EGYPTIAN
ARCHAEOLOGY
Location of the various sondages (2002-11) conducted by the University of Poitiers. The areas shown in grey are those of the joint DAI/University of Poitiers magnetic survey by Tomasz Herbich (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences)
All these buildings (at least 15 have been identified) are set up in a regular street pattern. The houses themselves contributed to the formation of a circulation network, consisting of various streets of different types and sizes. This phenomenon is well known from other areas in Buto, and the geophysical survey revealed further
types of buildings such as cult installations, administrative buildings and storage complexes, but was also used in domestic architecture for the so-called multi-storeyd ‘tower-houses’ (also attested at Tell el-Daba, see pp.2931), as illustrated by clay or limestone models known from this period. 15