Report on the excavation and the finds

Karin N. Sowada

Report on the excavation and the finds

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Abstract

Excavations at Saqqara in 1995 and 1996 revealed the previously unknown tomb of a Sixth Dynasty high official named Inumin. The stratigraphy, objects and ceramics from the tomb's burial apartments are discussed, elucidating the nature of burial preparations for a senior member of the bureaucracy at this time. Analysis if the material shows that the Burial Chamber was robbed several times before being sealed by deposits associated with local weather events. This likely occurred some time before the end of the third millennium BC.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Teti cemetery at Saqqara
Subtitle of host publication	vol. III. The tomb of Inumin
Editors	Naguib Kanawati
Place of Publication	Warminster, England
Publisher	Aris and Phillips
Pages	55-76
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Print)	085668810x
Publication status	Published - 2006

Publication series

Name	The Australian Centre for Egyptology
Publisher	Aris and Phillips

Keywords

Egypt--History--Old Kingdom, ca. 2686-ca. 2181 B.C.
Egypt Archaeology
Saqqarah (Egypt)--Antiquities
Material culture--Egypt

Conference poster "Evidence for Late Third Millennium Weather Events from an Old Kingdom Tomb in the Teti Cemetery at Saqqara"
Sowada, K. (Speaker)
12 Dec 2012
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Report on the excavation and the finds

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