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Miroslav Barta – Vladimir Bruna METODOLOGY PES XXV/2020 7 Map of archaeological features in Abusir1 Miroslav Bárta – Vladimír Brůna – Ladislav Bareš – Jaromír Krejčí – Veronika Dulíková – Martin Odler – Hana Vymazalová With interruptions, the archaeological site of Abusir MAP OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL FEATURES has been explored for more than a century. The main expeditions that have worked there under the guidance The history of the numbering of archaeological features of Ludwig Borchardt, Georg Steindorff, Zbyněk Žába, in the Abusir area can be traced back to the first Miroslav Verner or Miroslav Bárta (ongoing) used excavations by John Shae Perring, who documented different approaches to the identification and cataloguing the internal spaces of Abusir’s three main pyramids in of the individual features. This article aims to provide 1838. A Prussian expedition headed by Karl Richard all interested parties with necessary concordance to Lepsius followed in 1842–1843. He made a numbered the current method of numbering and registration of list of Egyptian pyramids including those in Abusir, but archaeological features and a notion of their positions some of his identifications are mistaken. Lepsius also within the site. Majority of principal structures and examined a tomb in Abusir South built for overseer pyramid complexes have been published or are currently of the magazines and property custodian of the king, being prepared for publication in the monograph series Fetekti (AS 5). The first brief excavation of Ptahshepses’ Abusir. Many minor features whose processing is mastaba led by French researcher Jacques de Morgan largely still under way are being gradually published took place in 1893. Ludwig Borchardt worked in Abusir in the Czech or English version of the journal Pražské in 1900–1908, concentrating above all on the dominant egyptologické studie / Prague Egyptological Studies, pyramid complexes (Sahure, Neferirkare and Niuserre) especially in the form of preliminary archaeological and several adjacent tombs and organizing the features reports containing the main characteristics of the archae- according to the names of their owners. Steindorff and ological entities under study and their interpretation. Hölscher, who studied the Early Dynastic cemetery in Some archaeological reports can be found in other the area of the Lake of Abusir, used a square grid to journals and monographs published in the Czech identify and set the location of the individual tombs and Republic and abroad. An overview of the site’s history burials. The individual squares were denoted by letters and research results can be found in various publications in the east-west direction and by numerals in the north- from recent years, mostly catalogues (Verner 1990; south one. The features within each single square, e.g. Benešovská – Vlčková 2006; Verner – Benešovská 2008; B 13, were numbered from 1; in this particular case, Krejčí 2010; Verner 2017; Bárta 2020). square B 13 and features/tombs 1–6. The cemetery was The archaeological concession of the Czech Institute of later published by Hans Bonnet, which is why it is known Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Abusir as “Bonnet’s Cemetery” in the literature (Bonnet 1928: covers an area of approximately 2 km2 divided into three Taf. 1). main zones – Central Abusir (AC), Abusir West (AW) Zbyněk Žába, the first director of what was then the and Abusir South (AS). Central Abusir contains the Czechoslovak Institute of Egyptology, started to work in pyramid complexes of Fifth Dynasty rulers, the tombs Abusir in 1960. His excavations concentrated exclusively of royal family members as well as tombs and burials on the mastaba of Vizier Ptahshepses, which he denoted from later periods. Abusir West is characterized by large by the letter “P” (AC 8 in the present system). After shaft tombs from the Saite-Persian period. Abusir South Žába’s death, his successor František Váhala continued served above all as a cemetery for officials, their families examining the tomb until his death in 1974. The Cze- and members of their households in the Early Dynastic choslovak archaeological concession was extended in Period, the Old Kingdom and, in a limited extent, also in 1976, and an expedition led by Miroslav Verner started the subsequent periods when many so-called secondary to use letters of the alphabet to denote the individual burials were located there, usually concentrated close archaeological structures. The first examined structure – to larger Old Kingdom tombs. The image of the site’s the complex of Queen Khentkaus II, was denoted by the archaeological history is made complete by partial letter “A” (AC 14 in the present system). research carried out in the area of the Lake of Abusir An important step in the systemization of our situated in the south-eastern part of the concession knowledge of Abusir was a field archaeological survey adjoining the village of Abusir where Georg Steindorff carried out by Miroslav Verner in the early 1990s (Verner and Uvo Hölscher worked, and of the temple of King 1990) in the areas of Central Abusir, Abusir West and Ramesse II on the eastern edge of the concession, the Lake of Abusir. During the research, Miroslav Verner spatially categorized within Abusir South. mapped not only already published archaeological 1 The work on this scientific output was enabled by the Progres Q11 grant Complexity and resilience. Ancient Egyptian civilization in a multi- disciplinary and multi-cultural perspective at Charles University and VEG 2020 subsidy, Ref. No. MSMT-40214/2019-1. 