a tomb at Kahun in the Fayum, Egypt. It contained a succession of burials in coffins and boxes which had not been disturbed after the final interment. Principally on the evidence of a large collection of beads, Petrie dated the use of the tomb to the Nineteenth-Twentieth Dynasties. This was queried by von Bissing, and after reconsidering the finds, Petrie decided that the tomb has been used during the reign of Tuthmosis III (1504– 1450 B.C.). Since then the tomb has usually been referred to as approximately or possibly of the reign of Tuthmosis III, and in his study of the sixteen Cypriote pots from the tomb Merrillees says there can be no doubt that all the interments were made during the reign ofthat pharaoh.The aim of this paper is to establish as closely as possible the period of the use of the tomb, and to place in its context a small Mycenaean IIB squat jar, the only Aegean object found in the tomb.

Dating the Aegean Late Bronze Age With Radiocarbon: Addendum

“…(3) LM II/LH IIB The only secure evidence is a vase from LH IIB from Kahun from an Egyptian tomb dated to the reign of Tuthmosis I11 (Hankey and Tufnell 1973). This Mycenaean import indicates that LH IIB and the contemporary LM I1 were contemporary or earlier than the reign of Tuthmosis 111.…”