Caches of the Sacred Animal Necropolis

The caches of the North Saqqara Sacred Animal Necropolis are the last major group of unpublished material from the 1964-1976 EES excavations, which were at first under the direction of W.B. Emery. Sanda Heinz and I are working on the bronzes and associated material to gain insight in their development over time. The process of caching has been the focus of our attention in 2017 with an article on this topic now under peer review.

Together with Sanda Heinz I am working towards our ultimate goal for the most important remaining category of finds to be published from the excavations at the site. We want to produce a searchable digital archive for the individual objects in the caches as well as a traditional print book with analyses. 

We wrote a blogpost on our stay to work in the archives in August 2016:

https://www.ees.ac.uk/News/bronze-gods-investigating-the-sacred-animal-caches-at-saqqara