The volume presents a palaeographic study of the old hieratic
inscriptions that were found on the blocks of stone masonry of the Old
Kingdom tombs in the Saqqara and Abusir necropolis. The study includes
the previously published material, above all from the Czech excavations
in Abusir and the French work in Saqqara. In addition to that, also some
yet unpublished inscriptions discovered in the recent years, were
included into the study.