Container owner
| name | Ia-Maat/Ia-Maat-en-Unas |
| title | jmj-rA jst xntj(w)-S pr-aA |
| sex | male |
Container properties
| number | ? |
| material | wood |
| present location | ? |
| state of preservation | good |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 6 |
| type | Type I |
| updated typology | |
| shape | rectangular (box) |
| lid | flat |
| length | ? |
| width | ? |
| height | ? |
| inscription | yes |
| decoration | yes |
| inner decoration | ? |
| description | Box coffin with flat lid. Each side bears inscriptions, E side also has udjat eyes. |
| notes | Tomb accessed via staircase (L-shaped), open courtyard, chapel (E-W orientation) with false door and a limestone slab used as offering table, serdab?, shaft to the S (1040). Walls of the shaft were not smoothed; holes in walls for scaffolding. Second style |
Container findspot
| locality | Saqqara |
| site | North Saqqara |
| location | cemetery W of the pyramid of Wenis |
| tomb type | rock-cut tomb |
| code of tomb | |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | 6 (Pepi I – Pepi II) |
| tomb owner | Ia-Maat/Ia-Maat-en-Unas |
| social position | |
| title | jmj-rA jst xntj(w)-S pr-aA – assistant overseer of the palace attendants (Jones 2000: 241, no. 882) |
| shaft | 1040 |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | primary |
| remarks on archaeological context | The coffin found inside the burial pit, but the context disturbed. Finds inside the coffin? Finds inside the burial chamber? |
Bibliography
Gaber, Nashwa
2013 The tomb of Ia-Maat in Saqqara, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, Institute of Archaeology, Department of Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia.