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 | wooden board |
| length | 78 cm |
| width | 54 cm |
| height | 30 cm |
| inscription | |
| decoration | |
| inner decoration | |
| description | An oval pottery coffin with a wooden board as a lid. |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Naga ed-Deir |
| site | cemetery 500 |
| location | |
| tomb type | pit |
| code of tomb | No. 560 |
| 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 (150 × 105 cm, 120 cm deep) with a mud brick lining over a high of 45 cm in the bottom. Two large limestone slabs plastered with mud formed a roof of this mud brick construction that contained a pottery coffin. The coffin was covered with an (oval?) wooden board which was decayed and lying partly on the rim of the coffin and partly on the body. Traces of cloth were documented on the skeleton. A bowl with flat bottom, 4 offering jars containing crust and black mud, and 1 bowl were found beside the coffin. |
Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1932 A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age: Naga-ed-der. Part III, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 15, 83, 211–212, figs. 28, 120–121, pl. 36.
Reisner, George Andrew
1936 The development of the Egyptian tomb down to the accession of Cheops, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, p. 194.