Hedvig Győry: Mélanges offerts a Edith Varga „Le lotus qui sort de terre” (Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts Supplément 1. Budapest, 2001)

ANGELA P. THOMAS: The Rediscovery of some Dynasty III Stone Vessels from Reqaqnah

Fig. 6. Niched palace facade on the east wall of the mud brick mastaba R. 70 at Reqaqnah (courtesy of the School of Archaeology, University of Liverpool). bowls in Bolton, of which there are at least four and perhaps more, but one example (Fig. 5) in the process of being put together is of a type from R. 1 .

ls No readable seal impressions were discovered and therefore the identity of the owners of these tombs was unknown. Garstang, however, felt that these were either tombs of royalty or very important officials. Of the other tombs at Reqaqnah, there were a number of small stairway tombs, three large mastabas of which R.75 had a stairway and R.50 and R.70 did not as possibly part of the development to the shaft tomb and there were various smaller tombs. Tomb R.70 is particularly interesting in having a niched palace facade east wall, a revival from Dynasty I, and which was probably similar in plan to tomb 3070 at Saqqara. This would appear to date the tomb to late Dynasty III / early Dynasty IV (Fig. 6). The successor of Djoser, Sekhemkhet, is not identified with a tomb at Bêt Khallâf, but is associated with a funerary complex at Saqqara, which included a step pyramid and which was unfinished.

19 It was not as large as the Djoser ,8 Ibid, pl. VIII, 4. " M. Z. Goneim, Horus Sekhemkhet, The Unfinished Step Pyramid at Saqqara, Vol. 1, Cairo 1957.