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small, exceptionally beautifully executed stone implements. Cop-
per was not quite unknown.
Cilicia.61 An account of the Swedish contributions to the investiga-
tions of the archaeology of Asia Minor would not be complete
without a mention of E. Gjerstad’s journey of research in Cilicia,
on which without excavations he collected a rich material of
pottery from a large number of places in the Cilician plain and
the coastal area west of it. This material of potsherds has be-
come of great importance for the comparative study chiefly of
prehistoric problems in these and adjoining areas, not least as
regards Cyprus.
Excavations in Egypt.
Already in the i8th century King Charles XII sent a Swedish
expedition of research to Egypt, where certain investigations were
made. Swedes have later taken part in foreign expeditions.
Merimde Beni Salame02 is the site of a Stone Age village in the
Nile Delta, where H. Junker, the German, on the account of
the Egyptiska Museet in Stockholm conducted excavations.
Abu Ghalib03 is a neighbouring place which was excavated under
Swedish leadership first by P. Lugn, and after his death in 1934,
by Hj. Larsen. At Abu Ghálib a habitation-site from an early
part of the Middle Kingdom was found, and the object here was
that of investigating a problem which has formerly been given
little attention in Egypt, viz. how the people of this epoch lived.
Three houses arranged in quarters with right angles were ex-
cavated. In the middle they proved to have small store-rooms and
probably separated compartments for men and women. Interest-
ing details were examined, such as hearths, the rests of a kiln,
and an oven. Among the finds coarse pottery of partially new
01 Gjerstad, Cilician Studies, in the Revue Archéologique, 1934, p. 157.
162 P. Lugn, Svenska gravningar i Egypten 1931—32, in the Arkeologi-
ska studier (1932), p. 392.
Hj. Larsen, Vorbericht iiber die schwed. Grabungen in Abu Ghalib
1932—34, in the Mitt. d. deutschen Inst. f. agypt. Alt. in Kairo, 1935,
p. 41; —, On Baking in Egypt during the Middle Kingdom, in the
Acta Arch., Copenh. 1936, p. 51; —, Abou Ghalib, Fouilles de la mis-
sion suédoise, in the Chronique d’Égypte, Bruxelles 1937, p. 168.