DOI Artikel:
Firth, C. M.: Archaeological report: the destruction of the cemeteries in the neighbourhood of Dakka
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18105#0013
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Cemetery 96/1.
Dug in the high desert. Large communal burial-places with
two or more chambers entered from a central shaft. The contents
of the chambers were in the utmost confusion through plundering
and frequent re-use as burial-places. The scarabs point to this and
the next cemetery being from the period of Thothmes III and Ameno-
phis III onwards. There were very considerable quantities of pottery
in the chambers, much of which was of the Middle New Empire.
Cemetery 96/100.
Evidently a continuation of the above, containing the same types
of communal grave with the addition of a few single burials. Grave
106 had a later burial in the mouth of the shaft, which was plundered.
Beneath it, however, remained an undisturbed interment of the New
Empire, with a very complete equipment of pottery and funerary
furniture, including a fine bronze knife and axe, which were undoubt-
edly the actual weapons of the owner of the grave.
Both No. 96/1 and No. 96/100 had in their neighbourhood a
certain number of graves of the C-group period, but of the poorest
description. These are probably the original graves of a cemetery
of which the use was continued in the New Empire. It is, however,
quite possible that when poor C-group graves are found in the neigh-
bourhood of those of the New Empire, the burials are those of slaves.
These C-group graves are roughly roofed with sandstone, and covered
with a low heap of sand and pebbles.
Cemetery 96/300.
Kepeats on a smaller scale what has been observed in No. 96/1
and No. 96/100.
Cemetery 97.
A large C-group cemetery dug in drift-sand with remains of the
usual stone cairns or superstructures with incised pottery bowls and
jars in position. The cemetery had, however, been entirely plundered.
Cemetery 96/1.
Dug in the high desert. Large communal burial-places with
two or more chambers entered from a central shaft. The contents
of the chambers were in the utmost confusion through plundering
and frequent re-use as burial-places. The scarabs point to this and
the next cemetery being from the period of Thothmes III and Ameno-
phis III onwards. There were very considerable quantities of pottery
in the chambers, much of which was of the Middle New Empire.
Cemetery 96/100.
Evidently a continuation of the above, containing the same types
of communal grave with the addition of a few single burials. Grave
106 had a later burial in the mouth of the shaft, which was plundered.
Beneath it, however, remained an undisturbed interment of the New
Empire, with a very complete equipment of pottery and funerary
furniture, including a fine bronze knife and axe, which were undoubt-
edly the actual weapons of the owner of the grave.
Both No. 96/1 and No. 96/100 had in their neighbourhood a
certain number of graves of the C-group period, but of the poorest
description. These are probably the original graves of a cemetery
of which the use was continued in the New Empire. It is, however,
quite possible that when poor C-group graves are found in the neigh-
bourhood of those of the New Empire, the burials are those of slaves.
These C-group graves are roughly roofed with sandstone, and covered
with a low heap of sand and pebbles.
Cemetery 96/300.
Kepeats on a smaller scale what has been observed in No. 96/1
and No. 96/100.
Cemetery 97.
A large C-group cemetery dug in drift-sand with remains of the
usual stone cairns or superstructures with incised pottery bowls and
jars in position. The cemetery had, however, been entirely plundered.