Conservation and Restoration of an Offering Table from the Excavation of the French Archaeological Mission in Saqqara (Autumn 2014)

Rémi Legros (1) , Ashraf Youssef Ewais

1 HiSoMA - Histoire et Sources des Mondes antiques

Saqqara is one of the most important heritage sites in Egypt and the world. Many foreign missions have been operating there for a long time. The French mission is one of the oldest missions working in Saqqara. In 2014, under the supervision of Prof. Philippe Collombert, the mission pursued the excavation of the Shawaf site, which is to the north and east of Queen Behenu’s pyramid. At the entrance of the complex, they found some stone blocks and several off ering tables. One of the off ering tables may possibly be dated back to the Herakleopolitan Period. It was very fragile and needed to be cleaned. For security reasons, the off ering table was transported to the storeroom, where conservation and restoration works were completed.

Mots clés: offering tablr; Saqqara

Mots clés: Table d'offrandes

Domaines: Histoire; Archéologie et Préhistoire; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Rémi Legros, Ashraf Youssef Ewais. Conservation and Restoration of an Offering Table from the Excavation of the French Archaeological Mission in Saqqara (Autumn 2014). Journal of Center for the Global Study of Cultural Heritage and Culture, 2015, 3, pp.45-53. ⟨halshs-01435420⟩