Sedment

Alternative site names:

Sidmant; Herakleopolis

Arabic site names:

سدمنت

Type of site:

Cemeteries

Timeframe:

Cemeteries (Old Kingdom, First Intermediate Period, Middle Kingdom).

Excavation season:

Relevant publications:

Catalogue of an exhibition of antiquities: found by the officers of the Egypt Exploration Fund at Abydos and at Sidmant, etc., 1909-10 ; exhibited at King's College, Strand, July 7th to July 23rd / Egypt Exploration Fund. 1910. London : Egypt Exploration Fund.

Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities: found by Prof. Flinders Petrie and students at Lahun and Sedment, 1920 and 1921 ; exhibited at University College, Gower St., London, July 4th to July 30th / British School of Archaeology in Egypt. 1921. London : BSAE.

Franzmeier, Henning 2014. News from Parahotep: the small finds from his tomb at Sedment rediscovered. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 100, 151-179.

Grajetzki, Wolfram 2005. Sedment: burials of Egyptian farmers and noblemen over the centuries. London: Golden House.

Petrie, W. M. Flinders and Guy Brunton 1924. Sedment I-II, 2 vols. British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account [34-35] (27th year). London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt; Bernard Quaritc.

Picton, Janet and Ivor Pridden (eds) 2008. Unseen images: archive photographs in the Petrie Museum. Volume 1: Gurob, Sedment and Tarkhan. London: Golden House.