154_Ass_W

Container owner

nameK-jr (?)
titlecmr waty
sex

Container properties

numberEA 46636
materialwood
present locationBritish Museum
state of preservationcomplete
periodlate OK
dynasty6
typerectangular
updated typologyrectangular (short)
shaperectangular (box)
lidflat
length76 cm
width44 cm
height37 cm
inscriptionyes
decorationyes
inner decorationno
descriptionRectangular wooden coffin, paint on plaster, row of hieroglyphic text on external perimeter, two wedjat-eyes.
Decoration only painted (not carved), drawing lines in the inscription and wedjat-eyes
hieroglyphs: black outline, blue colour, not much details (only n, Hnqt), f without head
wedjat-eyes: black outline, blue, black, red and white colour
no inscription on the lid
notesparallel: EA 46637

Container findspot

localityAssiut
site
location
tomb type
code of tomb
material of tomb
dating
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft
burial apartment
body inside
archaeological context
remarks on archaeological context

Bibliography
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA46636
Zitman, Marcel
2010 The Necropolis of Assiut. A Case Study of Local Egyptian Funerary Culture from the Old Kingdom to the End of the Middle Kingdom II, Leuven – Paris – Walpole, MA: Peeters [Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 180], pp. 129, 237.