Abstract
This article summarizes the results of the preliminary analysis of the pottery finds from the excavation of the Czech Institute of Egyptology, undertaken in the area of private tombs of the courtiers and higher officials in Abusir South during the field season of 2007. There were two main assemblages, one from the tomb of the priest Neferinpu and the other from the anonymous tomb AS 47.
The chronologically most relevant pottery came from altogether three burial chambers, of which one was discovered undisturbed, with fully preserved beer jars, fine storage jars and very fine red-slipped Meidum bowls and bent-sided bowls. The large amount of pottery finds from the fill of the burial shafts included stands, platters, bread forms and rough storage jars.
On the basis of the ceramics, both tombs can be dated within a time span of one to three generations to the second half of the Fifth Dynasty. The secondary so-called bread-form wall, situated next to the tomb of Neferinpu and containing a large amount of well preserved and typologically very homogenous tall bread baking forms with a massive tubular foot, can be dated to the late Sixth Dynas ty, namely the reign of Pepy II.