The Continuation of Offering Practices from the Second Intermediate Period into the New Kingdom in Tell el-Dab^ca
Vera Müller

Relics from cultic meals deposited in huge pits are beside tombs closed contexts and therefore most valuable for creating relative chronologies. A few of these kinds of pits found in the forecourts of the temples and in cemeteries in Tell el-Dab^ca were cut only after the expulsion of the Hyksos and testify the continuation of the same cults into the New Kingdom. In this paper the development of certain pottery types from the end of the Hyksos period to the beginning of the New Kingdom will be discussed.