Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (15.2003(2004))

WEST SAQQARA

EGYPT

BURIAL SHAFTS IN CORRIDOR 2

Inside the chapels off Corridor 2 and in the
corridor itself,fifteen rock-hewn shafts were
now explored (C2/1-4, 7-11, 13, 15-17, 21-
22) (Fig. 8). Ten had a burial chamber or
niche located east, west or south of the shaft.
In nine of them there were skeletal remains

and in one case a mummy (shaft C2/3);
occasionally, there was a wooden or reed coffin
(C2/7, C2/13, C2/21). Remains of funerary
equipment, e.g. head rests (Fig. 7), small
figurines or a wooden box with pottery jars
(shaft C2/10)10> were found in some of them.



Fig. 7. Burial with head rest in the burial chamber of shaft C2/10, at the time of discovery
(top) and close-up (bottom right). The head rest, S/03/45 (Photo M. Jawornicki)

9) The corridor was discovered and explored in 2000, cf. PAM XII, Reports 2000 (2001), 111-119, 122-125, and 127-145.
10) For a discussion of this find, cf. below, contribution by T.I. Rzeuska, p. 138 and Fig.7.

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