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Considerations on the Old Kingdom royal palace

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2012

Abstract

Though written evidence of the royal palace "'h", and even the names and owners of these palaces are available in the Old Kingdom documents, no such palace has yet been archaeologicallly identified. Some recently discovered inscriptions from Abusir - from the causeway of Sahure's pyramid complex - refer to a hitherto unknown palace of Sahure called "Extolled is Sahure's Beauty".

The wider context of these inscriptions permits the assumption that this palace might have lain in the vicinity of Sahure's valley temple and the Lake of Abusir which at that time extended between Abusir, North Saqqara and Memphis.