The Anubieion at Saqqara IV
Pottery of the Late Dynastic Period with Comparative Material from the Sacred Animal Necropolis
by Peter French and Janine Bourriau
This volume continues the ceramic history of Saqqara’s Anubis temple, excavated from 1977 to 1979. Covering the Late Dynastic Period, it details burials from the mid-sixth century, the Anubis temple’s construction, and ceramics like embalmers’ bowls and offering vessels, supplemented by finds from the Sacred Animal Necropolis.
This volume continues the ceramic history of the Saqqara Anubis temple, excavated by the Egypt Exploration Society from 1977 to 1979. Volume III showed how the site was used for burials of royalty and high officials from the Archaic Period until the end of the New Kingdom. The present volume covers the succeeding Late Dynastic Period: from at least the mid-sixth century onwards, burials appear to have been made in the earlier shaft tombs as well as in a new cemetery in the sand. A temple to Anubis, god of the dead, was commenced at the same time, abandoned during the Persian Period but restarted around 400 BC. The ceramics include bowls used by the embalmers as well as offering vessels and the repertoire of the fourth century builders. Unpublished contemporary ceramics from the nearby Sacred Animal Necropolis elucidate and supplement the Anubieion record.
Peter French is an Affiliated Scholar of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. After graduating from Cambridge with a degree in modern languages, he spent 19 years working in industry, during which time he obtained the London University Extra-Mural Diploma in Archaeology, specialising in Ancient Egypt. A career change initiated 40 years of fieldwork in Egypt, concentrating on ceramics and small finds, at sites from Buto in the Delta to Qasr Ibrim in Nubia. He continues to work in the field, completing the study of ceramics from sites in which he participated, but is now principally engaged in their publication. Janine Bourriau is a Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute, an Emeritus Fellow of Darwin College and formerly Keeper of Antiquities in the Fitzwilliam Museum. She has worked for the Egypt Exploration Society at Saqqara and Buto and directed the recording and publication of the ceramics from the excavations at Memphis, Kom Rabia. She is now engaged in the study and publication of the ceramics from Saqqara and Buto.
- By (author) Janine Bourriau
- By (author) Peter French
Other Titles in this Series
The Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara
The Mother of Apis and Baboon Catacombs: The Archaeological Report
Volume 76
The Survey of Memphis IX
Kom Rabi'a: The Objects from the Late Middle Kingdom Installations (Levels VI-VIII)
Volume 115
Similar Books
The Western Nile Delta
ARCE Fieldwork in the Region of Kom Firin and Naukratis (1977-1983) Revisited
Archaeological Discoveries at the Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos
Vol. 2: Old Kingdom Wall, Papyri, Ostraca, and Leather Remains
The Southern Room of Amun in the Temple of Hatshepsut
Volume 2: Studies on Decoration and Ritual Function
Volume 11
Die Ägyptenworte im Ezechielbuch
Eine literarhistorische und religionsgeschichtliche Analyse von Ez 29–32
Du côté de chez Zeus
Fouilles de la Mission archéologique française du désert Oriental à Abû Qurayya (Dios) et Bi’r Bayza (y inclus O.Dios I 1-67)
Volume 98
La littérature de l’Égypte ancienne. Volume V
Nouvel Empire : XVIIIe dynastie. Eulogies et narrations royales, contes, enseignements et littérature d’idée
Lehrreiche Literatur
Die didaktische Gestaltung von Plutarchs Quaestiones Graecae und Romanae und Gellius' Noctes Atticae
Nouvelles perspectives sur le Traité anonyme du Codex Bruce. New Perspectives on the Untitled Treatise of the Bruce Codex
(Colloque international, Québec, Université Laval, 13 avril 2018)
Volume 11
Ägypten und Levante XXXIV / Egypt and the Levant XXXIV (2024)
Internationale Zeitschrift für ägyptische Archäologie und deren Nachbargebiete / International Journal for Egyptian Archaeology and Related Disciplines
Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries
Highlights from the first century of the Egypt Exploration Society
Volume 8
Archaeological Discoveries at the Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos
Vol. 1: Magazines, Animal Burials, and Miscellanea
Building an 18th Dynasty Tomb at Thebes
Construction Records from Mery's Funerary Complex (TT 95) in Context
Volume 4
Current Research in Egyptology 2024
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Symposium, Jointly Organised by the University of Liverpool, Swansea University, University of Birmingham, University of Oxford, and University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2–6 September 2024
From Egypt to the Levant and Beyond
African Individuals and Groupsain Cuneiform Texts from the Late Bronze Age
Volume 133
