Container owner
| name | |
| title | |
| sex |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | pottery |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 4 |
| type | |
| updated typology | |
| shape | circular |
| lid | |
| length | |
| width | |
| height | 40 cm |
| inscription | |
| decoration | |
| inner decoration | |
| description | Circular pottery coffin with a diameter of 60 cm. |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Naga ed-Deir |
| site | cemetery 700 |
| location | |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | No. 771 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | OK, 4 |
| tomb owner | |
| social position | |
| title | |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | |
| remarks on archaeological context | Mastaba (290 cm × 237 cm) with 2 simple niches in the western wall. Circular burial pit (110 cm, 140 cm deep) contained a circular pottery coffin which was covered by a similar pottery coffin inverted over the first one as a lid. The space between the coffin and the walls of the pit was filled with gravel. A corbel vault was built around and over the inverted coffin. Inside the coffin was placed a rough ware “flowerpot” and a wooden double stemmed headrest. |
Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1932 A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age: Naga-ed-der. Part III, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 16, 253, fig. 209, pls. 30c–30f, 31a.