Abydos, The Funerary Enclosures

The Funerary Enclosures at Abydos

Possible owners of the enclosures (for more detailed plans click on the red numbers):

2. Funerary Boats

8. Qaa (?)

Abydos, map of the funerary enclosures of the Early Dynastic Period

Bibliography:

Kaiser 1969 (research on the enclosures, especially on the relationship of the enclosures to the pyramid complex of king Djoser in Saqqara)
Kemp 1966 (the fundamental study of the enclosures)
O'Connor 1989 (report on the excavations of an area of funerary boats, initially here misidentified as new enclosures)
O'Connor 1995 (report on the funerary boats)
O'Connor 1999 (a summary)
Petrie 1925: 1-9, pl. I-XXI (excavation report on the enclosures of Merytneit, Djet, Djer and the unknown one no.3)