093_Bal_P

Container owner

name
title
sex

Container properties

number	AN1895.635
material	pottery
present location	Ashmolean Museum Oxford
state of preservation
period	OK
dynasty
type
updated typology
shape	rectangular
lid	lid with raised ends
length
width
height
inscription
decoration	yes
inner decoration
description	Rectangular decorated pottery coffin with a lid with upturned ends. Small holes are present at the upper corners of the coffin. The long sides of the coffin are decorated with vertical band in relief which “must have been made in imitation of a panelled wooden one” (Petrie – Quibell 1896, p. 6).
notes

Container findspot

locality	Ballas
site
location
tomb type	mastaba
code of tomb	No. 865
material of tomb
dating	OK
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft
burial apartment
body inside	yes
archaeological context
remarks on archaeological context	A staircase tomb with one chamber to the east. A pottery coffin with a lid containing a body was discovered inside the chamber. “The arms were sharply doubled, and the legs bent over the body, with the knees above the chest. There were remains of much cloth under the body, but all black and falling to dust. The bones were exceptionally clean and strong. The head was to the south, the body on its back” (Petrie, Quibell 1896, p. 6).

Bibliography
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders – Quibell, James Edward
1896 Naqada and Ballas, London: Quaritch, pp. 4, 6, pl. 44 (2).