A burial with a stamp seal depicting a Bes-like figure from Abusir

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985912:_____/15:00455168 RIV/00023272:_____/15:#0002754

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A burial with a stamp seal depicting a Bes-like figure from Abusir

Original language description

In the autumn of 2010, a humble intact burial in a reed coffin was found during the excavation of the Old Kingdom stone mastaba of the chief physician, Neferherptah (AS 65) at Abusir South. The burial was positioned directly on the superstructure of Neferherptah's tomb. The body of a more than fifty-year-old woman had been wrapped in linen, as indicated by eight fragments of fabric. The only burial equipment of the deceased consisted of a mud brick used as a headrest and a pyramidal stamp seal with a Bes-shaped figure on its base found on the breastbone. This latest addition to the corpus of stamp seals represents the first amulet of its type to come from a documented primary archaeological context at the Memphite necropolis. Although this tiny find is small in size, it is of particular importance for the study of the burial customs and beliefs of the lower social strata in the Memphite necropolis. The seal most probably provides one of the earliest examples of iconographical evidence for the archetype of the god later known as Bes. Some of the archaeological material from the excavations was destroyed during the Egyptian revolution in 2011. The remaining material is examined in this paper, together with an anthropological and textile report.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Pražskě egyptologické studie

ISSN

1214-3189

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

Neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

15

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

69-75

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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