148_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	40 cm
inscription
decoration
inner decoration
description	Circular pottery coffin with a diameter of 60 cm.
notes

Container findspot

locality	Naga ed-Deir
site	cemetery 700
location
tomb type	mastaba
code of tomb	No. 771
material of tomb
dating	OK, 4
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft
burial apartment
body inside	yes
archaeological context
remarks on archaeological context	Mastaba (290 cm × 237 cm) with 2 simple niches in the western wall. Circular burial pit (110 cm, 140 cm deep) contained a circular pottery coffin which was covered by a similar pottery coffin inverted over the first one as a lid. The space between the coffin and the walls of the pit was filled with gravel. A corbel vault was built around and over the inverted coffin. Inside the coffin was placed a rough ware “flowerpot” and a wooden double stemmed headrest.

Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1932 A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age: Naga-ed-der. Part III, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 16, 253, fig. 209, pls. 30c–30f, 31a.