143_Nag_P

Container owner

name
title
sex

Container properties

number
material mud
present location
state of preservation
period OK
dynasty 3
type
updated typology
shape oval
lid
length 72 cm
width 58 cm
height 30 cm
inscription
decoration
inner decoration
description Oval coffin of unbaked mud, walls 3 cm thick.
notes

Container findspot

locality Naga ed-Deir
site cemetery 700
location
tomb type pit
code of tomb No. 743
material of tomb
dating OK, 3
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft
burial apartment
body inside yes
archaeological context
remarks on archaeological context Oval burial pit (120 × 110 cm, 90 cm deep) with a narrowed space in the bottom where an oval mud coffin was set. Five mud bricks and a stone were carelessly laid around the rim of the coffin. Another 2 larger and several smaller limestone slabs were placed above the coffin, over this roof was a thick layer of mud.
Traces of reed matting were documented under and over the body, near the hands were remains of medium coarse linen cloth. No objects were found in the tomb.

Reisner 1932: fig. 205.

Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1932 A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age: Naga-ed-der. Part III, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 15, 250–251, fig. 205.