Report from Abusir 1997/98

The first aim of the excavation season was to complete the excavation of the Unfinished Pyramid of Neferefre (rather a sacred mound (jAt), as it is called in the papyri from the king's mortuary temple) of king Neferefre, as well as the work on the intact shaft tomb of the possibly 26th Dynasty lector priest and Controller of the Palace (of an unknown king) Iufaa. His mummy lay buried in a wooden coffin within a dark-greenish basalt sarcophagus resting in the anthropomorphic cavity hewn out in the solid limestone sarcophagus. (OEB)