Le mastaba E17 et la nécropole de l'Ancien Empire
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This third volume in a series devoted to the Musée du Louvre's excavations at Saqqara studies the Old Kingdom tombs discovered under the direction of Christiane Ziegler.
Around the mastaba of Akhethetep, whose chapel now preserved at the Musée du Louvre was published in Volume I, unfolds a necropolis...
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This third volume in a series devoted to the Musée du Louvre's excavations at Saqqara studies the Old Kingdom tombs discovered under the direction of Christiane Ziegler.
Around the mastaba of Akhethetep, whose chapel now preserved at the Musée du Louvre was published in Volume I, unfolds a necropolis hitherto unknown with the exception of the small decorated chapel E17 excavated by Mariette. The excavation of a series of stone and brick mastabas has revealed the topography and history of this northern zone of the Ounas causeway during the pyramid era.
The area yielded burials as well as numerous objects from the same period: fragments of bas-reliefs, steles, offering tables, elements of funerary furniture, ceramics... The scientific presentation of the results is accompanied by a series of multidisciplinary studies covering geophysical prospecting, hieratic inscriptions and graffiti, human remains, ceramics, mud bricks and their modulus, preventive conservation and restoration.
Carbon-14 analyses carried out on samples taken during excavations shed light on the chronology of the Old Kingdom. The texts are abundantly illustrated with around a hundred figures and plans, as well as over 300 color photographs.
French
415 pages
Coédition Peeters / Louvre éditions
Collection Fouilles du Louvre à Saqqara, n°3
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