He Western Town

He Western Town is an area of large houses and production units to the south and west of the site. he houses here are very large. House Unit 1 covers an area of 400 m2. In this house we have recorded 21 rooms. A very private bedroom at its core includes a double bed platform and painted plastered walls. he other rooms of this house contain storage bins, pedestals and a bakery at the south-eastern corner.17 To the southeast we have recorded another house,

Lehner, M. Kamel and A. Tavares (eds), Giza Plateau Mapping Project, Season 2006—2007, Preliminary Report (GOP 3; Boston 2009), 61-65 with further references, and Lehner, Kamel and Tavares (eds), GOP 2, 43-60.

14  M. Lehner and F. Sadarangani, ‘Beds for Bowabs in a Pyramid City’, in Z. Hawass and J. Richards (eds), he Archaeology and Art of Ancient Egypt. Essays in Honor of David B O’Connor II (CSA ASAE 36; Cairo 2007), 59-81.

15  Murray, General Anthropology 11 (2005), 1-8; Redding, in Lehner and Wetterstrom (eds), Giza Reports 1, 263-269; Redding, in Campana et al. (eds), Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology (Oxford forthcoming).

16  M. Jones, ‘A new Old Kingdom settlement near Ausim: report of the archaeological discoveries made in the Barakat Drain Improvements Project’, MDAIK 51 (1995), 85-98, A. El-Sanussi and M. Jones, ‘A site of the Maadi Culture near the Giza Pyramids’, MDAIK 53 (1997) 241-253.

17  M. Lehner, ‘Bakery or Brewery in House Unit 1?’, in M. Lehner

House Unit 3, which features a central open courtyard with a tree pit.18 A mounded dump between two of the large houses yielded high numbers of cattle bone and thousands of formal sealings, documenting administration by high-ranking scribes with ties to the vizier’s office.19 Area AA to the west contains the Pedestal Building, founded on a higher level beyond a thick fieldstone and mud-brick wall. his layout may have related to specialised storage in compartments raised upon the pedestals and possibly malt production.20