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The tombs of Kaisebi (AS 76) and Ptahwer (AS76b) at Abusir South; ; ; The excavations at Abusir South have already uncoveredmany tombs that have added valuable information tothe general knowledge of the development of the OldKingdom society, its burial and funeral habits, and last butnot least social relations and their impact on the lives ofancient Egyptian officials. One of the latest discoveries isthe tomb of “the elder of the judicial hall”, Kaisebi (AS 76),and the adjoining tomb of Ptahwer (AS 76b), which arelocated to the south of the anonymous mastaba (AS 54),lying on the most prominent spot of the whole AbusirSouth area. Kaisebi and Ptahwer built their tombsbetween this huge mastaba (AS 54) and a recentlydiscovered 18.5 m long ship, both dated to the end of theThird Dynasty.Tomb AS 76 was constructed in two phases in thecourse of the late Fifth and Sixth Dynasties. The first oneconsisted of a rather small rectangular mastaba with achapel, a northern niche, a serdab, and two shafts. Thecruciform chapel of Kaisebi’s mastaba with colourful wallpaintings contains a well-preserved false door in situ. Lateron, the original structure was enlarged by an annexe(AS 76b) attached to the eastern wall of AS 76, whichincluded another offering place and two burial shafts.

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Djedkare’s pyramid complex:Preliminary report of the 2016 season; ; ; The article presents the results of the 2016 archaeologicalseason of the Egyptian mission in the pyramid complex ofKing Djedkare in South Saqqara. The works focused on thewestern part of the causeway where remains of a drainagewas documented, and on the storerooms situated to thesouth of the entrance passage. During this work, also thenorth side of the so-called southern massive was cleaned.Besides the funerary temple, also the private cemeterylocated to the south-east of it started to be documented inthis season. A mud brick structure, MS 1, was cleaned; itconsisted of six shafts with vaulted burial chambers. Onlyone of the chambers (in shaft 5) was cased with limestoneslabs, which bear a well preserved painted decoration. Thisburial chamber belonged to Pepyankh Setju and can bedated to the late Sixth Dynasty. Another part of the work in2016 concentrated inside the pyramid of the king. Theconsolidation and restoration works were carried out inthe burial apartments, concentrating on the missing part ofthe eastern wall of the antechamber and the core behind it.

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A preliminary report on the excavations of tomb AS 91at Abusir South (autumn season 2016); ; ; This article summarises the excavations of tomb AS 91,uncovered during the autumn season of 2016 at AbusirSouth. The mastaba was highly damaged and itssuperstructure had almost completely disappeared. Threeshafts were detected in the mastaba core. Shafts 1 and 2were rather shallow, but to the contrary, Shaft 3 wasconsiderably deeper, and at its bottom, an unfinished burialchamber was hewn. The burial had been looted, buta few fragmentarily preserved human bones, a fairly highnumber of animal remains, and even two Barn Owlskeletons were collected there. The archaeological reportis supported by an archaeozoological analysis of theanimal remains and by an anthropological study of thefragmentary human bones.

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In memoriam Ahmad El-Sawi; rubrika: Eulogies; ;

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