Ramesses III prisoner tiles

[3] Large numbers of faience tiles have been found in these areas by sebakh-diggers since 1903;[4] the best known are those depicting foreign people or prisoners.

[4] They are considered of significant historical and ethnographical interest, given the representation of neighbouring populations during the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt (1189 BC–1077 BC).

The prisoners' arms are often tied, and in other tiles a white and black rope with acorns at the ends is shown around the neck.

[11] In 1903, the fellahin discovered remains of overturned doorways, still partly covered with their original decoration in enamelled tiles.

Some pieces disappeared, but most were collected by the "ghafirs" and sent by Howard Carter, then Chief Inspector of the EAS in Upper Egypt, to the Cairo Museum, together with four of the pillars and an overdoor to which they had belonged.