Container owner
| name | |
| title | |
| sex |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | pottery |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 4 |
| type | |
| updated typology | |
| shape | circular |
| lid | |
| length | |
| width | |
| height | 45 cm |
| inscription | |
| decoration | |
| inner decoration | |
| description | Circular pottery coffin with a diameter of 58 cm. |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Naga ed-Deir |
| site | cemetery 600 |
| location | |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | No. 610 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | OK, 4 |
| tomb owner | |
| social position | |
| title | |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | |
| remarks on archaeological context | Large mastaba of irregular shape (16,4 m long; 8,8 m width on the west and 13,4 m on the east side). Mudbrick retaining wall ran around a natural hill of gravel. The mastaba copied the EW orientation of the hill. The southern wall contained a cruciform offering chapel and a series of niches which were presented in the northern wall as well. The western wall had 1 compound niche. The mastaba contained a square shaft cut in gravel (130 cm, 400 cm deep). A burial chamber (160 × 100 cm, 100 cm high) opened in west wall of the shaft. The mudbrick door-block was still in place, however the chamber had been plundered, the burial had been removed together with the funeral equipment, and the roof had been broken down by the entrance of robbers. In the southeast corner was found a circular pit with a diameter of 95 cm and 100 cm deep with a pottery coffin containing a child skeleton. This burial is probably intrusive. Besides the coffin was found a “flowerpot” of rough mud ware. |
Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1932 A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age: Naga-ed-der. Part III, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 16, 232–233, fig. 163, pls. 23c, 24d–24e.