Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (10.1998(1999))

_WEST SAQQARA

EGYPT

GENETIC-CLIMATIC INTERPRETATION
of Mineral Deposits Uncovered in Section N and Sections Perpendicular to It

Elzbieta Mycielska-Dowgiallo, Barbara Woronko

SECTION N - AREA I/E-F

Further work carried out in Area I in 1998
uncovered layers lying below those ana-
lyzed in the previous season.1) Two other
cross-sections were cut through the
deposits, situated at right angles to Section
N and hence of N-S orientation (Fig. 7). Of

these cross-sections one adjoins the rock
shelf with Shaft 1 (Fig. 2), while the other
is situated in line with the entrance to the
vizier's tomb (Fig. 3).
Further excavation eastward (uphill)
enabled the authors to examine the layers


Fig. 1. General view of the archaeological site at West Saqqara: 1 - upper level, point of measure-
ment of the pebble longer axis (Shaft 16, Fig. 6); 2 - section adjacent to rock shelf inside
Shaft 1 (Fig. 7); 3 - section in line with the entrance to the tomb of Meref-nebef (Fig. 8)
(Photo B. Woronko)

!) E, Mycielska-Dowgiatto, B. Woronko, Analysis of mineral deposits in the northern wall of pit 1, PAM IX, Reports 1997
(1998), pp. 106-115.

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