Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (16.2004(2005))

SAQQARA

EGYPT

rows; the upper cells in each row contained
the name of the offering or rite, the middle
ones an indication of quantity and the lower
cells a unit of measure. Traces of poly-
chromy were visible in places: black on the
hair of the tp sign, green on the SW sign
and blue on the hr sign. The inscription
and the offering list are antithetically
oriented, thus the block most probably
belonged to a scene depicting the tomb
owner sitting at the offering table, in front
of an offering list. However, the name of
the deceased is not to be ascertained.
A false door was carved on the back of
the slab and decorated with inscriptions
and figural representations in shallow sun-
ken relief. The whole surface of the false
door was painted red in imitation of gra-
nite. The fragments found in 2004 pre-
served parts of the inner lintel, the ad-
joining left jamb and a panel of the false
door. The fragment S/04/10a adjoins another

fragment (S/03/05), found in 2003 in
square 1906 near Chapel 15 (Temi), but
without a preserved back. The rear part of
a lion-legged chair is visible in the panel,
and fragments of two columns of inscrip-
tion on the lintel and jamb:
(1) Phj (2) [...] jwn [Kn]mwt [...]
(1) Pehi (2) [...] Support of Kenemut20
The name of the owner, the style of the
relief, as well as the red color of the surface
identify these fragments as belonging to
the upper part of the false door of Pehi
(Pehenptah), found in situ in Chapel 3
(square 2002).21 Another small fragment
(S/04/10b) contains the final part of the
name Pehenptah (signs h and n) written
horizontally; it comes most probably from
the outer lintel of the stela, but has no
direct connection with the fragments de-
scribed above.

20 Jones, Index, 6, no. 22.
21 Kuraszkiewicz, ArOr, op. cic., 360-361.