137_Nag_P

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.