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The Tomb of Anedjib (Tomb X) is in 
Sixty-five chambers are grouped around the tomb, most of which should be interpreted as ancillary burials, though one of them was probably a storage chamber. Some of the chambers contained large numbers of ivory carvings.W. M. Flinders Petrie, Francis L. Griffith: ''The royal tombs of the earliest dynasties: 1901. Part 2'' (= ''Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund.'' Band 21, ). Egypt Exploration Fund u.a., London 1901, S. 39, Tafel XLII
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, Egypt
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, in the Umm el-Qa'ab
Umm El Qaʻāb (sometimes romanised Umm El Gaʻab, ar, أم القعاب) is a necropolis of the Early Dynastic Period kings at Abydos, Egypt. Its modern name means "Mother of Pots" as the whole area is littered with the broken pot shards of o ...
necropolis. Anedjib
Anedjib, more correctly Adjib and also known as Hor-Anedjib, Hor-Adjib and Enezib, is the Horus name of an early Egyptian king who ruled during the 1st Dynasty. The Egyptian historian Manetho named him "Miebîdós" and credited him with a reign ...
was a ruler of the First Dynasty of Egypt, who reigned around 2900 BC.
To date, the tomb has only been excavated once, by Flinders Petrie between 1899 and 1900. This is unlike the other tombs in the necropolis, which were excavated before Petrie by the Frenchman Émile Amélineau
Émile Amélineau (1850 – 12 January 1915 at Châteaudun) was a French Coptologist, archaeologist and Egyptologist. His scholarly reputation was established as an editor of previously unpublished Coptic texts. But his reputation was destroye ...
and subsequently by the German Archaeological Institute.
The tomb is relatively small. There is a burial chamber (7 x 4.5 metres), consisting of two rooms and is accessed by a stairway from the east. The walls of the chamber are more than a metre thick. The smaller of the two chambers contained several cylinder seals and was probably a storage chamber. The burial chamber was made of wooden planks set in the desert sand without any other foundations. Some of these planks were well-preserved. The roof of the chamber was held up by wooden posts, one of which was found still intact by the excavators.
Sixty-five chambers are grouped around the tomb, most of which should be interpreted as ancillary burials, though one of them was probably a storage chamber. Some of the chambers contained large numbers of ivory carvings.W. M. Flinders Petrie, Francis L. Griffith: ''The royal tombs of the earliest dynasties: 1901. Part 2'' (= ''Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund.'' Band 21, ). Egypt Exploration Fund u.a., London 1901, S. 39, Tafel XLIIDigitalisierung
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Bibliography
* Eva-Maria Engel. "The Royal Tombs at Umm el-Qa'ab," In: ''Archeo-Nil'' 18 (2008), p. 39. * William Matthew Flinders Petrie. ''The royal tombs of the first dynasty: 1900. Part I'' (= ''Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund.'' Volume 18, ). Egypt Exploration Fund, London 1900Digitised
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