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Trois Seshemnefer Et Trente-Six Domaines

The tomb of Seshemnefer-Heba in Saqqara was excavated in 1860 by Mariette. Only the false-door was published, and allegedly transferred to the Cairo Museum, while the reliefs decorating the chapel were reburied. These resurfaced as separate blocks in private collections in the 1960s. A remarkable addition to the series is a block from the north wall seen in a Belgian collection, showing six female personifications of estates. This new discovery makes it very probable that there were originally 36 estates represented in the mastaba of Seshemnefer-Heba. It also appears that the number 36 is a recurring and significant one, to be found in other tombs, mainly dating from the reign of Djedkare-Isesi, who subjected Egypt to extensive administrative reforms. It is clear that there were already 42 nomes by then, so the 36 estates probably correspond to an ideal and not a real geography: with 36 estates the deceased could have access to all the means of the country.

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

Dec 1, 1998
Luc Delvaux + 1

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Les eaux et leur gestion en Basse-Normandie

After several years of dryness, only interrupted by sudden floods, the term «water management» appears to be more and more topical. The Basse-Normandie, that is essentially a rural region, doesn't escape problems that now affect other French or European areas. Added to well known physical, geological or hydrological, contrasts, stand local disparities as for water quality, drinking water consumptions, or widely, their management (structures of public water networks, politics, investments...), allowing the draw of a real geography of water in Basse-Normandie.