Kom el-Sultan

Mariette, Garstang, Petrie, Adams, and Marlar have all conducted excavations within Kom el-Sultan. Mariette worked in the northwest corner of the temenos wall, which was the original Kom el-Sultan. Garstang conducted “cursory excavation" in the area for survey and mapping purposes only. Petrie excavated in the local northern section where he found the only known statue of Khufu as well as architecture which he interpreted as phases of the Osiris temple (from the Early Dynastic Period to the 26th Dynasty). Adams uncovered part of the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period town site in the local southern section; and, Marlar excavated the Osiris temple proper, discovering both a New Kingdom and 30th Dynasty phases of the temple.