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<b>English summary: </b> In the southeastern part of the Isle of Elephantine one can find the ruins of a great state-building that was constructed in the Sixth Dynasty. Through an excavation led by the German Archeological Institute Cairo in the northwest corner of the building known as "House 2," boxes, shrines, rough statue forms, cylinders, and an offering table made out of calcite alabaster, in addition to locking fragments and other objects have been recovered from the site, which belong to a series of items discarded in two phases. Andreas Dorn has been able to verify the repeated usage of the portable shrines in the space of processional celebration, which were used to honor deceased private individuals. The same context appears to apply to the use of the wooden boxes with the broken sides and detachable lids. An exceptional aspect of these boxes is that name "Heqaib" is inscribed on one of the boxes: it is on both of the longer sides of the box, decorated with a false door. The existence of an extra-sepulchral false-door is discussed with local factors as a possible means of explanation. The numerous fragments of sealing or locking mechanisms span the period of time from the end of the Old Kingdom to the end of the First Intermediary Period. On the basis of the double seals that exhibit stamp seals and scarabs and scarab-like seals next to each other, the fluid transition in the practice of these two different types of objects can be confirmed. <b>German description: </b> Im Sudosten der Insel Elephantine befinden sich die Reste eines grossen staatlichen Gebaudes, das zu Beginn der 6. Dynastie erbaut wurde. Bei einer vom DAI Kairo durchgefuhrten Grabung wurden in der Nordwestecke des als Haus 2 bekannten Bauwerkes Kisten, Schreine, Statuenrohlinge, Zylinder und Opfertische aus Kalzit-Alabaster sowie Siegelverschlussfragmente und weitere Objekte gefunden, die dort in zwei Phasen zur Entsorgung abgestellt bzw. weggeworfen worden waren. Andreas Dorn konnte die