1997

• Satellite remote sensing technology was used in the survey of the Memphite area. Archaeological methods were employed to explore an area of 700 metres square north-west of the pyramid of Sesostris III at Dahshur. A New-Kingdom brick-built tomb chapel (2 courts and a tripartite chapel). A sealing, inscribed and decorated blocks, painted pottery, figurative ostracon (a man's head), shabtis, wooden model ear.
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1998

• Reports on the first two field seasons of Waseda and Tokai Universities at Dahshur North. 1st season: The discovery of a two-court tomb chapel, probably of Ipay. Relief-fragments (man driving an ox, men around a columned building), blue painted pottery, alabaster canopic jar of Mes, polychrome glass vessels, rings, shabtis, etc. 2nd season: The continued excavation of the tomb chapel discovered during the previous season,. Finds include a relief with opening the mouth ceremony performed on the mummy and another with the name of Pashedu, a fragment of a small faience inscribed pyramidion, the middle part of an inscribed statue, brick stamps of the Royal Scribe and Royal Butler Clean of Hands, Ipay, jar labels of years 23 (of Amenophis III?) and 7 of Ramesses II, jar sealing with the name of Tutankhamun, shabtis, etc.
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1999

• A separate fascicle of indices, ISBN 0 900416 67 X, contains section 11. Suggested provenance, listing New-Kingdom statues which probably come from tombs at Saqqara.

K. Sowada, T. Callaghan and P. Bentley
The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara IV: Minor Burials and Other Material.
Australian Centre for Egyptology Reports 12. Sydney 1999.

• This book publishes burials, ceramics, small finds and skeletal remains from a cemetery of modest burials located in a small area of the Teti cemetery, north east of the mastaba of Kagemni. While the material presented ranges in date from the 11th Dynasty to the Late Period and beyond, most of the ceramics, small finds and a large number of the burials date to the 18th-19th Dynasty.
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van Walsem, R., Martin, G. T., Aston, B. G., Strouhal, E. and Horáková, L.
"Preliminary report on the Saqqara excavations, season 1999."
OMRO 79 (1999), 19-35, ills.

• A report on excavations in the area to the south of the tomb of Haremhab. This contains a number of shafts, at least some of the reign of Amenhotep III (coffins, one of them of Hesy-nebef). Finds include a block of Panehesy, Overseer of the two granaries, and wife Neferuptah, [Songstress of Hathor, Mistress of] the sycamore, late D18 - early D19, a shabti of Bay, a head-rest, a heart scarab, a bronze signet ring, a pectoral, and a decorated cosmetic box.
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Yoshimura, S., Kondo, J., Hasegawa, S., Nakagawa, T., Nishimoto, S., Sakata, T., Etaya, M.,
"Preliminary report of excavations at Dahshur North, Egypt."
Annual Report of the Collegium Mediterranistarum. Mediterraneus xxii (1999), 3-18, ills.

• A report on the 3rd field season of Waseda and Tokai Universities at Dahshur North. The tomb chapel of Ip3y and its shafts were cleared. An earlier mud brick tripartite chapel was found beneath Ipay's chapel. The finds include fragments of relief (four officials, a vertical column of a semi-biographical(?) text, djad-pillar), a stela of the Prophet of Neith, Ptahemwia, probably of the reign of Amenophis III, a lower part of standing statuette, probably Ramessid, an inscribed palette of a son of the Steward Meryre, and a jar-docket of year 23.
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Yoshimura, S., Kondo, J. and Hasegawa, S.
"The New Kingdom necropolis at Dahshur."
KMT. A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 10 [3] (Fall 1999), 36-43, ills.

