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Spanish-Egyptian Archaeological Mission in Saqqara, SEAM<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The SEAMS was established in 2019 with the initial objective of excavating the site of Kom el-Khamaseen, dated between the end of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period and located on the southwestern edge of the archaeological area of Saqqara, in the middle of the desert, 3.20 km west of the pyramid of Djedkare Izezi.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Location of the three mission projects<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A second objective was to porspect the entire region around Kom el-Khamaseen. And indeed, in 2019 we discovered a second archaeological site, hitherto undocumented, which turned out to be a royal ritual complex dated to the New Kingdom, based on a quadrangular central building in mudbrick with limestone accesses, decorated with royal paintings, and a series of pottery ritual deposits arranged in the vicinity, to the south and west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having completed the excavation work at these two sites (reported through preliminary publications and congresses), the Mission\u2019s activity moves to northern Saqqara, specifically to the cemetery located northwest of the step pyramid, where Auguste Mariette excavated, 150 years ago, the great mastabas of the high priests of the gods Ptah and Sokar of Memphis during the Old Kingdom. Since Imephor Impy Nikauptah, the best known individual buried at Kom el-Khamaseen, was a Memphite high priest during the First Intermediate Period, we have decided to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors in the office. In 2023 we obtained from the SCA the concession to excavate the mastaba of the high priests Ranefer (5th dynasty) and Sabu Tjety (6th dynasty).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SEAMS, directed by Dr Josep Cervell\u00f3, from the Institut d\u2019Estudis del Pr\u00f2xim Orient Antic of the UAB has a large team of Spanish and Egyptian Egyptologists, archaeologists, and technicians from the UAB, the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and other institutions. Many of its members are PhD holders or PhD candidates at the UAB, former students of the Master\u2019s Degree in Egyptology of our university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hallan m\u00e1s de cien estatuillas \u00fanicas del sumo sacerdote Imephor en la necr\u00f3polis egipcia de Kom el-Khamasin<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(UAB, Sala de Prensa, 20\/07\/2022)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u00abParte de la tumba del sumo sacerdote egipcio Imephor est\u00e1 en manos de galer\u00edas de arte y coleccionistas\u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(ABC, 26\/11\/2021)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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En busca del sacerdote Imephor<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(La Vanguardia, Cultura,17\/01\/2021)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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De illegale handel in de grafgiften van Ny-Kau-Ptah<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(NRC Handelsblad, 01\/11\/2019)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Spanish-Egyptian Archaeological Mission in Saqqara, SEAM The SEAMS was established in 2019 with the initial objective of excavating the site of Kom el-Khamaseen, dated between the end of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period and located on the southwestern edge of the archaeological area of Saqqara, in the middle of the desert, 3.20 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3235,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12543","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/seams\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/seams\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/seams\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/seams\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/seams\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12543"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/seams\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13111,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/seams\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12543\/revisions\/13111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/seams\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}