The Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara

The Southern Dependencies of the Main Temple Complex

by Geoffrey Thorndike Martin

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Extent: 250 pages

Publisher: Egypt Exploration Society

Subjects: Ancient Egypt

Series: Excavation Memoir

Series volume number: 50

Language: English

(Hardback) (Out of print)

(December 1981)

ISBN: 9780856980770

Price: $23.00

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The volume documents the excavations within the southern partition of the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara (the Southern Dependencies of the main Temple complex). The structures comprise an extensive catacomb of Ibis Galleries with associated chapel and courtyard, a Coptic cemetery, and some New Kingdom surface burials. Appendices are devoted to find descriptions (amulets, glass, faience, human, plant and animal remains, etc.).


The volume documents the excavations within the southern partition of the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara (the Southern Dependencies of the main Temple complex). The structures comprise an extensive catacomb of Ibis Galleries with associated chapel and courtyard, a Coptic cemetery, and some New Kingdom surface burials. Appendices are devoted to find descriptions (amulets, glass, faience, human, plant and animal remains, etc.)

  • By (author) Geoffrey Thorndike Martin