DOI issue:
Egypt
DOI article:Myśliwiec, Karol: West Saqqara: in 2002
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41370#0129
WEST SAQQARA
EGYPT
pyramid”. An offering table, made of white structure in the topmost layer. Some new
limestone, was found in situ to the east of fragments of the inscribed jamb discovered
the shaft, inserted into a mud brick in 2001, were also discovered here.9)
CONCLUSIONS
The results of the present campaign have The distance between the eastern and
proved the existence of a “dry moat” run- western edges of the moat is about 45 m
ning from north to south in this part of at the top, doubtless diminishing toward
the site. Its western facade, like the the bottom of the “moat”, if the inward
eastern one, contains rock-hewn tombs inclination of the facades further down is
that were used during the Sixth Dynasty. any indication.
9) Cf. contribution by K. Kuraszkiewicz in this volume.
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EGYPT
pyramid”. An offering table, made of white structure in the topmost layer. Some new
limestone, was found in situ to the east of fragments of the inscribed jamb discovered
the shaft, inserted into a mud brick in 2001, were also discovered here.9)
CONCLUSIONS
The results of the present campaign have The distance between the eastern and
proved the existence of a “dry moat” run- western edges of the moat is about 45 m
ning from north to south in this part of at the top, doubtless diminishing toward
the site. Its western facade, like the the bottom of the “moat”, if the inward
eastern one, contains rock-hewn tombs inclination of the facades further down is
that were used during the Sixth Dynasty. any indication.
9) Cf. contribution by K. Kuraszkiewicz in this volume.
127