146_Nag_P

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.