Container owner
name | Nyuty (originally for man Ankh/Nuti ?) |
title | xntt-S |
sex | female |
Container properties
number | |
material | wood, mud/plaster, paint |
present location | |
state of preservation | relatively good |
period | OK |
dynasty | 6 |
type | Type I |
updated typology | |
shape | rectangular (box) |
lid | flat |
length | 181 cm |
width | 44–51 cm |
height | 46 cm |
inscription | yes (incised, painted blue) yes |
decoration | yes (udjat eyes, false door) yes |
inner decoration | |
description | different pieces of wood, irregular but skilfully joint yellow/light brown surface reworked: later additions / changes lid: 6 pieces, rectangular dowels, two wooden bars |
notes | reworked: change of owner |
Container findspot
locality | Saqqara |
site | cemetery of Wenis, NW |
location | |
tomb type | shaft in courtyard |
code of tomb | C/5/9A |
material of tomb | rock |
dating | 6 |
tomb owner | |
social position | |
title | |
shaft | h |
burial apartment | burial chamber |
body inside | yes |
archaeological context | primary |
remarks on archaeological context | A headrest found inside the coffin. |
Bibliography
Grajetzki, Wolfram
2020 “The Coffin of Nywty (Nuti), Saqqara”, Palarch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology 17/2, pp. 1–29.
http://www.munro-archive.org/the-archive/?d&k&l=s-c%2Cs-c&c (CURRENTLY INACCESSIBLE)