DOI issue:
Egypt
DOI article:Myśliwiec, Karol: Saqqara: archaeological activities, 2005
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42091#0171
SAQQARA
EGYPT
may be dated with considerable prob-
ability to earlier times, perhaps even
earlier than the Fifth Dynasty,
g) In the next phase, a huge rectangular
structure (shaft?) was constructed inside
this building, just behind its western
facade. Nothing but the western part of
this structure has been excavated so far.
The west wall measured along the inner
face is 2.90 m long. Further explorations
should determine the actual E-W
extension of the structure, but its
considerable size is already suggested by
the excavated part. The walls are built of
small irregular blocks ol local limestone
and tafl. The west wall ol the 'shaft'
destroyed part of the earlier facade and
its inner face did not line up with the
front of the facade. The distance between
the two vertical faces varies from 0.30 m
in the north to c. 0.48 m in the south.
The inner faces of the 'shaft' were coated
with black/grey mud. The size and
technical details suggest a date in the
Sixth Dynasty, possibly at the begin-
ning.
h) Some time later, the large 'shaft' was re-
used for another purpose. Its western
part was divided into two smaller shafts,
the northern one c. 1.30 m E-W by
1.30 m N-S at the mouth and 1.20 m
deep, the southern one c. 1.13 m E-W
by 0.98 m N-S and 1.00 m deep by the
south wall. The continuous east wall of
the two, as well as the wall between
them, were built of irregular limestone
blocks in their lower part (c. 1.00 m
high at the south side of the northern
Fig. 11. The floor meeting the ceiling at the southern extent of the unfinished 'tomb'
(Photo j. Dqbrowski)
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EGYPT
may be dated with considerable prob-
ability to earlier times, perhaps even
earlier than the Fifth Dynasty,
g) In the next phase, a huge rectangular
structure (shaft?) was constructed inside
this building, just behind its western
facade. Nothing but the western part of
this structure has been excavated so far.
The west wall measured along the inner
face is 2.90 m long. Further explorations
should determine the actual E-W
extension of the structure, but its
considerable size is already suggested by
the excavated part. The walls are built of
small irregular blocks ol local limestone
and tafl. The west wall ol the 'shaft'
destroyed part of the earlier facade and
its inner face did not line up with the
front of the facade. The distance between
the two vertical faces varies from 0.30 m
in the north to c. 0.48 m in the south.
The inner faces of the 'shaft' were coated
with black/grey mud. The size and
technical details suggest a date in the
Sixth Dynasty, possibly at the begin-
ning.
h) Some time later, the large 'shaft' was re-
used for another purpose. Its western
part was divided into two smaller shafts,
the northern one c. 1.30 m E-W by
1.30 m N-S at the mouth and 1.20 m
deep, the southern one c. 1.13 m E-W
by 0.98 m N-S and 1.00 m deep by the
south wall. The continuous east wall of
the two, as well as the wall between
them, were built of irregular limestone
blocks in their lower part (c. 1.00 m
high at the south side of the northern
Fig. 11. The floor meeting the ceiling at the southern extent of the unfinished 'tomb'
(Photo j. Dqbrowski)
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