Bait Challaf
 
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Geographical location of Bait Challaf in Egypt |
Bait Challaf ( Arabic بيت خلاف Bait Challāf , DMG Bayt Ḫallāf ; alternative spellings: Beit Challaf , Beit Khallaf , Bet Khallaf and Bayt Kallaf ) is a small village in Middle Egypt , in the Sauhadsch governorate . It is 10 km west of Girga and 24 km west-northwest of Abydos at the transition from the fertile Nile valley to the Libyan desert . In ancient Egyptian times, the area around Bait Challaf belonged to Upper Egypt .
Ancient Egyptian necropolis
Outside the village are five mastabas from the third dynasty . In the largest of these, called Mastaba K1 , seals of the Pharaoh Djoser and his mother Nimaathapi were discovered during excavations from 1900 to 1902 . The second largest mastaba ( Mastaba K2 ) is attributed by part of the research to Sanacht , a king of the 3rd dynasty. The third largest mastaba, K5 , belonged to a senior official named Nedjem-ankh .
literature
- Dieter Arnold (Author) , Helen Strudwick, Nigel Strudwick (Editor): The Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture . IBTauris, London 2003, ISBN 1860644651 , pp. 29 & 30.
- Jochem Kahl : Two änigmatic relief fragments from Beit Khallaf (with plates 8–9) . In: E. Graefe, Anke Ilona Blöbaum, Jochem Kahl, Simon D. Schweitzer: Egypt-Münster . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3447046333 , pp. 149-167 ( online ).
- Wolfgang Helck : History of Ancient Egypt (= Handbook of Oriental Studies. 1st section: The Nahe and Middle East , 3rd volume). BRILL, Leiden 1981, ISBN 9004064974 , p. 51.
Web links
- Website for the Mastaba K1 with further references
- Egyptological database Aha, Berlin List of different spellings of names
Coordinates: 26 ° 18 ' N , 31 ° 48' E