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- Title
A LOAD OF OLD BULL: THE SERAPEUM OF SAQQARA: PART 2: THE LAST FOUR CENTURIES.
- Authors
Dodson, Aidan
- Abstract
The article focuses on the story of the burial place of the Apis bulls. It mentions with the Apis bull, the cows were given large stone sarcophagi, installed in large chambers opening from an axial corridor, chambers which were sealed after the interment, while votive stelae were fixed into the walls of the corridor; and also mentions the burial of the Apis in the Serapeum galleries ceased at the beginning of the Roman Period.
- Subjects
INTERMENT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL human remains; BULLS; SARCOPHAGI; ROMAN Period, Great Britain, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.
- Publication
Ancient Egypt Magazine, 2020, Vol 20, Issue 4, p34
- ISSN
1470-9990
- Publication type
Article