Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (15.2003(2004))

WEST SAQQARA

EGYPT

POTTERY 2003

Teodozja Izabela Rzeuska

Most of the pottery reported on here came
from the Old Kingdom necropolis, from
contexts excavated in 2003 A A pottery
deposit consisting mostly of beer jars,
some of them whitewashed on the outside,
was recovered from a meter-thick layer of
limestone-chip debris overlying the central
part of the court in front of chapels 15, 16

and 17. More than a hundred bases were
recorded, demonstrating the presence of
two different types of beer jars, one with
a pointed base, the other with rounded
bottom. The deposit also yielded many
fragments of false-content fillings of un-
fired Nile silt and biconical stoppers
{Fig. 1). Many jars contained ashes consti-


Fig. 1. Biconical stopper fro?n the court in front of the chapels
Not to scale

1) Chapels 15, 16 and 17 and the court onto which they opened, and the shafts inside Corridor 2. Material not reported
on here will be presented once the investigations in specific areas are completed. For a report on the 2003 season of
excavations, cf. K. Mysliwiec in this volume. All the pencil drawings in this article are the work of T.I. Rzeuska,
U. D^browska, M. Muc, and were inked by M.Orzechowska.

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