DOI article:
Firth, C. M.: Archaeological report: the destruction of the cemeteries in the neighbourhood of Dakka
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The New Empire cemetery was dug in this ground as being more suit-
able than the higher desert with its loose stony soil. The New Em-
pire graves are rather long deep pits, with or without side-chambers.
The burials were in many cases made in coffins which had been entirely
eaten away by white ants.
Grave 125 was a large communal or family burying-place of the
pit and end-chamber type, and contained a large quantity
of the funerary pottery typical of the period.
Grave 128 had two side-chambers in opposite walls of the pit.
The northernmost of these chambers contained an extended
burial accompanied by some blue-glazed faience and a good
copper mirror.
Cemetery 94/200.
A group of archaic graves of the circular beehive type, mud-
plastered internally. Three New Empire burials were also found in
this cemetery.
Cemetery 94/300.
A large Ptolemaic-Koman cemetery of pit and end-chamber
tombs cut in the ancient alluvial mud, with door-blocks of vertical
sandstone slabs or mud-bricks. A few tombs contained mummies
in gilded and painted affixed cartonnages, but these, although appar-
ently in good preservation, had been entirely destroyed by white
ants, only the coloured and gilded plaster surviving the ravages of
these insects.
Cemetery 95/1.
A few poor graves of the Early. Dynastic period, together with
a few plundered New Empire burials.
Cemetery 95/100.
A patch of empty circular archaic graves.
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able than the higher desert with its loose stony soil. The New Em-
pire graves are rather long deep pits, with or without side-chambers.
The burials were in many cases made in coffins which had been entirely
eaten away by white ants.
Grave 125 was a large communal or family burying-place of the
pit and end-chamber type, and contained a large quantity
of the funerary pottery typical of the period.
Grave 128 had two side-chambers in opposite walls of the pit.
The northernmost of these chambers contained an extended
burial accompanied by some blue-glazed faience and a good
copper mirror.
Cemetery 94/200.
A group of archaic graves of the circular beehive type, mud-
plastered internally. Three New Empire burials were also found in
this cemetery.
Cemetery 94/300.
A large Ptolemaic-Koman cemetery of pit and end-chamber
tombs cut in the ancient alluvial mud, with door-blocks of vertical
sandstone slabs or mud-bricks. A few tombs contained mummies
in gilded and painted affixed cartonnages, but these, although appar-
ently in good preservation, had been entirely destroyed by white
ants, only the coloured and gilded plaster surviving the ravages of
these insects.
Cemetery 95/1.
A few poor graves of the Early. Dynastic period, together with
a few plundered New Empire burials.
Cemetery 95/100.
A patch of empty circular archaic graves.
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