Container owner
name | |
title | |
sex | ? |
Container properties
number | |
material | pottery |
present location | |
state of preservation | |
period | OK |
dynasty | 5–6 |
type | |
updated typology | |
shape | oval |
lid | |
length | 105 cm |
width | 45 cm |
height | 37 cm |
inscription | |
decoration | |
inner decoration | |
description | Oval pottery coffin. |
notes |
Container findspot
locality | Naga ed-Deir |
site | cemetery 800 |
location | |
tomb type | pit |
code of tomb | No. 857 |
material of tomb | |
dating | OK, 5–6 |
tomb owner | |
social position | |
title | |
shaft | |
burial apartment | |
body inside | yes |
archaeological context | |
remarks on archaeological context | Long open pit (about 150 cm × 70 cm, 160 cm deep) with an empty burial chamber (145 cm × 70 cm, 70 cm heigh). At the end of the Old Kingdom the grave was extended and a young person in an oval pottery coffin was buried here. |
Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1932 A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age: Naga-ed-der. Part III, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 16, 329, fig. 366.