Mastaba S3506

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The Mastaba S3506 is located in Saqqara and was designed by a team led by Walter Bryan Emery excavated from 1954 to 1955. It is a monumental mastaba made of adobe bricks, as it is typical of the 1st dynasty in Saqqara.

The actual mastaba is 47 × 20 m in size. The former height is not known. The building lies within a rectangular area surrounded by a wall, which in turn is 67 × 28.50 m in size. On the north side of the district there is a demarcated yard with a boat grave. Around the actual mastaba, but already within the fence, there are ten side graves, obviously of servants who were buried here. The mastaba has 13 niches on the long sides and five on the short sides. It is roughly north-south oriented. On the east side there is a staircase outside of the actual scale building, which leads down into the burial chamber. The burial chamber is about 11.7 x 5.25 m with niches on the walls. The floor was covered with wooden planks. Ceramic vessels were mainly found in the niches. In the middle of the burial chamber there were still the remains of a skeleton that is said to have been an elderly man. Hundreds of ceramic and stone vessels were found throughout the tomb. Numerous unrolled seals prove that the grave dates back to the time of King Dens . The name of the grave owner remains unknown. The names of the Hemaka , but also the names of the officials Anchka and Setka, were found on the unrolled seals .

literature

  • Walter Bryan Emery et al. a .: Great tombs of the First Dynasty III: excavations at Sakkara. Egypt Exploration Society, London 1958, pp. 37-72, panels 40-84.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emery: Great tombs of the First Dynasty III , plates 78-79.
  2. ↑ Ellen Morris: On the ownership of the Saqqara mastabas and the allotment of political and ideological power at the dawn of the state. , in: Zahi Hawass, Janet Richards (editor): The Archeology and Art of Ancient Egypt, Essays in Honor of David B. O'Connor , Volume II, The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo 2007, ISBN 978-9774372414 , p 1810183
  3. ↑ Emery: Great tombs of the First Dynasty III , plate 80, numbers 21-23.
  4. ↑ Emery: Great tombs of the First Dynasty III , plates 80–81, no. 26–32.
  5. ↑ Emery: Great tombs of the First Dynasty III , plate 82, nos. 38–39.

Coordinates: 29 ° 52 ′ 44.7 "  N , 31 ° 13 ′ 20.7"  E