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144_Nag_P

written by AEBC | 13. 10. 2023

Container owner

name
title
sex

Container properties

number
material mud
present location
state of preservation badly decayed
period OK
dynasty 3
type
updated typology
shape oval
lid
length 69 cm
width 49 cm
height 25 cm
inscription
decoration
inner decoration
description Oval mud coffin, badly preserved.
notes

Container findspot

locality Naga ed-Deir
site cemetery 800
location
tomb type pit
code of tomb No. 878
material of tomb
dating OK, 3
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft
burial apartment
body inside yes
archaeological context
remarks on archaeological context About 70 cm deep burial pit beside a large boulder with an oval mud coffin. Two ordinary ceremonial jars were placed outside the coffin and 1 small pot with short tubular spout was inside it.

Reisner 1932: fig. 228.
Reisner 1932: pl. 12e.

Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1932 A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age: Naga-ed-der. Part III, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 15, 260, fig. 228, pl. 12e.