Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (12.2000(2001))

WEST SAQQARA

EGYPT

6) Chapel 4, with Shafts 11 and 12;
7) Shafts 5 and 6;
8) Chapel 5 (Ni-Pepy) with Shafts 29(?)
and 32;
9) Chapel 6, with Shafts 18 and 21.
Documentation activities included
a geological profile (layers of limestone and
marl in the shafts; samples secured for

geological analysis); collecting evidence of
tool-use in rock-cutting techniques
(photographs and casts); and a recording of
bricks, plasters, and mortars, etc.
Shafts 2, 14, 19, 22, 23, 31 were
backfilled, the last only partly, once the
documentation had been made; only the
top parts were left visible in the sand.

WESTERN SECTOR

Extending the oblong trial pit F 1,
excavated in 1999,5) further westwards by
15.20 m (linking the west side of pit F 1

with the present western border of our
excavations at the west edge of pit F 2) was
meant to test the “dry moat” hypothesis,6)


Fig. 3- Front of rock ledge with entrances to corridors l and 2 and to the funerary chapel of
Seshemnefer. View from the west (Photo J. Sliwa)

5) K. Mysliwiec, PAM XI, op. cit., 91 (fig. 2) and 98.
6) N. Swelim, The Dry Moat of the Netjerykhet Complex, (London 1988), 12-22.

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