ABSTRACT

The progress of the clearing away revealed the existence of a series of intact tombs at the south of the pyramid. It is Saite art with its lightness, suppleness, somewhat arch charm; it's almost too high relief. Everything that with the lower classes of the same period would have been in cardboard or pure gold and fine stones with Zannehibou. The amulet in shape of a necklace is only a leaf cut with the chisel, on which a chapter of the Book of the Dead is engraved with the graving needle. It is the boat of the god Sokaris, a boat of most archaic construction, and which was already used for the accomplishment of the sacred rites under the Thinite Dynasty. He belonged to the family of a certain Psammetichus, whose tomb is near the Louvre found by Mariette in the Serapeum places. Such is the find that made a happy termination to the authors' Saqqarah campaign.