Abu Sir
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Iris Fernandez Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Iris Fernandez Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Nov 19, 2023 04:48 PM
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History
An Old Kingdom necropolis serving the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/195443086
29.896115, 31.20404
- Representative Locations:
- Center of Visible Remains at Abu Sir (2670 BC - 2168 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- ابوصير (Abu Sir: Arabic, modern)
- Abu Sir connection Memphis (unspecified date range)
- Abusir South located at Abu Sir (unspecified date range)
- Mastaba of Ptahshepses at Abusir part of (regional) Abu Sir (2670 BC - 332 BC)
- Pyramid of Sahure located at Abu Sir (2670 BC - 2168 BC)
- Saite-Persian cemetery at Abu Sir located at Abu Sir (unspecified date range)
catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
Pleiades
Iris Fernandez, Jeffrey Becker, Gabriel Mckee, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and jfu, 'Abu Sir: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/195443086> [accessed: 16 April 2024]
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