139_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	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.