Egypt
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Object Biography #2: A Label Of King Djer (acc. No. 6763a)
Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) A really good piece, putting the label into its Abydos context. With photos and illustrations. This small (1.8 x 1.9 cm) piece of incised bone doesn’t look like much, but it comes from one of Pharaonic Egypt’s most...
- Online: Serdab And Statue Placement In The Private Tombs Down To The Fourth Dynasty
Giza Archives Project Serdab and Statue Placement in the Private Tombs down to the Fourth Dynasty*) By MlROSLAV BARTA The following analysis and reassessment of the earliest statue/serdab attestations within private tombs evolved as one of the prerequisites...
- Egyptian Mastaba Had Its Own Afterlife
LA Times (Thomas H Maugh II) In Egypt, apparently even pyramids can be recycled. Archaeologists from the country's Supreme Council of Antiquities said this week that they had discovered a cache of 30 mummies dating from the country's 26th Dynasty...
- Kelsey Museum Of Archaeology Newsletter Fall 2007
Kelsey Museum Newsletter Thanks to a post by Mia Rikala to the EEF email group for pointing me at a newsletter which had not come to my attention previously: the Kelsey Museum Newsletter. The most recent issue is the Spring 2007 publication. This and...
- Kings Tomb Found At Abydos
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania's mission to Abydos have found the tomb of an early 13th Dynasty King Sobekhotep. The tomb containing a massive quartzite sarcophagus as well as pieces of canopic jars and a stele. The tomb appears...
Egypt
Abydos 2009 season of Kelsey Museum
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Thanks to Kate Phizackerley for posting the above link to her News from the Valley of the Kings blog. Conservators and excavators on the Abydos Middle Cemetery Project will be working at Abydos in 2009. There is a space-holder on the menu on above site for a blog and other features. Here's an extract of the introduction to the 2009 season. See the above page for full details, with illustrations.
During 2009, the AMC Project archaeologists will explore an area roughly east of the Idi/Nekhty tomb complex. Previous seasons have revealed votive chapels, a votive stela, and shaft graves in this area.This year they'll also investigate the final large, elite tomb complex in the late Old Kingdom part of the cemetery. Like the tombs of Idi/Nekhty, Weni, and Iuu, this tomb is a mastaba style tomb. A mastaba is a flat-roofed, rectangular tomb with outward-sloping sides. (Mastaba is the Arabic word for bench, and these tombs are so named because they resemble the benches outside shops in the markets.)
At Abydos, these tombs are constructed of mud-brick. Inside the mastaba, a deep shaft is dug into the ground, with the burial chamber at the bottom. Mastaba tombs also contain a chapel, where offerings to the spirit of the deceased could be left by his decendants, and a Serdab room. The Serdab room was completely enclosed and contained a statue representing the spirit of the deceased. Typically, the room had a small slit or opening in the wall which allowed the soul of the deceased to move about freely.
- Object Biography #2: A Label Of King Djer (acc. No. 6763a)
Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) A really good piece, putting the label into its Abydos context. With photos and illustrations. This small (1.8 x 1.9 cm) piece of incised bone doesn’t look like much, but it comes from one of Pharaonic Egypt’s most...
- Online: Serdab And Statue Placement In The Private Tombs Down To The Fourth Dynasty
Giza Archives Project Serdab and Statue Placement in the Private Tombs down to the Fourth Dynasty*) By MlROSLAV BARTA The following analysis and reassessment of the earliest statue/serdab attestations within private tombs evolved as one of the prerequisites...
- Egyptian Mastaba Had Its Own Afterlife
LA Times (Thomas H Maugh II) In Egypt, apparently even pyramids can be recycled. Archaeologists from the country's Supreme Council of Antiquities said this week that they had discovered a cache of 30 mummies dating from the country's 26th Dynasty...
- Kelsey Museum Of Archaeology Newsletter Fall 2007
Kelsey Museum Newsletter Thanks to a post by Mia Rikala to the EEF email group for pointing me at a newsletter which had not come to my attention previously: the Kelsey Museum Newsletter. The most recent issue is the Spring 2007 publication. This and...
- Kings Tomb Found At Abydos
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania's mission to Abydos have found the tomb of an early 13th Dynasty King Sobekhotep. The tomb containing a massive quartzite sarcophagus as well as pieces of canopic jars and a stele. The tomb appears...