Saqqara (Egypt)
Dates of work: 3 October- 23 November 2009
Team:
Director: Prof. Karol Myśliwiec (Research Center for Mediterranean Archaeology, Polish Academy of Sciences)
SCA representative: Ali Abdullah Mohamed El-Batal
Egyptologists: Dr. Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz, Dr. Teodozja I. Rzeuska (both Research Center for Mediterranean Archaeology, Polish Academy of Sciences), Dr. Fabian Welc (independent)
Archaeologists: Prof. Michał Kobusiewicz (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań branch), Małgorzata Radomska (Research Center for Mediterranean Archaeology, Polish Academy of Sciences), Agnieszka Kowalska (freelance)
Anthropologists: Prof. Andrew Chamberlain, Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin (both from the University of Sheffield)
Conservators: Zbigniew Godziejewski (National Museum in Warsaw), Magdalena Abramowska (freelance), Iwona Ciszewska-Woźniak (freelance), Władysław Weker (State Archaeological Museum In Warsaw), Teresa Żurkowska (freelance)
Palaeozoologist: Prof. Salima Ikram (American University in Cairo)
Palaeobotanist: Assoc. Prof. Jarosław Zieliński (Szczecin Agricultural Academy)
Documentalists: Beata Błaszczuk (freelance), Marek Woźniak (PhD candidate, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Photographer: Wojciech A. Wojciechowski (freelance)
The objective of the campaign was to complete the exploration, clearing and documentation of archaeological structures uncovered on the site adjoining the west side of the enclosure wall of the Netjerykhet pyramid in preparation for the publication of the next two volumes in the Saqqara series. Shaft 113 proved to be of particular importance, the burial chamber containing an unfinished limestone sarcophagus and lid as left by the excavators of the ancient tomb. The scope of conservation work carried out on site and in site storage is presented in the appendix (including a unique body cover).
[Text: PAM]