The Tomb of Maya and Meryt III

The New Kingdom Pottery

by Barbara G. Aston, David A. Aston and Jacobus van Dijk

Book cover: The Tomb of Maya and Meryt III

Extent: 426 pages

Publisher: Egypt Exploration Society

Subjects: Ancient Egypt, Art & Art History, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Excavation Memoir

Series volume number: 117

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(March 2023)

ISBN: 9780856982453

Price: $99.50

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This volume details the pottery from Maya and Meryt’s tomb at Saqqara, highlighting 187 blue-painted vessels from the late Eighteenth Dynasty and Ramesside Period. It includes 96 color photos, design motifs, and inscriptions revealing vessel contents.


This volume presents the pottery from the tomb of Maya and Meryt (located in the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara) in its archaeological context. Volume I was devoted to the reliefs, and volume II to the objects and skeletal remains from the tomb. The closely dated burial assemblage of Maya (Year 9 of Horemheb) and associated offering pottery form the basis for tracing the development of pottery forms in the late Eighteenth Dynasty and continuing into the Ramesside Period. The wealth of blue-painted pottery (amounting to 187 vessels) is carefully described, the motifs represented in the designs are discussed, and aspects of the chronological development of blue-painted pottery are illustrated. 96 colour photographs are included showing many of these beautiful blue-painted vessels. Numerous inscriptions on the pottery provide interesting information on the actual contents of the vessels provided for Maya’s burial.

  • By (author) Barbara G. Aston
  • By (author) David A. Aston
  • By (author) Jacobus van Dijk