Saqqarah
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).
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Nov 18, 2023 11:56 PM
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History
A pharaonic necropolis serving the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis. It was most active during Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt. The step pyramid complex of the Third Dynasty Pharaoh Djoser is the site's best preserved and most well-known structure.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/796289136
29.862380874, 31.2193541512
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- سقارة (Saqqarah: Arabic, modern)
- Saqqarah located near Memphis (unspecified date range)
- Anubieion at Saqqarah located at Saqqarah (664 BC - 332 BC)
- Deir Apa Jeremiah located at Saqqarah (AD 300 - AD 850)
- Headless Pyramid located at Saqqarah (unspecified date range)
- Mastaba of Kagemni located at Saqqarah (unspecified date range)
- Mastabet el-Fara'un located at Saqqarah (unspecified date range)
- Necropolis and Mortuary Complex of Pepi I located at Saqqarah (unspecified date range)
- Pyramid of Djedkare-Isesi located at Saqqarah (unspecified date range)
- Pyramid of Djoser located at Saqqarah (2670 BC - 2168 BC)
- Pyramid of Khendjer located at Saqqarah (unspecified date range)
- Pyramid of Pepi I at Saqqarah located at Saqqarah (unspecified date range)
- Pyramid of Sekhemkhet located at Saqqarah (unspecified date range)
- Pyramid of Teti located at Saqqarah (unspecified date range)
- Pyramid of Unas located at Saqqarah (2670 BC - 2168 BC)
- Pyramid of Userkaf located at Saqqarah (unspecified date range)
catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
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Saqqarah is listed as a World Heritage Site as part of the "Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur" heritage landscape that was established in 1979.
Iris Fernandez, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Valeria Vitale, and Gabriel Bodard, 'Saqqarah: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/796289136> [accessed: 21 December 2024]
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