Abstract
The article discusses the problem of the existence of burials without grave goods, the using of defective objects and imitations of objects (models of tools and offerings, votive pottery, dummy canopic jars and vessels with the so-called "false filling") in the burial rites of the second half of the Old Kingdom (Vth and VIth Dynasties). On the basis of information collected by the Russian Archaeological Mission at Giza (Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences), as well as data on other necropolises of Memphis, it is investigated the place of rationality and symbolism of Egyptian burial customs in the second half of the IIId millennium B.C
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