DOI issue:
Egypt
DOI article:Trzciński, Jerzy; Kuraszkiewicz, Kamil O.; Welc, Fabian: Preliminary report on geoarchaeological research in West Saqqara
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42093#0202
SAQQARA
EGYPT
carbonate (CaC03) — this is the so-called
lower red layer — L3 (Welc 2009: 176,
Fig. 4). The next layer, L4, which is of
gray-green color, is composed of local
limestone (angular, ranging from gravel to
boulder), fine rounded gravel of quartz
grains, fragments of crushed mud-brick
mixed with sand and fine-grained local
limestone. Closing this sequence is the so-
called upper red layer (L5), composed of red
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Fig 1. Area adjoining the foundation of the Netjerykhet enclosure wall examined in 2007: dashed line
marks edge exposures, numbers with arrows identify individual exposures
(DrawingK.O. Kuraszkiewicz, J. Trzcmski)
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