Naga-ed-Deir
Naga-ed-Deir (also Naga-ed-dêr ) is the modern name of an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Middle Egypt . Tombs from almost all periods of ancient Egypt have been found here. The greater part of the graves can be dated from the pre-dynastic to the first intermediate period. Above all, the graves from the time of the Old Kingdom offer an overview of the burial rites of this time, as it has so far hardly been found anywhere else.
Both larger mastaba graves were found, which are attributed to local functionaries, as well as small graves with few or no grave goods, which are attributed to the lower strata of the population. The dead were usually buried as stool corpses in rectangular pits. Several excavation campaigns were carried out from 1901 to 1924 under the direction of George Andrew Reisner .
literature
- Patricia Podzorski: Naga ed-Deir. In: Kathryn A. Bard (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Archeology of Ancient Egypt. Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-415-18589-0 , pp. 551-554.
- George A. Reisner: The Early Dynastic Cemetries of Naga-ed-Dêr (= University of California Publications in Egyptian Archeology. Vol. 2, ZDB -ID 445580-0 ). Part 1. J. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1908, online .
- George A. Reisner: A Provincial Cemetery of the Pyramid Age. Naga-ed-Dêr (= University of California Publications in Egyptian Archeology. Vol. 6). Part 3. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1932.
- Stephen H. Savage: Descent, Power, and Competition in Predynastic Egypt: Mortuary Evidence from Cemetery N7000 at Naga-ed-Dêr (Dissertation) Arizona State University, Tempe 1995
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Coordinates: 26 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ N , 31 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E