Container owner
name | Nebtejemneferes |
title | unknown |
sex | female |
Container properties
number | |
material | limestone |
present location | in situ |
state of preservation | |
period | OK |
dynasty | 5 (Niuserre-Menkauhor) |
type | rectangular |
updated typology | |
shape | cuboid with sharp edges (Reisner type d) |
lid | yes, flat, slightly curved |
length | 2.7m |
width | 1m |
height | 0.94m |
inscription | no |
decoration | undecorated no |
inner decoration | no |
description | summarily dressed, box shaped sarcophagus with flat slightly curved lid |
notes | bone fragments of a lady who died in her thirties and mummy bandages found inside the sarcophagus case |
Container findspot
locality | Abusir |
site | Central Abusir |
location | to the E of the pyramid Lepsius no. 24 |
tomb type | mastaba |
code of tomb | AC 23 (M) |
material of tomb | limestone |
dating | 5 |
tomb owner | Nebtejemneferes |
social position | member of the royal family |
title | zAt nswt – king’s daughter (Jones 2000: 817, no. 2988) |
shaft | |
burial apartment | burial chamber |
body inside | yes |
archaeological context | primary |
remarks on archaeological context | the lid shifted away from the case by the robbers |
Bibliography
Krejčí, Jaromír, Vivienne G. Callender, and Miroslav Verner
2009. Abusir XII: Minor tombs in the Royal Necropolis I (the mastabas of Nebtyemneferes and Nakhtsare, pyramid complex Lepsius no. 24 and tomb complex Lepsius no. 25). With contributions by Viktor Černý, Martina Kujanová, Eugen Strouhal and Hanna Vymazalová. Excavations of the Czech Institute of Egyptology. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, pp. 25-29, fig. 2.7.