Container owner
| name | Setib |
| title | Xkrt nswt: “king’s ornament” |
| sex | female |
Container properties
| number | 107/AS79/2015 |
| material | wood |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | almost complete |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 6 (Merenre) |
| type | Type I |
| updated typology | rectangular (long), decorated (Type I) |
| shape | rectangular (box) |
| lid | flat |
| length | 210 cm |
| width | 59.8 cm |
| height | 50 cm? |
| inscription | yes |
| decoration | yes |
| inner decoration | yes |
| description | almost completely preserved box coffin lid broken into several fragments N wall: 7 sacred oils E wall outer: udjat eyes, inscription E wall inner: false door and offering list W wall: inscription S wall: undecorated lid: inscription? |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Abusir |
| site | Abusir South |
| location | N of AS 31 |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | AS 79 |
| material of tomb | limestone, mud bricks |
| dating | OK, 6 (Merenre) |
| tomb owner | Khemetnu |
| social position | middle-ranking official |
| title | imy-rA pr: “overseer of the house” likely father of Setib |
| shaft | 14 |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | primary |
| remarks on archaeological context | The wooden coffin was placed in a burial pit The burial was partly disturbed by robbers. |
Bibliography
Dulíková, Veronika – Peterková Hlouchová, Marie
2023 “Decorated coffin of king’s ornament Setib buried at Abusir”, in: Garcia Zamacona, Carlos (ed.). Variability in the Early Egyptian Mortuary Texts (c. 2600-1600 BCE), Leiden ‒ Boston: Brill [Harvard Egyptological Studies 21], pp. 29–81.