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Title: Canine interments in the Teti Cemetery North at Saqqara during the Graeco-Roman period
Related: Bárta, Miroslav; Coppens, Filip and Krejči, Jaromir. Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2010/1, p.17-29
Publisher: Prague : Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University
Date: 2011
Author/Creator: Hartley, Mary
Author/Creator: Buck, Alanah
Author/Creator: Binder, Susanne
Description: This contribution presents and discusses the large quantity of canine remains uncovered in four seasons of work in the Teti Cemetery North (2007-2010) by a team from Macquarie University, Sydney. Two different types of burials were observed, and while one of these can be classified as the known type of votive animal mummy, the second does not fit into any of the four categories commonly described in the relevant literature. Based on the archaeological findings at this site where some canines are buried in close association with humans, a hypothesis is formulated for a further type, an am uletic animal mummy.
Description: 13 pages(s)
Subject Keyword: Amuletic animal mummies
Subject Keyword: Anubis
Subject Keyword: association of human and animal remains
Subject Keyword: canines
Subject Keyword: Graeco-Rornan period
Subject Keyword: metric analysis of dog crania
Subject Keyword: re-use of New Kingdom structures
Subject Keyword: Teti Cemetery
Resource Type: book chapter
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Ancient History

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