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Aksamit, Joanna: Stone Vessels from Edfu in the National Museum in Warsaw
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5. Vessels from
the deposit NO XXIII
(Old and Middle Kingdom):
a. cylindrical ointment jar
(inv. no.l 40193)
. ovoid fiask with neck
(139916)
c. globular vessel with neck
(140167)
cylindrical ointment jar
(139986)
The National Museum, Warsaw
(photo Z.
mastaba NOII has been sent to the Louvre.27 Directly beside the mastaba NOI
I was situated the famous mastaba of Isi. The superstructure of that mastaba
was documented by Alliot in 1933 and the burial shafts were excavated by the
Franco-Polish expedition in 1939.28 From those shafts comes a highly
remarkable set of stone vessels. The main burial chamber was thoroughly
looted already in antiąuity: only one schist bowl was found among the remains
of the eąuipment.29 Fortunately, the neighbouring burial shaft (no. XIX)
belonging to lady Sekh-Sekhet, the principal consort of Isi, was discovered
intact. The funerary eąuipment of Sekh-Sekhet included eight stone vessels and
one calcite table top, on which the remains of a gazelle leg were still lying at
the moment of the discovery. In the National Museum in Warsaw there are
three vessels of this group: the already mentioned large cylindrical ointment jar
with the cartouche of King Teti on the lid,30 the gneiss Meidum bowl,31 a smali
globular jar,32 as well as the table top (ill. 3).33 The most remarkable vessels from
shaft XIX were sent to the Cairo Museum: a globular jar with incised
decoration consisting of the ankh-sign between two uraei, and a pear-shaped
spouted jar with the handle in the form of uraei.34
27 Inv. no. AF 9167, see: Un siecle de fouilles franęaises en Egypte 1880-1980, Paris 1981,
p. 73, no. 69.
28 M. Alliot, Rapport sur les fouilles de Tell Edfou (1933), (Fouilles de 1'Institut franęais
d'archeologie orientale du Caire X, 2, later ąuoted as: Alliot, Raport 1933), Cairo 1935, pp.
8-16, pis. 8-10 ; Tell Edfou 1939, pp. 41-50; Ruszczyć, “Grobowiec...”, op. cit., pp. 58-61;
Un siecle de fouilles..., op. cit., p. 58.
29 Tell Edfou 1939, p. 176, no. 70, pl. XVI, 8, Cairo JE 71834.
30 Cf. notę 4.
31 Cf. notę 7.
32 Inv. no. 140697, see: Tell Edfou 1939, p. 175, no. 66, pl. XVI, 4.
33 Inv. no. 139963, cf. notę 11.
34 JE 71818, see: Tell Edfou 1939, p. 175, no. 65, Fig. 109, pis. XVI, 3; XVII, 3, and JE 71819,
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the deposit NO XXIII
(Old and Middle Kingdom):
a. cylindrical ointment jar
(inv. no.l 40193)
. ovoid fiask with neck
(139916)
c. globular vessel with neck
(140167)
cylindrical ointment jar
(139986)
The National Museum, Warsaw
(photo Z.
mastaba NOII has been sent to the Louvre.27 Directly beside the mastaba NOI
I was situated the famous mastaba of Isi. The superstructure of that mastaba
was documented by Alliot in 1933 and the burial shafts were excavated by the
Franco-Polish expedition in 1939.28 From those shafts comes a highly
remarkable set of stone vessels. The main burial chamber was thoroughly
looted already in antiąuity: only one schist bowl was found among the remains
of the eąuipment.29 Fortunately, the neighbouring burial shaft (no. XIX)
belonging to lady Sekh-Sekhet, the principal consort of Isi, was discovered
intact. The funerary eąuipment of Sekh-Sekhet included eight stone vessels and
one calcite table top, on which the remains of a gazelle leg were still lying at
the moment of the discovery. In the National Museum in Warsaw there are
three vessels of this group: the already mentioned large cylindrical ointment jar
with the cartouche of King Teti on the lid,30 the gneiss Meidum bowl,31 a smali
globular jar,32 as well as the table top (ill. 3).33 The most remarkable vessels from
shaft XIX were sent to the Cairo Museum: a globular jar with incised
decoration consisting of the ankh-sign between two uraei, and a pear-shaped
spouted jar with the handle in the form of uraei.34
27 Inv. no. AF 9167, see: Un siecle de fouilles franęaises en Egypte 1880-1980, Paris 1981,
p. 73, no. 69.
28 M. Alliot, Rapport sur les fouilles de Tell Edfou (1933), (Fouilles de 1'Institut franęais
d'archeologie orientale du Caire X, 2, later ąuoted as: Alliot, Raport 1933), Cairo 1935, pp.
8-16, pis. 8-10 ; Tell Edfou 1939, pp. 41-50; Ruszczyć, “Grobowiec...”, op. cit., pp. 58-61;
Un siecle de fouilles..., op. cit., p. 58.
29 Tell Edfou 1939, p. 176, no. 70, pl. XVI, 8, Cairo JE 71834.
30 Cf. notę 4.
31 Cf. notę 7.
32 Inv. no. 140697, see: Tell Edfou 1939, p. 175, no. 66, pl. XVI, 4.
33 Inv. no. 139963, cf. notę 11.
34 JE 71818, see: Tell Edfou 1939, p. 175, no. 65, Fig. 109, pis. XVI, 3; XVII, 3, and JE 71819,
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