149_Nag_P

written by AEBC | 13. 10. 2023

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 35 cm
inscription
decoration
inner decoration
description Circular red pottery coffin with a diameter of 50 cm.
notes

Container findspot

locality Naga ed-Deir
site cemetery 900
location
tomb type mastaba
code of tomb No. 997
material of tomb
dating OK, 4
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft
burial apartment
body inside yes
archaeological context primary
remarks on archaeological context Mastaba (200 cm × 210 cm) with a square burial pit (90 cm, 150 cm deep). At the bottom of the pit was a badly preserved skeleton embedded in organic matter (possibly remains of cloth). Over the body was inverted a circular pottery coffin. No funerary equipment was documented.

Reisner 1932: fig. 236. 
Reisner 1932: pl. 24a. 

Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1932 A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age: Naga-ed-der. Part III, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 16, 265, fig. 236, pls. 24a–24b.