Animal offerings and mysterious vultures: Animal bones from the Lepsius No. 25 Tomb Complex (Abusir, Egypt)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/AEundL34s305" target="_blank" >10.1553/AEundL34s305</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Animal offerings and mysterious vultures: Animal bones from the Lepsius No. 25 Tomb Complex (Abusir, Egypt)

Original language description

The tomb complex Lepsius No. 25, located in the southern part of the royal cemetery in Abusir Centre, is an unusual architectural monument consisting of two mastabas leaning on each other. Princess Hanebu and her female relative were probably buried in it during the second half of the Fifth Dynasty. The architectural complex has been extensively damaged by stone- and tombrobbers, and by secondary burying both in its interior and exterior. In addition to the fragmentary preserved skeletal remains of the tomb owners, parts of burial equipment, and other evidence of material culture, animal bones were also discovered during the archaeological excavation. They document how the food offerings in the burial equipment of both tomb owners looked like - they are evidence of the high status of both ladies. The animal bones also indicate the usage of animals and their parts during the cult activities in the chapel in Tomb Lepsius 25/1. The assemblage of animal bones was analysed according to the individual finding units inside and outside the tombs. The analyses also brought important results in concern with the &quot;head and hooves&quot; ritual. An interesting find was the discovery of vulture bones, which probably originated in the 1st millennium BC from the fill of the construction pit in Tomb Lespius 25/1. It cannot be ruled out that this may have resulted from efforts to meet the high demand for larger bird species for votive purposes in the Falcon catacombs in Northern Saqqara. (C) 2025 Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. All rights reserved.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Agypten und Levante

ISSN

1015-5104

e-ISSN

1813-5145

Volume of the periodical

Neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

34

Country of publishing house

IN - INDIA

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

281-299

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85218741652