The newly-found tombs of King Unas's favourite singer and the supervisor of his exploration missions at the Saqqara necropolis reveal new burial patterns, Nevine El-Aref reports
An Egyptian archaeological team stumbled upon the two rock-hewn tombs on the south-eastern side of the Step Pyramid during routine excavation work at Saqqara. The tombs belonged to the Fifth-Dynasty king Unas's chief singer, Thinh, and the supervisor of his exploration missions, Iaa-Maat.
Both tombs have a similar architectural style, including a long vertical corridor leading to a chapel with a decorated false door, an offering table and an empty burial shaft.
The tomb of Iaa-Maat is actually much better preserved than that of Thinh, but it was unfinished, which suggests the owner died before its completion. Abdel-Hakim Kara, director-general of archaeological activities at the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), told Al-Ahram Weekly that various titles of the deceased were inscribed on the false door, among them those naming him as the supervisor of missions to Tura to obtain fine limestone and to the Aswan quarries to fetch red granite, as well as overlord of the king's properties and inspector of the Unas pyramid priests.
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