Excavation in Egypt at Tell el-Balamun

The Roman Street

The Roman street, discovered in 2003, runs across the site from north-east to south west along the axis of the earlier processional route to the main temple of Amun from the north-east gate of the Twenty-sixth dynasty enclosure, although the street continues also outside the enclosure towards the NE side of the site. Two levels of pavement were detected, dated to the second and fourth centuries AD.

A description of the main features of the street has been published in the paper, "Main Street, Diospolis Inferior", by Jeffrey Spencer, in N. Crummy (ed.), Image, Craft and the Classical World. Essays in honour of Donald Bailey and Catherine Johns (Monogr. Instrumentum 29), Montagnac 2005, p. 233-241. This account, however, covers only the north-eastern sector of the street lying above the entrance of the 26th dynasty enclosure wall, together with details of an adjacent Roman building. More information, including a description of other portions of the street, is accessible through the link below.

Additional details on the Roman Street

This document contains supplementary material to the paper quoted above, as well as a description of the other sectors of the street so far discovered. It is published only here in PDF format.

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