Saqqara: some remarks on flora from funerary con text

An ex ten sive Ptol e maic cem e tery west of the Step Pyr a mid in Saqqara (Egypt), ex ca vated since 1987 by a Pol ish mis -sion headed by Karol Myoeliwiec, has in spired the pres ent study. Over 500 buri als have been found so far in strata over -ly ing the Old King dom ne crop o lis. The aim of the pa per is to pres ent the plant re mains dis cov ered in burial con texts in 1987–2012 in the so-called Up per Ne crop o lis. It em pha sizes the re sults of their archaeobotanical anal y ses. The ef fects of re search on plant re mains from the Lower Ne crop o lis are pre sented here to be used as a 2000 years older com par ative ma te rial