Abstrakt
During the fall season of 2019, a large mastaba of the early Fifth Dynasty belonging to the sculptor Ptahwer and located in the Cemetery of Ty, was discovered. During the Fifth century BC, the surface of this mastaba was used by cultic and magazine installations related to the sacral animal complexes located nearby.
This area became during the first millennium BC a real City of the Dead where thousands of pilgrims met, among the Carian and Greek mercenaries and Greek and Phoenician merchants. At that time, vast necropoleis were growing here, where not only people from nearby Memphis were buried, but also thousands of sacred animals (other than Apis bulls, falcons, baboons, ibises, but also the mothers and calves of those bulls) were interred.
The newly discovered Carian inscription is a small contribution to the large and still largely incomplete mosaics of the closing stage of the ancient Egyptian civilisation in the area of contemporary Abusir and Saqqara.