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 | 85 cm |
width | 60 cm |
height | |
inscription | |
decoration | |
inner decoration | |
description | |
notes |
Container findspot
locality | Naga ed-Deir |
site | cemetery 3000 |
location | |
tomb type | pit |
code of tomb | No. 1640 |
material of tomb | |
dating | OK, 3–4 |
tomb owner | |
social position | |
title | |
shaft | |
burial apartment | |
body inside | |
archaeological context | |
remarks on archaeological context | A badly preserved and completely plundered tomb consisting of a burial pit with a single chamber closed with a corbel vault. The vault contained a pottery coffin. The walls of the pit were built in raw bricks. |
Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1908 Early Dynastic Cemeteries of Naga-ed-Dêr. Part I, Leipzig: University of California Publications, Egyptian Archaeology II, pp. 63–64, 141, figs. 128–129.