Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (19.2007(2010))

SAQQARA

EGYPT

OTHER SHAFTS
Among the pottery of the late Old Kingdom
from the other shafts explored this season,
a few pieces rare in our assemblage deserve
note. Of interest is bread mold SQ 1861
[Fig. 4, bottom] found in burial shaft 71. It
represents a type (Form 215, Fate Old
Kingdom vessel typology after Rzeuska

2006: passim) displaying characteristic outer
surface treatment in the form of scratching
with a brush or bundle of straw. To date,
vessels of this kind have occurred solely in
archaeological contexts from Phase III (first
half of Pepi II’s rule), but the surface
treatment and especially the hole pierced in
the bottom already foreshadow traits typical


Fig. 3. Beer jarfrom Shaft 73


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