Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (10.1998(1999))

_WEST SAQQARA

EGYPT

and a long architrave found lying upside
down, i.e., decorated side face down. The
first two elements are of a hard white
limestone, providing no problems with
their preservation; the lintel, however, is

of a particularly friable local "mudstone",
which required a long and complicated
conservation treatment before it could
even be overturned and recorded without
danger of complete disintegration.

Fig. 5. Shaft 2, vertical and horizontal cross-sections.
(Drawing M. Puszkarski)


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