Preliminary report of the 2003 campaign of the Belgian mission to Deir al-Barsha

Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts - Abteilung Kairo

Volumn 62, Issue , 2006, Pages 307-339

  Willems, Harco ^a   De Meyer, Marleen ^a   Depraetere, David ^a   Peeters, Christoph ^a   De Beeck, Lies Op ^a   Vereecken, Stefanie ^a   Verrept, Bert ^a   Depauw, Mark ^a  

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1. For the numbering of the zones, see H. WILLEMS/M. DE MEYER/D. DEPRAETERE/CHR. PEETERS/S. HENDRICKX/T. HERBICH/D. KLEMM/R. KLEMM/L. OP DE BEECK/M. DEPAUW, Preliminary Report of the 2002 Campaign of the Belgian Mission to Deir al-Barsha, in: MDAIK 60, 2004 (hereafter cited as First Report), pp. 248-250
2. See L. OP DE BEECK/S. HENDRICKX/H. WILLEMS, in: First Report, p. 254
3. Compare G. JÉQUIER, Les frises d'objets des sarcophages du Moyen Empire, MIFAO 47, Le Caire 1921, p. 64, figs. 168-169
4. cf. S. R. K. GLANVILLE, Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum II: Wooden Model Boats, London 1972, pp. 42-43 (no. 20) & pl. VIIIa
5. G. A. REISNER, Models of Ships and Boats, Cairo 1913, pp. XXI-XXIV. The funerary bier is one of the caracteristics of this type. Funeral barks have no rowers (p. XXIII), this must be the remains of a different bark than the one to which the group of nine human figures must have belonged
6. A contemporary fayence shabti (Cairo JdE 32856) was discovered nearby by G. DARESSY in 1897 (cf. G. DARESSY, Fouilles de Deir el Bircheh, in: ASAE 1, 1900, p. 28)
7. E. g. BM EA 40928 (C. ANDREWS, Ancient Egyptian Jewellery, London 1990, pp. 66-67, fig. 50)
8. A. KAMAL, Fouilles à Deïr-el-Barsheh, in: ASAE 2, 1901, p. 15
9. For the identification of Sen as the owner of this shaft, see H. WILLEMS, Chests of Life, MVEOL 25, Leiden 1988, pp. 76-77. The coffins and canopic chest of Sen are now in the British Museum (EA 30841-30842 and 30722)
10. and E. A. W. BUDGE, A Guide to the first and second Egyptian Rooms, London 1904, p. 48 for the rest of the tomb equipment
11. A. KAMAL, in: ASAE 2, 1901, p.15
12. P. E. NEWBERRY, El Bersheh I. (The Tomb of Tehuti-hetep), ASE 3, London 1893, p. 9
13. P. E. NEWBERRY, op. cit., p. 9 and pl. IV
14. REISNER'S unpublished plan of the tomb is less detailed, but more accurate (see E. L. B. TERRACE, Egyptian Paintings of the Middle Kingdom, London 1968, p. 12)
15. See M. DE MEYER/L. OP DE BEECK, in: First Report, pp. 258-259
16. In ancient Egyptian mythology, the turtle was regarded as an enemy of the sun god, hiding in the water to overthrow his bark. However, turtle flesh was also used in several medicinal applications. See H. G. FISCHER, in: BMMA 24, 1966, pp. 193-200
17. B. VAN DE WALLE, in: NouvClio 5, 1953, pp. 173-189
18. and at Qila el-Dabba (J. VERCOUTTER, in: BIFAO 78, 1978, p. 575 and n. 1)
19. For a detailed report of the Second Intermediate Period to early New Kingdom pottery of Deir al-Barsha, see J. D. BOURRIAU/M. DE MEYER/L. OP DE BEECK/S. VEREECKEN, in: Ägypten und Levante 15, 2005, pp. 101-129
20. See the comments in note 43 about this
21. and Sawäma (J. D. BOURRIAU/A. MILLARD, in: JEA 57, 1971, pp. 28-57)
22. See also A. M. DODSON, in: JEA 84, 1998, pp. 93-99
23. E. ROGGE, Totenmasken und Mumienförmige Särge: Altägyptische Totenhüllen bis zum Ende des Mittleren Reiches (unpublished PhD Dissertation, Universität Wien), 1986
24. In Thebes the occurrence of this architectural feature in private tombs points to an early Twelfth Dynasty date according to J. P. ALLEN and Do. ARNOLD; see J. P. ALLEN, in: P. D. MANUELIAN (ed.), Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson I, Boston 1996, p. 16 and n. 74
25. This date is challenged by H. WILLEMS, The Coffin of Heqata (Cairo JdE 36418), OLA 70, Leuven 1996, p. 23, n. 58
26. For similar mummies wrapped in palm rib mats, see F. JANOT, in: BIFAO 97, 1997. pp. 165-180
27. For the results of this survey see: C. PEETERS/T. HERBICH, Results of a magnetometric survey in Deir al-Barsha, Egypt, in:, Archaeologia Polona 41, 2003, pp. 245-248
28. T. HERBICH/C. PEETERS, in: First Report, pp. 237-283
29. C. PEETERS/T. HERBICH, Results of a magnetometric survey in Deir al-Barsha, Egypt, to appear in: Archaeological Prospection
30. see also: A. J. SPENCER, Brick architecture in Ancient Egypt, Warminster 1979, p. 33
31. For an overview of tombs of this type see: S. EL-NAGGAR, Les voutes dans l'architecture de l'Egypte Ancienne, BdE 128, Le Caire 1999, pp. 73-85
32. For an overview of similar masks see: A. DODSON, A Funerary Mask in Durham and Mummy Adornment in the Late Second Intermediate Period and Early Eighteenth Dynasty, in: JEA 84, 1998, pp. 93-99
33. A. J. SPENCER, Brick Architecture in Ancient Egypt, Warminster 1979, plate 3
34. First Report, pp. 272-282, Taf. 38-40
35. D. DEPRAETERE/M. DEPAUW, in: First Report, p. 282