Abusir XVI - Tarek El-Awady

The sixteenth volume in the Abusir series contains the
publication of the blocks with relief decoration found by the
Supreme Council of Antiquities along the causeway of the pyramid
complex of Fifth Dynasty ruler Sahure in Abusir. The first part
of the volume provides an introduction and overview of the
development of the Old Kingdom royal mortuary complexes, with
specific attention to the royal relief programme and the
causeways of these complexes. The second part of the book consists of a detailed study of the
newly discovered reliefs, which include, for instance, some
scenes of Sahure's royal fleet, the rewarding of members of the
expedition to Punt, military exercises and training of nautical
crews, processions with funerary furniture and the pyramidion and
members of the family of Sahure.