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Umm El Qaʻāb (sometimes romanised Umm El Gaʻab, Arabic: أم القعاب) is a necropolis of the Early Dynastic Period kings at Abydos, Egypt. Its modern name means "Mother of Pots" as the whole area is littered with the broken pot shards of offerings made in earlier times.
Umm el-Qa'ab | The Ancient Egypt Site. List. Hinting at the large number of pots and pot shards found there, Umm el-Qa'ab, "the mother of pots" is the modern-day Arabic name of a region located in the desert between the fertile grounds of Abydos and the rim of mountains that stands to the south-west.
Umm el-Qa'ab is a royal necropolis that is about one mile from the Abydos boat graves where early pharaohs were entombed. The Abydos boats are the predecessors of the great solar boats of later dynasties upon which the pharaoh joined the sun god Ra and together journeyed down the sacred Nile during the day. [14]
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Iry-Hor's tomb is the oldest tomb of the Abydos necropolis B in the Umm el-Qa'ab. It comprises two separate underground chambers B1 (6 m × 3.5 m) and B2 (4.3 m × 2.45 m) excavated by Petrie in 1899 and later by Werner Kaiser. A further chamber, now known as "B0", was uncovered during re-excavations of Iry-Hor's tomb in the 1990s.
- Chambers B1, B2, Umm el-Qa'ab
- Uncertain, possibly Ka
- Early to Late 32nd century BC
n° 18 -mars 2008 ARCHÉONIL 33 The royal tombs at Umm el-Qa’ab. Between the royal burial chamber’s ceiling and the level of the desert surface, a subterranean tumulus lined with mud bricks was inserted, the interior being filled with sand (fig. 4). It is attested so far in tombs B15 [ Aha], O [‚ Snake’], T [ Den], and Q [ Qa’a].
The tomb was excavated by Petrie during his 1901 expedition at the site and named “Tomb V” by him. Its trapezoid shape measuring 68.97 metres long by 10.04 metres on its shortest side and 17.06 metres on its longest side, makes it stand apart from the other royal tombs at Umm el-Qa’ab.
