In this article, we take a closer look at the process and contents of caching in the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara. Most of the contents of the approximately 68 caches are unpublished, but we are using the information preserved in the excavation archive held at the Egypt Exploration Society in London. This study has three parts. First, we take a closer look at the conceptual categorization of caches, followed by a review of a particular deposition practice, that of foundation deposits. Then we consider in detail four caches of bronzes found during British excavations at the North Saqqara Sacred Animal Necropolis. Finally, we argue that these caches point towards a conceptual blending of foundation deposits with other categorizations of caches in the Late and Ptolemaic periods, opening up the possibility that new types of foundation deposits, otherwise unrecognized, may be added to the known corpus.

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定义晚期和托勒密时期的基础矿床

在本文中，我们将详细了解北萨卡拉圣兽墓地中缓存的过程和内容。大约 68 个藏匿处的大部分内容都未公开，但我们正在使用保存在伦敦埃及勘探协会的挖掘档案中的信息。本研究分为三个部分。首先，我们仔细研究藏匿物的概念分类，然后回顾特定的沉积实践，即基础沉积。然后我们详细考虑了英国在北萨卡拉神圣动物墓地发掘期间发现的四件青铜器。最后，我们认为这些藏品指向了晚期和托勒密时期基础沉积物与其他藏品分类的概念性混合，