The Anubieion at Saqqara IV: Pottery of the Late Dynastic Period with Comparative Material from the Sacred Animal Necropolis

by J Bourriau and Peter French

This volume continues the ceramic history of the Saqqara Anubis temple, excavated by the Egypt Exploration Society from 1977 to 1979. Volume III showed how the site was used for burials of royalty and high officials from the Archaic Period until the end of the New Kingdom. The present volume covers the succeeding Late Dynastic Period: from at least the mid-sixth century onwards, burials appear to have been made in the earlier shaft tombs as well as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0856982237
• ISBN13: 9780856982231
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Egypt Exploration Society
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.