Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2017
Abstract
Abusir South is one of the main 3rd millennium BCE cemeteries in Egypt. Excavations of the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University have revealed later burial activities as well.
The article addresses the issue of three decorated and one undecorated wooden coffins uncovered at Abusir South, near mastaba AS 54, in the years 2009, 2010 and 2015. The find context, technical qualities, decoration, and religious symbolism are analysed in this study.
The coffins were interred in pits disrupting Old Kingdom structures. Their decoration is not very fine and it uses common scenes of that periods.
Based on parallels found e.g. in Saqqara, their original date of the end of the 1st millennium BCE can be identified.