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 | 35 cm |
| inscription | |
| decoration | |
| inner decoration | |
| description | Circular red pottery coffin with a diameter of 50 cm. |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Naga ed-Deir |
| site | cemetery 900 |
| location | |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | No. 997 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | OK, 4 |
| tomb owner | |
| social position | |
| title | |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | primary |
| remarks on archaeological context | Mastaba (200 cm × 210 cm) with a square burial pit (90 cm, 150 cm deep). At the bottom of the pit was a badly preserved skeleton embedded in organic matter (possibly remains of cloth). Over the body was inverted a circular pottery coffin. No funerary equipment was documented. |
Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1932 A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age: Naga-ed-der. Part III, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 16, 265, fig. 236, pls. 24a–24b.