Royal Funerary Equipment of a King Sobekhotep at South Abydos: Evidence for the Tombs of Sobekhotep IV and Neferhotep I?

Geophysical surveying in Egypt: periodical report for 2021–2022

“…Work northeast of the burial complex of Senwosret III (1878-1843 BC) was aimed at tracing the remains of burials in this part of the site. A necropolis of unknown rulers of the Second Intermediate Period (c. 1650-1600 BC) had already been mapped by magnetic prospection (Herbich and Wegner 2003;Wegner and Cahail 2015). A series of low amplitude anomalies recorded now could correspond to a Predynastic necropolis mentioned by excavators from the early 20th century; this hypothesis will be tested archaeologically.…”

Meander

“…W rzeczywistości jednak egiptologia należy do najbardziej dynamicznie rozwijających się nauk -każdego roku niezliczone misje archeologiczne z wielu krajów świata (w tym wiele misji z Polski) dokonują nowych odkryć, które w zasadniczy sposób zmieniają naszą wiedzę na temat kraju nad Nilem. Do najbardziej spektakularnych znalezisk ostatnich lat należy, bez wątpienia, odkrycie nowych grobowców królewskich (Sebek-hetepa i Seneb-kaia) z czasów II Okresu Przejściowego w Abydos przez misję amerykańską 133 czy odkrycie papirusów z czasów króla Chufu z IV dynastii przez misję francuską pracującą w Wadi el-Garf nad Morzem Czerwonym 134 , które przyniosły bezcenne informacje na temat budowy Wielkiej Piramidy w Gizie. Ale egiptologia to nie tylko badania terenowe -równie ważnych odkryć dokonuje się na co dzień w bibliotekach, archiwach i muzeach, czyli, innymi słowy, wykonując normalną pracę historyka.…”

A Royal Boat Burial and Watercraft Tableau of Egypt's 12th Dynasty (c.1850 BCE) at South Abydos

“…Although Senwosret III also had a pyramid complex at the site of Dahshur, just south of modern Cairo, it appears probable from recent evidence that South Abydos served as the burial place of this king (Wegner, ). The tomb of Senwosret III became the nucleus for a royal necropolis that included tombs for three kings of the succeeding 13th Dynasty (likely including kings Neferhotep I and Sobekhotep IV: Wegner and Cahail, ), as well as eight tombs of a group of previously unknown rulers dating c .1650–1600 BCE during the later Second Intermediate Period (Wegner, ). All of these currently identified later royal tombs cluster on the west side of the Senwosret III enclosure.…”

“…One motivating factor is likely to be the reuse of long‐lived, durable wood such as cedar that tended to be used for royal funerary boats (see Arnold, : 52–53). Indeed, repurposing of cedar spanning a timeframe of two centuries has been documented in an unrelated context excavated recently at South Abydos where cedar coffin boards originating in a plundered royal burial of the 13th Dynasty were repurposed during the Second Intermediate Period (Wegner and Cahail, : 149–156). In a wood‐poor environment such as the Nile Valley, the large volume of high‐quality wood used in a royal funerary boat would have offered a desirable commodity every bit as marketable as the valuable materials that attracted tomb robbers to pharaonic necropoli.…”