Container owner
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Container properties
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material | mud |
present location | |
state of preservation | |
period | EDP–OK |
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updated typology | |
shape | rectangular |
lid | |
length | 100 cm |
width | 50 cm |
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description | |
notes |
Container findspot
locality | Naga ed-Deir |
site | cemetery 1500 |
location | |
tomb type | pit |
code of tomb | No. 1525 |
material of tomb | |
dating | EDP–OK |
tomb owner | |
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shaft | |
burial apartment | |
body inside | yes |
archaeological context | |
remarks on archaeological context | A burial pit 170 cm deep with a brick lining plastered inside to a height of 150 cm. The upper part of the grave was destroyed, the roof was probably wooden. The pit contained 2 coffins. The first coffin was of unbaked Nile mud and was situated partly on the second coffin and partly on debris in the bottom of the pit. The lid was missing, the coffin was filled with dirt and contained a disturbed skeleton lying on its left side with head to the north. The second coffin was of red pottery. The lid was moved to one side and broken. Flat limestone chips were found between the coffin and the brick lining. Inside the coffin, a skeleton in contracted position lying on the left side with head to the north was documented. In the debris, several pots belonging to the second coffin were in position. Thus, the first coffin was an intrusive burial placed in a hole dug in an older grave. The burial contained 1 stone vessel of yellow limestone and 32 pottery vessels, 4 of them were inside the second coffin. At least 5 pottery vessels belonged to the later burial. Fragments of cloth were clinging to the skeleton in the second coffin. |


Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1908 Early Dynastic Cemeteries of Naga-ed-Dêr. Part I, Leipzig: University of California Publications, Egyptian Archaeology II, pp. 17, 20–21, figs. 18–20, pls. 16a–c, 54a.