Container owner
| name | unknown |
| title | |
| sex | female |
Container properties
| number | AB 107 |
| material | limestone |
| present location | in situ |
| state of preservation | good |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 6 |
| type | flat |
| updated typology | |
| shape | rectangular with roughly manufactured edges |
| lid | yes |
| length | 2.50 m |
| width | 1.00 m |
| height | 1.1 m |
| inscription | no |
| decoration | no |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | limestone sarcophagus closed with flat, slightly rounded lid featuring one handle on each side |
| notes | sarcophagus sealed with white mortar; the owner is probable mother of the vizier Qar; original burial equipment found in situ in the burial chamber: four limestone canopic, sealed mud jugs, cattle bones |
Container findspot
| locality | Abusir South |
| site | Abusir |
| location | westernmost part of the Central Mound area |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | AS 16 |
| material of tomb | limestone |
| dating | 6 |
| tomb owner | Qar |
| social position | vizier |
| title | tAyty zAb TAtj – he of the curtain, chief justice and vizier (Jones 2000: 1000, no. 3706) |
| shaft | shaft 5 |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | v šachtě zaplněné navátým pískem, rampa VZ směru dosahuje k sarkofágu – primary |
| remarks on archaeological context | intact sarcophagus, sealed with mortar |
Bibliography
Bárta, Miroslav 2009 “Tomb complex of the vizier Qar”, in Bárta, Miroslav, Tomb complex of the vizier Qar, his sons Qar Junior and Senedjemib, and Iykai, Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague [Abusir XIII. Abusir South 2], pp. 76‒77, 312, fig.5.2.35, 5.2.37, 5.2.39, 5.2.42.
Bárta, Miroslav 2006 “The Sixth Dynasty tombs in Abusir: tomb complex of the vizier Qar and his family”, in: Bárta, Miroslav (ed.), The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Proceedings of the Conference held in Prague, May 31 ‒ June 4, 2004, Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, p. 59.