DOI: 10.33547/Aegypt2025.12
The Early Dynastic Cemetery at Tell el-Murra, Eastern Nile Delta. The case of Grave 40
by: Magdalena Kazimierczak 
, Natalia Małecka-Drozd , Grzegorz Bąk-Pryc ,
Mariusz A. Jucha
in: M.A. Jucha, J. Dębowska-Ludwin, G. Bąk-Pryc (eds), Per vias Aegypti et Orientis Medii. Studies Presented to Krzysztof M. Ciałowicz, Kraków: Institute of Archaeology Jagiellonian University, Archaeologica Foundation, Profil-Archeo Publishing House, 2025, pp. 135-151.
Abstract: Tell el-Murra is one of the settlements located in the most densely inhabited area of the Nile Delta, i.e. its North-Eastern part. The site was occupied from the Lower Egyptian Culture to the end of the Old Kingdom, provided wide range of data from one of the most mysterious stage of Egyptian history, i.e. period of state formation. Much of this data comes from cemetery, exposed in the south-western part of the modern tell. Including season 2024, a total of 48 graves had been discovered there, dating from the Naqada IIIB (dynasty 0) until the Naqada IIID (2nd dynasty) period. Characteristic features of the cemetery at Tell el-Murra is the high percentage of burials equipped with ceramic coffins. One of such a grave is grave 40, discovered and explored in season 2017. This burial provides a wealth of interesting information about funeral customs of Early Dynastic Egyptians in the Nile Delta.