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138_Nag_P

written by AEBC | 13. 10. 2023

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.

Reisner 1932: pl. 47a. 
Reisner 1932: pl. 47b. 

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.