Container owner
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Container properties
| number | |
| material | pottery |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 4–6 |
| type | |
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| shape | |
| lid | |
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| inner decoration | |
| description | A coffin of unbaked clay with no bottom and a small clay coffin for a child burial. |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Ballas |
| site | |
| location | |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | No. 265 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | OK, 4–6 |
| tomb owner | |
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| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | |
| remarks on archaeological context | A staircase tomb with an entrance from the east. The chamber was larger than other tombs, which could indicate that it may have contained multiple burials. The entry to the chamber had originally been bricked up, but at the time Petrie discovered the tomb only fragments of the wall remained. Bones of a child and a small alabaster table, which was dated to the 4th–6th Dynasty, were found on the slopping surface of earth formed by the staircase filled up the earth which had poured over the broken wall. In the east end of the chamber, 1 meter from the surface, an unbaked clay coffin with a burial was discovered. The coffin had no bottom and had possibly been inverted over the burial. Over the body, 3 bowls encased in mud were inverted. They had probably been used to strengthen the base of the coffin. Bellow the burial to the east, another child burial in a small clay coffin was documented. The skeleton was lying on its back, head to the south. A shell was found by its left side. More bowls were scattered beside and below this burial. |
Bibliography
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders – Quibell, James Edward
1896 Naqada and Ballas, London: Quaritch, p. 5.