Season 2019
The goals for this season have been:
1) To carry out selected archaeological surveys in the South-West Saqqara desert in order to document some possible isolated archaeological sites or remains other than Kom el-Khamaseen. These are the limits and the coordinates of the concession:
- NE CORNER: 29º 52′ 30″ N 31º 12′ 10″ E
- SE CORNER: 29º 50′ 30″ N 31º 12″ 10″ E
- SO CORNER: 29º 50′ 30″ N 31º 08′ 30″ E
- NO CORNER: 29º 52′ 30″ N 31º 08′ 30″ E
We carried out a systematic survey of the whole area following two complementary methods: in the easternmost part of the concession, that is to say, that closest to the Saqqara monuments, a thorough foot tracking of the terrain has been made, while in the central and western part of the concession, farthest from cultivation and therefore less susceptible to contain archaeological remains, we have proceeded more selectively, according to what can be seen from Google Earth photographs and according to the field experience of the Egyptian co-director of the Mission, Dr Mohammed Youssef. The most important result of this survey has been the discovery of a previously unknown site that has turned out to be a small royal cultic complex from the New Kingdom, specifically from the middle of the 18th Dynasty (see Season 2022).
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- SE sector survey
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- View to the East from the northern limit of the concession
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- North limit of the concession
2) To precisely locate on the cartography the site of Kom el-Khamaseen and the new cultic complex of the New Kingdom documented during the survey, and to start the topographical surveying of the former and its adjacent area in order to produce a complete topographical map of the area.
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