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

Book cover: The Anubieion at Saqqara IV

Extent: 301 pages

Publisher: Egypt Exploration Society

Subjects: Ancient Egypt

Series: Excavation Memoir

Series volume number: 110

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(August 2018)

ISBN: 9780856982231

Price: $99.50

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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 Unpublished contemporary ceramics from the nearby Sacred Animal Necropolis elucidate and supplement the Anubieion record.

  • By (author) Janine Bourriau
  • By (author) Peter French