• A report on the discovery of the tomb of the Royal Butler, Ipay, at Dahshur, some 2 km north of the Red Pyramid, by the Japanese Waseda-Tokai expedition. The tomb is dated to the reigns of Tutankhamun/Haremhab by objects (sealing and faience ring of Tutankhamun, and another of Ankhesenamun) found in the area (but a date as early as the reign of Amenophis III is also considered). Its superstructure is lost. Reliefs include registers of officials and a man driving an ox. The tomb was probably re-used under Ramesses II by the Royal Scribe Mes (shabti, unfinished sarcophagus). Also faience shabtis of Huy, Amenemope and Pashed, a fragment of a Mycenaean stirrup bottle, purple faience canopic jars.
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Yoshimura, S. and Hasegawa, S.
"A Ramesside sarcophagus at Dahshur."
Egyptian Archaeology 15 (1999), 5-7, ills.

• A Ramesside anthropoid sarcophagus (unfinished, with painted and partly carved decoration) of the Royal Scribe and Steward, Mes, from Dahshur, found by the Universities of Waseda and Tokai expedition. Plan and section of the underground chambers. Mes's shabtis are of sandstone (one is 36 cm high), wood and faience. Mes is also Overseer of Horses of the King on a fragment of a canopic jar. Hieratic docket of year 7 of Ramesses II.
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• This volume of essays will contain several contributions concerning New-Kingdom sites in the Memphite area. The following abstracts have been included here with permission of the Editors:

  O. Djuzeva - Das Grab des Generals Ameneminet in Sakkara
  A detailed study of monuments from the as yet unlocated tomb belonging to the Overseer of the Army, Ameneminet, of the reign of Horemheb. A hypothetical reconstruction of the original appearance of the tomb is offered.

  G. T. Martin - Memphis: the status of a residence city in the Eighteenth Dynasty
  Prosopographical evidence enables us to suggest that the real administrative centre of Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty was Memphis. Akhetaton and Thebes were mainly sacred cities.

  B. G. Ockinga - The Saqqara tomb of the Overseer of Craftsmen and Chief Goldworker, Amenemone
  A report on the re-examination of the late Eighteenth Dynasty tomb of Amenemone. The original positions of various blocks in museums are discussed. The tomb's location in the Teti pyramid cemetery may have been connected with the cult of the deified King Menkauhor.

  M. J. Raven - Twenty-five years of work in the New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara: looking for structure
  This study concentrates on patterns in the spatial distribution of New Kingdom tombs at Saqqara, based on professions and parentage of individual tomb owners, their offering cults, access and communication, and the architectural arrangements of their tombs. The contribution made by the Leiden Museum towards the solution of these problems is evaluated.

  S. Yoshimura, S. Hasegawa - The New Kingdom necropolis at Dahshur - The tomb of Ipay and its vicinity
  Several New Kingdom tombs with numerous burial shafts were discovered at Dahshur North during the recent campaign of Waseda University. One of the tombs may have belonged to the Royal Butler, Ipay. The architecture and associated finds from this tomb are discussed.

  S. Yoshimura, I. H. Takamiya - Waseda University excavations at North Saqqara from 1991 to 1999
  The excavations of Waseda University expedition on the hill at North Saqqara revealed important finds, especially from the New Kingdom. The most significant are the remains of a monument which may have been Khaemwaset's 'ka-house'.

  Alain Zivie - La resurrection des hypogées du Nouvel Empire à Saqqara
  Several New Kingdom tombs excavated in the area of the Bubasteion in the past fifteen years are discussed. The author concentrates on their contribution to our knowledge of Memphis during the New Kingdom. A full bibliography of the French Bubasteion Mission is included.

  See abstracts of other contributions.

K. Sowada,
The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara VI or VII: A Cemetery of the mid-18th Dynasty.
(currently in preparation, due out in 2001)

• This book will publish the excavation of a cemetery of modest burials in the Teti cemetery conducted by the writer in 1996. The cemetery comprised about 60 burials well-dated to the mid-18th Dynasty, from the reign of Thutmosis III to the late 18th Dynasty. Accompanying objects and pottery will also be published, in addition to a study of the coffins and skeletal material.

S. Yoshimura et al.
"Waseda University excavations at North-Saqqara: A preliminary report on the sixth season, July-September 1997", in The Journal of Egyptian Studies (Waseda University)
(to be published in 2000 or 2001)

(August 4, 2000)

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