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Abydos Tomb Z

(only the brick built sub structures survived; around the main tomb are placed smaller tombs of servants and other people belonging to the royal court)

Owner: King Djet

Abydos, tomb of king Djet

Petrie 1900: 8-11, pl. LXI
Dreyer 1991: fig. 6-7 (on the construction of the roof)

measurements, without subsidiary tombs: about 19 x 15 m

Finds from the tomb in the Petrie Museum

Seal impression UC 36597

 

Stela found in a subsidiary tomb | the stela of the king now in the Louvre


 

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