Deir el-Gabrawi

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" Deir el-Gabrawi "
Moreno Garcia, Juan Carlos

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	908067
Doc. No	:	LA99j1g8zh
Title & Author	:	Deir el-Gabrawi [Article]\ Moreno Garcia, Juan Carlos
Date	:	2012
Title of Periodical	:	UCLA
Abstract	:	Deir el-Gabrawi, the most important Old Kingdom necropolis of the Upper Egyptian 12<sup>th</sup> nome, is formed of two cliffs, the northern one near the village of Arab el-Atiyat and the southern one near the village of Deir el-Gabrawi. Its tombs date back to the late Old Kingdom, although an earlier chronology has been suggested. However, no trace of a contemporary town has yet been found. Later on, a late Roman locality called Hierakon and the quartering of a Roman cohort were built in its close vicinity, and the dead from these settlements were buried in the tombs of the old necropolis. A rather peculiar characteristic of Deir el-Gabrawi is that some local governors simultaneously controlled the 12<sup>th</sup> as well as the 8<sup>th</sup> Upper Egyptian nomes during the 6<sup>th</sup> Dynasty.