Container owner
| name | |
| title | |
| sex |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | pottery |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 3–4 |
| type | |
| updated typology | |
| shape | oval |
| lid | |
| length | 88 cm |
| width | 64 cm |
| height | 30 cm |
| inscription | |
| decoration | |
| inner decoration | |
| description | An oval pottery coffin with a hole at each of the rounded corners. |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Naga ed-Deir |
| site | cemetery 500 |
| location | |
| tomb type | pit |
| code of tomb | No. 662 |
| 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 burial pit (165 × 130 cm, 70 cm depth, in the bottom sunk to a further depth of 30 cm, 120 × 90 cm) with an oval pottery coffin. The walls of the sunken part were partly lined with limestone slabs. Another 4 limestone slabs were used as a roof to cover the narrow part of the pit. Fragments of limestone covered the gap between the coffin and the walls of the pit. The upper part of the grave was filled with rubble. Traces of cloth were discovered on the body inside the coffin. Two ordinary ceremonial offering jars were in the eastern corners of the pit. |
Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1932 A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age: Naga-ed-der. Part III, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 15, 244, figs. 192, pls. 10d–10f.