8 PES XXV/2020 METODOLOGY Fig. 1 Geodetic measurement in the burial chamber of vizier Qar (AS 16) (photo K. Voděra) Fig. 2 Geodetic measurement of the tomb of Kairsu (AC 33), pyramid of Neferirkare in the background (photo P. Košárek) METODOLOGY PES XXV/2020 9 features but also those that had not been examined yet. by Mariette, belonging to a palace administrator by the Within his system, he denoted them by codes in the area name Neferherenptah (Mariette 1889: 236–237). This of Central Abusir (the resulting map was published for area was plotted already in earlier maps of Saqqara; the example in Krejčí – Arias Kytnarová et al. 2014: 25, most detailed of them were published years ago (Smith Fig. 2.1). 1936; Spencer 1974 with additions). Excavations in the so-called Abusir South area started The current map of archaeological features was created in 1991. The first examined feature – the mastaba of in the GIS ArcMap environment based on the results of scribe Kaaper – was denoted as “AA”, because all letters geodetic measurements of archaeological features on the of the alphabet had been assigned to other structures background of a satellite image from the WV-4 system already. It started to be evident that this labelling system from 19th December 2018. The mapping of the site as was becoming impractical. The label “OO” (present such naturally proceeded also from all available map feature AS 38) was attained by 2010, heralding the end of materials starting with Lepsius’ earliest detailed map this gradually less and less suitable system of registration. (all the maps were re-published in Bárta – Brůna 2006). The features were renumbered upon the beginning of the For the sake of clarity, the selection of monuments was excavation of an extensive anonymous tomb from late generalized to make the map readable in an analogous Third Dynasty which was labelled AS 54 within a new form. The ground plans of important features are drawn, system that is used to this day (Bárta 2011). Altogether along with a point stating a unique code. Other features 116 features are registered in Abusir South (excluding are only labelled by a point situated in their centre and Bonnet’s Cemetery) at present. The number in Central the code. The map includes a synoptic table of tomb Abusir reaches 34, and the new labelling system has been codes and an overview of their owners (tab. 1). used there since the archaeological season 2009. The The analogue form is limited by the scale and does examination of the tomb of Prince Werkaure, labelled not show all features. In order to provide a complete as pyramid no. XXIII by Lepsius and originally as tomb overview of the Abusir concession, an application has T by the Czech expedition, was completed already under been created in the environment of an Internet map the new label AC 26. server on the ArcGIS Online platform, which enables Shaft tombs from the First Millennium BC occur in users to view all archaeological features at the site in Abusir West. Miroslav Verner’s expedition also used detail.2 letters of the alphabet there, making local features part of a single continual line, like the tombs in Abusir South METHOD examined from 1991. The first archaeological structure, a shaft tomb belonging to the official Udjahorresnet, was originally labelled “H” (AW 1 in the present system). The The basic documentary method is geodetic measurement excavations began in 1980. Six large structures have been of detailed points in a predefined geodetic network (figs. registered there so far. 1 and 2). The first geodetic work in Abusir, related to the In 2018, the Czech Institute of Egyptology finally excavation of Ptahshepses’ mastaba in 1962, was carried gained concession also for an area on the boundary out by the expedition’s geodesists after their return from of Abusir and Saqqara and started the research of so- field work in Nubia (Tlustý – Vosika 1963). It concerned called Ty’s Cemetery. This complicated the numbering the stabilization of the network of posts and their of the features, as the numbering systems of Karl Richard longitudinal and angular surveying using a Zeiss Theo Lepsius, Auguste Mariette, Jacques de Morgan, James 010 theodolite (fig. 3). The astronomic orientation of the Quibell, Cecil Firth and Walter B. Emery (Spencer 1974 resulting geodetic network was performed in order to with numbering concordance and literature) are all mixed be later able to determine the orientation of the whole up in this area, partially overlapping with the so-called mastaba and the nearby pyramid field.
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