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APPENDIX C
Jequier states, in Annales XXVIII, p. 58, that the offering-bearers in the temple of Pepy II were also people of the
court. Fitting fragments from one wall shown on pl. Ill add two more names to our list. The men bring food offerings
and live birds and animals.
(29) [smr] zvrty hry hb, Ny-Pepy.
(30) . . . Nekhty.
The list will probably be considerably increased when the reliefs from the Pepy temple are completely published.
In the chapel of Pepy’s queen, Wezebten, a number of the court ladies are represented (Jequier, La Pyramide
d’Oudjebten). All appear to have the title hqrt nswt writ.
(1) Henuwty.
(2) Zuw-f-tet.
(3) Huw-thauw.
(4) Khnum-khuwt.
(5) hnrt (?) Ilekenet.
Finally, in a survey of this sort one is struck with the great areas of the Saqqarah Cemetery which still remain to be
excavated, and with the lack of information which we have as to the actual burials of this great number of Old Kingdom
people. In most cases our knowledge is limited to the exterior of the tomb, to the chapel or the serdab. Again excluding
the Archaic Cemetery, the meagre evidence can be summed up as follows. Ka-aper (No. 36) had a square 3-metre pit
which although sunk to a considerable depth was unfinished and without a chamber. Sabuw (No. 39) had a somewhat
smaller pit which is still standing open but is unreported. The tomb No. 47 = E 3 (Sabuw), according to a reference
in Mariette’s introduction, p. 44, appears to have contained a burial chamber decorated with badly preserved paintings.
The sketch plan of No. 11 = C 12, and that of No. 54 = C 19 show each a pit. The burial chambers of Nos. 65 and
60 (Thiy) were entered by sloping passages. The owner of the first was buried in a red granite coffin, but that of Thiy
was of white limestone. A shaft belonging to the wife of Thiy is so far not reported.
The burial chambers of the Tety pyramid cemetery were characterized by the painted offerings and lists that decorated
the walls. In the tomb of Ka-em-senuw the chief burials were in panelled wooden coffins. The burial chamber of
Perneb is the only one reported from the strip north of the Step Pyramid. The chamber contained a limestone sarco-
phagus. East of the Step Pyramid Mr. Firth found granite sarcophagi in two of the tombs south of the Weserkaf temple.
The burial chambers of the mastabas south of the Step Pyramid are unreported save for that of Seshem-nefer excavated
by Barsanti. The latter had a pit about a metre square and 6 metres deep leading to a small chamber with a burial
receptacle sunk in the floor and covered over by a slab of stone. The receptacle contained a wooden coffin encased in
a wicker covering. The body was wrapped in well-preserved linen. The panelled limestone sarcophagus in Leyden
probably came from the tomb of Min-nefer at Saqqarah, but the position of the tomb is completely unknown. Mariette
states in his Introduction, p. 45, that he recovered five or six sarcophagi intact in the northern cemetery and that he
found the skeletons without trace of linen.
Objects from the burial chambers are practically non-existent and are reported only in the case of the Archaic
Cemetery and the Tety pyramid cemetery. Mariette states only that the chambers were furnished with a few red
pottery jars, a head-rest of wood or alabaster, and a few little model offering-vessels. Thus in contrast to the quantity of
statues and statuettes with which the serdabs were so richly endowed, and the wealth of inscribed material and reliefs
from the chapels, the Saqqarah Cemetery has so far yielded little material belonging to the actual burials.
2. LIST OF MASTABAS REPRESENTED ON MAP ii
Among the mastabas excavated by Mr. Quibell in the Archaic Cemetery few have yielded the name of the owner of
the tomb. Among the fragmentary inscriptions found, the following can be assigned to definite mastabas, although the
identification of some must remain tentative. For the small tombs see Figs. 58 and 59.
QS 2302: Ruw-ab-n: with the titles of carpenter and sculptor; inscribed on a stone vessel found in the burial-chambers.
QS 2146 E: Princess Sehefener: inscribed on a primitive niche stone. This was found in the debris of a pit and may
have come from any of the neighbouring mastabas.
QS . . .: Wep-ka: primitive niche stone not found in place.
QS 2331: Iset . . . -ka: primitive niche stone found in place in c.b. false-door.
