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 | 74 cm |
| width | 34 cm |
| height | 32 cm |
| inscription | |
| decoration | |
| inner decoration | |
| description | A rectangular pottery coffin, thickness of walls about 2 cm. |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Naga ed-Deir |
| site | cemetery 500 |
| location | |
| tomb type | pit |
| code of tomb | No. 650 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | OK, 3–4 |
| tomb owner | |
| social position | |
| title | |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | |
| remarks on archaeological context | A rectangular burial pit (110 × 70 cm, depth 70 cm) with a pottery coffin. On the edge of the pit was found a ceremonial offering jar. Inside the coffin was a spherical jar of salmon pink with a flat rim, and a necklace of cylindrical beads of dark schist and white shell. |
Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1932 A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age: Naga-ed-der. Part III, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 15, 107, 243, figs. 34, 188, pl. 40c.