Container owner
| name | unknown |
| title | |
| sex | ? |
Container properties
| number | Burial 521 |
| material | wood |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | fragmentary |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 6 (Pepy II) |
| type | rectangular (long?) |
| updated typology | |
| shape | rectangular |
| lid | flat |
| length | ? |
| width | ? |
| height | ? |
| inscription | yes |
| decoration | yes |
| inner decoration | yes |
| description | fragments of a wooden coffin with decoration in sunken relief (on inner E wall) |
| notes | The coffin was smaller that the burial pit. phase Fd (Pepy II) footholds in S and E walls of the shaft (ca. every 50 cm), false bottom 2.70 m above the shaft bottom |
Container findspot
| locality | Saqqara |
| site | North Saqqara |
| location | W of the Step Pyramid, between enclosure wall and Dry Moat |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | anonymous tomb VIII |
| material of tomb | limestone |
| dating | OK (6) |
| tomb owner | unknown |
| social position | |
| title | |
| shaft | 73 |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | secondary |
| remarks on archaeological context | grid square 1903/1904 disturbed burial in a wooden coffin (preserved in fragments) in the burial pit |
Bibliography
Kuraszkiewicz, Kamil Omar
2010 “Saqqara 2007: inscribed material”, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean XIX (reports 2007), pp. 187–193.
Myśliwiec, Karol (ed.)
2013 Old Kingdom structures between the Step Pyramid complex and the Dry Moat. Part 1, Varsovie: Neriton [Saqqara V], pp. 60–67, fig. 22, pls. XL–XLIV.
2013 Old Kingdom structures between the Step Pyramid complex and the Dry Moat. Part 2, Varsovie: Neriton [Saqqara V], p. 425–427.