Comparison of two burial groups located south of the Tomb of Horemheb at Saqqara and dated to the New Kingdom and Ptolemaic Period

Abstrakt

During the field seasons 1999 and 2000 of the EES-Leiden missions to the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara pit, surface and shaft burials of a poor N.K. cemetery were excavated south of the Memphite Tomb of Horemheb, together with a Ptolemaic burial chamber A in the reused Old Kingdom Shaft 99/I.

Klíčová slova

• skeletal anthropology
• demography
• palaeopathology
• New Kingdom cemetery
• Ptolemaic burial vault
• south of Tomb of Horemheb
• Saqqara (Egypt)