APPENDIX C
Jequier states, in Annales XXVIII, p. 58, that the offering-bearers in the temple of Pepy II were also people of the
court. Fitting fragments from one wall shown on pl. Ill add two more names to our list. The men bring food offerings
and live birds and animals.
(29) [smr] zvrty hry hb, Ny-Pepy.
(30) . . . Nekhty.
The list will probably be considerably increased when the reliefs from the Pepy temple are completely published.
In the chapel of Pepy’s queen, Wezebten, a number of the court ladies are represented (Jequier, La Pyramide
d’Oudjebten). All appear to have the title hqrt nswt writ.
(1) Henuwty.
(2) Zuw-f-tet.
(3) Huw-thauw.
(4) Khnum-khuwt.
(5) hnrt (?) Ilekenet.
Finally, in a survey of this sort one is struck with the great areas of the Saqqarah Cemetery which still remain to be
excavated, and with the lack of information which we have as to the actual burials of this great number of Old Kingdom
people. In most cases our knowledge is limited to the exterior of the tomb, to the chapel or the serdab. Again excluding
the Archaic Cemetery, the meagre evidence can be summed up as follows. Ka-aper (No. 36) had a square 3-metre pit
which although sunk to a considerable depth was unfinished and without a chamber. Sabuw (No. 39) had a somewhat
smaller pit which is still standing open but is unreported. The tomb No. 47 = E 3 (Sabuw), according to a reference
in Mariette’s introduction, p. 44, appears to have contained a burial chamber decorated with badly preserved paintings.
The sketch plan of No. 11 = C 12, and that of No. 54 = C 19 show each a pit. The burial chambers of Nos. 65 and
60 (Thiy) were entered by sloping passages. The owner of the first was buried in a red granite coffin, but that of Thiy
was of white limestone. A shaft belonging to the wife of Thiy is so far not reported.
The burial chambers of the Tety pyramid cemetery were characterized by the painted offerings and lists that decorated
the walls. In the tomb of Ka-em-senuw the chief burials were in panelled wooden coffins. The burial chamber of
Perneb is the only one reported from the strip north of the Step Pyramid. The chamber contained a limestone sarco-
phagus. East of the Step Pyramid Mr. Firth found granite sarcophagi in two of the tombs south of the Weserkaf temple.
The burial chambers of the mastabas south of the Step Pyramid are unreported save for that of Seshem-nefer excavated
by Barsanti. The latter had a pit about a metre square and 6 metres deep leading to a small chamber with a burial
receptacle sunk in the floor and covered over by a slab of stone. The receptacle contained a wooden coffin encased in
a wicker covering. The body was wrapped in well-preserved linen. The panelled limestone sarcophagus in Leyden
probably came from the tomb of Min-nefer at Saqqarah, but the position of the tomb is completely unknown. Mariette
states in his Introduction, p. 45, that he recovered five or six sarcophagi intact in the northern cemetery and that he
found the skeletons without trace of linen.
Objects from the burial chambers are practically non-existent and are reported only in the case of the Archaic
Cemetery and the Tety pyramid cemetery. Mariette states only that the chambers were furnished with a few red
pottery jars, a head-rest of wood or alabaster, and a few little model offering-vessels. Thus in contrast to the quantity of
statues and statuettes with which the serdabs were so richly endowed, and the wealth of inscribed material and reliefs
from the chapels, the Saqqarah Cemetery has so far yielded little material belonging to the actual burials.
2. LIST OF MASTABAS REPRESENTED ON MAP ii
Among the mastabas excavated by Mr. Quibell in the Archaic Cemetery few have yielded the name of the owner of
the tomb. Among the fragmentary inscriptions found, the following can be assigned to definite mastabas, although the
identification of some must remain tentative. For the small tombs see Figs. 58 and 59.
QS 2302: Ruw-ab-n: with the titles of carpenter and sculptor; inscribed on a stone vessel found in the burial-chambers.
QS 2146 E: Princess Sehefener: inscribed on a primitive niche stone. This was found in the debris of a pit and may
have come from any of the neighbouring mastabas.
QS . . .: Wep-ka: primitive niche stone not found in place.
QS 2331: Iset . . . -ka: primitive niche stone found in place in c.b. false-door.