Une nouvelle nécropole de bovidés à Saqqarah

Alain Charron; Mathieu Luret; Xavier Hénaff

doi:10.54641/journals/bseg.2022.e963

Une nouvelle nécropole de bovidés à Saqqarah

Authors

Alain Charron Musée départemental Arles antique/CNRS https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3521-2092
Mathieu Luret Archéozoologue indépendant https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9064-1105
Xavier Hénaff Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventive/CNRS https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3586-4055

DOI:

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

Keywords:

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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Published

11-10-2022

How to Cite

Charron, Alain, Mathieu Luret, and Xavier Hénaff. 2022. “Une Nouvelle nécropole De bovidés à Saqqarah”. Bulletin De La Société d’égyptologie, Genève, no. 33 (October):5-23. https://doi.org/10.54641/journals/bseg.2022.e963.