Forgotten Cemetery F at Abydos and burial practices of the late Old Kingdom

Karin N. Sowada

Forgotten Cemetery F at Abydos and burial practices of the late Old Kingdom

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Abstract

Abydos Cemetery F is an Old Kingdom burial ground that was excavated on behalf of the Egypt Exploration Fund by E. R. Ayrton and W. L. S. Loat in 1908-1909. It was never fully published. Cemeteries of this type were generally neglected in the past but the unpublished records of Cemetery F provide an opportunity to partially rectify this, especially when compared with the results of recent archaeological work nearby. Through the lens of Tomb F40, this article briefly re-examines what can be understood from this cemetery about the
social position and burial practices of a Sixth Dynasty population cohort from Abydos. Future systematic examination of the archaeological landscape, grave construction and burial goods of the remaining graves would illuminate the social milieu, economic position
and spatial organisation of the cemetery and the people buried within.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Egyptian culture and society
Subtitle of host publication	studies in honour of Naguib Kanawati
Editors	Alexandra Woods, Ann McFarlane, Susanne Binder
Place of Publication	Cairo
Publisher	Supreme Council of Antiquities Egypt
Pages	219-232
Number of pages	14
Volume	2
ISBN (Print)	9789774798456
Publication status	Published - 2010

Publication series

Name	Supplément aux Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte
Publisher	Supreme Council of Antiquities Egypt
Number	38

Keywords

Egypt--History--Old Kingdom, ca. 2686-ca. 2181 B.C.
Funerary archaeology
Material culture--Egypt
Abydos

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Ancient Egypt at the University of Sydney
Sowada, K. N., 1993, In: Göttinger Miszellen. 136, p. 99-102 4 p.
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Forgotten Cemetery F at Abydos and burial practices of the late Old Kingdom. / Sowada, Karin N.
Egyptian culture and society: studies in honour of Naguib Kanawati. ed. / Alexandra Woods; Ann McFarlane; Susanne Binder. Vol. 2 Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities Egypt, 2010. p. 219-232 17 (Supplément aux Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte; No. 38).

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Forgotten Cemetery F at Abydos and burial practices of the late Old Kingdom

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