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142_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 rectangular
lid
length 73 cm
width 49 cm
height 35 cm
inscription
decoration
inner decoration
description
notes

Container findspot

locality Naga ed-Deir
site cemetery 500
location
tomb type mastaba
code of tomb No. 550
material of tomb
dating OK, 3–4
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft
burial apartment
body inside
archaeological context
remarks on archaeological context Mastaba (210 × 130 cm) contained a burial pit (110 × 60 cm, 100 cm deep) with a rectangular pottery coffin. The body was removed. In debris of floor, beads of carnelian, steatite, and faience were found.

Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1932 A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age: Naga-ed-der. Part III, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 15, 106, 209.