Giza during the Kings of the Sun : Activities in the Proximity of the Khentkaus Town in the 5th Dynasty According to the Clay Sealings
Abstrakt
In the past two decades Ancient Egypt Research Associates conducted excavations in the area north of Menkaure's Valley Temple at Giza. After the revision of the remains of the Khentkaus Town and its vicinity, the work shifted east of the town's water basin to the discovery of the so-called Silo Building Complex. Over 450 sealings and sealing-related objects originating from this area were registered. The early finds in 2012 seemed to support the hypothesis of Niuserre's effort to resuscitate the area, after the royal cemetery had moved away from Giza at the dawn of the 5th dynasty.
This paper focuses on the question of continuity and discontinuity of activities in specific parts of this area now, after processing of the whole sealing corpus. Further it shows what kind(s) of officials left their fragmentary traces there, and eventually, whose activity was attested repeatedly.