Excavations at Abusif: Preliminary Report 1997/8

Zeitschrift fur Agyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 70-76

  Verner, Miroslav ^a  

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EID: 85026084113     PISSN: 0044216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/zaes.1999.126.1.70     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. For the preliminary reports on the hitherto excavations in the pyramid complex of Raneferef, see M. Verner, in: ZÄS 109, 1982, 159–162; 111, 1984, 70–77; 113, 1986, 154–158; 115, 1988, 77–84. (On the second main objective of the season, the opening of the intact sarcophagus in the Saite-Persian tomb of Iuafaa, see a separate preliminary report to be published in ZÄS by Ladislav Bareš).
2. L. Bares, K. Smoláriková, in: GM 156, 1997, 9–26.
3. M. Verner, in: ZÄS 115, 1988, 77.
4. Das Grabdenkmal des Königs Śaзḥu-Reʿ. I, Leipzig 1910, 146.
5. M. Verner.in: ZÄS 124, 1997, 78.
6. Some fragments of the pottery found in the entrance chapel date from the 12th Dyn. Is this find to be interpreted in the context of the short-lived revitalization of the mortuary cult attested not only in the pyramid temple of Raneferef but also in other pyramid complexes in Abusir at the beginning of the Middle Kingdom? For the Middle Kingdom finds from Abusir, see e.g. H. Schäfer, Priestergräber… vom Totentempel des Ne-user-Re, Leipzig 1908, 15.
7. The shift of the descending corridor to the south-east can be observed in the 5th Dyn. pyramids only (see e.g. V. Maragioglio, C. Rinaldi, Architettura delle piramidi menfite. II–VIII, Torino — Rapallo 1963–1977, passim).
8. It occured once more, and for the last time, in the pyramid of Senusret I, see D. Arnold, The Pyramid of Senwosret I, New York 1988, foldout I.
9. M. Verner, in: ZÄS 124, 1997, 73.
10. The term ḥwt was discussed in detail e.g. by P. Spencer, The Egyptian temple. A Lexicographical Study, London etc., 1984, 22–24. The meaning of ḥwt slightly differed in the Old Kingdom records. It was used for a “funerary estate”, “mortuary temple (of a king)” or the “cult centre”. The clear-cut archaeological context in which the lumps of stone inscribed with ḥwl Rʿ-nfr f were found seems to add another nuance to the meaning of the term.
11. A hitherto unknown name of a work crew from Abusir. One crew name was found by L. Borchardt on a masonry block near the entrance to the pyramid of Sahure (Das Grabdenkmal des Königs Śaзḥu-Reʿ. I, 92, n. 1). The names of four other crews were found on the blocks from Sahure’s causeway recendy discovered at Abusir by 2. Hawas (see Z. Hawas, M. Verner, in: MDAIK 52, 1996, 54–56).