Umm El Qa'ab

Coordinates: 26°10.5′N 31°54.5′E / 26.1750°N 31.9083°E / 26.1750; 31.9083
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Umm El Qa'ab
Arabic: أم القعاب
General view of area, showing littering of pots
Umm El Qa'ab is located in Northeast Africa
Umm El Qa'ab
Shown within Northeast Africa
Umm El Qa'ab is located in Egypt
Umm El Qa'ab
Umm El Qa'ab (Egypt)
LocationEgypt
RegionNew Valley Governorate
Coordinates26°10.5′N 31°54.5′E / 26.1750°N 31.9083°E / 26.1750; 31.9083
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Umm El Qaʻāb (sometimes

Arabic: أم القعاب) is a necropolis of the Early Dynastic Period[1] kings at Abydos, Egypt.[2] Its modern name means "Mother of Pots" as the whole area is littered with the broken pot shards of offerings made in earlier times. The cultic ancient name of the area was (w-)pkr or (rꜣ-)pkr "District of the pkr[-tree]" (an unidentified species) or "Opening of the pkr[-tree]" (Coptic: upoke), belonging to tꜣ-dsr "the secluded/cleared land" (necropolis
) or crk-hh "Binding of Eternity" (Coptic: Alkhah).

The area was a site of veneration and worship in ancient Egypt, and by the time of the Middle Kingdom, at least one of the royal tombs was excavated and rebuilt for the priests of Osiris.[3]

The tombs of this area were first excavated by Émile Amélineau in the 1890s and more systematically by Flinders Petrie between 1899 and 1901.[3] Since then the area has been excavated repeatedly by the German Archaeological Institute since the 1970s, which has allowed for a thorough reconstruction of the original layout and appearance of these tombs.[3]

Pre-dynastic tombs

  • U-j: Unknown ruler, but possibly Scorpion I found in tomb,[4] also possible pre dynastic ruler Bull is attested in one of the ivory tablets.[5]
  • B1/B2: Iry-Hor[6]
  • B7/B9:
    Ka

First Dynasty tombs

Known as Cemetery B, this area contains the Early Dynastic tombs of the pharaohs of the First Dynasty of Egypt and the last two kings of the Second Dynasty.

Second Dynasty tombs

The site of Khasekhemwy's tomb, filled with sand

The last two kings of the

Second Dynasty
returned to be buried near to their ancestors—they also revived the practice of building mud-brick funerary enclosures nearby.

Human sacrifice and 1st Dynasty tombs

shabtis taking the place of actual people to aid the pharaohs with the work expected of them in the afterlife.[19]

References

  1. ^ "Abydos Tombs of the Kings". www.ucl.ac.uk.
  2. ^ Toby Wilkinson, Early Dynastic Egypt, Routledge, 1999
  3. ^
    ISBN 0-19-280458-8
  4. ^ "The Earliest Known Egyptian Writing : History of Information".
  5. ISBN 3-8053-2486-3
    ., pp. 87 & 176.
  6. ^ "Abydos Tomb of King Iry-Hor". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
  7. ^ "Abydos tomb B 17/18 (tomb of Narmer ?)". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
  8. ^ "Abydos Tomb of King Aha". /www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk.
  9. ^ "Abydos, Tomb O". /www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk.
  10. ^ "Abydos Tomb Z". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
  11. ^ "Abydos Tomb Y". www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk.
  12. ^ "Abydos Tomb T". www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk.
  13. ^ "Abydos Tomb X". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
  14. ^ "Abydos Tomb U". www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk.
  15. ^ "Abydos Tomb Q". www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk.
  16. ^ "Abydos Tomb P". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
  17. ^ "Ash/Seth Peribsen". xoomer.virgilio.it. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
  18. ^ "Abydos Tomb V". www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk.
  19. ^
    ISBN 0-19-280458-8
    .
  20. ^ Payne, Keith (20 October 2009). "Discovery of Abydos: Examining the Work of the Penn-Yale-IFA Joint Expedition". Heritage Key.
  21. ^ Payne, Keith "Exclusive Interview: Dr David O'Connor on the Abydos Expedition" Heritage Key 29 September 2009 [1]

External links

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