Container owner
| name | |
| title | |
| sex |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | pottery |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 5–6 |
| type | |
| updated typology | |
| shape | oval |
| lid | flat |
| length | 105 cm |
| width | 31 cm |
| height | 25 cm |
| inscription | no |
| decoration | no |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | Narrow oval pottery coffin with lid shaped in 2 halves. |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Naga ed-Deir |
| site | cemetery 700 |
| location | |
| tomb type | pit |
| code of tomb | No. 776 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | OK, 5–6 |
| tomb owner | |
| social position | |
| title | |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | |
| remarks on archaeological context | An oval burial pit with a pottery coffin. The lid was loosely covered with mud bricks. The coffin contained a body which had been compressed and the bones had fallen apart. No object related to the burial was found. |
Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1932 A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age: Naga-ed-Dêr. Part III, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 16, 302, fig. 307, pls. 46f, 47a–47b.