Une nouvelle nécropole de bovidés à Saqqarah

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https://doi.org/10.54641/journals/bseg.2022.e963

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Saqqara, bovines, mummy, Apis cult, Pepy I, archaeozoology

Abstract

In 2016, the Franco-Swiss mission at Saqqara uncovered the enclosure surrounding Queen Ankhnespepy II’s pyramid. In the southwestern corner of the monument, more than ten thousand bovine bones were discovered.

The discovery of two mummies and a naos made it possible to understand that the set comes from a necropolis plundered in Antiquity and not yet located. The mummies were revealed to only be composed of bones, showing that they were sacralized animals, possibly related to the Apis bull.

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11-10-2022

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No. 33 (2022)

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Copyright (c) 2022 Alain Charron, Mathieu Luret, Xavier Hénaff

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“Une Nouvelle Nécropole de Bovidés à Saqqarah”. 2022. Bulletin de la Société D’Égyptologie, Genève, no. 33 (October): 5-23. https://doi.org/10.54641/journals/bseg.2022.e963.