Container owner
| name | |
| title | |
| sex |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | pottery |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 4 |
| type | |
| updated typology | |
| shape | rectangular |
| lid | |
| length | 70 cm |
| width | 45 cm |
| height | 32 cm |
| inscription | |
| decoration | |
| inner decoration | |
| description | A rectangular pottery coffin of red ware. A circular pottery cist of red ware, diameter 49 cm. |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Naga ed-Deir |
| site | cemetery 500 |
| location | |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | No. 501 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | OK, 4 |
| tomb owner | |
| social position | |
| title | |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | no |
| archaeological context | |
| remarks on archaeological context | This burial consists of 2 separate graves whose outlines were severely damaged by 2 Coptic graves and by plundering. Two pottery coffins were found – one rectangular and one circular (mouth down) – both of red ware and both empty. On the surface only a few traces remain of mastaba. |
Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1932 A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age: Naga-ed-der. Part III, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 15, 193, fig. 60.