Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean

Saqqara: seasons 2012 and 2013/2014/ Appendix: Conservation work in Saqqara (2012 and 2014)

2015, 24, No. 1

Zbigniew Godziejewski

National Museum in Warsaw

Urszula Dąbrowska

National Museum in Poznań

Karol Myśliwiec

Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0009.9720

Publication date

28.02.2016

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Humanities

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archeology

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English

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Abstract

After having finished the excavation in a zone located west of the Step Pyramid and spanning the area between the pyramid enclosure wall and the eastern border of the Dry Moat, the Polish–Egyptian mission started a new project aiming at a complex investigation of the Dry Moat. A geophysical survey of the area and excavations during these two campaigns focused on the east and west rock-hewn walls of the Moat, thus completing earlier research done in this part of the excavation field. A further part of the Upper Necropolis, containing simple burials from the Ptolemaic period, was unearthed and the exploration of the tomb inscribed for Ikhi/Mery and his namesake son was continued. Clearing the facade of the latter led to the discovery of another funerary structure cut in the rock below the general’s tomb. The floor of the upper tomb turned out to be the ceiling of the lower one. Preparations for the exploration of the new structure were made in 2014.

Keywords:

West Saqqara,Old Kingdom,Ptolemaic period,Dry Moat,Step Pyramid,Ikhi/Mery,rock-hewn tombs,burial shafts,burials of children,false door

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