DOI Heft:
Egypt
DOI Artikel:Rzeuska, Teodozja I.: The pottery, 2005
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42091#0187
SAQQARA
EGYPT
ous finds of sherds on the necropolis in
West Saqqara belonging to a pot (or pots),
the shape has not been identified so far. The
vessel(s) cannot be associated with any
specific burials as the sherds were scattered
over a large area.
LATE OLD KINGDOM NECROPOLIS
The pottery material from most of the shafts
explored this season was not numerous, but
homogeneous, all of the ceramics being of
Old Kingdom date. None of the shafts
without burial chambers at the bottom - the
so-called ritual or false shafts5 — contained
any ritual deposits of red-slipped broken
bowls and plates. As far as burial shafts are
SQ 1703
SQ 1683
Fig. 1. Late Period pottery from the Upper Necropolis layers
(Drawing E. Klimaszewska-Drabot, inking Af. Orzechowska)
5 T. I. Rzeuska, "The Necropolis at West Saqqara: The Late Old Kingdom shafts with no burial chamber. Were they false,
dummy, unfinished or intentional?", ArOr 70/3, 377-402.
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EGYPT
ous finds of sherds on the necropolis in
West Saqqara belonging to a pot (or pots),
the shape has not been identified so far. The
vessel(s) cannot be associated with any
specific burials as the sherds were scattered
over a large area.
LATE OLD KINGDOM NECROPOLIS
The pottery material from most of the shafts
explored this season was not numerous, but
homogeneous, all of the ceramics being of
Old Kingdom date. None of the shafts
without burial chambers at the bottom - the
so-called ritual or false shafts5 — contained
any ritual deposits of red-slipped broken
bowls and plates. As far as burial shafts are
SQ 1703
SQ 1683
Fig. 1. Late Period pottery from the Upper Necropolis layers
(Drawing E. Klimaszewska-Drabot, inking Af. Orzechowska)
5 T. I. Rzeuska, "The Necropolis at West Saqqara: The Late Old Kingdom shafts with no burial chamber. Were they false,
dummy, unfinished or intentional?", ArOr 70/3, 377-402.
183