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Egypt
DOI article:Myśliwiec, Karol: Saqqara: archaeological activities, 2006
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SAQQARA
EGYPT
irregular shape, discovered and explored in
2005 (Mysliwiec 2007: 167-168).
The uppermost pavement is well visible
in the east profile of Shafts 38 and 62. Being
a layer of mud, c. 1 cm thick, set on an
agglomeration of limestone chips, pebbles
and mud-brick fragments, this pavement
was certainly connected with the
functioning of the two shafts, doubtless at
the very end of the Sixth Dynasty or at the
beginning of the First Intermediate Period.
Research inside the cult chapel of
Nyankhnefertem aimed at checking for
shafts hewn in front of the three false-doors
by its west wall (Mysliwiec 2004:
112 =Fig. 1 and 118-119=Figs 5-6\ 2006:
10-11 =Fig. 11). The western half of the
mud layer covering the rock was removed
revealing no shafts in the floor. It was thus
confirmed that the two large-size shafts
discovered east of the chapel in 2005, the
northern one containing a burial chamber,
were the burial and the ritual shafts of this
mastaba (Mysliwiec 2007: 156-158).
Anthropological studies were pursued
on the mummies and skeletons from both
the Old Kingdom and Ptolemaic Period
burials. The pottery found in the
necropolis was subjected to examination
and documentation. Palaeobotanical and
palaeozoological research was carried out
by specialists.
REFERENCES
Kuraszkiewicz, K.
2002 Inscribed objects from the Old Kingdom necropolis west of the Step Pyramid (with
remarks on their white coating), ArOr 70/3, Prague, 363-364
Mysliwiec, K.
2004 West Saqqara. Archaeological activities, 2003, PAM XV [=Reports 2003], 111-122
2005 West Saqqara, 2004, PAM XVI [^Reports 2004], 147-160
2006 Fragen an eine Nekropole in Sakkara [in:} Sokar. Das agyptische Pyramidenzeitalter 13/2,
6-17
2007a Saqqara. Archaeological activities, 2005, PAM XVII [ = Reports 2003], 155-168
2007b Saqqara, [in:} Seventy Years of Polish Archaeology in Egypt. Catalogue of the Exhibition
in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Warsaw, 134-135
Forthcoming Old Kingdom coffins made of Cyperus Papyrus, Festschrift dedicated to Professor
M. Verner, Prague, in press
Mysliwiec, K. et alii
2008 Saqqara III: The Upper Necropolis, Part I: The Catalogue, Warsaw: Research Center of
Mediterranean Archaeology PAN & Neriton
Welc, F.
2007 Exploration of an Archaic(?) funerary structure in Sector 2002, PAM XVII [=Reports
2003], 176-181
164
EGYPT
irregular shape, discovered and explored in
2005 (Mysliwiec 2007: 167-168).
The uppermost pavement is well visible
in the east profile of Shafts 38 and 62. Being
a layer of mud, c. 1 cm thick, set on an
agglomeration of limestone chips, pebbles
and mud-brick fragments, this pavement
was certainly connected with the
functioning of the two shafts, doubtless at
the very end of the Sixth Dynasty or at the
beginning of the First Intermediate Period.
Research inside the cult chapel of
Nyankhnefertem aimed at checking for
shafts hewn in front of the three false-doors
by its west wall (Mysliwiec 2004:
112 =Fig. 1 and 118-119=Figs 5-6\ 2006:
10-11 =Fig. 11). The western half of the
mud layer covering the rock was removed
revealing no shafts in the floor. It was thus
confirmed that the two large-size shafts
discovered east of the chapel in 2005, the
northern one containing a burial chamber,
were the burial and the ritual shafts of this
mastaba (Mysliwiec 2007: 156-158).
Anthropological studies were pursued
on the mummies and skeletons from both
the Old Kingdom and Ptolemaic Period
burials. The pottery found in the
necropolis was subjected to examination
and documentation. Palaeobotanical and
palaeozoological research was carried out
by specialists.
REFERENCES
Kuraszkiewicz, K.
2002 Inscribed objects from the Old Kingdom necropolis west of the Step Pyramid (with
remarks on their white coating), ArOr 70/3, Prague, 363-364
Mysliwiec, K.
2004 West Saqqara. Archaeological activities, 2003, PAM XV [=Reports 2003], 111-122
2005 West Saqqara, 2004, PAM XVI [^Reports 2004], 147-160
2006 Fragen an eine Nekropole in Sakkara [in:} Sokar. Das agyptische Pyramidenzeitalter 13/2,
6-17
2007a Saqqara. Archaeological activities, 2005, PAM XVII [ = Reports 2003], 155-168
2007b Saqqara, [in:} Seventy Years of Polish Archaeology in Egypt. Catalogue of the Exhibition
in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Warsaw, 134-135
Forthcoming Old Kingdom coffins made of Cyperus Papyrus, Festschrift dedicated to Professor
M. Verner, Prague, in press
Mysliwiec, K. et alii
2008 Saqqara III: The Upper Necropolis, Part I: The Catalogue, Warsaw: Research Center of
Mediterranean Archaeology PAN & Neriton
Welc, F.
2007 Exploration of an Archaic(?) funerary structure in Sector 2002, PAM XVII [=Reports
2003], 176-181
164