Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (19.2007(2010))

SAQQARA

EGYPT

SAQQARA 2007
ARCHAEOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES
Karol Mysliwiec

The Polish archaeological mission in Saqqara continued work in the area adjoining
the enclosure of the pyramid of Netjerykhet on the west. The fieldwork lasted from
September 1 until October 24, 2007.1
Archaeological research was continued in both the Upper and Lower Necropolises.
However, the chief aim of teh present campaign was to continue the exploration and
recording of the archaeological structures located in the area extending between the
enclosure wall ofNetjerykhet’s pyramid and the tomb ofNy-ankh-Nefertem, in order
to complete the materials for the following three volumes of publications to appear in
the Saqqara series:
- Vol. Ill: The Upper Necropolis (i.e. the Ptolemaic Period burials in the stratum
surmounting the Old Kingdom structures) (Mysliwiec et alii 2008);
- Vol. IV: The Funerary Complex of Ny-ankh-Nefertem, to appear in 2010;
- Vol. V: Old Kingdom structures between the enclosure wall of the pyramid of
Netjerykhet and the “Dry Moat” (west section), to appear in 2012.

1 The mission comprised: Prof. Dr. Karol Mysliwiec, director of the mission; Dr. Teodozja Rzeuska and Dr. Kamil
Kuraszkiewicz, egyptologists; Agnieszka Kowalska, Malgorzata Radomska, Joanna R^dkowska, Fabian Welc,
archaeologists; Dr. Jerzy Trzcmski, geologist; Zbigniew Godziejewski, Magdalena Abramowska, Marta Banas, and Teresa
Zurkowska, conservators; Beata Blaszczuk, architect; Jaroslaw D^browski, photographer; Wladyslaw Jurkow and
Romuald Lewandowski, documentalists. The Supreme Council of Antiquities was represented by Mustafa Zaki Taha,
inspector. Sayed Kereti assumed the task of rats.
We should like to express our deepest gratitude to Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council, for his
unlimited support of our scholarly aims. Our project also benefited from the generous assistance of Magdy El-Ghandour,
Director General for Foreign and Egyptian Mission Affairs.
The fulfillment of our tasks would have been impossible without the practical approach and kind help of Osama El-Shemi,
Director General of the Saqqara Department of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, and Sabri Farag, Chief Inspector.
Their field experience proved inestimable in difficult moments.

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