091_Bal_P

Container owner

name
title
sex

Container properties

number
material	pottery
present location
state of preservation
period	OK
dynasty	3–4
type
updated typology
shape	rectangular with rounded corners
lid
length	110 cm
width	60 cm
height
inscription	no
decoration	no
inner decoration	no
description
notes

Container findspot

locality	Ballas
site
location
tomb type	mastaba
code of tomb	No. 524
material of tomb
dating	OK, 3–4
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft
burial apartment
body inside
archaeological context
remarks on archaeological context	A staircase tomb with two chambers. According to Petrie and Quibell, this tomb had been robbed not long before they excavated it. The top of the chamber mouth had been left open, the bottom of the chamber was intact. At the east side of the tomb, a small chamber was located. An empty pottery coffin was found within. This coffin originally stood in the southern chamber, where an incomplete skeleton in the contracted position with the head facing north was discovered. Outside the chamber on the entrance stairway a complete skeleton lay on its left side, facing west, with one hand under the head and both legs bent. Two rough-faced pottery vessels and a fragment of an alabaster table were found in the northeast corner of the southern chamber. South of the skull of the second skeleton, one pottery vessel was discovered.

Bibliography
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders – Quibell, James Edward
1896 Naqada and Ballas, London: Quaritch, p. 4, pl. 3 (3).